Elect Tripp Jeffers NCAE VP
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On July 7, at our final state caucus meeting at the NEA Representative, it was my honor to announce my candidacy for Vice President of the North Carolina Association of Educators (NCAE).
The first in my family to go to college, I have spent my entire adult life teaching and advocating for public schools, its employees, and the children we teach for America's future. Because we face so many threats, I have been outspoken and aggressive in both NCAE and NEA Board meetings, and most importantly in lobbying state and national legislators for common sense education policy, because you deserve a loud voice!
I have served NCAE/NEA well over the last four years as NEA Director and the four years prior to that as local president, and I ask for your support in election as NCAE Vice President. My record speaks for itself. As President of the Forsyth County Association of Educators, with the help of great reps, I dramatically increased membership by almost 15%, organized around issues such as public school cuts and a Reduction In Force (RIF) policy, and supplement pay increases. I also traveled around the state training other locals on recruitment and organizing techniques, including the use of social media for organizing purpose . I have a history of activism, even authoring the New Business Item (NBI) at the 2010 convention that required us to MARCH on RALEIGH at the following convention in 2011, a public rally that garnered enormous attention for our association's efforts.
In addition to serving on the NEA and NCAE boards, I represent the east coast of the US on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA) which advocates for the issues of large and urban public school districts. In that capacity, I have trained hundreds of local leaders all over the nation on how to organize effective issue campaigns using social media. Recently, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel just appointed me as Chair of the NEA Board's Internal Concerns Committee, a very important policy body for the NEA Board, for my bold leadership.
However, I am not running for Vice President to maintain some position in the association or to "move up the ladder". I am running for my own children, twin daughters Hannah and Chloe, and the children of all those in North Carolina who not only deserve a great public school, but also need a relentless defender against the shameless political attacks on the democratic institutions that guarantee an equal opportunity for everyone. My grandfather, who was an illiterate sharecropper in SC, at the end of his life wanted nothing more than to learn how to read. He didn't have the opportunities that we have today --- opportunities that today's politicians seem to want to destroy.
And so I ask for your vote, your support, and your willingness to march with me forward and together! One NCAE! Please invite me to your local and district association meetings over the next several months. I take great pride in traveling across the state to talk to our members so that their views are represented accurately.
(My "D-I-R-T" speech from
2011 march -- please watch)
Please email me at the contact provided or follow me on twitter or Facebook (trippjeffers on both).
Yours in Solidarity,
W.F. "Tripp" Jeffers III
NEA Director, NC
The first in my family to go to college, I have spent my entire adult life teaching and advocating for public schools, its employees, and the children we teach for America's future. Because we face so many threats, I have been outspoken and aggressive in both NCAE and NEA Board meetings, and most importantly in lobbying state and national legislators for common sense education policy, because you deserve a loud voice!
I have served NCAE/NEA well over the last four years as NEA Director and the four years prior to that as local president, and I ask for your support in election as NCAE Vice President. My record speaks for itself. As President of the Forsyth County Association of Educators, with the help of great reps, I dramatically increased membership by almost 15%, organized around issues such as public school cuts and a Reduction In Force (RIF) policy, and supplement pay increases. I also traveled around the state training other locals on recruitment and organizing techniques, including the use of social media for organizing purpose . I have a history of activism, even authoring the New Business Item (NBI) at the 2010 convention that required us to MARCH on RALEIGH at the following convention in 2011, a public rally that garnered enormous attention for our association's efforts.
In addition to serving on the NEA and NCAE boards, I represent the east coast of the US on the Executive Committee of the National Council of Urban Education Associations (NCUEA) which advocates for the issues of large and urban public school districts. In that capacity, I have trained hundreds of local leaders all over the nation on how to organize effective issue campaigns using social media. Recently, NEA President Dennis Van Roekel just appointed me as Chair of the NEA Board's Internal Concerns Committee, a very important policy body for the NEA Board, for my bold leadership.
However, I am not running for Vice President to maintain some position in the association or to "move up the ladder". I am running for my own children, twin daughters Hannah and Chloe, and the children of all those in North Carolina who not only deserve a great public school, but also need a relentless defender against the shameless political attacks on the democratic institutions that guarantee an equal opportunity for everyone. My grandfather, who was an illiterate sharecropper in SC, at the end of his life wanted nothing more than to learn how to read. He didn't have the opportunities that we have today --- opportunities that today's politicians seem to want to destroy.
And so I ask for your vote, your support, and your willingness to march with me forward and together! One NCAE! Please invite me to your local and district association meetings over the next several months. I take great pride in traveling across the state to talk to our members so that their views are represented accurately.
(My "D-I-R-T" speech from
2011 march -- please watch)
Please email me at the contact provided or follow me on twitter or Facebook (trippjeffers on both).
Yours in Solidarity,
W.F. "Tripp" Jeffers III
NEA Director, NC
Organiser
Tripp Jeffers
Organiser
Winston-Salem, NC
