AEA Advocate x Winter 2014/15 3
FEATURES
9 • A LOCAL PERSPECTIVE
Gilbert Education Association Scores
Victory in School Board Race
19 • AZMERIT IS THE NEW STATEWIDE
ASSESSMENT
20 • ADVOCACY CORNER
Evaluation Tips: How does Student
Data Impact Evaluations?
AEA
MISSION
STATEMENT
AEA…Keeping
the promise
of quality
public
education
MOVING?
Please let us know before
you go. Simply clip your
mailing label from the
back of the Advocate and
send it along with your
new address to:
AEA Advocate,
345 East Palm Lane,
Phoenix, Arizona
85004-1532.
INSIDE
AEA
ADVOCATE
DEPARTMENTS
4 • POINT OF VIEW
by Andrew F. Morrill
5 • MEMBER TALK
In Memoriam: Tom Shaffer
6 • AT THE CAPITOL
Arizona Election Results
What's coming up in the next
legislative session?
AEA Legislative Update
11 • AROUND AEA
Educators, Parents Urge Arizona
Legislature to Provide Court-Ordered
Funding
NEA's First-Ever Latina President Visits
Tucson to Talk Education, Immigration
Issues and Get Out the Vote in
Election 2014
Awards and Grants
18 • ESProfessional
2015 NEA ESP Conference
23 • NATIONAL PERSPECTIVE
Organizations Join Together to Mobilize
Voters
24 • WE ARE AEA
AEA Day of Action
Dual Language Programs Help Students
and Schools Compete
29 • GOVERNANCE
Be a Delegate to the 2015 NEA-RA
2015 Elections Timeline
2015 Election Districts
2015 NEA-RA Nomination Form
Governance Regions for 2014-15
Nomination Procedures for AEA Board
of Directors
AEA Board of Directors' Nomination Form
36 • RESOURCES
39 • READ ACROSS AMERICA
40 • WHAT'S BEING SAID ABOUT…
Arizona's Children
Cover photo: Diane Drazinski,
Gilbert EA president, in the Gilbert
Public Schools Board room.
