Student Program

We Are the Present, We Are the Future

Highlights

Articles and Multimedia
If your student chapter celebrates Read Across America or sponsors afterschool tutoring programs, you should check out First Book. They can help you put books into the hands of children.
Gina Serluco of Mount Union College in Ohio was recently crowned homecoming queen. She is a a senior middle childhood education major.
The Voice of Experience
Retired educators share their best advice for new teachers.
Amanda Leigh of Ohio won Kappa Delta Pi's highest honor for her leadership of NEA's Student Program chapter at Mount Union College.
Student Program Handbook for Local Leaders 9/11/2009
Start the new school year right. Here's everything you need to recruit new members and build a strong campus chapter.
Money
Squeezed by the freeze? How to make backup plans to secure next year's college tuition.
Job Hunt
Staying flexible can land you a job during tough economic times.
Outreach to Teach
There was no generation gap in sight. More than 400 volunteers put down their pencils and picked up their shovels in San Diego last summer to give Balboa Elementary School a makeover. Outreach to Teach is sponsored by NEA's Student and Retired programs.

NEA Student Program History

The Student National Education Association (SNEA) was founded in 1937 as a department of NEA. The SNEA Representative Assembly almost 50 years later voted to end its affiliation status and merge with NEA as a program -- The NEA Student Program.

Today we have:

60,000 members
more than 1100 college/university campus chapters
50 state programs
a national, full-time, elected chairperson
a nine-member, appointed advisory committee of student members
2 national conferences -- Summer Leadership Conference (June), and Fall Connections Conference (November).

We strive to:

promote community partnerships
foster leadership through pre-professional opportunities and peer mentoring
promote membership among diverse populations
provide networking opportunities
supplement formal teacher-education training
promote the national accreditation of teacher-education training
recruit and retain pre-professional members, and
maintain a presence at all NEA conferences.

The NEA Student Program is Essential

Nearly 2 million teachers across the country retired in 2007. We must take aggressive steps to replace these educators and ensure a quality teacher in every classroom. NEA supports teachers who are well qualified and prepared for their careers.

Also, one out of three NEA Student Program members becomes an NEA leader.

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Join NEA Student Program: NEA and its state and local affiliates have a place for you in our 3.2 million member organization