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Post Falls Street Clean-up Post Falls Education Association members and their families spent last Sunday sprucing up their adopted street — Seltic Way — for their annual street clean up event. Check it out!
Sample Letter to Legislators
The Idaho legislature is convening its 2020 session, with many important issues of interest to professional educators and those who support public schools sure to be front and center. The voices of Idaho citizens, especially teachers and other educators, will be vital to ensuring that the interests of students and the education profession are supported.…
REGISTER NOW — 2022 Summer Institute
The four best and most anticipated days of professional development for Idaho educators — IEA’s Summer Institute — is queued up for July 27-30 at Lewis-Clark State College in Lewiston. No less than 63 separate classes, including 13 online offerings, offer professional and personal learning in topics from educator self-care and student loan forgiveness…
IEA REPORTER Q & A: 2022 Idaho Teacher of the Year Todd Knight
IEA member Todd Knight was recently recognized as Idaho’s 2022 Idaho Teacher of the Year. He got the news during a surprise ceremony at his school, Crossroads Middle School in the West Ada School District. We asked Todd about the honor, his background and philosophy, and the landscape of public education in our state. …
Feedback from Educators on Current Education Issues
Professional educators have been providing feedback and insight on issues of importance to K-12 education in the state, especially with COVID-19 public health crisis creating so much turmoil and uncertainty. We believe it is important to rely on the experiences of those working with students every day as decisions are made on the direction of…
Educator Health Insurance Law Q&A (House Bill 443)
What is the IEA’s position on this legislation? The IEA wholeheartedly supports this legislation and lobbied tirelessly on its members’ behalf to make it law. In fact, the bill got its start at the IEA Delegate Assembly in April of last year. Delegates called for the IEA to “develop and or support acceptable legislation facilitating…