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Day 1: Friday, November 22
- Plenary #1: Welcome, Opening Remarks, and Keynote
- Breakout Session #1:
- Leadership Development for Organizing Leaders: A Tool for Continuous Growth
- YRO 101 for New Governance Leaders and Member Organizers
- Learning to Lead: Using Member Organizers as State Leads
- Recruiting and Engaging Educators of Color Using the Key Strategies
- The Role of Staff in a Member-Led Fighting Union
- One Thing Leads to the Other: ESP Professional Supports and Organizing
- Why Some NEA Members Consider Dropping Their Membership
- YRO 101 for New Staff Team Members
- Know Before You Go: Organizing Hot Lists That Save You Time
- Empowering Growth: Leveraging Member Benefits to Boost Your YRO Efforts
- Laying a Foundation for Support & Retention: Early Career Educator Professional Development
- Plenary #2: Changing the Paradigm: A Story of Power-Building, Chapter 1: As Goes North Carolina, So Goes the Nation
Day 2: Saturday, November 23
- Breakout Session #2:
- Websites to Win and Engage Members
- Building Rep Structures to Win the Future
- Train-the-Trainer: The Essential Transformational 1:1 Conversation
- Acting vs. Reacting: Proactive Conversion to Autopay
- ESP Bill of Rights: Organizing for ESP Growth and Power
- Evolving Legal Perspectives on Local-to-Local Transfers, Majority Campaigns, and Membership Forms
- Growing the Union with Summer Member Organizers
- The Best Way to Avoid a Crisis is to Prepare for One: Let’s Get Started
- Passion + Purpose: Finding and Using Your WHY for Engagement
- Dream Teams: How to Build One and Win
- Plenary #3 A Strategic Plan for a Fighting Union and A Plan to Win
- Plenary #4 Building Majority Power in the South
- Breakout Session #3:
- The Power of Storytelling: Using Your Authentic Voice to Galvanize and Inspire
- Some Like It Hot: Building Hot Lists
- Organizing and Supporting New ESPs with Mentoring
- Acting vs. Reacting: Proactive Conversion to AutoPay
- Governance Leadership in the Organizing Model
- Can’t Be Everyone All at Once? Build Relationships Between Visits with Surround Sound!
- Taking Affirm, Answer, Redirect to the Next Level
- 1:1 Support for Data Leads
- Aspiring Ed Organizers
- Higher Ed
- Retired
- Roundtable Conversation #1 and #2
Day 3: Sunday, November 24
More Year-Round Organizing Tools
Year-Round Organizing Hub
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Union Organizing Guides
These guides are designed to help you implement the Year-Round Organizing key field strategies, from building contact lists to having transformational organizing conversations.
For Educators
We've designed tools to help you get potential and existing members connected to and active in their union. Check out these links for posters, videos, and more!
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Some of Your Most Hard-Fought Victories Accomplished Together!
This year the word “normal” was thrown out the window as educators around the country met challenges we could never have anticipated. And in the face of historic circumstances, we came together and won for our students, our colleagues, and our communities during this extremely extraordinary year.
