Elementary Council
2011 - 2012
“Seeing the Best in You Emerge”
WELCOME to the Elementary Council Website!
I invite you to become a member of the National Association
of Educational Office Professionals and the Elementary Council,
the only national professional association for educational office
personnel. If you are new to our association, please take a
moment to visit the entire NAEOP website. NAEOP has many wonderful
opportunities and the time is now for you to invest in yourself.
Being involved brings you enhanced, professional development,
networking, and achievement in future endeavors.
THEME: NAEOP President Allie
Faye Matthews, CEOE, has selected as her 2011-2012 theme: “Seeing
the Best in You Emerge.” Her symbol is a butterfly. As
we know, butterflies are the result of a process from caterpillar
to cocoon and finally emerging as a butterfly. Each one of us
goes through a growth process and what can emerge is as beautiful
as a butterfly. As we follow the dream of Louise Henderson Nelson,
NAEOP Founder and NAEOP President Allie Faye Matthews, let’s
discover new depths in ourselves as we spread the message of
NAEOP.
MEMBERSHIP: As a current member of NAEOP, you
are automatically a member of one of the six Councils. The Elementary
Council has over 500 members from 39 states. The Elementary
Council falls under the Membership Committee that is chaired
this year by Vice President Cathy Eberle. The goals are the
following:
• Increase membership of NAEOP and the Elementary
Council.
• Increase membership involvement with NAEOP and the Elementary
Council.
• To retain, recruit and get new members.
• Volunteer to serve on the Annual Conference Elementary
Council Committee.
Positions available on the Elementary Council Committee are:
• Serve on the Membership Committee.
• Serve on the Proofreading Committee.
• Serve on the Breakfast Committee.
• Serve on the Newsletter Committee.
• Continue to provide life-long learning for all educational
office professionals.
BENEFITS: NAEOP and the Elementary
Council have many benefits to offer and you are to take advantage
of them. You won’t be disappointed.
• Publications.
• The NES Connector, a quarterly magazine
offering a variety of relevant articles. Three issues will
be online only and the winter issue, with conference information,
will be printed and mailed.
• Keeping Affiliates Active, a quarterly e-newsletter
designed to keep affiliate leadership current. This is also
posted on NAEOP website at www.naeop.org under Affiliates.
• NAEOP Elementary Council Newsletter, a quarterly e-newsletter
designed with a variety of information.
• Networking Opportunity.
• Work-related and career-related information
for individual members and affiliated associations.
• Elementary Council Breakfast held at annual conference.
You can meet and network with office professionals from around
the country.
• Listserv.
• Email discussion group with opportunities
to communicate with colleagues across the country.
• Encouraged to use listserv to ask specific questions
and learn how other colleagues handle issues.
• Professional Standards Program.
• Continue to grow in knowledge, to help
educational office professionals, and to cope with rapidly
changing work environments.
• Continue to provide life-long learning for all educational
office professionals.
• Elementary Council.
• Submit articles and suggestions for
the NAEOP Elementary Council Newsletter.
• Serve on an Elementary Council Committee.
• Encourage Elementary Council members to network and
give recognition in achievements.
• Encourage Elementary Council members to achieve their
Professionals Standards Program (PSP) certificates.
• Elementary Council Members – You can make the
difference so let’s start seeing the best in you emerge!
QUESTIONS?? For more information
about NAEOP or the Elementary Council, please contact me–I’d
love to hear from you!
