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Apply Now for Every Member Leadership Training

Whether you're looking to enhance your leadership skills or learn more about diversity, VEA has a workshop just for you.

VEA's Every Member Leadership Training will be held Jan. 9-10, 2009, in Richmond at the Sheraton Richmond West Hotel. The sessions will start Friday evening and end on Saturday.

Those attending the training will participate in one of three strands:

EMERGING LEADERS/BASIC LEADERSHIP SKILLS

This training is designed for new or inexperienced members who want to learn leadership skills, more about the association, and how to become involved.  Participants are given an opportunity to become familiar with the association terminology, structure, program; leadership styles, issue organizing, using the tools of the delegate and representative assemblies and decision-making process.  Skills training for the seminar include effective communication and analysis of one's leadership potential. This workshop is conducted by members of the MLT Cadre and is appropriate for all members.

DIVERSITY

Participants in this seminar will: explore the evolution of diversity and the impact of diversity in their locals, the VEA and NEA; discuss the definition of diversity and understand the dimensions of diversity; recognize ways that cultural values impact a person's world view and behavior; and experience the dimensions of diversity and identify the relationship between core values and behaviors.  Participants will also participate in Module 1 of the new NEA training entitled Taking a Stand: Creating Safe Schools for all Students.

SAFE SCHOOLS - CIVIL SCHOOLS

VEA/NEA Training on Bullying/Sexual Harassment Prevention and Intervention.  This training session provides an overview of each of the following three sessions:

QUIT IT! is designed to assist educators in addressing the problem of teasing and bullying in kindergarten through grade 3.  Participants will increase their awareness of the problem of bullying and sexual harassment in the schools, learn about the legal aspects of sexual harassment and identify ways to provide bullying and harassment prevention and intervention programs.

Bully Proof is designed to assist educators in addressing the problems of teasing and bullying with elementary school students.  Participants examine their personal reactions to the issues of teasing, bullying and harassment, gain awareness of the kinds of joking, teasing and bullying which regularly take place in the school setting and identify and encourage appropriate interventions in teasing and bullying situations.

Flirting or Hurting? is designed to assist educators in addressing the issues of student to student sexual harassment in grades 6 through 12.  Participants learn strategies to help raise student awareness about the kinds of sexual harassment which takes place all the time, learn to discern the fluid, subjective line between flirting and sexual harassment and encourage open student discussion of a complicated topic.

Interested? Act now: the deadline for receipt of applications is Dec. 12, 2008. We only have spaces for the first 25 individuals for each strand.

Download a registration form here. If you have any questions or need further clarification, please contact VEA's Beblon Parks at 800-552-9554 or bparks@veanea.org.

Here is a pdf file of the brochure  describing the training.