Audience: Education Support Professional
Blog: The Antidote to Despair
By Julie Rine is an English Instructor and an Academic Challenge Advisor at Minerva High School, Minerva, Ohio.
You Belong — Ohio’s New Educators
Ohio’s New Educators (ONE) is a unique community within the Ohio Education Association (OEA) supporting early career educators and education support professionals in their first years of education. Our statewide network engages and empowers educators and education support professionals in the first 10 years of their career to become successful, active and visible in their profession and community through collective action.
American Education Week — Keeping Students Safe & Secure
During American Education Week (Nov. 12-16, 2018), the OEA is taking the opportunity to raise awareness of, and to help eliminate the stigma of managing a disability or mental illness. To learn more about where OEA members collectively stand on the issues….
12,631 Thank-Yous! — Happy National ESPs Day
Happy National Education Support Professionals Day | #WeLoveOurESP | #AEW2018 | The Ohio Education Association is extending a hearty thank you to each of our 12,631 Education Support Professionals (ESPs) in recognition of 2018 National Education Support Professionals Day.
Happy National ESPs Day — 12,631 Thank Yous!
The Ohio Education Association is extending a hearty thank you to each of our 12,631¹ Education Support Professionals (ESPs) in recognition of National Education Support Professionals Day.
OEA Whisper Grant for Students in Need
Whisper Grant for Students in Need offer direct assistance to an individual student or group of students with educational or personal needs when a hardship is identified. Grants are issued to a requesting education staff member(s) to purchase items or improve an individual’s or group of individual’s school learning or academic performance or to assist with basic needs such as eyeglasses, personal hygiene items, repairs to a broken wheelchair, etc. Grants may be awarded in the following increments based on determined needs and calculated costs: $100, $150, or $200, up to a maximum of $2,000 per school year.
OEA ESP Aspiring Teacher Scholarship
The $4,000 ESP Aspiring Teacher Scholarship is presented each year to an Education Support Professional member currently enrolled in an undergraduate teacher education program in Ohio or a senior education student who has been formally accepted for graduate study in a master’s degree of education program at an accredited Ohio college or university.
OEA (ESP) Education Support Professional Award
OEA will present the Education Support Professional Award to an OEA member whose activities reflect the contributions of education support professionals to public education. Nominations may be submitted by any member and/or affiliate of the Ohio Education Association.
Representative Assembly
The Representative Assembly (RA) is the policy-making body of the Ohio Education Association. It is comprised of members who have been elected as delegates to represent their local associations. Any member is welcome to attend.
#ABConduct Tip Sheets
The Ohio Department of Education and Ohio Education Association has a series of career tips on how to recognize as well as address ethical dilemmas.
