Southwest Virginia UniServ - SWVU

Happy Holidays!

On behalf of the staff and governance of VEA, we wish everyone a joyous and festive holiday break! VEA offices will reopen on January 3rd.

Mark your calendars.

🚨Save the Date!🚨

Mark your calendars for VEA's 2023 Summit on Teachers of Color! The Summit will be held February 17-18, 2023 in Norfolk.

Registration will open later this month! Check www.veanea.org/toc-summit/ for updates and information.

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Teaching & Learning Today: October 2022 - VEA Website Welcome to Teaching and Learning TODAY. We hope routines have been established and all is running smoothly for you as we get further into the fall season and your best year yet! Teaching and Learning has many opportunities for growth to offer, but we also invite you to be a part of the change that n...

Congratulations to VEA member, Fabiana Parker on being named the 2023 Virginia Teacher of the Year!

Congratulations to Fabiana Parker, a Middle School ESL teacher and VEA member, for being named the 2023 Virginia Teacher of the Year! What an incredible achievement! Mrs. Parker will now be in the running for the 2023 National Teacher of the Year. We are so !

Don’t miss Dr. Manny Scott at EPIC!

We are so excited to have Dr. Manny Scott as our keynote speaker for the 2022 EPIC Conference! Dr. Scott is one of the original young students whose story was captured in the award-winning Hollywood movie Freedom Writers and has energized more than two million educators, students, and leaders worldwide with his authentic, inspiring messages of hope. He’ll talk about the vital role education and educators played in turning his life around. Join your colleagues at ‘EPIC’ for his dynamic presentation!

Register at https://www.veanea.org/epic

You might recognize the quote from our council chair. This is high quality professional development by educators, for educators. It doesn’t get better than that.

A professional learning event like you've never seen before! Join us for VEA's Education Professionals In Collaboration (EPIC) Conference in Richmond. Come prepared for a creative, innovative, and career-strengthening experience!

Learn more and register at www.veanea.org/epic/

Register today!

EPIC Conference - VEA Website You may have been to a VEA conference before, but we guarantee you’ve never seen one like this! We’ve got an exciting and revamped event coming this fall and you won’t want to miss it. We’re calling it EPIC (Education Professionals in Collaboration), and it combines our annual instructional ...

Members, register now.

EPIC Conference - VEA Website You may have been to a VEA conference before, but we guarantee you’ve never seen one like this! We’ve got an exciting and revamped event coming this fall and you won’t want to miss it. We’re calling it EPIC (Education Professionals in Collaboration), and it combines our annual instructional ...

Based on local news media, we are not seeing vacancies such as these in our region. It might not be that way for long.

The Preventable Crisis: Lack of Funding Underpins K-12 Staffing Shortages - VEA Website Every child in Virginia should be able to count on a school bus picking them up on time, administrative staff to greet them in the morning, a hot meal at lunch, and a qualified teacher in every class. Yet, due to years of underfunding coupled with increased stress and demands over the pandemic, our....

For my last post as the SW Uniserv bookkeeper/admin/jack of all trades, master of none....Please welcome your NEW BOOKKEEPER/ADMIN, JENIFER STUART! ~thank you all for the past 6 years!

Teaching & Learning Today: July 2022 - VEA Website Welcome to Teaching and Learning TODAY. It is our goal to provide high-quality professional learning for teachers and ESPs as a value of membership in your Union. As we continue to recover from the pandemic, educators and students both have many needs. The work you do is more important than ever. We...

Mental Health in Schools: The Kids Are Not All Right | NEA As students' mental health needs rise, so do educators' demands for help.