For KNEA Members - The reason we're here is right in front of you.
Joining KNEA is good for you personally and professionally… and it's good for kids.
As your professional organization, we are like a family, a union of professionals who agree that kids and education are important -- and that the people who are working in schools are important, too.
As skilled and caring professionals, we help you build relationships with colleagues across the state and nation. We are 25,000 members strong in Kansas and 2.7 million members strong across the country. There is a KNEA member in virtually every school building across Kansas, ready and willing to help you and your students succeed.
We are the favorite teachers from your school days. We are your friends, your colleagues and your mentors. We are united in our belief in, and support for, public schools and the teaching profession. We know that it is part of our professional responsibility to unite together for the good of our students and for our profession.
We are a volunteer organization supported by our members' dues, grants from the National Education Association and the good work of our members.
Regardless of job classification, we are all teachers.
KNEA serves its members through a myriad of activities and programs designed to provide quality public schools, strengthen the teaching profession and protect the well-being of members.
KNEA Programs
- NEA UniServ Intern Program information
- NEA UniServ Intern Program information
- Kansas NEA PR Niceties
- Purchase KNEA logo items to show you are proud to be a member of KNEA.
- KNEA Member Benefits
- NEA/KNEA Member Benefits provides a wide range of programs that
help improve the overall quality of life for members and their families.
From affordable insurance and secure investments, to advance technology
and convenient, accessible credit, NEA/KNEA Member Benefits programs
can help members get significantly more out of life and their hard-earned
dollars.
- Join KNEA
- Working for teachers and students: Your decision to join the Kansas National Education Association is an important investment in your career and your profession. Your membership in KNEA promotes people like you. People who care about children and about education. People who want to be successful in their careers. Everything we do centers around KNEA's priorities of promoting quality public schools, strengthening the teaching profession and improving the well being of members.
- Leadership Opportunity! Campaign To Win deadline is Sept. 18, 2009
- Campaign To Win provides members with a better understanding of the election process for key Association positions at the local, state, and national levels
- KNEA Association Representative Handbook
- Locals have a variety of names for this role: Building representative, Association Representative, Professional Representative, just to name a few. Regardless of what they call the job, this booklet (2008-09 KNEA AR Handbook) provides an overview of the work to be done.
- KNEA Offers Early Enrollment
- KNEA Offers Early Enrollment
- KNEA UniServ or Field Service Program
- The UniServ program provides services to KNEA members and local associations.
- KNEA Higher Education Task Force
- The KNEA Higher Education Task Force address issues of concern to higher education association members in Kansas.
- Member's Change of Mailing Address
- Member's Change of Mailing Address form
- KNEA Legal Services
- Three full-time in-house attorneys who are experts in school law and employment-related issues work to protect KNEA members' rights. They, along with the 17 UniServ directors in 10 offices across the state, protect members' rights in cases ranging from threatened job actions to interpreting local contracts. Association members also are entitled to a $1 million liability insurance policy to protect them against job-related legal action.
- Education Support Personnel (ESP)
- A local option program, Education Support Personnel (ESP) include school secretaries,
paraprofessionals, custodial staff, food service staff and bus drivers.
- KNEA Negotiations
- Local association bargaining teams have made significant strides
toward making teachers' salaries competitive and in improving working
conditions for educators.
- Instructional Advocacy
- The professional interests of KNEA members are addressed through
the Instructional Advocacy division. KNEA monitors the Department of Education and other agencies that
establish rules and regulations to ensure that the highest professional
standards are maintained. KNEA works closely with state Standards
Board, the KNEA Practices Commission, the National Board for Professional
Teaching Standards, the National Commission on Teaching and America's
Future and the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education.
- Government Relations and Lobbying
- It's a fact of life that every decision that affects education
is a political decision. That's why the KNEA has developed a comprehensive
program to help make public school issues an important part of the
campaigns of candidates at all levels.
- Communications
- KNEA knows how important it is to bring the message of public schools
teachers before the community, businesses, and political leaders.
- Benefits of Membership
- Joining KNEA is good for you personally and professionally... and it's good for
kids. You receive member benefits and networking opportunities. You build relationships
with colleagues across the state and nation. You have a proven, credible resource
in helping your students succeed.
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