PSEA is a community of education professionals who make a difference in the lives of students every day.
Educators Rising is a community-based movement that provides Grow Your Own programming for high school students through the Educators Rising curriculum and embraces teaching as a profession.
Educators Rising offers classroom-ready curriculum, training, and support that help high school students begin their journey to becoming future educators. Teacher leaders who bring an Educators Rising chapter to their school district will create new opportunities for more talented young people to enter the education profession.
Educators Rising Teacher Leaders: join us for the monthly meeting every third Tuesday at 4 p.m. Join meeting.
Educators Rising provides "Beginning to Teach" micro-credential courses to test the skills students have learned. Each course requires 5-15 minutes of work and awards digital badges on completion. Submission criteria, a research base, recommended resources for preparing a submission, and a scoring rubric is provided for each micro-credential course.
Scholarships
As a partner of PDK International, Educators Rising offers more than 30 scholarships through the PDK Educational Foundation.
PSEA awards scholarships to high school seniors who plan to enroll in an accredited teacher preparation program in Pennsylvania through the Lucy A. Valero Memorial Scholarship.
Educators Rising National Honor Society
The Educators Rising Honor Society is a distinction that recognizes academic accomplishments and serves to elevate the image of teaching by highlighting high-achieving high school students who are dedicated to a career path in education.
Student PSEA
Student PSEA is made up of 7,000 collegiate aspiring educators. High school students previously enrolled in Educators Rising are invited to join Student PSEA after they graduate and begin a teacher preparation program at a Pennsylvania college or university.
The 2024 Educators Rising National Conference is scheduled to take place June 28-July 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Marquis. This year’s theme will be Discovering Your Potential.
It’s a unique opportunity for students and their teacher leaders to:
Download the 2024 Educators Rising National Conference tentative schedule.
Download the National Competition overview.
Download the checklist for applying to the 2024 National Conference.
The A.P.E.X (Achieving Professional Excellence) program empowers chapters to engage in diverse projects across four key categories:
APEX is a record of goals achieved and activities carried out by PA Ed Rising chapters, with recognition and awards bestowed at the annual state conference. To participate, chapters are encouraged to designate an individual to oversee all documentation as outlined within the rubric throughout the year.
Dr. Christopher M. Clayton, Sr., Pennsylvania State Coordinator
Email: cclayton@psea.org
Phone: (717) 255-7028
Dr. Clayton, Sr., serves as PSEA's Assistant Director of Education Services. He is responsible for providing support to over 177,000 PSEA members on issues involving teacher certification, student achievement, pedagogical best practices, and research in teaching and learning. He also directs the Student PSEA Aspiring Educator program.
