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ONE Conference Wrap Up!

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After a year of planning, the 2024 ONE Conference has come to an end. Thank you to everyone who has worked so hard to make it a success! So many great presenters, speakers, volunteers, and IEA staff have worked tirelessly to pull it together.

I want to thank everyone who was able to take the time out of their incredibly busy schedules of work, family and other responsibilities to come and learn, collaborate with fellow support staff and to build upon your union work. We hope you felt welcome and celebrated because what we do IS tough. The contributions of education support professionals in our schools/universities are essential to our students and to our communities. Without education support professionals…learning doesn’t happen and One Job Should Be Enough!

Don’t forget, we deserve rESPect, and Together as One, we will make it happen! If you haven’t joined rESPect, join today, www.iearespect.org

Signup to bring your voice to our rESPect table. Click to register to attend our monthly rESPect steering meetings. Second Thursday of each month, 5:30-7:00pm.

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Education Support Professionals, Illinois Education Association

You’re invited – ESP Council Virtual Meeting – June 22nd

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Dear Education Support Professional,

You are cordially invited to join us as we come together to bring ESP voices to the table. 

Join us virtually and share your successes, challenges, hopes and dreams and help us as we advocate to improve ESP wages, health insurance, pensions and job duties to retain and recruit new staff.

**Virtual Event** All ESPs Welcome
Saturday, June 22
(For those who have already signed up, this meeting has been changed to Virtual Only)
VIRTUAL Meet & Greet
9 a.m. – 10 a.m.
VIRTUAL Roundtable
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Click to register
Education Support Professionals, Illinois Education Association

Thank you! We can’t do it without you!

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Thank you to everyone who attended our last rESPect steering meeting of the 2023-24 school year this past Thursday evening. At this meeting we focused on evaluating our successes and our challenges, and we reviewed our goals to make sure our targets haven’t changed. We are doing so many things right and we are having great successes…but there is ALWAYS room for improvement. One of the biggest takeaways for me is team members wanting more…more opportunities for engagement and to take on more leadership roles. YES!, that is what we need. This is your campaign and your voice and leadership will drive this campaign to the finish line.

Reminder – There is NO rESPect steering meeting in July.

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IEA Spring Election Results

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Welcome to our new Education Support Professional Council Members! We are truly excited for you join us as we collaborate and advocate for education support professionals throughout Illinois!

A HUGE thank you to those amazing council members whose term is ending. Your skills and voice have been essential to elevating ESP issues and building a foundation of rESPect.

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IEA Spring Elections: Don’t forget to vote

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Elections for ESP Council and other statewide positions

You should have received the below envelope during the last week of March/first of April containing online election information to vote for your IEA ESP Council members, NEA RA state delegates and other IEA statewide positions. If you did not receive your online voting information or have any questions, please contact IEA Governance Elections Paraprofessional Kim Trader @ kim.trader@ieanea.org or 217-321-2250. The election closes at 4 p.m. on April 24. Please vote! Your vote is important!

Education Support Professionals, Illinois Education Association

What does RESPECT look like?

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You’re invited to attend our next RESPECT virtual meeting

register: April virtual meeting

Support staff are typically the first to arrive at school as they unlock doors and turn on lights. They are some of the first people to greet students when they arrive at school in the morning, who give students the academic support they need to become successful scholars, who carefully assist with their health, safety, and nutritional needs, and are the last people who see students safely home at the end of the day. The value of their work is priceless.

So it’s time we start treating them that way!

Join the respect campaign
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Thank you to all who attended last nights rESPect steering meeting

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Click image to visit the IEA rESPect website

Un oh…technical difficulties.

We started with a few hiccups with technology, but ended with a great meeting full of collaboration and awesome ideas shared by many! Each rESPect team (Legislative, Model Contract Language, Communications, and Organizing and Leadership Development), worked in breakout rooms to accomplish the goals of their team. It is the members and IEA staff that come together and share their voice and talents that will build this into the powerful campaign needed to bring the changes that will benefit the lives of education support professionals in Illinois.

You’re invited to attend our next meeting on February 8th

Click to register for our next respect meeting

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