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Do You Have a Student Teacher in Your Classroom?  

If you do, please let him/her know that as a university student he/she qualifies to be a member of the Student FEA/NEA program.  Enrolling is easy, just go to https://sites.nea.org/JoinNea/ and join. For $31 a year, students receive Educators Employment Liability Insurance and $1 million professional liability insurance and representation from trained education advocates and attorneys who specialize in Florida Law.  Additionally, members receive the same benefits as an FEA/NEA/AFT member, including the FEA Access card which provides up to $1,500 per year in savings.  

Any student who is preparing to be an educator may join Student FEA.  This includes student interns, student teachers, students enrolled in the college of education, or simple a student in the math department who is planning to become a teacher.  Students currently under an employment contract with a public school system are not eligible for student membership.  Student members also have the option of attending the Student FEA conference and if he/she is interested can run for leadership positions on the Student FEA Board.  

Student FEA also offers a wide variety of professional development to its members in the following areas:   

·       Foundation of Effective Teaching 1 (Organizing a classroom environment for teaching and learning)

·       Foundations of Effective Teaching 2 (Building on Academic Success)

·       Beginning Reading Instruction

·       Reading Comprehension

·       Thinking Mathematics 1 (Ten principals of Additive Structure)

·       Thinking Mathematics 2 (Multiplicative Structures, Proportional Reasoning)

·       Thinking Mathematics 3 (Fractions, Decimals, Ratio)

·       Thinking Mathematics Middle School Journey on Algebra

·       Instructional Strategies that Work

·       Managing Anti-Social Behavior

·       Home School Connection

If you have contact with a student teacher or a student who is considering/pursuing the teaching profession, please encourage him/her to go to: https://sites.nea.org/HowToJoin/stateStudent.do?mbrType=STUDENT&sea=fl and join Student FEA today!

Please remember to thank your bargaining team members:   

SEA - KT Caldwell, Dan Smith, Debby Whitmire, Sue Carson, Darleen Brown, John Riegelmayer, and Pat Rogers.

SECA - Rosie Guerrido, Sharon Wiggins, and Joyce Peterson.

NIPSCO - JoAnn Moran, Criag Hopes, Carlos Crispin, and Bruce Law.

SCSBDA - Randy Saunders, Richie Hernandez, Dorothy Davis, and Eric Brady.

Please stay tuned for further bargaining updates on the UniServ website and look for notices of future meetings.

Click on the following links to read how SB 736 will affect you and what changes it brings to teaching in general.