Education Support Professionals
We’re NEA ESPs and Proud of It!
Education Support Professionals: It's More Than a Job, It's a Career
ESP's are the school support staff working side-by-side with teachers and administrators to help students achieve their best. A major source of support professionals' work satisfaction is the personal fulfillment they get from working with students and serving their communities. Listen to Joseph Almaguer, in the video below, about his work as an electrician in the Las Cruces, New Mexico public school district.
Healthier Lunches Coming to Schools
Remarks by the First Lady in School Lunch Standards Announcement
VIDEOS: ESP - It's More Than Just a Job, It's a Career
ESP members across the country speak out on what their work means to them. Listen to what Jossette Threatts of Delaware, Stacy Yanko of New Jersey, Karen Blackwood of Maryland, Lynn Witts of Montana, Joseph Almaguer of New Mexico, Stephone Avery of Arkansas, Debbie Solis of Colorado, Chris Bridges of North Carolina and Wende O'Brien of Massachusetts have to say.Bus Drivers and Bullying Prevention Brief
This 4-page brief is first in a series of briefs based on findings from NEA's 2010 Nationwide Study of Bullying: Teachers and ESP Perspectives membership survey. It provides practical tips on bully prevention and intervention.For additional information on bullying prevention visit NEA's Bully Free: It Starts With Me page.
VIDEO: Education Support Professionals Talk School Modernization
Education Support Professionals are on the front lines in the fight for school modernization.VIDEO: Our Students Deserve Better
NEA Vice President Lily Eskelsen visits a school in Reading, PA in desparate need of repair. This school represents just one of thousands of schools across the country in tremendous need of repair, remodeling, or replacement to provide a minimum environment for effective teaching and learning.VIDEOS: ESP - It's More Than Just a Job, It's a Career
ESP members across the country speak out on what their work means to them. Listen to what Jossette Threatts of Delaware, Stacy Yanko of New Jersey, Karen Blackwood of Maryland, Lynn Witts of Montana, Joseph Almaguer of New Mexico, Stephone Avery of Arkansas, Debbie Solis of Colorado, Chris Bridges of North Carolina and Wende O'Brien of Massachusetts have to say.TAKE ACTION
Tell Congress to Support the National Classified School Employee of the Year Award Act.
Save the dates
2012 ESP Conference Registration extended to Friday, February 3, 2012.
Register Now!
The 2012 NEA ESP Conference will be held March 9-11 at the Memphis Cook Convention Center. The host hotel will be the Marriott Memphis Downtown Hotel, Memphis, TN.
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Video
A Day Without Education Support Professionals (ESP)
See for yourself how important every education support professional is to the daily lives of our students and our schools. This poignant video illustrates the value of our work on so many levels. It was produced by Indiana member Mary Neylon.
Dave Arnold: This school custodian and former Illinois Education Association ESP of the Year is a published poet. But most Association members know him best from the editorials -- Dave's View --
