Meeting Ideas

Coming up with Meeting Ideas for Political Action can be difficult. Often, students are not interested in educational politics since they feel so disconnected from it all. IEASP Meetings about Political Action should show future teachers how important politics is and will be in their lives. They should emphasize the student role and things that will surely affect them in their futures as teachers.

Fraction of Political Action

One way to get Political Action into meetings is a strategy called the "Fraction of Political Action." The "Fraction of Political Action" is simply taking 5 minutes at the beginning of each chapter meeting to discuss an important issue in educational politics. The UIUC chapter used the "Fraction of Political Action" at their meetings (twice a month) and it was met with good reviews from members. Some examples of topics are the basics of Common Core, the EdTPA, Co-teaching, local issues in your own college town, etc. You can even use the posts on this blog to give you ideas! 

IEA Representatives

A great way to connect chapters with the IEA and political action is by having a meeting held by a current member of the IEA. Contact your regional branches and ask if anyone would be willing to lead a meeting about political action. 

We will be posting more meeting ideas as the summer comes to an end, but in the meantime, if you or your chapter has any ideas for meetings that have been particularly successful, please feel free to leave a comment or contact Lisa or Zach to add them to the blog.