I hope everyone had an amazing winter break as we prepare for the stretch run to spring break and on to summer vacation! And no, it is not too early to start looking towards summer! My first time back to the office after winter break was on a Tuesday evening. This was a particularly busy Tuesday, with multiple meetings taking place in different locations of the office. One room was holding a Social and Human Concerns meeting and another was holding a Political Action Work Group meeting, affectionately known as PAWG, a subcommittee for our Legislative Committee. Later that night

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Happy birthday, NEOEA! 150 years! This was put into perspective for me as I was getting prepared for our Fall Representative Assembly at Thomas Harvey High School in Painesville on November 9. A quick look back in history: first airplane – 1903, first car – 1885, first light bulb – 1878, first telephone – 1876, and the first NEOTA meeting – 1869! At the inception of NEOEA there were no phones, light bulbs, or even cars to get to the meeting. Travel must have been by horseback, and I suppose mileage vouchers were paid in “oats.” It is impressive to

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Welcome back NEOEA to the 2019-20 school year. The beginning of the year is always full of both the excitement of new opportunities and the task of reestablishing routines. NEOEA is such a large association with approximately 29,000 members, so I wanted to briefly share with you some of our routines. NEOEA is organized into 10 separate groups called “units,” which are very creatively called “Unit 1” through “Unit 10.” Units 9 and 10 are comprised of NEOEA’s Education Support Professionals (ESP), and the other eight units are distributed somewhat equally across northeastern Ohio. All of our units are represented

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