Education Advocate Leaders (EALs) are members! They strengthen their local associations legislative and political grassroots capacity year-round, by engaging fellow members around legislative and political campaigns.
Each local can have up to three Education Advocate Leaders one to represent primary, intermediate, and secondary educators or one to represent the different classifications in a classified local, SCOPE or Higher Ed. Central OEA/NEA will provide a $100 stipend to each local Education Advocate Leader.
To become an Education Advocate Leader apply online: www.centraloeanea.org/eal
A list of criteria for receiving the Education Advocate Leader stipend follows. Mandatory Criteria:
Communicate with your local/colleagues on education issues
Contribute to the OEA Fund for Children and Public Education
Recruit at least 10 colleagues to receive Central ACE's emails and send their addresses to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Attend an Education Advocate Leader training session
Strongly Recommended:
Play an active role in local election activities
Attend at least 1 OEA phone bank or canvass
Like and Share Central Social Media Content
Stipends are paid in December to Education Advocate Leaders who have completed all the mandatory requirements.
Education Advocate Leader training details:
We will have a virtual training on August 4, 2020 at 6:00 pm via Zoom.
Register for a training by logging in to your Central account, where you will be taken to a list of events, then select "Going" on the Education Advocate Leader Training event.
Topics covered will include:
Communication & Involvement (sign up colleagues to ACE’s list, disseminating info to your local)
How to deliver an effective message
10 Reasons to belong to OEA
Cyber lobbying, and engaging Central, OEA, NEA Social Media
Get Involved, Starting Today
Right now, candidates are deciding which issues they'll run on. Let's make sure public education is at the top of their agenda. www.strongpublicschools.org
