About the Education Summer Campaign (Ed Summer)
Ed Summer supports state and local associations in advancing organizing campaigns, membership growth, and supporting new hire recruitment (NEOs). Additionally:
- Strength Building Goals: Too frequently, our union is limited in its reach and power due to the lack structural support to develop and implement internal or external organizing campaigns. These structural supports include but are not limited to the following: Contract Action Teams (CAT), school board action teams, political action teams, organizing committees, early career educator committees, among others.
- Organizing Building Goals: Building membership and structural organizing capacity are critical steps to prepare the union to lift educators’ voices, build power, and leverage this power to win for our students, educators, and communities. Examples of organizing goals include anti-privatization measures, contract campaigns, increasing public education funding, and passing progressive school board policies.
The Education Summer campaign is part of our Year-Round Organizing Framework, which is designed to work with educators throughout important cycles of their year. Other components of the Year-Round Organizing Framework include:
Campaign staff within NEA’s Center for Organizing will keep you informed of the latest developments throughout the Early Enrollment campaign season. Contact us at [email protected].
Tools to Help
Year-Round Organizing Cards
Conversation Starters
Changemaker Quiz
Questions?
Please email [email protected] if you’d like to be connected with the AFSE Organizational Specialist assigned to your state affiliate who can assist you with developing an organizing campaign tailored towards your affiliate’s specific needs.
Downloads
- Surround Sound Toolbox
- Introduction Piece – Non-Collective Bargaining
- Introduction Piece – Collective Bargaining
- Conversation Guide – Non-Collective Bargaining States
- Conversation Guide – Collective Bargaining States
- Leave Behind Flyer – Non-Collective Bargaining States [English Version]
- Leave Behind Flyer – Collective Bargaining States [English Version]
- Leave Behind Flyer – Non-Collective Bargaining States [Spanish Version]
- Leave Behind Flyer – Collective Bargaining States [Spanish Version]