Sept. 9:- Orientation Meeting from 10:00 a.m. – 3:00 p.m. at the Chieftain Inn in Carrington.  President-Elect/National Delegate candidates will give their speeches

Oct. 18 – 20: NDEA Instructional Conference in Bismarck

Oct. 19: SNDEA RA from 6:30 p.m. – 9:00 p.m. at the Radisson Inn in Bismarck

Oct. 20: SNDEA Board Meeting at the Radisson Inn in Bismarck  from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 a.m.

Oct. 20: Ambassadors/Commission Weekend at the Radisson Inn in Bismarck  starting at 12:00 p.m.  Attendance is required for those students who are Ambassadors or Alternate Ambassadors

Nov. 10 – 12: NEA Student Leadership Connection in Denver  .  The SNDEA President, Kelly Mosher, and President-Elect will attend this conference.

Nov. 12 – 18:   American Education Week

NDEA Student Rebate Application Form

NEA Student Rebate Appplication Form

• Check out the Mayville State University SNDEA website at
  http://masusea.advocateoffice.com
• Check out the UND Students website at
  http://www.und.nodak.edu/org/sndea
• Check out the Minot State University SNDEA website at
  http://www.misu.nodak.edu/tehp/sndea/
• Check out the Jamestown University SNDEA website at
  http://www.jc.edu/campus/org/sndea/index.htm 

Chapter Presidents:

Tracey Brudwick, DSU
headjar73@ndsupernet.com

Lindsey Jahner, University of Mary
lrjahner1@umary.edu

Deanna Urbanec, UTTC
durbanec25@yahoo.com

Kala Christensen, Jamestown College
kchriste@jc.edu

Amy Votava, VCSU
amy.votava@vcsu.edu

Pamela Key, MaSU
P_KEY@MAYVILLESTATE.EDU

Megan Schimek, NDSU
megan.Schimek@ndsu.edu

Christine Wolla, MiSU
CHRISTINE.WOLLA@SRT.COM

David Wedlin, UND
david.wedlin@und.edu

Student Advisements, November 2006

For current NEA and NDEA Rebate information please click on either NEA or NDEA.

Officers

Kory Boehmer - President
Lake Region State College
8683 48th St NE
Devils Lake, ND 58301
701-662-7650
Click here to email Kory Boehmer

NDEA members in more than 250 affiliated local associations across the state can take advantage of a variety of programs and services designed to help them provide the best possible educational opportunities for North Dakota's public school students. Here is a brief overview.

Ambassadors carry out policy

There are a number of NDEA Ambassadors, commissions and committees that carry out approved policy and recommend action to the NDEA Board of Directors. These groups deal with long-range planning, resolutions, negotiations, government relations, teacher rights, public relations, instruction and professional development and minority affairs. In addition there is the Political Action Committee for Education (PACE), a separate arm of NDEA which deals with the financing and election of political candidates who are deemed "friends of education."

Professional Development

The NDEA conducts a statewide instructional conference each year in October for the professional development of its members. The instructional conference involves two days of "section meetings" in about 25 areas of teaching discipline, all designed to improve teacher classroom skills and give them the latest teaching ideas and methods. It also includes top speakers and approximately 150 exhibits. The NDEA Instructional Conference is the largest professional conference conducted in North Dakota.

The NDEA provides a number of opportunities to help educators deal with current issues and concerns and to help them sharpen their teaching skills. Information to topics ranging from how to maintain classroom discipline and increase parental involvement to the latest developments in special education is offered through Association-sponsored activities.

Public Relations and community support

The Association knows how important it is to bring public education's message before the community, business, and political leaders. We regularly launch major public relations campaigns and form coalitions with other education and community organizations.

Lobbying and political action

Every decision that affects education is a political decision. That's why the NDEA has developed a comprehensive program to help make public education issues an important part of the campaigns of candidates at all levels. Through our political action arm, NDEA-PACE, Association members interview candidates about their views on education related issues, issue recommendations on which candidates are most supportive of public education, and work to help get pro-education candidates elected. Once the elections are over, however, the NDEA goes to work as one of the most influential lobbying groups at the state Capitol.

Contract bargaining and maintenance

Local association bargaining teams have made significant strides toward making teaching salaries competitive and in improving working conditions for education. Armed with the latest facts and figures from NDEA Research and with training and support they get from the NDEA headquarters and UniServ staff, Association members are able to clearly define the procedures and policies that govern job transfers, leaves, schedules, supplemental pay, and staff reduction.

Rights protection

The NDEA Advocacy division retrains an attorney, who is an expert in school law and employment-related issues. The attorney, along with the five UniServ directors, protect members' rights in cases ranging from threatened contract termination. Association members are also entitled to a $1 million liability insurance policy to protect them against job-related legal action.

NDEA membership has remained steady throughout its long history with approximately 8,500 education employees part of the Association. Most members are classroom teachers, but we also have school support staff workers, retired teachers and future teachers among our ranks. We are a part of the 2.6 million member National Education Association with affiliates in each of the 50 states, Puerto Rico, and overseas schools.

The Association policy is approved by a Representative Assembly of delegates from about 250 local association across the state. Each local is allowed at least one delegate to represent their membership no matter how small. Delegates meet each year for a weekend in April to approve policy and a budget. The Association's 15-member Board of Directors meets about 10 times a year to oversee implementation of that policy and otherwise propose new policy and direct Association business.

The NDEA is led by a full-time president, who is elected for a two-year term and who may run for three consecutive terms.

The Association's staff is headed by an executive director. The staff includes five UniServ directors, who live and work in the NDEA's six regions across the state, a director of communications, a director of instruction and professional development, a director of advocacy, a business manager, and five support staff.

NDEA Leaders
NDEA Board Of Directors
NDEA Staff
Uniserv Directors 

Our Past...

The Association became more active in the area of negotiations after 1969 when the state's first negotiations law was passed. The NDEA's increased political activity began about the same time. It now interviews and recommends for election those candidates who are friends of education as determined by their voting record or their interview answers.

Much of the Association's activity today focuses in three areas; instruction and professional development to provide inservice training and otherwise aid in improving teacher performance in the classroom; negotiations designed to improve the economic welfare of teachers and educational opportunity of children; and political action to influence and have input into the decisions that affect education - all of which are political.

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