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Outreach to Teach

Every year, NEA-Retired members join student members, education support professionals, and active teachers to clean up a local school in the host city of NEA's Representative Assembly.

Last year, Outreach to Teach had an enormous impact at the N.W. Harllee Elementary School in Dallas. During this eighth annual event volunteers from NEA's Retired, Student, Education Support Professional, and Higher Education programs joined the Texas State Teachers Association, the Dallas Independent School District and the local community to give the school a facelift. Volunteers painted, made repairs, cleaned, gardened, and decorated bulletin boards.

"This shows that retired members are needed and can make a great contribution," said Indiana member Sarah Borgman, a retired elementary and secondary language arts teacher and first-time participant. "No school has enough personnel to get all the jobs done that need to be done in the summer, so this is a great way to help them complete what needs to be done."

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