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Working for teachers and students
Joining KNEA is good for you personally and professionally ... and it's good for kids.
As your professional organization, we are like a family, a union of professionals who agree that kids and education are important -- and that the people who are working in schools are important, too.
As skilled and caring professionals, we help you build relationships with colleagues across the state and nation. We are 25,000 members strong in Kansas and 2.7 million members strong across the country. There is a KNEA member in virtually every school building across Kansas, ready and willing to help you and your students succeed.
We are the favorite teachers from your school days. We are your friends, your colleagues and your mentors. We are united in our belief in, and support for, public schools and the teaching profession. We know that it is part of our professional responsibility to unite together for the good of our students and for our profession.
We are a volunteer organization supported by our members' dues, grants from the National Education Association and the good work of our members. Regardless of job classification, we are all teachers.
Everything we do centers around KNEA's priorities of promoting quality public schools, strengthening the teaching profession and improving the well being of members.
"Everything" we do includes:
- maximizing learning opportunities for you and your students,
- working to enhance your career,
- lobbying the Legislature, and
- protecting your right to practice in your chosen profession.
Your membership is part of the equation that makes Kansas public schools so successful. Your KNEA membership makes a difference for students in your classroom and for your colleagues across the state.
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Contact your local KNEA representative or contact your regional office.
Member Benefits
A variety of programs are available to help you further your career, to improve your teaching and to save you money. It makes good sense to belong to KNEA!
When you join the Association, take advantage of the many benefits available.
- News, practical information and teaching tips you can't get anywhere else. These are available through a variety of publications, kits, training, the KNEA and NEA Web sites and other online resources.
- A professional network of colleagues from across the state and the nation with whom you can share your concerns and explore solutions.
- A clearinghouse for the best professional development opportunities, the latest research on proven school improvement activities and special discounts on a variety of books and teaching materials to help you be your best. Check out the Resource Library for safe school resources and the Instructional Advocacy Catalog.
- KNEA ensures teacher input to the policy makers who determine the rules and regulations that affect your career and how you do your job.
- Liability insurance protection plus access to specially trained staff and KNEA attorneys if you should ever find yourself faced with job-related legal trouble. An exclusive benefit, the NEA/KNEA Attorney Referral Program provides two free 30-minute consultations on any legal personal subjects plus a 30% in discounted legal fees from approved attorneys.
- Professional staff located across the state who are available for assistance with teaching and learning, student achievement and legal and salary issues. They are a phone call or a computer click away.
- A voice in the Kansas Legislature where we lobby for lower class size, increased school funding, teacher mentoring programs, professional salaries and retirement benefits for educators.
- Research, support and training to negotiate professional salaries, benefits such as health insurance, working conditions and salaries.
- Personal financial advice and information you can trust plus real discounts and good deals. "Good deals" include a low-interest signature loan to tide you over until you receive your first paycheck or to take a college class; home finance programs to buy a house or refinance a mortgage; insurance protection for your family; and guidance in building your retirement nest egg.
- Belonging to KNEA is an asset. Community support, recognition and respect for the important work KNEA does through the Read Across America literacy campaign, various community and parental involvement contacts, and educator recognition programs are activities with which you partner.
Member Comments
 "I appreciate the leadership opportunities… to be educated on school issues and have opportunities to lobby for better schools and working conditions."
Anna Moon Bradley, Marais des Cygnes Valley TA
 "KNEA provides me the security of knowing someone is watching my back if I need support."
Britton Harey, NEA Shawnee Mission
 "I appreciate the training opportunities, the encouraging and supportive staff statewide and the wonderful, informative Web site…!"
Michelle Griffin, Leavenworth NEA
 "KNEA is making sure that teachers have input into what happens at their school and in their classrooms, especially in school improvement areas. In my rule book, being a member of the KNEA is a requirement to truly being a high caliber educator and coach."
Walter Givens Jr., United Teachers of Wichita
 "My KNEA members gives me a voice. I have the opportunity to help change and improve public education."
Emily Pezzola, NEA Salina
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