... work for the welfare of school children, the advancement of education, and the improvement of instructional opportunities for all.

... develop and promote the adoption of such ethical practices, personnel policies, and standards of preparation and participation as mark a profession.

... unify and strengthen the teaching profession and to secure and maintain the salaries, benefits, and working conditions necessary to support teaching as a profession.

... enable members to speak with a common voice on matters pertaining to the teaching profession and present their individual and common interests before the Board of Education and other legal authorities.

... cooperate with other local, regional, state and national education associations with similar purposes for a united professional program of action.

... create in the community a deeper sense of the worth and dignity of the teaching profession.