(Limited to 30 participants.)
You have a voice, and you can make a difference. Educators are often ranked among the most trustworthy professions out there. When teachers and support professionals speak up, lawmakers, community leaders, and your neighbors listen.
As a union, we come together to lift our voices up and make a difference. Together, we’ve advocated for effective education policies in Harrisburg— from investing in our schools to enacting subcontracting transparency to improving school safety. We have helped secure new opportunities for career and tech students and adopt smarter approaches to high-stakes standardized testing.
We’ve also fought back bad policies designed to undermine our union. We’ve taken on billionaire-funded front groups that want to elevate privatization and profit over public education. We’ve fact-checked the corporate education “reformers” and put real-life classroom experience front and center.
Can you as a PSEA member lift your voice, too, to make a difference for your students, your schools, and your communities?
The answer is YES – by becoming an effective advocate!
In the 2014 and 2018 elections, polling consistently showed that public education was among the top issues for voters. We made that happen — through consistent and effective advocacy. Learn how.
In the Organizing/Communications School Communications Advocacy Track, you’ll learn the science behind effective advocacy – the best language to use, the delivery techniques that will make people listen, the strategies to counter “conventional wisdom,” the technology to amplify your message, and the way to recruit people to support your cause whether it’s education in America or a better contract for your colleagues.
