Welcome to Eastern Region!

The Eastern Region Staff serve the following counties: Berks, Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton, Schuylkill.

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CALLING ALL PSEA MEMBERS...
The Race for Adam Foundation is sponsoring a 5K Walk as a fundraising event.  Sean Recke, a PSEA member in Salisbury Township EA, has a son Adam who was diagnosed with Type C Niemann-Pick disease.   Niemann-Pick is progressive, degenerative and always – until we find a cure – fatal.  The Foundation is conducting this race to help raise funds to find a cure, so no other parent has to watch their child suffer this fate.   Please consider participating...along with your friends and family...in this important fundraising event.   See sponsor letter, registration form, and pledge form for details.   

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PSEA teams up with Radio Disney and Cops 'n' Kids for Literacy and Book Collection Event...
PSEA formally kicked off its second major literacy and book collection initiative at Fountain Hill Elementary School in the Bethlehem Area School District.  “The goal of this initiative is to strengthen the joy of learning and reading in young children by using on-air Radio Disney personalities to read to students and to lead the students through a host of active learning experiences and gentle physical exercises,” said John Clark, a PSEA spokesperson and a coordinator of the initiative.

To spread the joy of learning and reading beyond the school house door, Clark said PSEA is working with the Lehigh Valley Cops ‘N’ Kids Literacy Program and Radio Disney to collect age appropriate books for distribution. He said the books would be reviewed and distributed by the Cops ‘N’ Kids program to families and community organizations that do not have access to or sufficient quantities of good books for young children.

“As in the past, we are counting on public support to help with the book collection,” Clark said. “Our goal is to collect 20,000 new or gently used books between November 9 and the end of the current school year.”  Individuals wishing to donate books can do so at any Radio Disney event (check www.radiodisney.com for event listings) and at the following PSEA office locations:  Eastern Region, Mideastern Region, Northeastern Region, Southeastern Region.   Click here for details.

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Directions to PSEA's Eastern Region Office

WEATHER HOTLINE...
Wondering if your meeting is cancelled because of the weather?  Please call our weather hotline at 800-322-9032 and press 8 (or key in extension 3788).  All weather-related cancellations will be recorded on Eastern Region's weather hotline.

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UPCOMING ACTIVITIES/WORKSHOPS -----

ATTENTION PSEA MEMBERS----Earn 2 hours of Act 48 credit...
Eastern Region is offering a workshop entitled "Resiliency:  What It Is and How to Make the Most of It for Students" on Tuesday, June 17, 2008.   The workshop will be held from 6-8 p.m. at the Eastern Region Office.   Click here for details.

Are you in need of a will?   Or do you need to update your will?
PSEA has designated A. Martin Herring, Esquire, as the official provider of will preparation services for Eastern Region PSEA members.   Click here for details and how to make an appointment.

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Wondering what's happening in Eastern Region?  Check out ER's monthly calendars, which include both region and statewide committee meetings, workshops, region meetings, etc.
         May 2008
         June 2008

Members may click here to access the Eastern Region Site for members only.

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