Is Retirement on your horizon? Let PSEA help you with your planning!

As your retirement nears, it's time to consider which PSERS monthly income options to choose, as well as how to handle your contributions and interest account. You may even have tax-free benefits headed your way!

The Mideastern Region will be offering In-Person and Virtual options for PSEA members to attend. Registration is required to attend either option. 

The Minority Affairs Committee (MAC) is a BIPOC-led space where allies are welcome. We explore the unique experiences and priorities of our members of color and work in concert to improve cultural responsiveness and representation in our unions.

The Mideastern MAC meets every other month on or almost on the second Wednesday in the Mideastern Region Office at 5pm. Members unable to come to the office may join virtually. 

Additional MAC Info

2024-2025 Hybrid Meeting Dates:

• January 8th, 2025
• February 12th, 2025
• March 5th, 2025
• April 2nd, 2025
• May 7th, 2025

MAC Books, Toys and More Drive

Trustees of this health care consortium meet will meet on:

HCC Labor Meetings will start at 5pm (all virtual)

• January 28th, 2025
• February 25th, 2025
• March 25th, 2025
• April 22nd, 2025
• May 27th, 2025
• June 24th, 2025

Full Trustee Consortium Meetings will start at 9am – see locations below

• January 30th, 2025 - PSEA
• February 27th, 2025 - PSEA
• March 27th, 2025 - Bucks IU
• April 24th, 2025 - PSEA
• May 29th, 2025 - Bucks IU
• June 26th, 2025 - PSEA

Mideastern Region and Division members have the opportunity to earn Act 48/Chapter 14 credit at our events in Bucks and Montgomery Counties this school year. Click the link below to view all available opportunities!

*These events are open to Mideastern Region Members ONLY*

Our Executive Committee meetings offer time and space for our local leaders, committee chairs, and PSEA staff to collaborate, conduct the business of the region, and support our members. All meetings are held in person at 5pm at our office in Montgomeryville.

• January 29th, 2025
• February 26th, 2025
• March 26th, 2025

Our Coordinated Bargaining meetings offer time and space for local officers, bargaining teams, and PSEA staff to work together towards our goal of attaining quality salaries, benefits, and working conditions for our members and their families. All meetings are held via Zoom with the exception of the opening social.

• Monday, February 10th, 2025
• Monday, March 10th, 2025
• Monday, April 7th, 2025
• Monday, May 12th, 2025

Where Advocacy Meets Expertise

Join your PSEA colleagues to advocate and educate elected officials about the policies and issues that affect your communities, schools, classrooms, and students. 

Thursday, February 13, 2025

Mideastern Region ACE Training

Mideastern Region Office - Montgomeryville

4:30-5:15 p.m. - Check-in and dinner

5:15-7:30 p.m. - Training

View the Flyer

If you are retiring at the end of the school year or calendar year here are steps that you should be taking with your district and PSERS:

1. Carefully read your contract for information about when you need to provide notification to your district.

2. Request a retirement estimate from PSERS. You can ask for up to two different scenarios (ex: retirement date of June 2025 or December 2026)

3. Call the Southeast Regional PSERS office in Warminster (215.443.3495) to schedule Exit Counseling.

You can also sign up to be a PSEA-Retired member if you are in year one or year 35 of your career - or anywhere in between! The earlier you sign up, the more money you will save on dues. You can enroll in PSEA-Retired FOR LIFE with a one-time dues payment of $790, or break that into four payments of $197.50 over a two-year period. This is a great way to continue to stay involved and engaged with the work of the association as well as continued use of our member benefits. For more information and to enroll, visit this website.

We are proud of all that our Council for the Advancement of Public Schools has accomplished last school year. From musicals to a spelling bee and everything in between, we are glad to support our students, staff, and communities.

Click below for the full rundown!

PSEA offers a wide array of in person and online professional learning opportunities in both synchronous and a-synchronous formats. Members can earn Act 48 credit (PSEA is an approved Act 48 provider by PDE) and Chapter 14 verification to submit for district consideration toward the fulfillment of annual hours for HQT.

PSEA offerings:

• Spring 2025 Webinars and Book Discussions

Micro-Credential offerings:

NEA Micro-Credentials Offerings

PennWest-Edinboro Mirco-Credentials

View additional offerings or other opportunities at the Center for Professional Learning by clicking the box below. 

PEARL is PSEA’s hub for our online learning programs.

PEARL (Professional Education and Resources for Learning) is a Moodle-based learning management system that will allow us to greatly expand PSEA’s asynchronous learning opportunities. On PEARL, members can find videos, documents, and presentations packaged into clear, easy-to-follow learning progressions and courses in an array of new formats.

Whether you’re a teacher, education support professional, student, associate, or any other category, your membership gives you exclusive access to this resource so you can start exploring and taking courses immediately. 

PEARL Flyer

The Mideastern Region of the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA/MER) and the Council for the Advancement of Public Schools (CAPS) proudly sponsor the annual “Touch the Future” juried art exhibition, an exhibition that features select works of art from across 24 local high schools in Pennsylvania. We celebrated the 35th anniversary of the show this past February.

Each year, the PSEA Mideastern Region purchases pieces from these shows to hang and display in their headquarters. The work featured in this collection is diverse and expansive, now spanning over decades of shows.

To celebrate our anniversary, we have had the PSEA-MER Student Art Collection curated. All the works that we have purchased over the years have been cleaned, restored and/or reframed, if necessary, photographed, and catalogued for continued display at our region office. In addition to the physical gallery, a digital gallery lookbook was created. For mobile devices, access the gallery on the CAPS website here.

PSEA has a Personal Legal Services Program for members and their families. The program provides discounted rates and two 30-minute consultation sessions free during each membership year with the designated law firms below. The areas of concentration are:

• Personal Injury (Cordisco & Saile)
• Workers' Compensation (Cordisco & Saile)
• Domestic Relations (Susan Levy Eisenberg, Esq)
• Criminal Law (Neff & Sedacca, P.C.)
• Wills & Estates (A. Martin Herring, Esq)

Please take advantage of this special program.

Act 153 of 2014 requires school employees to provide or renew State Police/FBI record checks and child abuse clearance statements. Additional changes to the law went into effect July 1, 2015. PSEA wants to ensure that all members understand how this policy affects them. Updated clearances are required every 60 months from the date of the oldest clearance. If you obtained your clearances when this law went into effect, you are approaching the end of the 60 month term. Please reach out to your HR department or visit this website for more information.

No matter what type of insurance you have or who provides it, this group has the potential to save you and your family money! Give it a try... this will go one of two ways:

1. You enter your information, discover that there's a savings, and use the coupon

2. You enter your information, discover that the prices listed are not less than your current copay, and continue to use your insurance for the prescription as you have in the past.

In short, you can use one method, but not both, to get the lowest price available. GoodRx operates this website as well as an app.

NEA’s Center of Social Justice (CSJ) represents the intersectionality of the Association’s racial, social and education justice values. CSJ advances NEA’s vision of great public schools for every student through professional supports, partnerships and activism that equips educators to be powerful advocates for teaching, learning and living conditions students and members deserve. We provide guidance and support efforts to build capacity and take strategic action to disrupt and eventually eradicate all forms of oppression in our schools and beyond.

Click here to learn more

Be sure to check on the website and Facebook page of CAPS! Help us spread the word about the amazing things happening in our public schools, thanks to the hard work and dedication of PSEA members. If you have a PR item that you'd like us to feature, please send photos and a brief description to Danielle Gross at dgross@clearpointpa.com

The Delaware Valley Consortium for Excellence and Equity currently serves 38 school districts in Greater Philadelphia along with three county intermediate units and the Pennsylvania State Education Association. They are part of a regional network of school districts in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware committed to working together to enhance the achievement, well-being, and future success of their struggling diverse students and close the districts’ pervasive and long-standing opportunity and achievement gaps.

Working intensively over the past fifteen years they have developed a unique, cost-effective and self-sustaining regional school district consortium model for addressing priority areas, all of which are focused around inter-district collaboration and shared learning for continuous improvement in closing the preparation, opportunity, and achievement gaps observed for disproportionate numbers of students of color and/or students coming from economic disadvantage.

CAPS applauds these districts in Bucks and Montgomery Counties that are working with this Consortium: Abington, Bensalem, Colonial, Centennial, Cheltenham, Council Rock, Hatboro-Horsham, Jenkintown, Lower Merion, Morrisville, Neshaminy, Norristown Area, North Penn, Spring-Ford Area, Springfield Township, Upper Merion, and Wissahickon.

If you are a member in any of these districts, please take a moment to thank your school board for their commitment to eliminating achievement and attainment disparities defined by race/ethnicity, economics, gender, or (dis)ability.

For more information about the programs and opportunities available to participating districts, please visit this website.

Did you know your PSEA membership can help you save money on things such as contact lenses, Verizon Wireless, and even Home equity loans?

Take a minute to check out the full line up!

Retiring from your job doesn't mean you should retire from PSEA and the important activities of your union. PSEA-Retired offers a wealth of programs, activities, and benefits, while keeping you connected to the people and the profession that are so important to you.