Gwinnett County Association of Educators (GCAE)

Happy New Year, GCAE! We have updates for you.

New Year Updates From Your GCAE Member-Elected Executive Officers... We would like to take the opportunity to give you an update on the current situation of our organization. In October of 2020, one of our members filed two grievances against your current Executive Officers - one with GCAE and one with our state affiliate, the Georgia Association of Educators (G*E).....

Happy Holidays from GCAE! Here's a letter to our membership from our member-elected Executive Board:

A Holiday Letter from your GCAE Member-Elected Executive Officers... This is a time of year when giving “thanks” for big and little things is more common than usual! Thus, we too, at GCAE are grateful more so than usual! As your August 2020 member-elected GCAE officers, we just wanted to let our members know how thankful we are for YOU. Your GCAE August 2020 elec...

GCAE Members, please read this message from your Elected Leadership.

With any questions, please email Co-Presidents Jeanette Kimber at [email protected] or [email protected].

Click to read the up-to-date information about the on our COVID Crisis Center:

COVID-19 | GCAE COVID Resources + Updates AFFILIATE RESOURCE: The Iowa State Education Association recently developed and shared an Educator Bill of Rights for navigating the curr...

GCAE Members: have you checked out this week's Member Memo? Click to register for tonight's Sip & Share and to get the latest updates!

Your Member Memo Sip & Share, Voting, and more GCAE is dedicated to keeping you up to date with what's going on in our organization, our schools, and our community! TONIGHT! Sip & Share with G*E! Tonight's topic is “M

WE NEED YOUR VOICES!

GCAE Members: please spend 2 minutes taking our survey on the candidates running for GCPS School Board! This determines who we support as an organization for this election.

https://admin634635.typeform.com/to/zTg39uco

For the first time in spring 2021, the U.S. Department of Education will award the first Recognizing Inspirational School Employees (RISE) Award to a full or part-time classified school employee who provides exemplary service to students in pre-kindergarten through high school.

The Governor of each state has been invited to nominate up to two classified school employees by November 1, 2020. Georgia is running a state-level process, the Georgia RISE Award, to select its nominees. Winners of this state-level recognition, in addition to being nominated for the national award, will be recognized at the Georgia Teacher of the Year awards banquet in spring 2021.

Click the link to visit our website for more information:

Submit Your Nomination for the Georgia RISE Award GCAE is seeking nominees!!!!! We have an AWESOME number of QUALITY ESP's in GWINNETT! Let's REPRESENT THE BEST DISTRICT IN GEORGIA... YOU DESERVE IT! Download the RISE Announcement & Application, completed the application and send all info and questions back to us, ASAP at [email protected]! They are d...

Do you have students, children, grandchildren, nieces or nephews that are over 16 years of age and would like to work the polls?

There are opportunities for more than voting day - there are shifts that need filling before voting, as soon as possible!

And best of all, these positions are compensated!

GCAE, we are looking for at least 25 young people, and the cutoff is Friday 10/16/20 to sign up.

If you have any young person who is interested, please instruct them to send an email with their first and last name and phone number to [email protected].

Georgia Association of Educators will be going live tonight at 6:30pm with our new NEA Today President, Becky Pringle!

This is an event you don't want to miss! Share, share, share, and we hope to see you logged in later this evening! 🍎📚⭐️

Make your plans now. Join us tomorrow and meet our new NEA President Becky Pringle. Facebook Live here on the G*E President's Page. 6:30pm

Will you be in attendance to Wednesday's Town Hall Meeting discussing COVID-19?

Register now at www.gcae.net/events!

The Election Results Are In! Congratulations to the 2020-2022 GCAE Executive Officers!

Meet Our New Executive Officers! GCAE Members, you've successfully voted and selected your new Executive Officers for the 2020-2022 term! They are...

GCAE, MEET YOUR CANDIDATES!

We received all of your nominations for the GCAE 2020 Executive Officer Election, and as of today, the campaign period is now officially open!

Here are your candidates for GCAE Executive Offices:

President/Co-President:
Jeanette Griffin-Kimber
Antwyne Haywood
Dexter Peeples

Vice President:
Charmaine Madukolum
Nicole Trimble

Treasurer:
Jennifer Crane
Jonathan Dixson

Secretary:
Danielle Brown
Kiana Washington

Click HERE to view their pictures and to learn more about them: https://www.gcae.net/meet-the-candidates

These candidates meet the qualification requirements below, as verified by the election committee:
- be an active certified member or active ESP member
- have been a member of GCAE for at least 2 years
- have served for one year as a Board of Directors member
- have completed 3 years' educational experience

Again, here is our election timeline and rules:

Election Timeline:
August 6th - August 14th: Submit Nominations
August 18th - August 25th: Campaign
August 26th - August 28th: Voting

Campaign Rules:
Any member who fits the above candidate qualifications may campaign for themselves during the campaign period. Here are the rules governing how one may market their candidacy:

Not Allowed:
- using membership emails or phone numbers (calls or texts) to solicit votes

Allowed:
- person to person conversations
- physical printed media (handouts, flyers)
- personal websites
- personal social media posts

If any candidate is found to have violated these campaign rules, they will automatically be disqualified from the election.

The campaign period closes on August 25th, and online voting will begin on August 26th.

Voting Rules:
The election will take place online, via Election Buddy. Each member will be emailed a specific encoded link to their unique ballot. Each member will be able to submit only one ballot.

Once the election ends, ballots will be tallied and results will be released on our website.

With any questions about the election, you can email our third party election administrator at [email protected].

Finally, we work hard to ensure that we are reaching all of our members via email. If you or any member you know IS NOT receiving email communications from GCAE, please reach out to us ASAP so that we can update their email we have on file.

Meet The Candidates | GCAE Voting for the Executive Board begins on August 26th and ends on August 28th. Meet the candidates who want to earn your vote!