OEA/NEA Member Back-to-School Guide
Educator-tested tips, advice, and resources for a successful start to the school year
Students may still be enjoying their summer vacations, but for educators, the beginning of the next school year is just around the corner.
NEA Experts have compiled a list of tools, tips, and resources to connect with every student.
Sections Include: Professional Excellence from Members, for Members | School Me Podcasts | Classroom Management
Additional Reading & Related Resources
- 2024-2025 OEA Member Resource Guide
- ONE — Ohio’s New Educators’ Resource Guides: New ESP & New Teacher Guide
- Protecting Our Schools and Communities with Mental Health Supports — You can’t always avoid stress, so learn how to counteract it.
- Suggestions to make schools a welcoming environment – Mad River Local Schools works to address chronic absenteeism (WDTN)
- U.S. Department of Education Back-to-School checklist for parents
- Read Across America — Create and celebrate a nation of diverse readers with 12 months of recommended books, authors, and teaching resources that promote diversity and inclusion
- Save Those Receipts — Educators can claim up to a $300 deduction to get money back for classroom expenses!
- Know Your Rights: A Back-to-School Guide – An NEA resource on your rights as a patchwork of state and local censorship and anti-LGBTQ+ rules have created doubt among educators
- Teachers: take care of your voice – A resource from the NIDCD, which supports research into the nature, causes, diagnosis, and prevention of voice disorders
- Resources from the The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on providing essential health care coverage:
August 12, 2024
VBlog | The Value of Membership
By Scott DiMauro, OEA President
Dear Colleagues,
It’s hard to believe that it’s been over a month already, but I can’t begin to tell you how much of an honor it is to serve as your OEA President. I am deeply grateful to Becky Higgins, Sheryl Mathis and Mark Hill for supporting me through this leadership transition, and I ask you to join me in welcoming Jeff Wensing as our new Vice President.
As a team, we have been crisscrossing the state to support your membership recruitment and engagement efforts, and we have had many incredible member ambassadors from our O.N.E. program leading that work as well.
While it’s too early to know about overall membership trends, we’ve been seeing a lot of enthusiasm as newly hired school employees are choosing to belong to our union all over Ohio. Many thanks to each of you for your efforts in ensuring we have a successful start to the 2019-20 school year.
I plan to share a brief weekly update on our successes, challenges and priorities starting next week. In the meantime, in case you haven’t seen it yet, I’d like to share a short video that our membership and communications team has put together on the value of membership. Please feel free to share it with prospective and returning members as you see fit.
At this exciting time of new beginnings, I wish you the very best for a great year.
Thank you for all you do for our fellow educators and the students we serve!
Sincerely,
Scott DiMauro
OEA President