UFEA: Unit Five Education Association
Union of education professionals affiliated with the Illinois Education Association and National Education Association - IEA-NEA, Advocating for Public Education Employees and Teachers in the McLean County Unit 5 School District located in Bloomington-Normal, Illinois
The Unit Five Education Association (UFEA) represents more than 900 certificated personnel and the Unit Five Support Professionals Association (UFSPA) represents more than 300 full-time and part-time ESPs (Education Support Professionals). The leaders of UFEA and UFSPA are exploring the idea of becoming one union. We are currently spending time helping members understand what it would mean to become one …
Join us for the IEA Professional Development Conference at the Wyndham Springfield City Center, December 1-2, 2017. The IEA Professional Development Conference showcases IEA as an official ISBE-sanctioned professional development provider. This is an excellent opportunity for you to both acquire multiple “PD clock hours” (in subject areas such as Classroom Management, Cultural Competency, Special …
UFSPA & UFEA Members: We wanted to take this opportunity to provide you with some important and timely updates regarding heath insurance. Please take a few moments to read through the information provided here, and then feel free to ask questions of any of the Insurance Committee members if you’d like more information or clarification. …
As you are likely aware, there have been changes related to Parent/Teacher Conferences as a result of our most recent contract with the District. During bargaining, we spent significant time talking about issues related to conferences. We discussed the fact that growing class sizes made it nearly impossible to conduct conferences the way we had …
Remarks as prepared Good morning members of the Unit Five Education Association. Good morning members of the School Board and Administration. Good morning other members of the Unit 5 family. Those of you who have been here a while and have heard me speak — either here, publicly, or somewhere else less formally — know …
As you know, both UFEA and the Board of Education ratified our new Agreement. The contract has been signed and is available as a PDF document . We are in the process of updating the Contract pages of the website to reflect the changes as well.
Good morning to the school board, administration and other members of the Unit 5 community. And good morning to the more than 900 members of the Unit Five Education Association. It is a privilege to speak to you today and it continues to be my pleasure to serve, alongside so many others, as your president, …
PAPER TIGERS SCREENING Please join us tomorrow night (Wednesday, March 30) from 6-8:30 pm in Illinois State University’s Braden Auditorium at Bone Student Center for a free public screening of the documentary film Paper Tigers. Paper Tigers is an intimate look into the lives of selected students attending an alternative school specializing in educating traumatized youth. …
