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Teacher Choice Gains Steam
posted by: Cindy Omlin | September 28, 2015, 02:16 PM

It's obvious that teachers are looking for options to the national labor unions for their professional protection and support.  Mike Antonucci, director of the Education Intelligence Agency, reports that in states without compulsory union fees, NEA affiliates lost more than 47,000 active members in 2014 while NEA affiliates in agency fee states gained about 5,300 active members.  Let's look at the numbers in the Northwest.

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NWPE Member Reaches Out to Strike Supporters
posted by: Cindy Omlin | September 21, 2015, 08:59 PM

Judith Camann is a veteran National Board Certificated Exceptional Needs Teacher.  She holds five Washington State teaching certifications in general education, special education and reading as well as two Education Staff Associate certifications.  She has also been deemed highly qualified in five different curriculum areas.  Judy is an NWPE member and union member who opposed the strike by Seattle teachers.  She wrote this statement urging her colleagues not to strike, an action union members approved.  The weeklong strike began September 9.

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Forced Union Dues at Risk
posted by: Cindy Omlin | July 01, 2015, 08:07 PM

Thousands of Washington and Oregon educators who don’t want union representation and don’t want to pay union dues are forced to do so because of state laws made possible by the Supreme Court’s 1977 Abood decision. The Supreme Court signaled this week that it may be prepared to strike down this anti-teacher choice practice once and for all.

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NWPE Executive Director Cindy Omlin was interviewed on Freedom Daily, a radio show hosted by Freedom Foundation, a public policy organization focused on limited, accountable government, about a bill in the Washington legislature that would allow educators to vote compulsory union dues out of their union negotiated contracts.

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The action of the teachers in Mansfield, WA, to establish a "local only" teacher association for bargaining has attracted the attention of public policy think tanks and the media.

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NWPE Fall 2014 Grant-Scholarship Winners
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 31, 2014, 07:22 PM

We are proud to announce that the following teachers have been awarded Fall 2014 NWPE Grant/Scholarship awards.   Please click the links to learn more about the teachers and their awards.

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Congratulations Matthew Wysock, NWPE Grant Winner
posted by: Cindy Omlin | December 12, 2014, 04:07 AM

Congratulations to Mr. Matthew Wysock, a LaCrosse High School science teacher in LaCrosse, WA.  Mr. Wysock was recently awarded a $420 Classroom Grant from Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE), the state’s only non-union professional teacher association, to purchase a radio transmitter, tracking program and programming cables to help students track the school’s high altitude weather balloon’s altitude, velocity and position used in the science program’s near-space engineering project.

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The certified teaching staff in Mansfield, WA, has taken the bold step to declare independence from the Washington Education Association (WEA) by replacing the Mansfield Teacher Association (MTA), a local affiliate of the WEA, with a new local teacher organization that has no ties to the WEA.

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Science Star Jeff Wehr Reports
posted by: Cindy Omlin | September 30, 2014, 06:29 PM

Jeff Wehr, NWPE member and award winning science teacher at Odessa High School in Washington state, recently reported on some remarkable research achievements by students in the school's Advanced STEM Research (ASR) Laboratory.  Described in a feature article by ESD 101 as “an inquiry based study program that allows students to conduct independent study in any scientific discipline,” ASR is a concept which Wehr brought to Washington from his former teaching position in Montana.

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The teachers and students of the tiny farming community of Waterville, WA (its mascot, the Shocker, is a shock of wheat), are truly focused on educating the whole person—not just focusing on academics in order to raise test scores.  As a result, they could very well be raising scores higher than a pure academic focus alone could accomplish.

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Congratulations to NWPE member Jeffrey Wehr and his Advanced STEM Research Laboratory students at Odessa High School, Odessa, WA!  They continue to win prestigious awards for their exciting and promising research!

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NWPE Member Leads in Waterville
posted by: Ruthie | February 12, 2014, 05:41 PM

 

NWPE member Justin Grillo is quite the leader!  Justin was instrumental in bringing the "The Leader In Me" program, based on Stephen Covey's 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, to his small rural school district in Waterville, WA.

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NWPE Announces New Board of Directors
posted by: Cindy Omlin | July 12, 2013, 01:41 AM

Northwest Professional Educators (NWPE), the state’s premier non-union, professional educator association, is pleased to announce the election of its new board of directors and officers.

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