Portland Public Schools Health and PE Department along with the REAHL Initiative have recently partnered with OHA and ODE to improve the health of elementary students by training teachers to provide skills-based health education and curricular integration. In April OHA awarded PPS $883,000 for “Health for K-5,” an initiative to…
Join us this Fall! OEA’s statewide Fall Conference is designed to meet the needs of building reps, organizers and bargainers — from novice to experienced activists. FEATURED KEYNOTE Dan St. RomainDan is a national educational consultant who provides staff development and specialized assistance to K-12 educators. Dan is passionate…
OEA’s Center for Great Public Schools offers this preparation workshop for the ORELA (NES) Elementary Education Exam.
This session will cover the basics of trauma informed practices in schools. This is an introductory session into the importance of recognizing and changing current practices, especially around educators’ response to challenging behavior. The session will provide an overview of trauma prevalence, resilience, regulation and intervention.Click here to register.
As visibility of gender diverse, nonbinary, and transgender students and staff increases in communities and school districts throughout Oregon, the urgent need to collaborate on establishing affirming, inclusive and equitable PK-12 school environments is becoming more obvious every day.From Policy to Practice is a two-day summit providing educators with an…
The OEA Sparks event is intended for OEA Members of Color and active equity champions. Spend time with colleagues engaged in equity affinity groups to build community, strengthen skills, explore equity hot topics, network and have fun! The event is targeted to members of color, because recruiting and retaining educators…
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NWTSJ hosts and organizes an annual conference for teachers, teacher educators, and interested community members in the Northwest. The conference is held in Seattle and Portland in alternate years. The full-day conference includes a keynote speaker, a resource fair with more than 30 non-profit community, social justice, and educational organizations,…