MCAE — Working Conditions: Get Involved

Simple things you can do to the improve working conditions in adult education!

All Practitioners

Join the Working Conditions Committee to organize for living wages, health, and other benefits, stable workloads, and work spaces conducive to productive work and learning.
Raise the issue of working conditions in professional groups and organizations, in ESE task forces and focus groups.
Write about working conditions — your experience, your efforts to make change for Field Notes.
Nominate a program for the Working Conditions Award. Work toward being a nominee.
Talk with your students about the working conditions of their teachers.
Advocate with legislators around the need for working conditions that enable a quality adult education system.
Discuss the findings of the MCAE Working Conditions Survey with colleagues.
Send your thoughts and reactions to the Survey findings to the Working Conditions Committee.
Help us create and maintain a Working Conditions Facebook Page.

Teachers

Collect/document stories of the working conditions of teachers in the field.
Collect/document stories of why teachers have left the field.
Hold a teacher/counselor meet-up in your community to discuss working conditions.

Directors

Collect/document stories about the efforts program directors have made to improve conditions and the challenges they’ve faced.
Educate funders (private and public) about the need to support improved working conditions.
Use the Working Conditions self-assessment tool as a staff to evaluate program strengths and weaknesses.


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GET INVOLVED