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The 2020 Treasurer's workshops, President's Training and Building Rep training will be delivered to you virtually. The Education Advocate Leader training will also be delivered to members virtually.

June 15th, 2020
Presidents Training 9:00am - 11:30am
Treasurer's Workshop for New Treasurers 1:00pm - 2:30pm
Treasurer's Workshop for Experienced Treasurers 2:45pm - 3:45pm

You are welcome to attend any or all of these sessions.

June 16th, 2020
Building Rep Training - 9:00am - 11:00am
Education Advocate Leader training - 1:00pm - 2:30pm

Politically active members can sign up to become Education Advocate Leaders. Details of this program including how to apply can be found on our website here.

Registration is required for all these sessions on the Central website.
To register:
1. Log in (or create an account first if you do not already have one) to Central's website.
2. Scroll down the list of events and select the session you are interested in registering for, from the list of events.
3. Select “Going" from the drop-down menu. That's it.

We will send out the Zoom conference information to all registered attendees a few days before the conferences begin. Please log on to zoom using your first and last name so we can take attendance to issue CEU’s and give your local credit for your participation.

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 June 16, 2020 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
  • Understanding what FCPE is & is not
  • Statehouse lobbying
  • EAL Stipend Criteria
  • Campaign 2020
  • NEA Strong Public Schools

To apply to become an Education Advocate Leader apply online: www.centraloeanea.org/eal

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