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Wednesday, November 19: AutoPay Pre-Conference
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Thursday, November 20: Data Day Pre-Conference
- Data Day Pre-Conference General Sessions
- Breakout 1: From Black Pepper to Carolina Reaper: Making your Hotlists Hotter
- Breakout 2: Codes for Organizing: Turning Cancellations into Opportunities
- Breakout 3: Just Say NO to Vanity Metrics: Measuring Progress and Progress Towards Goal
- Breakout 4: AutoPay Office Hours
National Organizing Conference
Friday, November 21: Day 1
- Plenary #1: Defending Democracy and Resisting Authoritarianism: A Global Discussion of Labor Unions as a Force for Freedom
- Breakout Session #1:
- Leadership Development: An Organizing Tool for All
- YRO 101 for New Governance Leaders and MOs
- Increase local and staff capacity to organize with Campaign Lab
- Connecting the Dots: YRO, Local Leaders, and NEA MB Support
- Building Power through Representation: Recruiting and Engaging BIPOC Members Across K-12, Aspiring Educators & Higher Education Within our Union Spaces
- Empowering Our Own: A Strategic ESP Mentoring and Professional Learning Initiative for Recruitment and Retention
- Organizing to Win: Starting From Square One
- YRO 101 for New YRO Staff Team Members
- Digital and the Dialectic: Turning Data into Class Power
- Flip and Grow in Kansas: Tactics for Successful Autopay Buy-In, Member Engagement, and Membership Growth
- What Now? Automating Quick & Easy Wins
- Health and Safety Organizing – Green Bay’s Story of Members Teaching Members
- Bargaining for the Common Good at a Community College Local & Building a Statewide Movement
Saturday, November 22: Day 2
- Plenary #2: Improving Member Retention — Understanding NEA's Retention Research to Build Lasting Unions
- Breakout Session #2:
- Use Your Story to Build Connections & Drive Change
- FUEL THE MOVEMENT: THE IMPORTANCE OF PAC AND MAKING THE ASK
- Roots to Rise: Growing Strong and Lasting AE Chapters
- Taking Affirm, Answer, Redirect (AAR) to the Next Level (Train-the-Trainer)
- Retention Research Presentation In Practice With Ideas For Locals
- Stay Connected: Using Restorative Approaches to Engage Groups + Teams Across Difference
- Growing Your Membership and Power through Campaigns
- Recruiting and Engaging Members and Potential Members of Color
- Protecting Our Peace in a Time of Unrest: The Work of Sustaining Movement Makers (and Action Takers)
- ESP Power-Building to Bargain: The Lawrence Story
- Strategic Local Targeting: Building Sustainable Power at the Local Level
- Using Building Reps as Organizers
- Building Capacity through an Autopay Blitz - From Transactional to Transformational
- Organizing on the Move with Mobile Leader & MiniVAN
- Building Power Through Representation: Intentional Strategies to recruit BIPOC Member Organizers
- The Healing Drum Circle: Self-Care & Renewal
- Breakout Session #3:
- Protecting Our Peace in a Time of Unrest: The Work of Sustaining Movement Makers (and Action Takers)
- Recruiting and Engaging Non-English Speaking Members
- Paradise by the Dashboard Light: Visualizing Where You Are & Where You Want To Be
- Governance and Executive Leadership for a Statewide Organizing Plan
- See Educators (+ Allies) Run, Win, & Govern
- Retired Educator Organizing: Building the Plane Before Take Off
- Winning Together: Working with Administrators from a Position of Strength
- The Role of Staff in a Member-Led Union
- Retention Research: Acting on Our Findings
- An Invitation to Organize and Lead Inclusively: Tools to Self-Reflect, Acknowledge Bias, and Expand Member Leadership
- Identifying a New Leader is Just the First Step: Cultivating and Nurturing New Leaders for a Member-Led Movement
- Blitz Buddies: Using Local Leader Teams to Build Solidarity and Capacity
- The AutoPay On-Ramp: A Road Map to Readiness