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Important ACSHIC Information

The Allegheny County Schools Health Insurance Consortium (ACSHIC) renewal has updated for the 2024-2025 Plan Year.

Please click the links below where you can find some important information regarding the plan changes and updates, including what was presented at the May 2, 2024 ASCHIC Renewal Meeting.

Help Us Stay Connected

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• Core School is an ESP-only session that is offered during the PSEA Summer Leadership Conference.
• First-time attendees to Core School receive a scholarship.
• Participants will be given an overview of PSEA as an organization and provided with the knowledge, resources, and leadership skills necessary to be successful within their local association. Some of the topics covered during the training include compensation, structure of PSEA, leadership, negotiations, grievances, and managing conflict.

For more information and how to sign up, view the flyer.

2024-2025 WR Executive Committee Dates

PSEA WR House of Delegates
April 23, 2025

Executive Committee Kickoff Meeting
August 27, 2025

Meetings will be held at the WR PSEA Building on the first floor in the Fondy Room located at 10 S 19th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 unless otherwise noted. 

View the flyer

May 07, 2025

May 08, 2025

PSEA WR National Aviary Event

2024-2025 ESP Western Division Meeting Dates


Combined PSEA WR EA & ESP Meeting
March 12, 2025

Division Meeting
May 7, 2025

Meetings will be held at the WR PSEA Building on the first floor in the Fondy Room located at 10 S 19th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203. Watch your email for registration information.

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2025-2026 WR Executive Committee Dates

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Executive Committee Kickoff Meeting
August 27, 2025

Executive Committee Meeting
October 1, 2025

PSEA WR House of Delegates
November 19, 2025

Executive Committee Meeting
January 28, 2026

Combined PSEA WR EA & ESP Meeting
March 11, 2026

PSEA WR House of Delegates
April 22, 2026

Executive Committee Kickoff Meeting
August 26, 2026

Meetings will be held at the WR PSEA Building on the first floor in the Fondy Room located at 10 S 19th Street, Pittsburgh, PA 15203 unless otherwise noted.

Local Leader Tools - Local Email Utility


Local Association Presidents:

The Local Email Utility, available to you and your designees, is a useful tool for you to quickly email all your members without the need to create and maintain a separate database of member email addresses.

Your access carried over on September 1 (as long as you remained president).  After September 1, your designees from the prior year were deleted and you need to log in to Local Leader Tools to set up your designee(s) for the current membership year.

If you have any questions about this tool, please contact PSEA-Financial Management at 800-944-7732.

Special Program: PSEA Personal Legal Services

PSEA has a Personal Legal Services Program for members and their families. The program provides discounted rates and two 30-minute consultation sessions free during each membership year (must be on two separate matters).

After the initial 30 minutes, attorney rates apply at a 30% discount. PSEA cannot guarantee that the discounted fee will be the lowest in the area, only that it is 30% lower than the fee normally charged by that attorney.

Please email westernregion@psea.org for the list of participating attorneys in Western Region.

Region Directory

The online Western Region Directory has been revised and is in the "Region Information" block located at the top of this website (login required).  This online Directory is revised throughout the school year as updates occur.

If you have updates, please let us know by emailing westernregion@psea.org. 

PSEA Center for Professional Learning

PSEA offers a wide array of in person and online professional learning opportunities in both synchronous and a-synchronous formats. Members can earn Act 48 credit (PSEA is an approved Act 48 provider by PDE) and Chapter 14 verification to submit for district consideration toward the fulfillment of annual hours for HQT.

Micro-Credential offerings:

NEA Micro-Credentials Offerings

PennWest-Edinboro Mirco-Credentials

View additional offerings or other opportunities at the Center for Professional Learning by clicking the box below. 

Know Your Weingarten Rights

PEARL - Professional Education and Resources for Learning

PEARL is PSEA’s hub for our online learning programs.

PEARL (Professional Education and Resources for Learning) is a Moodle-based learning management system that will allow us to greatly expand PSEA’s asynchronous learning opportunities. On PEARL, members can find videos, documents, and presentations packaged into clear, easy-to-follow learning progressions and courses in an array of new formats.

Whether you’re a teacher, education support professional, student, associate, or any other category, your membership gives you exclusive access to this resource so you can start exploring and taking courses immediately.

Information on Clearances

Act 153 of 2014 requires school employees to provide or renew State Police/FBI record checks and child abuse clearance statements. Additional changes to the law went into effect July 1, 2015. PSEA wants to ensure that all members understand how this policy affects them. Updated clearances are required every 60 months from the date of the oldest clearance. Please reach out to your HR department or visit this website for more information.

Is Retirement in Your Near Future?

If you are retiring at the end of the school year or calendar year here are a few steps that you should be taking with your District and PSERS:

  1. Carefully read your contract for information about when you need to provide notification to your district.

  2. Request a retirement estimate from PSERS. You may ask for up to two different scenarios (ex: retirement date of June 2024 or December 2024.)

  3. Call the Southwestern Regional PSERS office located at 300 Cedar Ridge Drive, Suite 301, Pittsburgh, PA 15205 (412.920.2014) to schedule Exit Counseling.

You can also sign up to be a PSEA-Retired member. The earlier you sign up, the more money you will save on dues. This is a great way to continue to stay involved and engaged with the work of the association as well as continued use of our member benefits. For more information and to enroll, visit this website.

PSEA Member Benefits

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Are you taking full advantage of your PSEA membership? Take a few moments to check out ways that your membership can save you money on a wide variety of services, programs, and goods that many of us use every day.

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NEA Member Benefits

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As a PSEA Member, you also qualify for NEA Member Benefits.

Did you know that you have $1,000 complimentary life insurance from NEA? All you need to do is name your beneficiary – there is zero cost involved. This, and other discounts on travel, appliances, and much more are available through NEA Member Benefits.

Western Region Resources

For Members

Executive Committee

Coming Soon!

Are You Looking To Form a Union?

For more information on joining PSEA, contact Region Advocacy Coordinator Annie Briscoe at abriscoe@psea.org.

Upcoming Events

Find us on Social Media

Join the PSEA Western Region Facebook Group, and follow us on Instagram and Twitter to find information and updates on region events, education policy, and legislative happenings in Harrisburg and Washington.

Resources and Opportunities for Educators & Students

Educators Rising

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. 

PSEA is proud to be the coordinator for Educators Rising in Pennsylvania because it will be an important part of the Association’s efforts to address the school staff shortage crisis.

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 in for the monthly meeting every third Tuesday at 4 p.m. Join meeting.

Scholarships for High School Students

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 Membership Scholarship. 

Pittsburgh Technical College


Potential Field Trip opportunity at Pittsburgh Technical College!

Student PSEA


Student PSEA is made up of 7,000 collegiate aspiring educators. High school students previously enrolled in Educators Rising are invited to join Student PSEA after they graduate and begin a teacher preparation program at a Pennsylvania college or university. 

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