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	The East Troy Educational Support Professional Association and the East Troy Education Association designed and built a float for the July 4th parade as part of an Effective Locals project.
	Student WEA president 2005-06 Amanda Froom (pictured with Nancy Clark, WEAC's Student WEA coordinator) was named this year's NEA Outstanding State Leader.
	Students at Lakeview Elementary School in South Milwaukee carved a 3-foot limestone sundial that depicts the school's four core values: Belonging, Generosity, Independence and Mastery.
	The South West Education Association honors educators and a Friend of Education at its annual awards ceremony.
	Members of Team WEAC join about 9,000 participants in the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure in Madison June 3.
	Students join members of the Cedarburg Education Association, which sponsored the "Library Leap" one-mile walk to raise funds for the Cedarburg Public Library.
	Washington High School students in Milwaukee begin a planting project at the school. The students also delivered plants to neighbors in an effort to develop a positive relationship in the neighborhood.
	Michelle Pinnela and Emma Hervat play outside the Kenosha Unified Educational Support Center prior to a budget meeting. They were protesting the proposed layoff of their orchestra teacher.
	NEA Vice President Dennis Van Roekel fires up WEAC-Fox Valley members at the UniServ’s Representative Assembly May 24.
	Diners in New London got a special treat with their meals during Teacher Appreciation Week this year – student-created placemats that honor the community’s teachers.
	Students learn all about the outdoors at the Wisconsin Outdoor Expo May 19-20 at the Dodge County Fairgrounds near Beaver Dam.
	Milton Education Association member David Bendlin donates blood at the Milton School District Blood Drive May 2.
	Northern Tier UniServ staff found a surprise when they arrived at their Rhinelander office Tuesday morning.
	Menomonee Falls educators and supporters picket a school board meeting. The following evening, they reached a tentative contract agreement.
	Governor Jim Doyle signs two WEAC employee labor contracts, for 2003-05 and 2005-2007, at the State Capitol May 5.
	Bucky Badger motivates students to "Shape Up" at Glendale Elementary School in Madison.
	Northwest United Educators is holding a series of organizing conferences for teachers and Education Support Professionals.
	Milton Education Association members rally before a school board meeting April 10 over a lack of a salary schedule increase in their contract for more than four years.
	Northwest United Educators honored five students with $500 scholarships at its 17th Annual Outstanding Students Banquet at the WITC Conference Center in Rice Lake on Wednesday, April 4.
	Denmark Media Center Paraprofessional Kay Hansen, District Administrator Tony Klaubauf, NEA President Reg Weaver, and Denmark Elementary Principal Ann Birdsall share their love of reading with students during the district's National Library Week festivities.
	This past summer 15 Wisconsin teachers visited north and south India. This six-week adventure enabled the educators to gain a rich, first-hand, and focused experience of India.
	Donna Kaiser and Sue Inzeo meet NEA President Reg Weaver at the NEA ESP National Conference in Philadelphia.
	About 400 Kenosha education support professionals and their supporters walk the picket line to demonstrate solidarity in their battle for a fair contract.
	Kay Hansen, an education support professional from Denmark, visits with NEA President Reg Weaver at the ESP Awards Dinner during the NEA ESP Conference in Philadelphia.
	Taelor Grisack and her mom, Cathi, pick out books to read at the WEAC Book Zone at the Kids Expo in Madison.
	Sandy Roecker (left) receives the 2006 Support Employee of the Year award from West Bend School District Superintendent Pat Herdrich.
	Beloit-Turner teachers rally for a fair contract and attend a school board meeting en masse, demanding a fair contract settlement.
	Mark Denning leads leads students at Maple Dale Elementary School in some traditional Native American dancing.
	The Tomah Education Association collects more than 1,000 books to benefit the students of Waveland, Miss., which the City of Tomah "adopted" as part of a hurricane relief program called Project Touch.
	Members of United Northeast Educators make their way to the Capitol to meet face-to-face with legislators. They were four of 100 educators and community members participating in WEAC's Neighbors Against TABOR Lobby Day.
	South Middle School Principal John Wallace takes the "open mic" during Read Across America celebrations in Eau Claire March 2 with special guest Jessica Doyle.
	"I do not like green eggs and ham," reads The Cat in the Hat, AKA WEAC President Stan Johnson, to students at Parkway Elementary School in Glendale as part of Read Across America festivities.
	Members of the University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire chapter of the Student WEA sponsor a "lock-in" for Altoona Middle School 5th and 6th graders.
	A group of participants in the WEAC Winter Conference training session on Effective Locals proudly display a model they created in class.
	Monona Grove teachers display solidarity outside school district offices while negotiators meet with a mediator inside to discuss the 2005-07 contract.
	Instructor Ava Schwartz tends to young anglers at Rice Lake Area School District Title I's "Fish Pond for Books" at Northwest United Educators' annual Education Fair held at the Cedar Lakes Mall in Rice Lake January 28.
	NEA president Reg Weaver (center) joins Doug Perry, Linda Riesen, Nancy Koeckenberg, Jeff Dahlberg and Pam Cullen at the Midwest Leadership Conference, which was held at the Indianapolis Marriott Downtown on January 20.
	Reedsville WEAC members Ron Maroszek and Richard Urban present a check for $1102 to Kori Coffeen (center) of the American Heart Association.
	State Superintendent Elizabeth Burmaster joins Wisconsin State Journal columnist George Hesselberg, Madison Teachers Inc. Executive Director John Matthews and entertainer Truly Remarkable Loon to dish out food at the holiday family luncheon at Madison's Lapham Elementary School.
	Lindsay Johnson, a Student WEA member from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, displays the DVD player she won from the OnWEAC Savers' Club.
	Reedsburg Education Association teachers Deb Beisbier and Angie Herschleb and their daughters ring bells for the Salvation Army.
	The Holiday Tree for the State Capitol's Rotunda, which came from the front yard of WEAC member Jan Borth of Mercer, is now on display.
	A delegation of teachers from Japan wrap up a three-month visit to Wisconsin with a demonstration of Japanese song and dance in Madison.
	Nearly 400 Beloit Education Association members and their supporters filed into a school board meeting to present a petition supporting a "fair, voluntary contract settlement."
	Stanley Correctional Institution inmates who earned diplomas are honored at a ceremony. Graduates said education is the key to their future. Teachers at the institution are members of WEAC Council #1.
	Members of the Berlin Education Association walked and handed out pencils and candy canes in the Berlin Christmas parade.
	Educators should be fearless advocates for change, award-winning poet and author Nikki Giovanni said in a keynote address at the WEAC Convention. Convention photo gallery
	For the second year, the Tomah Education Association participated in the homecoming parade. Members passed out Great Schools pencils and candy.
	"Our Renaissance Plan" Committee co-chairs Bob Fitzsimmons and Paul Hambleton present details of the new plan at the WEAC Local Presidents Meeting Saturday, October 22, at the in Madison Mariott West.
	Linda Schumacher, Harry Wiersgalla, and Tami Scott from Turner Middle School place streamers on union members' cars on the morning of the most recent TEA bargaining session.
	Rod Wiemeri, a Barron Area School District high school counselor, helps unload supplies in Kiln, Mississippi, as part of a yearlong project to help the hurricane-ravaged area.
	Governor Jim Doyle and the first lady read a book called "First Day Jitters" to Cindy Shaw's class of 14 2nd and 3rd graders at Mendota Elementary School in Madison on the first day of school, September 1, 2005.
	River Falls High School students encircle their quilt honoring the memory of September 11, 2001. After hanging in the high school for four years, the quilt was presented to the National Museum of Patriotism in Atlanta, Georgia, in September of 2005.
	WEAC members and staff joined about 9,000 participants September 18, 2005, in the "Race for the Cure" of breast cancer along the Milwaukee lakefront.