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Apply now for the 2006 KNEA Bargaining Academy

The KNEA Bargaining Academy is an intensive program designed to provide the knowledge, skills and experience to more effectively negotiate teacher employment contracts in Kansas.

The application deadline is May 1, 2006.  Click here to apply.  College credit is available.

"While previous bargaining experience and training will be important, we will not overlook enthusiastic newcomers willing to learn," said Wade Anderson, director of KNEA Negotiations and Research. Those who complete the Academy will be expected to contribute to the bargaining efforts in their own local and within KNEA.

The program requires a minimum of 60 hours of classroom instruction and 10 hours of field study.  The classroom instruction includes several bargaining simulations and activities which demonstrate collective bargaining as a conflict resolution tool, Anderson said.  Effective planning and at-the-table techniques will also be simulated.

Topics to be studied include the following:

• Collective bargaining as a conflict resolution tool.
• Alternatives to a negotiated agreement.
• The Kansas Professional Negotiations Act.
• Dilemmas of bargaining.
• Verbal skills and managing emotions.
• Constituency management.
• Bargaining strategies and tactics.
• Popular bargaining models.
• Effective planning/preparation for bargaining.
• Kansas school finance and compensation theory.

Three two-day classroom sessions and two field study events will be scheduled.  The program begins at 9 a.m. June 7 at KNEA Headquarters in Topeka.

For details, contact Wade Anderson .

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