Professional+Organizations

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 **Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association** []

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Mission Statement: the missing of the Indiana Foreign Language Teachers Association (IFLTA) is to promote the teaching and learning of world languages and cultures in the state of Indiana by providing professional development opportunities for world language instructors and by advocating for world languages. By serving as an umbrella organization for state world-language associations, IFLTA seeks to foster global perspective in Indiana citizens through school and post-secondary academic experience. ======

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**Illinois Association for Multilingual Multicultural Education** []

Mission: To promote and develop professional competence and standards in educational services for linguistically and culturally diverse students in cooperation with teacher training institutions; national, state, and local educational agencies; and professional as well as community organizations. To hold seminars and conferences for the promotion, development, and enhancement of meaningful, effective, and efficient educational services for linguistically and culturally diverse students in Illinois with an emphasis on multilingualism and multiculturalism. To disseminate information, materials, and data useful in the attainment of these objectives. To serve as a source of information and employment opportunities for members. To serve as advocates for the schooling of all linguistically and culturally diverse students. To encourage and facilitate the active involvement of parents and communities in issues concerning the education of linguistically and culturally diverse students in Illinois.

**[|I]llinois Education Association** [] Mission: The Illinois Education Association-NEA’s mission is to effect excellence and equity in public education and to be THE advocacy organization for all public education employees. About it:IEA is an association of more than 133,000 members composed of Illinois elementary and secondary teachers, higher education faculty and staff, educational support professionals, retired educators and college students preparing to become teachers. The IEA was founded in 1853 to serve the interest of public education in Illinois. The IEA became an affiliate of the National Education Association in 1857, an organization currently totaling 2.7 million teachers and school employees working to make our good public schools even better for all students

**National Education Association** [|http://www.nea.org]
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Our Vision:** Our vision is a great public school for every student.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Our Mission:** Our mission is to advocate for education professionals and to unite our members and the nation to fulfill the promise of public education to prepare every student to succeed in a diverse and interdependent world.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Our Core Values:** These principles guide our work and define our mission:
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Equal Opportunity.** We believe public education is the gateway to opportunity. All students have the human and civil right to a quality public education that develops their potential, independence, and character.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**A Just Society.** We believe public education is vital to building respect for the worth, dignity, and equality of every individual in our diverse society.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Democracy.** We believe public education is the cornerstone of our republic. Public education provides individuals with the skills to be involved, informed, and engaged in our representative democracy.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Professionalism.** We believe that the expertise and judgment of education professionals are critical to student success. We maintain the highest professional standards, and we expect the status, compensation, and respect due all professionals.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Partnership.** We believe partnerships with parents, families, communities, and other stakeholders are essential to quality public education and student success.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Collective Action.** We believe individuals are strengthened when they work together for the common good. As education professionals, we improve both our professional status and the quality of public education when we unite and advocate collectively.
 * <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">NEA also believes every student in America, regardless of family income or place of residence, deserves a quality education. In pursuing its mission, NEA has determined that we will focus the energy and resources of our 3.2 million members on improving the quality of teaching, increasing student achievement and making schools safer, better places to learn.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Association for Middle Level Education** [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[|National Middle School Association.docx]

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Since its inception in 1973, National Middle School Association (NMSA) has been a voice for those committed to the educational and developmental needs of young adolescents. NMSA is the only national education association dedicated exclusively to those in the middle level grades. Through the release of our landmark position paper // [|This We Believe] //NMSA has been a key resource to middle level educators looking to develop more effective schools. Our message is for schools to be academically excellent, developmentally responsive, and socially equitable for every young adolescent.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">**Teachers of English to Speakers of Other Languages** <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">Position Statements and Papers : [] <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">To advance its goal of improving public policy and understanding as outlined in its strategic plan, TESOL takes official positions on a broad range of issues related to the field of English language teaching. These positions are published as statements and papers, and they become official when the TESOL Board of Directors approves them.

<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">They also have Secondary Education Resources <span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: 90%;">[]

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