Salutations UEA and Happy New Year! YOU did it! You survived 2022 by persevering through daunting challenges. You stayed the course even when you experienced teaching conditions that you never...
What an exhilarating couple of months! I walked out of my classroom on June 3 after 26 years at Park City High School teaching social studies and walked into the UEA as president on July 15. When...
As amazing as this sounds, we’ve made it to 2022! Thank you for waking up every morning and putting one foot in front of the other to meet the needs of your students, your families, and yourself. As...
The first time I heard her voice was a robocall message left on my answering machine. “This is Pat Rusk, president of the Utah Education Association urging you to contact your state legislature and...
I can’t believe it’s been a little over a year serving as your UEA Vice President! In the summer of 2019, I was shadowing President Heidi Matthews at our UEA building, getting to know our tremendous...
“Hard days are the best because that's when champions are made.” Gabrielle Douglas Well, teachers – our secret is out. It’s taken a global pandemic, but now the world finally understands what we...
(Note: Roger’s three-year term as UEA vice president ends in July. He elected not to run for a second term.) What a ride! It has been an honor to serve you as your UEA Vice President. My experiences...
“Sometimes you climb the mountain, and you fall and fail. Maybe there is a different path that will take you up. Sometimes a different mountain.” - Caterina Fake In the spring of 2018, educators...
In a recent tv interview, I was asked if I thought teacher walkouts like the ones in Oklahoma and Kentucky are possible here in Utah. My response was, “anything is possible.” Teachers are passionate...
One family dinner when I was in college, I made the incredible mistake of asking my Uncle Bob what he thought about my “new” 17 year-old junker car that I was so proud to have worked and saved for...
Marketing guru Simon Sinek teaches that, “People don’t buy what you do, they buy why you do it.” Lately, at our UEA Board meetings, we have focused keenly on our mission at UEA: “The UEA's mission...
Dear fellow teachers, I was saddened today by President Trump's decision to end the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA), a program that is vital to the well-being of nearly 800,000 young...