Education Support Professionals
Education Support Professionals (ESP) know membership matters because in addition to the benefits shared with teachers, ESP members:
- Have access to issues and information related to their job families.
- Can connect with other ESP across the state and the country.
- Can get information about contracting-out issues, reclassification, safe schools, and more.
- Can get help through their locals with pay equity issues and speak out for ESP issues at their districts.
- Can obtain special training for some job families, such as paraeducators needing to meet "Highly Qualified" requirements.
- Are eligible for special grants, publications and resources for ESP.
Nominate an ESP Member for the ESPecially for Kids Award
This award recognizes extraordinary efforts by classified education support professionals on behalf of young people. The winner of this award will be announced at the AEA Delegate Assembly and nominated as the Arizona candidate for the NEA Education Support Professional of the Year Award. The deadline to apply is in February.
ESP Mentoring Manual
Supporting Our Own: A Manual for ESP Mentoring Programs is an online manual is designed to help local Associations and school districts to plan and implement mentoring programs specifically for and by ESP.
NEA - Eduction Support Professionals
Resources and information for ESP on the NEA website.
NEA ESP Conference
The 2012 NEA Education Support Professionals (ESP) Conference will be held March 9-11, 2012, at the Marriott Memphis Downtown Hotel in Memphis, TN. The conference is designed to provide professional development opportunities for participants to help them gain the skills they need to build stronger locals: building strong internal and external relationships, organizing members, and enhancing NEA ESP members' ability to influence positively student achievement. There will also be some pre-conference workshops.
I'm an ESP. I'm Worth Professional Pay.
Education support professionals are woefully underpaid and often struggle to feed and shelter their families. These caring professionals deserve to be conpensated fairly. For more information about living wage campaigns, and other efforts to obtain professional pay levels for all educators, visit NEA's Professional Pay area on their website.
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