Keep These in a Safe Place!
Maintain an easily accessible personal file(s) at home or at school to contain these important documents.
Start the Job Off Right
You were hired because you are the best candidate for the job. Keep that positive image going by practicing some of these tips.
Fitting In
Regardless of what job you do in your school district, it's important to build relationships with your fellow workers--and that's not only the support staff. Knowing what staff members do can help you better understand their specific needs.
Tough Lessons in Hard Times: Mansfield, Ohio
When Tina Adams took a job as head cook in a Mansfield City Schools cafeteria in 1984, the job paid $7.60 per hour, only 35 cents more than the minimum wage today in Ohio. If she thought the pay unfair, correcting such matters came as second nature.
School Libraries Are Being Ignored
Streetsboro Education Association member Susan Ridgeway writes this thoughtful opinion piece for the OEA blog/discussion Board, Voices of Change, urging Ohio educators to contact their Congressional representatives to fund the Improving Literacy Through School Libraries program at $100 million so that students all across the country can obtain the 21st century skills they will need to succeed in college and the workplace.
Education Secretary Listens to ESP Issues
For the first time ever, Secretary Duncan met with Education Support Professionals in Rhode Island as part of his national listening tour.
School IT support: Overworked...and understaffed
Research suggests overworked and understaffed IT departments are spending too much time reacting to technology problems--and not enough time on training and integration.
More Problems for US Health Care System: Fewer School Nurses
Nationwide, the ratio of nurses to students falls short of the federally recommended standard.
ESP Success Story: Survey Helps End Outsourcing Experiment in Illinois
The three-year experiment of outsourcing 15 percent of school bus routes in Naperville Community Unit School District 203 ended in failure earlier this year.


