Arizona School Administrators

ASA has shifted to a new format for its newsletter. We are doing shorter, more frequent e-newsletters in this new format. We hope you enjoy them!

In This Issue:

1) Upcoming Events & Calendar

2) Career Center - Current Openings

3) 2024 School Safety & Security Summit

4) District Support Services

5) AI Resources

6) AHPE Honor & Recognition Awards

7) Membership Renewals for 2024-25

There are still a few rooms available at the Institute for Excellence and the Summer Leadership Conference. However, you will need to book soon before they're gone!

Here are some important dates:

• APEL Higher Ed Drive-In - May 3
  
• Institute for Excellence - June 2-5 (click HERE to register)
• Summer Leadership Conference - June 9-11 (click HERE to register)
• How to Effectively Manage Meetings and Contentious Situations Workshop - June 20, 9:00-10:30 (virtual, click HERE to register)
• Qualified Evaluator Training - July 11, Aug 9, Sept 13
• How to Work Less, Produce More and Still Get the Job Done - for Superintendents - Aug 20, 9:00-10:30 (virtual, click HERE to register)
• Member & Division Meetings - Aug 23
• How to Work Less, Produce More and Still Get the Job Done - for Principals - Sept 20, 9:00-10:30 (virtual, click HERE to register)
• Kids at Hope Masters Institute - Sept 24-27 (click HERE for early bird registration)

Click HERE to access our events calendar. You can access the 2024-25 calendar via a link at the bottom of that page or by clicking below:

Visit ASA's Career Center for the latest opportunities.

Director of Human Resources (Saddle Mountain Unified School District): Until filled. Click HERE to apply.

Assistant Superintendent of Educational Services (Sahuarita Unified School District): Apply by 7/1/2024. Click HERE to apply.

Check the Arizona Education Employment Board hosted by the AZ Department of Education by clicking HERE.

We've expanded our support services and can customize these options to best meet your needs. Click HERE for more information.

As you may recall, ASA added a new member benefit last fall to help support you with Artificial Intelligence (AI) issues in education. You can join aileader.info for FREE as part of your ASA membership. Click HERE to sign up.

You can also participate in monthly AI Office Hours to ask questions of AI Experts regularly so you're always up to date with facts and information most relevant for educational leaders. They are held on the 2nd Tuesday of each month at 1 PM Pacific Time. To get the Zoom link, you'll need to sign up for AILeader.info and log in, where you will find the Office Hours information and link. We hope you join the conversation in on May 14th at 1 PM!

The Arizona Health and Physical Education Association is seeking nominations for Honor and Recognition Awards, including Elementary, Middle and High School Physical Education Teachers of the Year, and the Rookie Health and Physical Education Teacher of the Year. Nominations are due by May 24th. Click HERE for more information.

Since many of you like to pay for your ASA membership dues early, before your district stops issuing purchase orders, we have opened up the renewals now for FY25. All memberships run July 1 through June 30 (except for business partner agreements). We also facilitate renewals for NAESP, NASSP and AASA as a service to you so you can do them all in one transaction.

There is a change for this year. We have converted the dues structure from a tiered system based on salary ranges to a percentage, with a cap. This means some of you will see a reduction in your dues while some of you will see small increases. This will make membership more affordable for beginning administrators with lower salaries and eliminate the need to adjust the tiers. In order to help make the process as easy as possible for you, we have created an instructional video, a set of instructions with screenshots, a reference document summarizing the changes and a dues calculator so you can have the amount in advance to get a purchase order secured before renewing. The dues for Associate, Graduate Student and Retired members have not changed.

Each Active member will need to log into our membership system to renew his/her membership by July 1, 2024 to maintain continuous membership. We will give a grace period in July for those of you who need to renew in FY25.

If you are trying to renew memberships for multiple people in your school/district and need help, please call the ASA office for assistance.

Click HERE for the summary of dues changes, membership renewal instructions, dues calculator and a membership renewal video.

If you have any questions or need any assistance, please call the ASA office at 602-252-0361 so we can help. We have expanded our services to support members and will continue to seek ways to add value to your ASA membership. Thank you for being a member and for the important work you do!

Veronica Brawner, Office Manager: veronica@azsa.org

Carmen Ramirez, Administrative Assistant: carmen@azsa.org

John Hughes, Office Clerk/Memberships: johnh@azsa.org

John Fung, Business Development: jfung@azsa.org

Alicia Williams, Dir. of Governmental Affairs: awilliams@azsa.org

Dr. Paul Tighe, Executive Director: ptighe@azsa.org

Website: www.azsa.org
Location: 1910 W. Washington Street, Phoenix, AZ 85009
Phone: 602-252-0361
Twitter: @Arizona_ASA