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MYSTERY! Summer Institute-Style

by: IEA staff July 30, 2026
Can you identify these IEA members from their Clue-inspired portraits?
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Idaho’s Leaders for Just Schools Cohort One Wraps Up Three-Year Journey

by: IEA Staff June 30, 2026
Their projects are already making a tangible difference for students in their schools. We talked to five participants about what the work meant to them.
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‘That’s Moral Clarity’: How One IEA Member Turned a Middle School Hallway Into a Lesson About Humanity

by: IEA Staff May 29, 2026
Raul Pedraza's annual Holocaust project helps students develop their empathy.

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Jerome explores staggered schedule to ease bus, traffic challenges

Idaho Education News, July 30, 2026
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A New Tool Can Predict Absenteeism—Before It’s Chronic

Education Week, July 24, 2026
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Few Idaho schools may use new spending flexibility this year

Idaho Education News, July 27, 2026
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NEW EPISODE (Feb. 11): Dr. Melyssa Ferro on being a union member. Ferro is science teacher at Syringa Middle School in Caldwell, is a highly decorated educator who is among five honored this weekend as a finalist for the Horace Mann Award by the NEA Foundation.

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IEA President Layne McInelly

Session is Over, But We Can't Rest Yet

by: Layne McInelly April 3, 2026
In a letter to IEA members, President Layne McInelly asks IEA members to tell Gov. Little to Veto HB 516 and get to work on May Matters
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Investing in Reading Works

by: Layne McInelly July 28, 2025
What else could Idaho educators do with support?
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Classroom Flag Bill is Dangerous for Idaho Youth

by: IEA Staff January 15, 2025
Bonneville Education Association member Danny Gutierrez writes about how the proposed law could have drastic consequences for students.

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