Preservice Division Column: Summer 2023

A New Chapter for Preservice

Review of the San Antonio Convention

While attending a National Convention may be overwhelming, time flies by. During the San Antonio Convention, your Preservice team offered four sessions ranging from interviews to presentations and a town hall–style meeting where we discussed as a community what we needed. It can all seem overwhelming between the general sessions, the vendors, exploring the city, and finding time to network. Now that there is time to process your trip, please fill out the survey of your Convention experience: https://forms.gle/1CQYqk4DKAxoRZoL7

We created a living Google Doc at the Convention to share classroom resources! If you have any resources you’d like to add or want to check out what we already have, here is the link: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1NS1J84JzifevT_YRMYrabYLf5fun4bPnYHprz5fEkn4/edit?usp=sharing

[[image drawing With Caption "Members got to know about each other over a session of blind contour drawing.”]]

Congratulations, Members!

As your spring semester has ended and some of you have graduated and are looking toward job hunting, we wish you the best of luck and offer our congratulations! For some of you entering summer break or beginning summer classes, we want you to have a safe summer and remind you to “check where your feet are.” That is an offer to help keep you aware of where you are and be present in your day-to-day life.

Preservice Division

Following the San Antonio Convention, our division had a leadership change. Lynn Loubert will be the past director, Jesse Todero, an alumnus of Kutztown University (2021), is now the Division Director, and Brittany Bradley is the Division Director-Elect. We are both very excited about our new roles and look forward to working with our Division.

[[image group "Jesse Todero, Preservice Director; Brittany Bradley, Director-Elect; and Lynn Loubert, past Division Director."]]

Join Our Team

Have you been looking for a way to be a part of more than just the NAEA Conventions? Are you new to NAEA and looking for ways to get involved? Do you need something to boost your resume? Then we are here for you!

Our team is looking for Regional Representatives for the Eastern, Southeastern, Western, and Pacific! Regional Reps are involved in Convention planning, creating and proposing sessions, presenting sessions, outreach to Preservice members in their region, social media, and so much more! This is another excellent way to network in and out of our Division. This is a 2-year commitment, including monthly online meetings as a team. The responsibilities you are given will not only help set your resume apart from other job-searching Preservice members, but you will also have so many unique experiences you can reflect on in your teaching! We are a team and family, and we would love to see you join us! If you have any questions or are interested in a leadership position, send an email to jesse.todero@gmail.com.

Column by:

Jesse Todero, Division Director
Email: jesse.todero@gmail.com