Week of 11-16-2020

Inside this issue

• A weird, wonderful time to celebrate American Education Week
• We appreciate everything you’re doing for your schools and your students
• PA Teacher of the Year Joe Welch appeared on Pennsylvania Newsmakers
• Congratulations to Heidi Moll, the 2020 PSEA Dolores McCracken ESP of the Year!
• PSEA’s Center for Professional Learning

A weird, wonderful time to celebrate American Education Week

This has truly been an American Education Week like no other. While it may seem like there’s less to celebrate with so much uncertainty and stress going around, I would say the opposite is true. There’s never been a more appropriate time to shine a proud light on what you do.

The true test of an educator is how far they’re willing to go for their students. And to say you’ve gone the extra mile during this pandemic is a major understatement.

Of course, a big part of our job at PSEA is to remind everyone else in your communities what a valuable roll you play, and how many amazing things you’re doing for students.

For this AEW I wrote letters to the editor about this week that were published in 11 separate news outlets. We helped PA 2020 Teacher of the Year Joe Welch publish four op-eds. We ran statewide digital media campaigns, posted videos and member quotes across our social media platforms, and otherwise left no stone unturned to get the word out about how incredible our members have been this year.

Not aside from the added challenges, but because of them.

You can find links to the outreach mentioned above plus more about American Education Week at this link. Before you go, here’s one of the videos I put out as a token of my appreciation:

We appreciate everything you’re doing for your schools and your students

PA Teacher of the Year Joe Welch appeared on Pennsylvania Newsmakers

See the whole conversation between Joe Welch and Newsmakers host Terry Madonna here.

Congratulations to Heidi Moll, the 2020 PSEA Dolores McCracken ESP of the Year!

Heidi Moll is a long-time instructional assistant at Berks Career & Technology Center in Leesport. She is an inexhaustible champion for her students, her colleagues, and for several important causes that benefit her school and her community at large.

Click here to read more about Heidi.

PSEA’s Center for Professional Learning

If you missed any of the webinars, wellness events, and book discussions PSEA offers at the Center for Professional Learning, take a look at www.psea.org/prolearning and see what’s coming up.

Or you can catch up on some prerecorded Remote Instruction sessions you can take any time for Act 48/Chapter 14 credit.