Strong-Huttig Education Association
An affiliate of the AEA and NEA
What does membership in SHEA, AEA, and NEA Mean?
Our goal is to educate all children!!!!!
Help Us Bring Our Mission To Life!!!
The Arkansas Education Association
We, the members of the Arkansas Education Association, are the voice of the education professionals. Our work is fundamental to the state, and we accept the profound trust placed in us.
Our Vision as the AEA
Our vision is a great public school for every student.
Our Mission
Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Our Core Values
These principles guide our work and define our mission:
Equal Opportunity– We believe public education is the gateway to opportunity. All students have the human and civil right to a quality public education that develops their potential, independence, and character.
A Just Society– We believe public education is vital to building respect for the worth, dignity, and equality of every individual in our diverse society.
Democracy– We believe that public education is the cornerstone of our republic. Public education provides individuals with the skills to be involved, informed, and engaged in our representative democracy.
Professionalism– We believe that the expertise and judgment of education professionals are critical to student success. We maintain the highest professional standards, and we expect the status, compensation, and respect due to professionals.
Partnership– We believe that partnerships with parents, families, communities, and other stakeholders are essential to quality public education and student success.
Collective Action– We believe individuals are strengthened when they work together for the common good. As education professionals, we improve both our professional status and the quality of public education when we unite and advocate collectively.
Adopted by the Arkansas Education Association's Representative Assembly in April 2007.
What does the AEA/NEA do for its members?
2008– We improved school funding for salaries and Pre-K and helped establish a professional licensure board.
2009– AEA’s legislative efforts helped to secure an extra $15 million a year for health insurance; made improvements to the Code of Ethics and the personnel policy committees; and stopped legislation to reduce planning time for teachers, Education Support Professionals break time and the public school minimum wage.
2010– The AEA worked with the Governor and our friends in the Arkansas General Assembly’s fiscal session to secure an increase in public school funding.
2011– The AEA worked with our friends in the Arkansas General Assembly and other public education stakeholders to pass the most comprehensive teacher evaluation and support system legislation in the state’s history. While avoiding several serious problems in the initial draft of the legislation, the AEA believes that Act 1209 of 2011 establishes a framework for a comprehensive teacher evaluation system with clear performance standards designed to help teachers enhance their own practices and improve student learning. The bill recognizes that student learning is the foundation of teacher effectiveness and that many factors impact student learning, not all of which are under the control of the teacher or the school, and that evidence of student leaning should not be limited to a single assessment.
Where NEA Stands with No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
(NCLB) is the current incarnation of President Lyndon Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), whose purpose was to raise achievement and close achievement gaps. NEA strongly supports these goals and is working to give all children great public schools. But educators know that NCLB as currently written can’t get us there.
NEA has made many proposals for rewriting and improving the law.
In brief:
—ESEA should promote innovation, high expectations, and encourage development of 21st century skills in public schools.
—ESEA should end the obsession with high-stakes, poor-quality tests by developing high-quality assessment systems that provide multiple ways for students to show what they have learned.
—ESEA should help provide great educators and school leaders for every student.
—ESEA should promote public education as a shared responsibility of parents, communities, educators, and policymakers.
—ESEA should provide increased funding to all states and school districts to meet the growing demand for globally-competitive education of U.S. students.
The Arkansas Education Association
We, the members of the Arkansas Education Association, are the voice of the education professionals. Our work is fundamental to the state, and we accept the profound trust placed in us.
Our Vision as the AEA
Our vision is a great public school for every student.
Our Mission
Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the state to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
Our Core Values
These principles guide our work and define our mission:
Equal Opportunity– We believe public education is the gateway to opportunity. All students have the human and civil right to a quality public education that develops their potential, independence, and character.
A Just Society– We believe public education is vital to building respect for the worth, dignity, and equality of every individual in our diverse society.
Democracy– We believe that public education is the cornerstone of our republic. Public education provides individuals with the skills to be involved, informed, and engaged in our representative democracy.
Professionalism– We believe that the expertise and judgment of education professionals are critical to student success. We maintain the highest professional standards, and we expect the status, compensation, and respect due to professionals.
Partnership– We believe that partnerships with parents, families, communities, and other stakeholders are essential to quality public education and student success.
Collective Action– We believe individuals are strengthened when they work together for the common good. As education professionals, we improve both our professional status and the quality of public education when we unite and advocate collectively.
Adopted by the Arkansas Education Association's Representative Assembly in April 2007.
What does the AEA/NEA do for its members?
2008– We improved school funding for salaries and Pre-K and helped establish a professional licensure board.
2009– AEA’s legislative efforts helped to secure an extra $15 million a year for health insurance; made improvements to the Code of Ethics and the personnel policy committees; and stopped legislation to reduce planning time for teachers, Education Support Professionals break time and the public school minimum wage.
2010– The AEA worked with the Governor and our friends in the Arkansas General Assembly’s fiscal session to secure an increase in public school funding.
2011– The AEA worked with our friends in the Arkansas General Assembly and other public education stakeholders to pass the most comprehensive teacher evaluation and support system legislation in the state’s history. While avoiding several serious problems in the initial draft of the legislation, the AEA believes that Act 1209 of 2011 establishes a framework for a comprehensive teacher evaluation system with clear performance standards designed to help teachers enhance their own practices and improve student learning. The bill recognizes that student learning is the foundation of teacher effectiveness and that many factors impact student learning, not all of which are under the control of the teacher or the school, and that evidence of student leaning should not be limited to a single assessment.
Where NEA Stands with No Child Left Behind (NCLB)
(NCLB) is the current incarnation of President Lyndon Johnson’s Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965 (ESEA), whose purpose was to raise achievement and close achievement gaps. NEA strongly supports these goals and is working to give all children great public schools. But educators know that NCLB as currently written can’t get us there.
NEA has made many proposals for rewriting and improving the law.
In brief:
—ESEA should promote innovation, high expectations, and encourage development of 21st century skills in public schools.
—ESEA should end the obsession with high-stakes, poor-quality tests by developing high-quality assessment systems that provide multiple ways for students to show what they have learned.
—ESEA should help provide great educators and school leaders for every student.
—ESEA should promote public education as a shared responsibility of parents, communities, educators, and policymakers.
—ESEA should provide increased funding to all states and school districts to meet the growing demand for globally-competitive education of U.S. students.