In a significant first step toward increasing compensation for veteran teachers, the educator pipeline subcommittee has included a third rung of the Career Ladder with a $60,000 allocation in its final recommendations.
As a veteran public school teacher of 18 years, and as a mom of a 10-year old who attends my local public school, I find myself telling kids to stand up for what is right. To say something if they see injustice. Sometimes it is easy to tell others what they should do, yet harder…
Senator Ward-Engelking talks about how and why she went from teacher to State Senator and how she continues the fight for public education.
Iris Hawkins Iris recently joined the IEA staff as an Eastern Idaho Organizing Center associate working in the Twin Falls office, but IEA work is certainly not new for her. She was an elementary and middle school teacher and IEA member for 33 years, working in Meridian (now West Ada), Jerome, and Twin Falls.…
Nearly 300 IEA members from all corners of the state attended the IEA’s annual Summer Institute, with the 2019 edition on the campus of Idaho State University in Pocatello. Under the theme Chart Your Course, attendees picked up important information on professional practice, career advancement, and Association initiatives. As usual, the opportunity to collaborate with…
The new K-12 task force convened by Gov. Little, Our Kids, Idaho’s Future, will be making important education policy recommendations in the coming weeks. It is imperative that professional educators provide input to the task force on issues such as veteran teacher compensation, equity in resources and opportunity for students around the state, and early…