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Jeffery Johnson - NEA Director

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Jeffery “JJ” Johnson
Director
National Education Association

Jeffery Johnson, or “JJ” as he is often called, a high school and AP art teacher for South Division High School in Milwaukee, was elected to the National Education Association (NEA) Board of Directors in 2009.
 
In his 11 years of teaching, Johnson has been active in numerous committees and groups on the local, state and national levels. He has served as committee chair for the Budget, Legislative, Nomination and Art committees of the Milwaukee Teachers Education Association (MTEA). He also has served on the MTEA Constitution, Staff Bargaining, PAC and Speak Out committees.
 
On the state level, Johnson has served on the Wisconsin Education Association Council (WEAC) Board of Directors as well as on WEAC Budget and Finance, Dues Structure, Steering and Legislative committees. For the NEA, Johnson has been an Action Research Fellow, a first alternate to the Resolutions Committee, a member of the NEA Focus Group on stress in the workplace and a delegate to six NEA representative assemblies, where he has had new business items along with a resolution passed by the RA delegation.
 
Johnson says his teaching, which includes art instruction of students with special needs, has been a diverse experience giving him a unique perspective both on education and the impact teaching has on quality of life. He was born and raised in Sheboygan, later living in Elkhart Lake, Crystal Lake and Saint Nazianz.

Johnson lives in Milwaukee with his wife, Andrea, and son, Seth. He was elected to the Parish Council of the St. Benedict the Moor Parish. The Johnson family volunteers at the St. Ben's Meal Program to feed the hungry on the first Sunday of every month. Johnson says that he truly realized how students are positively impacted by the things educators can do outside of classrooms when he first saw a number of his students fed by the St. Ben's Meal Program.

WEAC is a professional organization representing the public policy, labor and professional interests of its more than 98,000 members. Great schools benefit everyone, and WEAC’s mission is to support public education and the men and women who work in Wisconsin’s public schools.

Posted September 2009