CONTENTS FALL 2024 Volume 22 Issue 3
4. PRESIDENT’S LETTER — GAE PRESIDENT LISA MORGAN 5. KNOW AND TELL Spelling Bee: 2024-25 Deadlines and Dates, Becoming a Bee Volunteer; GAE-Retired Lynda Wolfe Smith; Rights at Night; Upcoming Events, NEA Foundation Grant deadlines; Updating your membership record; Join Facebook Live; Not Getting GAE Emails?; 2025 Read Across America; GAE Scholarships and Grants; GAE’s New Employees; GAE Fall Conference pictorial; and much more.
26. GAE REPORT ON THE 2024 GENERAL ELECTION
We’re the faces on education’s front line. ®
We exist to support, protect, and strengthen those who nurture Georgia’s children. After all, our education program can be only as good as our educators. For us, standing up for public education means standing up for you.
30. GAE 2025 LEGISLATIVE PRIORITIES 31. NEA MENTAL HEALTH PROGRAM 32. LEGAL NEWS
FALL 2024 Volume 22 Issue 3 Lisa Morgan PRESIDENT Dr. Sharon Doe VICE-PRESIDENT Carly Shaw SECRETARY-TREASURER Dr. Craig Carter EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Kevin Pearson EDITOR/COMMUNICATIONS
16. GAE MEMBER SPOTLIGHTS ON…
“Know your rights. Protect your rights.”
Aspiring Educators Chapter at Young Harris College and Clinton Vicks, president of the Dougherty County Association of Educators.
35. “OUR TRS
COMMITMENT” by TRS Executive Director L.C. “Buster” Evans, Ed.D. 35. “EMPOWERING EDUCATION LEADERS: A Toolkit for Safe, Ethical, and Equitable AI Integration” 36. GAE RETIRED Topics Include: “Project 2025: What Next,” “We Can Do This,” and “What Will We Do Now?,” “Respect is More Than ‘Yes Ma’am’ and ‘No Sir’.” 39. GAE ELECTION TIMELINE CALENDAR 40. GAE ELECTION NOMINATION NOTICES FOR: NEA Delegates to the 2025 NEA RA and GAE- Retired Delegates to the 2025 GAE Spring RA.
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20. GET TO KNOW YOUR 2024-25 GAE BOARD OF DIRECTORS 24. GAE 2025 GEORGIA GENERAL ASSEMBLY PREVIEW 25. GAE DAY AT THE CAPITOL
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