 | Kelly McMahon, a Milwaukee Public Schools kindergarten teacher, takes part in a WisconsinEye videotaping following an awareness event by the coalition group Wisconsin Values on Thursday (July 26, 2007).
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 | George Alafouzos wears his vest from the 1979 NEA Convention in Detroit. This is George's first trip to Philly, but his 21st RA. George, who retired from teaching 5 years ago, is part of the WEAC-Retired group at the RA this year.
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 | Doug Geiwitz, a member of the Sparta Education Association and teacher at High Point Charter School, is pictured working with a student during the 2006-07 school year. SEA members have been involved from the ground floor up in creating the innovative school, which provides project-based learning opportunities for self-motivated students. Story |
 | More than 500 WEAC members attended the Great Schools Lobby Day on June 19, 2007, in Madison. Pictured are Latesha Jude, a substitute teacher at John Muir Middle School in Milwaukee (right), and Alpha Roland, who teaches at the same school.
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 | NEA Director Sally Heideman (left) and WEAC President-elect Mary Bell (right) served as the Team WEAC's 2007 co-captains during the 2007 Race for the Cure, held in Madison on June 2, 2007. They rallied Team WEAC in support of finding a cure for breast cancer.
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 | Ron Lang of the Professional Bowhunters Association helps Keagen Gustin of Park View Elementary in Plymouth how to use a bow and arrow at the 2007 Outdoor Expo in Beaver Dam. WEAC was a participating sponsor of the event.
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 | WEAC President Stan Johnson speaks to local association presidents at an All Local Presidents meeting May 12 in Wisconsin Dells.
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 | Some Wausau education support professionals received negative paychecks this spring, after health insurance premiums were deducted. On Monday, they marched to a school board meeting to ask for relief. The ESP have been without a contract since last July.
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 | More than 150 educators, parents and community members gathered at an Eau Claire School Board meeting to advocate against closing one of their elementary schools, increasing class sizes, and laying off teachers.
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 | Members of the Oakfield High School technology education class show off the products they built in the mass production unit.
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 | Students at Lake Mills Middle School hosted a very successful Environmental Awareness Day on Saturday, April 21, 2007. Between 300 and 400 people attended.
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 | Milton teacher Greg Devine asks state legislators to support Governor Doyle's pro-education budget provisions at a town hall meeting in Whitewater.
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 | SWEA President Julia Addison-Fulton chats with Senator Jon Erpenbach at the South West Education Association legislative dinner in Belmont.
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| Rep. Steve Hilgenberg joins in the Pledge of Allegiance with kindergartners at Black Hawk Elementary School in the Sauk Prairie School District. Hilgenberg visited the school to better understand issues facing schools.
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 | Student WEA members gave "a shot in the arm" to three Fond du Lac schools in their 2007 Outreach to Teach activity. The event helps draw attention to the harm caused by revenue caps.
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 | Despite being in the midst of stalled negotiations with the Wausau Area School District, Wausau education support professionals took their community involvement one step further by participating in the Adopt-a-Highway program.
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 | Representatives of several unions display their solidarity after announcing that the Beloit Education Association - which continues to be affiliated with WEAC and the NEA - has added an affiliation with the AFL-CIO.
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 | Six recent WEAC and UniServ staff retirees were honored at the annual Staff Retirement and Service Awards Banquet. Eleven others were honored for their years of service.
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 | Stephanie Call Kessler, a WEAC and Albany Education Association member, displays products at the WEAC Book Zone exhibit during the Kids Expo in Madison March 17-18.
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 | Forty-seven Little Chute Middle School students, staff, and community members donated hair at an all-school “cut off” for Locks of Love in honor of Tiffany Bougie. Tiffany would have been in the 6th grade at LCMS this year, but unfortunately passed away over the summer.
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 | More than a dozen student journalists from eight area high schools grilled Congresswoman Tammy Baldwin for more than an hour on topics ranging from immigration to education funding, child tax credits, gay rights, global warming, congressional ethics, Iraq and Darfur.
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 | Beecher-Dunbar-Pembine School District Administrator Robert Berndt, Dean of Students Lynn Stankevich, and guidance counselor Marlene Mottes were true to their word when they slept on the school roof - in 13-degree temperatures - to reward students for a major reading accomplishment.
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 | Diane Doersch of Neenah - Wisconsin's nominee for the NEA’s Foundation for the Improvement of Education Award for Teaching Excellence - attends the Salute to Excellence in Education with her husband Dean.
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 | Superintendent David Ewald shares his favorite Dr. Seuss book "Green Eggs and Ham" with Mary Fortier's 1st and 2nd graders at E. W. Luther Elementary School in South Milwaukee.
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 | Clintonville teacher Ed Johnson (right) visits the WEAC exhibit booth staffed by Allen Knop, a WEAC-Retired member from Marshall, at the Central Wisconsin Educators Conference in Wausau.
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 | WEAC President Stan Johnson, Reedsburg Education Association President Dana Westedt, Thing 1 (Joseph Brognano, 10), Thing 2 (Angie Utley, 11) and Ronald McDonald took part in a reading celebration at South Elementary School in Reedsburg in advance of the national Read Across America celebration March 2.
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 | Senate Majority Leader Judy Robson talks with Rock Valley United Teachers Legislative Committee Chairman Greg Devine at the RVUT annual Legislative Breakfast.
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 | Lei Lund (left) and Carol Wordell sell clothing at the January 22, 2007, Health Fair sponsored by the Elkhart Lake-Glenbeulah Education Association and Education Support Personnel Association.
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 | The educational achievements and talents of area elementary, middle and high school students were showcased at the Reading Celebration at the Cedar Mall in Rice Lake. The event is sponored by Northwest United Educators. |
 | WEAC Government Relations staff person Cecile Brown (left) and NEA Director Laura Vernon (right), talk with Bertice Berry after her remarks at an event celebrating the 125th anniversary of the Wisconsin Council on Children and Families.
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 | WEAC member Jeffery Johnson, his wife Andrea and son Seth meet Governor Jim Doyle and First Lady Jessica Doyle during a January 12 reception at the governor's residence in Madison.
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 | Four Waterford High School students have created four outstanding stained glass panels installed outside the Student Services Office. The panels represent four of the most common options that a student can pursue after high school - college, technical college, apprenticeship and the military.
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 | Thirteen D. C. Everest educators who are members of the teacher singing group "Teachers With Voices" performed for residents at Mount View Care Center in Wausau on December 12.
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 | Members of the Berlin Education Association, along with some of their children, walk in the Berlin “Around the World” Christmas parade.
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 | Following the tragic September 29 Weston School shooting that claimed the life of Principal John Klang, members of the nearby Richland Center Education Association wanted to demonstrate support for their colleagues at the school by redesigning the teachers' lounges.
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 | Michelle De León of Mosinee arrives at Lambeau Field for the November 9 Packers-Patriots game. Her friend and colleague, Cindy Brouillard, won two tickets to the game in an OnWEAC Members Only contest.
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 | About 200 Denmark teachers, education support professionals and their supporters pile into the lobby outside a school board meeting following a rally and march.
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 | Bonnie Breivogel, staff assistant at Northern Tier UniServ in Rhinelander, snapped this picture of a large doe lying just outside her office window. A six-point buck also was lying in the snow behind some brush nearby.
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 | Teachers and their families gather at the Village Green – the second in a series of rallies to protest the Oconomowoc Area School Board’s unwillingness to negotiate a cost-of-living wage increase.
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 | Tomah Education Association members participate in the high school homecoming parade. They passed out 1,000 Great Schools pencils, school district referendum pamphlets and candy during the parade.
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 | The teachers of the Reedsville Education Association take over the concession stand at a high school football game to raise funds for the REA Scholarship Fund.
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 | NEA Secretary-Treasurer Lily Eskelsen was the keynote speaker at the Central Wisconsin UniServ Council's annual Fall Fair in Wausau.
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