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.
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…
The beginning of the school year is an exciting time for students and teachers alike. As new students arrive in my classroom for their first day of kindergarten, I am always reminded of how new and strange this environment is for many of them. As the year starts, new kindergarten students look around to find…
Read about the IEA’s latest NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow, Lisa Sterling.