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Glenn Schmidt
Director
National Education Association
Glenn Schmidt, a special education teacher at Northside Elementary School in Sun Prairie for 30 years, was elected to the National Education Association (NEA) Board of Directors in 2003, after serving for two years as an alternate director.
Schmidt has been active in his profession and union throughout his 34-year career, including representing the NEA on an AFL-CIO mission to Colombia in 2003 and traveling to Japan in 1998 as a Fulbright Memorial Fund participant. He joined with other WEAC members and staff to form the Great Schools Union Band, an effort to raise money for the NEA Fund for Children and Public Education. He played guitar and bass, and wrote some of the songs.
Schmidt has now taken his union involvement to the international level by participating with other state educators in Education International, the international affiliate of the NEA and AFT. Wisconsin’s delegation was the second largest state delegation, after California, in the meetings held in Berlin, Germany, in July 2007. Schmidt has previously served as an Education International Representative to Costa Rica (1989), Stockholm (1993), Washington, D.C. (1998), and Brazil (2004). Throughout the last 25 years, Schmidt has often been called on to serve as a delegate to the NEA Representative Assembly.
Schmidt has been a member of the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) Board of Directors since 1995, and has served as a delegate to its Representative Assembly since 1983. He has also served on various WEAC committees and board subcommittees such as public relations, affiliate relations, policies and procedures, political action, and program and activities.
A member of the Capital Area UniServ-North Board of Directors for six years, he was president of the Sun Prairie Education Association from 1990 to 2003, and has been part of its negotiations team since 1987.
Schmidt holds a master’s degree in special education from UW-La Crosse. He holds a bachelor’s degree in political science from UW-Madison.
Posted August 15, 2007