Getting Involved in Your Local Association

The Association can help you successfully navigate you thru your career as a teacher.

You can help your local association by getting involved and sharing your thoughts, ideas and perspective as a new member.

Each local in Service Area V has a unique structure. Talk to your president or association representative to find out how your local takes care of association business. Here are some general ways you can get involved in your local association:

• Ask to be on the Lobbying Team. It’s important that all members are represented and you can offer input on legislative issues that directly affect new members.
• Volunteer to be a building or association representative. As a member of your local’s executive board, you’ll have an opportunity to be a part of the decision-making body for your local.
• Become a delegate to NCAE’s Representative Assembly (RA). The RA meets in the spring. As a voting delegate, you are eligible to vote on issues that set policy for NCAE. You can even attend as a visitor and see how NCAE works.
• Express an interest in serving on an association committee—communications/PR, grievance, or political action. Local associations are always looking for help and volunteers. You again have a chance to represent new members.
• If you have aspirations of becoming an association officer one day, ask if you can shadow one of the current officers to get an idea of what the job entails. With the high number of teacher retirements occurring, local associations are looking for qualified replacements for their leaders.

A local association is only as strong as the members it represents. Your association needs you.

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