Welcome to "The Source," an e-newsletter exclusively for Student PSEA members. In each issue, you'll receive the latest updates from your association, advice from veteran educators, professional development offerings, and more to support you as an aspiring educator.
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Inside this issue
- Stipend demand > available funding
- Register for PSEA’s 2024 Summer Leadership Conference
- Congratulations to Student PSEA’s 2024 scholarship and award recipients!
- Renew your Student PSEA membership
- NEA’s Aspiring Educators Conference coming to Philadelphia
- Upcoming professional development opportunities
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Stipend demand > available funding
With $10 million budgeted in this year’s state budget, only 750 stipends are available for the 2024-25 school year. That’s why PSEA has made getting $75 million for student teacher stipends in the FY 2024-25 state budget a top legislative priority.
Help us show lawmakers and Gov. Josh Shapiro that every student teacher should get a stipend.
If you haven’t applied for a student teacher stipend yet, and if you are student teaching in the fall of 2024 or spring of 2025, submit your stipend application TODAY.
Apply at www.pheaa.org/studentteacher. Please have the following information ready that is required on your stipend application:
• Your legal and valid contact information including full name, address, and Social Security number,
• The name of the college or university where you are enrolled in a teacher preparation program, and
• The anticipated term you plan to student teach (fall of 2024 or spring of 2025).
You must be logged in to your PHEAA account to submit an application. Don't have a PHEAA account? Create one immediately.
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Register for PSEA’s 2024 Summer Leadership Conference
Student PSEA members ages 21 and over are invited to attend the New and Early Career Educators School at the 2024 Summer Leadership Conference from July 21-26 at Gettysburg College. This new school is designed to meet the unique needs of aspiring educators, recent college graduates, and new and early career educators. Attendees will learn:
• Strategies to engage students with effective classroom instruction, support all learners, and navigate emerging issues in educational practice and policy,
• How to implement immediate actionable strategies and a myriad of takeaway tools and resources, and
• Information about financial planning, tenure, certification, contracts, and the benefits of PSEA membership.
Registration closes on Friday, June 28. Attendees are responsible for travel expenses to and from Gettysburg.
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Congratulations to Student PSEA’s 2024 scholarship and award recipients!
2024 Student PSEA Awards
• Exceptional Underclassman Award: Kayla Loebach, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg
• Outstanding Chapter Event Award: PennWest University-Clarion’s "Literacy Under the Lights"
• Outstanding Chapter Growth Award: West Chester University
• Outstanding Servant Leader Award: Amber Bloom, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg
PSEA Lucy A. Valero Memorial Scholarship Fund
• Eleni Demetriades, West Chester University
• Erika Christeleit, University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg
• Gavin Mitsdarfer, PennWest University-Edinboro
• Hannah Smith, PennWest University-California
PSEA Dolores McCracken-Korri Brown Leadership Development Scholarship Program
• Alexandra Taffera, Marywood University
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Renew your Student PSEA membership
Will you be a student for the 2024-25 school year?
Are you graduating and already have a teaching job in Pennsylvania lined up?
Congratulations! We invite you to enroll early into PSEA as a full-time EA member at www.psea.org/enroll. When selecting a membership type in the drop down menu, please select “FY 2024-25 EA Early Enrollment Annual.”
Questions? Contact PSEA Financial Management at 1 (800) 944-7732 ext. 3001.
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NEA’s Aspiring Educators Conference coming to Philadelphia
Every June, aspiring educators across the United States gather for NEA’s Aspiring Educators Conference before the NEA Representative Assembly. The 2024 NEA Aspiring Educators Conference will be held in Philadelphia from June 29 to July 2. Attendees will have opportunities to connect with their peers, learn more about the profession, and take action on important education issues affecting public schools and communities.
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Upcoming professional development opportunities
Webinars
• Social & Emotional Learning (SEL) in the Classroom Today: What is it and what does it look like in the classroom? (ECE Series): July 16, 10 a.m.
• Intro to the 3D Science Standards: Coming in 2025!: July 18, 12 p.m.
• Effective Communication with Families: July 31, 7 p.m.
Book Discussions
• The Swifts: A Dictionary of Scoundrels: June 26, 10 a.m.
• Science and Engineering Practices Picture Book Study: July 9, 10 a.m.
You can find a full list of PSEA’s Center for Professional Learning summer events at www.psea.org/prolearning.
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