 | First Ladies Christie Vilsak of Iowa (right) and Jessica
Doyle of Wisconsin visit with students at Bluff View Intermediate
School in Prairie du Chien. |
 | Scott Foster, president of the Northland Pines Education
Association, shakes hands with Gov. Jim Doyle during the grand opening
of the district's new high school. |
 | WEAC President Stan Johnson speaks at a meeting of
the Great Lakes Intertribal Council in Milwaukee. Johnson said he
wanted to "reach out a hand to build a better coalition"
between educators and representatives of the state's Indian community. |
 | Wisconsin's 2005 High School Teacher of the Year Mark
Kohl of Lodi High School had the opportunity to spend July 23-29
at International Space Camp at the NASA Space and Rocket Center
in Huntsville, Alabama. |
 | WEAC Executive Director Dan
Burkhalter and Milwaukee Teachers’ Education Association member
Carlos Sanchez-Pierola meet by WEAC’s Great Schools exhibit
at the Wisconsin State Fair. Photo
gallery. |
 | Wisconsin Governor Jim Doyle hosts
a listening session July 25 about his state budget vetoes, which
protect education while providing tax relief. The session was
held at Fort Howard Elementary in Green Bay. |
 | Oshkosh Education Association member John Pieper meets
a Kabuki dancer during his 17-day visit to Japan. Pieper, a teacher
from Webster Stanley Elementary, traveled in June with 600 other
teachers nationwide to participate in the Japan Fulbright Memorial
Fund Program (JFMF). Story |
 | WEAC President Stan Johnson (left) and Executive Director
Dan Burkhalter (right) present WEAC member Marlene Ott with the
Delegate of Distinction Award during the NEA Representative Assembly.
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 | Franklin Education Association President Kim Trendel
meets NEA President Reg Weaver during the NEA Representative Assembly.
The 2005 NEA RA was Trendel's first experience as a delegate. |
 | Council #10 President Linda Riesen
and NEA President Reg Weaver pose for a photograph during the
2005 NEA Representative Assembly. The RA was held July 1-6 in
Los Angeles. Story. |
| | Little leaguer Billy Walsh smiles for a pre-game snapshot
in front of the WEAC scoreboard at the Minor League Field in the
West Madison Little League complex. |
 | More than 900 Badger Boys State citizens create
a map of Wisconsin on the football field at Ripon College. |
 | WEAC members discuss the threats facing public education
with Tim Fiocchi, a member of State Representative Jeffrey Wood's
staff, during WEAC's June 16 Lobby Day. Photo
Gallery |
 | Governor Jim Doyle stresses the importance of protecting
public education in the state budget during a press conference
at Chippewa Falls High School on June 14. |
 | A couple dozen WEAC members, staff and supporters
joined Team WEAC June 4 at the Susan G. Komen Foundation's annual
Race for the Cure in Madison. The event raises money to fight breast
cancer. |
 | Winnebagoland UniServ member Pat Sphatt (right) and
Liam Goldrick, education policy advisor to Governor Jim Doyle, visit
during the WU Annual Member Dinner on May 9 at the Ramada Plaza
Hotel in Fond du Lac. |
 | WEAC President Stan Johnson, Northwest United Educators
President Larry Lindquist, and NUE Staff present a $500 check from
NUE and $1,000 from WEAC to striking Teamsters members at the Johnson
Truck Bodies plant in Rice Lake. |
 | A couple dozen members of the South West Education
Association march to a school board meeting to display support for
Prairie du Chien teachers who are fighting for a fair contract. |
 | Carol Pann (left) and Carol Stener (right) of the
Janesville Education Association meet in the Marshall Middle School
parking lot on "work the contract" day May 5. The JEA
implemented a one-day job action during Teacher Appreciation Week
to demonstrate frustration over a dispute involving implementation
of the 2003-05 contract. |
 | These two young people (Lucas and Alyssa ) are part
of a Mid-America Xtreme program that culminates in an August expedition
to Belize, where they will explore the jungle and provide computer
training to at-risk youth. The training was aided by a WEAC donation
of computers. |
 | WEAC President Stan Johnson reads to 1st- through
5th-grade students at Denmark Elementary School April 12 in recognition
of National Library Week. |
 | Retired Southern Lakes United Educators member Joanne
Williams and Star Center Elementary School (Lake Geneva) 4th grader
Josh Morris pick up trash along Lake Geneva Highway in Pell Lake
for Earth Day. |
 | Sixty-four Sun Prairie High School graduates now work
for the Sun Prairie Area School District. Forty of them came to
a picture-taking event at Ashley Field in Sun Prairie. |
 | Grace Korger, 3, helps her mother, Katie, tally sales
at the WEAC Book Zone during the 10th annual Kids Expo in Madison. |
 | Students welcome Governor Doyle to John Marshall School
in Wausau April 18. The governor met with students and then discussed
his state budget and the need to provide the resources needed to
maintain great schools in Wisconsin. |
 | Katie Yost of UW-Whitewater paints a mural to help
brighten up one of the hallways at Wright Elementary School in Beloit.
Yost was one of nearly 200 Student WEA members to participate in
this year's Outreach to Teach weekend project in which members engage
in a wide variety of activities to spruce up schools. |
 | Members of the Medford Education
Association gather to kick off the 2005-07 contract negotiations.
MEA members endured a long, contentious bargain for the 2003-05
contract, which resulted in a QEO. |
 | Frederic teachers and supporters rally prior to a
school board meeting March 2. At the meeting, teachers and community
members asked the board to negotiate a fair and equitable settlement. |
 | WEAC-Retired member Cristina Diaz-Arntzen of Waukesha
(second from right) was invited by NEA President Reg Weaver to attend
the 49th session of the Commission on the Status of Women at the
United Nations, February 28 through March 3, 2005. |
 | Southern Lakes United Educators President Jack Clement
meets with State Superintendent Libby Burmaster at the joint SLUE-Kenosha
Education Association legislative dinner. |
 | Governor Doyle visits with children at South Mountain
Elementary School in Wausau in February (2005). It was part of his
tour of schools throughout the state to talk about school funding
and his proposed 2005-07 state budget. Story. |
 | Janesville Education Association member Becca Bryan
ties a balloon to her car in a show of solidarity on March 14, 2005.
JEA members have been working to settle a grievance regarding health
benefits. |
 | Representative Joan Ballweg addresses South Central
Education Association and Three Rivers United Educators members
during the second of two SCEA/TRUE legislative dinners. |
 | Kay Hansen, vice chair of the WEAC
Education Suppport Professionals Committee, and Debbie Martin,
chair of the committee, meet with NEA President Reg Weaver at
the NEA ESP Conference in San Diego. |
 | WEAC President Stan Johnson hands a present to recently
retired Green Bay Education Association Executive Director Richard
Feldhausen at a retirement party for Feldhausen and three other
recent retirees. |
 | Jim Schultz, a school counselor from Watertown, testifies
before the Legislature's Joint Finance Committee on behalf of Governor
Doyle's proposed 2005-07 state budget. The hearing was March 9 at
the Health and Wellness Center of Watertown. |
 | These students are members of Lakewood's (Twin Lakes)
6th- and 7th-grade team that won the Wisconsin Educational Media
Association's online statewide Battle of the Books. |
 | Bill Froelich (right), vice president of South Central
Education Association, addresses participants during a March 7 dinner
program about government policies and public education. |
 | Oakfield Education Association member Paul Helm's
students are competing in an engine endurance contest sponsored
by Moraine Park Technical College. |
 | WEAC President Stan Johnson reads Dr. Seuss's "Hop
on Pop" to students during the Read Across America event at
Meadowview Elementary School in Eau Claire. Photo
Gallery - Story |
 | Interim WEAC Executive Director Bruce Meredith talks
about Wisconsin's Great Schools with University of Wisconsin-Madison
sports broadcaster Matt Lepay. Lepay interviewed Meredith during
halftime of the UW-Michigan men's basketball game February 16. |
 | Cedar Lake United Educators member David Moehn and
three guests enjoy suite-level tickets during the February 16 University
of Wisconsin-Michigan men’s basketball game at the Kohl Center
in Madison. Moehn won the tickets on the Members Only site. |
 | The famous Dr. Seuss character, the Cat in the Hat,
visits Hilltop Elementary School in Rice Lake during its weeklong
celebration of reading. Photo
Gallery. |
 | Kindergartners at Elm Creative Arts School in Milwaukee
participate in a musical play, Mother Goose Party, about
nursery rhymes. The 25-minute play was performed February 17 during
the school's annual Youth Art and Science Night. |
 | Frederic teachers wear orange T-shirts to protest
their board's refusal to negotiate the 2003-05 contract. The teachers
also have begun a series of job actions. |
 | Students deliver an anti-drug message during a performance
at the Northwest United Educators annual Education Fair January
29 at the Cedar Lake Mall in Rice Lake. Photo
gallery. |
 | Northwest United Educators Director Toby Paone conducts
a lecture as part of the Bargaining Behavior Training for nine ESP
negotiators. |
 | NEA officials meet with WEAC members during a break
at the October WEAC Board meeting. The officials were in Madison
as part of national bus tour. |
 | Japanese teachers who spent about three months visiting
Wisconsin schools participate in a farewell event in December in
Oconomowoc. The visit was co-sponsored by the WEAC Professional
Development Academy. |
 | Milwaukee teachers and education support professionals
work on a food drive with participating Milwaukee public schools.
Photo
gallery |
 | State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster talks about
making early childhood education a top priority during her keynote
address at the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families policy
forum. |
 | Students at John Bullen Middle School in Kenosha submitted
their career dreams for a "Dream quilt" bulletin board.
Eighth-grade teacher, Janet Tarkowski, put the bulletin board together
during American Education Week. |
 | About 350 Milwaukee teachers, education support professionals
and supporters rally at a school board meeting November 23, 2004.
Photo
gallery |
 | Educational Assistants Association of Stoughton members
celebrated National ESP Day, November 17, 2004, with "thank
you" presents and treats from the teachers and administrators
in the Stoughton schools. |
 | WEAC ESP Committee Chair Debbie Martin celebrates
National ESP Day with Principal Barb Reamer and some of the paraprofessionals
at Dousman Elementary School in the Kettle Moraine School District.
|
 | The Sun Prairie Education Association celebrated
American Education Week by creating placemats that highlight its
great schools. |
 | WEAC member Gary Eagan displays a fish he and his
students caught during his special summer school fishing class,
which is offered by Marshall Public Schools. |
 | Educators throughout the state - including members
of the Princeton Education Association (left) - wore red on I See
Red Day October 15 to express their support for candidates who support
great schools. |
| | Students at Harvey Elementary School in Kenosha collected
Teddy Bears to send to hurricane victims in southern states. |
 | WEAC Board member Bill Milz of Northeast Wisconsin
Technical College in Green Bay attended the Million Worker March
in Washington, D.C., October 17. Milz said about 10 teachers came
up to talk to him because of his Great Schools T-shirt. |
 | The Clintonville School Board signed a resolution
with the Clintonville Education Association in support of the repeal
of the Qualified Economic Offer law, revised school funding, and
repeal of school district revenue caps. |
| NEA President Reg Weaver talks to students about the
importance of reading with Florida Education Association President
Andy Ford at an Orlando public school. Weaver's visit was one of
the first stops on the NEA's "Vote for Great Public Schools
Bus Tour," which kicked off October 4. Photo
Gallery. |
| Members of the Appleton Education Association display
their solidarity by wearing Great Schools T-shirts. All members
are urged to wear red on I See Red Day October 15. For more information,
click on the Great Schools Statewide Action Plan button on the Members
Only site. |
| Student WEA recruitment and membership boxes, lined
up along a hallway in the WEAC office building, contain materials
that will help chapter presidents reach out to college students
who are studying to become teachers. |
| Members of the New Holstein Education Association
celebrate that they collected more than $1,200 in $1 individual
checks from colleagues throughout the state. Two NHEA members -
Carol Lamont (front, left) and Jane Lefeber (red shirt) - have to
pay the school district a total of $1,200 in back pay as a result
of the district imposing a Qualified Economic Offer on its teachers.
Photo gallery |
| A school building in Charlotte County,
Florida, sustained severe damage August 13 when Hurricane Charley
ripped through the state. As a result of the storm, more than 100
Florida Education Association members are homeless. Story
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