PSEA is a community of education professionals who make a difference in the lives of students every day.
Educators Rising is a community-based movement that provides Grow Your Own programming for high school students through the Educators Rising curriculum and embraces teaching as a profession.
Educators Rising offers classroom-ready curriculum, training, and support that help high school students begin their journey to becoming future educators. Teacher leaders who bring an Educators Rising chapter to their school district will create new opportunities for more talented young people to enter the education profession.
Educators Rising Teacher Leaders: join us for the monthly meeting every third Tuesday at 4 p.m. Join meeting.
The first annual Pennsylvania Educators Rising Conference will be held on Friday, April 19 at Millersville University. Registration is free and opens in early February. Lunch will be provided. Attendees will:
There will be three competitions for students interested in competing at the conference. Two individual competitions (only 1 student) and one team competition (at least two students, no more than four students). Review the competitions with your students so they can begin preparing for the conference to compete.
Interested in attending the 2024 Educators Rising National Confernece? Click here or scroll down for more information.
Meet the 2024 Pennsylvania Educators Rising Conference keynote speaker, Elizabeth Raff.
Elizabeth Raff is a passionate and enthusiastic educator who sparks excitement and creativity in classrooms. She propels students and teachers to be lifelong learners by using unique classroom engagement strategies. Elizabeth serves as the Elementary Learning Facilitator in the Penn Manor School District, supporting teachers across seven elementary schools to improve instruction and student achievement. Before her current role, she spent over a decade in the classroom as a 4th and 6th grade elementary school teacher.
In her role as 2022 Pennsylvania Teacher of the Year, she traveled Pennsylvania and the nation, meeting and collaborating with education stakeholders, advocating for the profession by working with legislators, supporting pre-service teachers, and learning from her national state teacher of the year cohort.
Educators Rising provides "Beginning to Teach" micro-credential courses to test the skills students have learned. Each course requires 5-15 minutes of work and awards digital badges on completion. Submission criteria, a research base, recommended resources for preparing a submission, and a scoring rubric is provided for each micro-credential course.
As a partner of PDK International, Educators Rising offers more than 30 scholarships through the PDK Educational Foundation.
PSEA awards scholarships to high school seniors who plan to enroll in an accredited teacher preparation program in Pennsylvania through the Lucy A. Valero Memorial Scholarship.
The 2024 Educators Rising National Conference is scheduled to take place June 28-July 1, 2024, in Washington, D.C., at the Marriott Marquis. This year’s theme will be Discovering Your Potential.
It’s a unique opportunity for students and their teacher leaders to:
Download the 2024 Educators Rising National Conference tentative schedule.
Download the National Competition overview.
Download the checklist for applying to the 2024 National Conference.
The Educators Rising Honor Society is a distinction that recognizes academic accomplishments and serves to elevate the image of teaching by highlighting high-achieving high school students who are dedicated to a career path in education.
Join Student PSEA's Southwestern Region for the 2024 Teacher Leadership Institute Education Conference on Saturday, April 13 at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg. Attendees will network with fellow aspiring educators, participate in a PSEA-PACE raffle, and more.
Dr. Christopher M. Clayton, Sr., Pennsylvania State Coordinator
Email: cclayton@psea.org
Phone: (717) 255-7028
Dr. Clayton, Sr., serves as PSEA's Assistant Director of Education Services. He is responsible for providing support to over 177,000 PSEA members on issues involving teacher certification, student achievement, pedagogical best practices, and research in teaching and learning. He also directs the Student PSEA Aspiring Educator program.
