Ships Ahoy! Chart your course for Membership CEA Summer Leadership Conference July 28, 2009 Keystone Resort, Colorado

Outcomes To exploring ways to create and sustain a FUN atmosphere with membership To connect to each other’s core values which can hook new members or at least increase interest To provide an opportunity to connect with other locals and learn from each other’s experiences To design a written membership plan for building membership and to get the right people on the Membership Committee.

Introductions Choose your Attitude Reeling each other in (playfully) Name, Local, role, Favorite type of fish

4 Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world. CEA/NEA MISSION

 These principles guide our work and define our mission:  Equal Opportunity. We believe public education is the gateway to opportunity. All students have the human and civil right to a quality public education that develops their potential, independence, and character.  A Just Society. We believe public education is vital to building respect for the worth, dignity, and equality of every individual in our diverse society.  Democracy. We believe public education is the cornerstone of our republic. Public education provides individuals with the skills to be involved, informed, and engaged in our representative democracy. 5 Anchors – NEA/CEA Values

 Professionalism : We believe that the expertise and judgment of education professionals are critical to student success. We maintain the highest professional standards, and we expect the status, compensation, and respect due all professionals.  Partnership. We believe partnerships with parents, families, communities, and other stakeholders are essential to quality public education and student success.  Collective Action. We believe individuals are strengthened when they work together for the common good. As education professionals, we improve both our professional status and the quality of public education when we unite and advocate collectively. 6 Anchors – NEA/CEA Values

Fish Philosophy Pike Place Fish Market Video clip It’s about: Choosing Your Attitude Play Make Their Day Be Present

Play Play requires mutual trust. If you don’t have the shared commitment and trust that make playfulness possible at work, it won’t happen. Playfulness won’t flourish in places where people spend more time trying not to do the wrong thing than searching for ways to do the right thing.

Choose Your Attitude While a good attitude may be great, you need to share it with others. Today we have cell phones, computers and pagers, but we don’t communicate with the people in our lives.

Value Statements

Be There The glue in our humanity is in being fully present for one another. Being there also is a great way to practice wholeheartedness and fight burnout, for it is those halfhearted tasks you perform while juggling other things that wear you out. Lundin, S., Christensen, J. & Paul, H. (2002), FISH! Tales, Bite-sized Stories. ChartHouse Learning, New York.

Build Relationships Ongoing commitment to building relationships Increasing comfort level of interacting with others Identifying values while listening to stories of others

Make Their Day Stop focusing on what we are getting and start focusing on what we are giving. A Make Their Day attitude is not implemented. It is explored, chosen, believed, and practiced.

Connecting Values Connecting Values to people’s needs Connecting Values to people’s involvement For entire unit For Membership Committee

Membership Definition Access Membership Plan template Create/tweak Membership definition based on your unit/local’s membership

Crow’s nest – Getting Focused Membership Vision for your local: FIND IT – WHY Protocol…to dig deeper with what each of you wants your work in membership in your local to be

Purpose Using your membership definition, what is your membership committee’s purpose/focus this year? Membership definition is the means to the purpose (the end)

Video Clip – Fish! Video Discuss how values are communicated through stories How building relationships allows you to hear the stories How relationships help you know people’s needs How knowing people’s needs, allows you to be connected to their values Matching values of Assoc w/ people’s personal values

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Tackle Box for Membership Planning Four Seasons Membership Campaign Manual Connecting with New Employees Potentials Form YOUR tackle box (Jump Drive)

Components of Membership Plan ACTIONS TIMELINE BUDGET RESPONSIBILITIES EVALUATION CRITERIA

Action Plan for Membership To design a written plan for Action for building membership –Apply for a grant ($) available for activity which is in the plan – membership recruiting –Continuing access to CEA resources To use a template To fish for ideas

Expectations : Continuum – differentiated based on local’s need –Begin (Kathy – 4 seasons Membership Guide) –Expand your plan (Complete template) –Revise Jen/Beth Share out at end

Work Time

CHOOSE YOUR ATTITUDE When you look for the worst you will find it everywhere. When you learn you have the power to choose your response to what life brings, you can look for the best and find opportunities you never imagined possible. If you find yourself with an attitude that is not what you want it to be, you can choose a new one. Lundin, S., Christensen, J. & Paul, H. (2002), FISH! Tales, Bite-sized Stories. ChartHouse Learning, New York.

Play Work made fun gets done, especially when we choose to do serious tasks in a lighthearted, spontaneous way. Play is not just an activity; it’s a state of mind that brings new energy to the tasks at hand and sparks creative solutions. Lundin, S., Christensen, J. & Paul, H. (2002), FISH! Tales, Bite-sized Stories. ChartHouse Learning, New York.

Make Their Day When you “make someone’s day” (or moment) through a small kindness or unforgettable engagement, you can turn even routine encounters into special memories. Lundin, S., Christensen, J. & Paul, H. (2002), FISH! Tales, Bite-sized Stories. ChartHouse Learning, New York.

Be There If you want to change the climate, first you have to change yourself. This is about who we are being while we are doing the things we need to do anyway.

Share Out Purpose Highlights Connection to Fish! Philosophy Time limits

Fish Sticks! Find it! Live it! Coach it!

Find It Find your special connection to the core values or vision of the organization. It is in your conversations with each other about that connection that your commitment becomes real.

Live It So much of what happens in any thriving organization is spontaneous creativity fueled by a strong commitment to a vision. When you commit to something big, you see opportunities you might otherwise miss. You are open to them.

Coach It Coaching is a gift we give to each other and to our vision to keep IT strong. Whether it’s about the way we do our work or the way we work together, the feedback needs to flow in all directions.

Resources Expand membership of wiki Jump drive review

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