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PreK12 insider | Oct. 23, 2018 This year's American Education Week (AEW) is the 97th annual recognition of public education and honors individuals who are making a difference in ensuring every child receives a quality education. The weeklong celebration will spotlight distinguished individuals who are critical in building great public schools for the nation's 50 million K12 students. American Education Week's celebration days include: Monday – Kickoff Day Tuesday – Parents Day Wednesday – Education Support Professionals Day Wear RED for ED Thursday – Educator for a Day Friday – Substitute Educators Day Check out NEA's online toolkit, complete with promotional materials, activity ideas and downloadable templates. IEA Voter Guide for Nov. 6 General Election Quickly find IEA recommended candidates and where you are registered to vote at IEAVotes.org. IEA’s Legislative and Political Action website provides updates and resources on the upcoming election. Classroom resources
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PreK12 insider | Oct. 23, 2018
This year's American Education Week (AEW) is the 97thannual recognition of public education and honors individualswho are making a difference in ensuring every child receives aquality education.
The weeklong celebration will spotlight distinguished individualswho are critical in building great public schools for the nation's50 million K12 students. American Education Week'scelebration days include:
Monday – Kickoff DayTuesday – Parents DayWednesday – Education Support Professionals Day WearRED for EDThursday – Educator for a DayFriday – Substitute Educators Day
Check out NEA's online toolkit, complete with promotionalmaterials, activity ideas and downloadable templates.
IEA Voter Guide for Nov. 6 General Election Quickly find IEA recommended candidates and where you
are registered to vote at IEAVotes.org. IEA’s Legislativeand Political Action website provides updates andresources on the upcoming election.
Classroom resources
America’s Safe Schools WeekOct. 2127 #SafeSchoolsforAll
Grades K12 resources
Autumnthemed resourcesGrades K5 Grades 68 Grades 912
Halloween lessons, activities and resourcesGrades K5 Grades 68 Grades 912
Works4Me: Ideas and tips for student success
Teaching the hard history behind today’s newsOneminute flash mob celebrationsMore talking in class, please!
Grant opportunities
Horace Mann’s $60,000 Fall into Funding sweepstakesto benefit educators
Enter to win through Nov. 30. Horace Mann will donate up to $10,000 to
DonorsChoose.org projects, funding up to $250 on 40projects. At the conclusion of the sweepstakes, HoraceMann will draw ten $5,000 winners who will work with theirlocal Horace Mann agent to develop a project to benefittheir school. For more information and to enter thesweepstakes go to horacemann.com.
SCORE grants – Schools and Community Outreach by Educators Educators in their first 10 years in any IEA local are eligible to apply for a
SCORE grant. If partners or trios of IEA members apply together, at leastone of the applicants should be within their first 10 years of membership.Online applications due Jan. 21. Find out more and view past SCORE grantawards.
SCORE grants up to $1,000 are funded by the IEA Foundation.
Member benefits and discounts
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union groups from knocking on your door.
Educator savings from Access (an IEA partner) Find hundreds of deals in your area and beyond. See how
much you can save on just a few purchases with thesavings estimator!
Conferences and trainings
Child Abuse Prevention ConferenceOct. 2526 in Springfield.
Information/Registration
Corwin Equity and School Discipline InstituteOct. 29 in Chicago
Information/Registration
Ethnic Minority and Emerging Leaders Training (EMELT)Nov. 9 11 in Springfield
Information/Registration
ABC Conference Nov. 16 in Palos Hills
Information/Registration
You don’t have to be a therapist to be therapeutic: Buildingresilience in children, families, communities and ourselves.
Participants can expect to learn about the broad landscape of services andprograms that are available to support children with special needs from birththrough childhood and develop skills to make effective referrals and partnerwith other agencies and systems.
Wanted: Social media activists!
IEA Communications is looking for all members interestedin becoming social media activists and social mediarapid responders. Help us reach as many people aspossible on social media! Signing up is easy atieasocialactivist.org.
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Traumainformed
Project Resilience The Illinois Education Association, Partnership for
Resilience and Resilient Southern Illinois (RSI) attendedHarvard’s Education Redesign Lab to rethink educationand child development systems.
Visit IEA’s Project Resilience website for resources ontraumainformed practices and programs.
Professional development
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own pace. Take a look at the featured courses for fall andvisit the IEA Online Learning Portal on Members Only fora complete list of course offerings.
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