There's not a lot of events that are held for Educational Office Employees. If you know of a local Association of Education Office Professionals consider yourself lucky. What even is an Association of Educational Office Professionals you might ask if you don't already know? It's a group of office workers, no matter the institution, that work within the educational setting. The various educational councils would be the series of professionals, elementary, middle school, secondary, post-secondary, and educational partners.
These associations can be local, such as county or district, state, area (geographical cluster areas) and national. The National Association of Educational Office Professionals is the parent organization for this group of affiliates. The tier then goes, area, state, and local. Depending on your affiliate, if you have one close to you, you may have professional developments, workshop days/nights, team building activities, networking and even celebrating administrators and other support staff.
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend the California State Association of Educational Office Professionals. While our group may be small right now, we are definitely mighty. Between the networking conversations that were taking place, we were able to listen to presentations about the climate in the workplace and how to navigate through the various climates that we as office professionals need to handle on a day to day basis. Another good workshop was how to turn your attitude into a positive one, even when sometimes that is difficult. The workshops on the second day allowed me the ability to learn how to manage the balancing act and to make my job the best I can make it.
Overall, one of the best workshops I had the pleasure of sitting in on this weekend was about the LCAP (Local Control Accountability Program) and the Fiscal Responsibility by Trevor Johnson of Hemet Unified School District. Not working directly with accounting but hearing about what my department does for our District's LCAP Goals (I'm goal #2 in my district) and given an understanding of how it's all put together, what it means, how it's analyzed, and what can come of it, was really educational. I now understand what my counterparts at work are talking about when they're discussing the planning and analysis of this very detailed document and how important it is.
We finished off this event with a wonderful endnote speaker from the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Traco Matthews. While very inspiring and motivating, even after having a nice lunch when usually we would want to nod off, he really wants all of us in the audience to succeed and to find out what we consider to be a success in our minds and to achieve it. While I am thrilled to have sat in on his speech, it really made me think. I'm most likely going to work on my "homework" that will help me work on myself. Because only you can change your internal atmosphere.
By having a great boss that allows me to continue to grow, learn and adapt within my job I'm able to get close to what I deem as a success. I appreciate that I'm given the support. I strongly encourage you to look up your local, state, area or national organization to invest in yourself to help you grow and be a better person both on the job and in general. Even if you can't get to actual professional developments, follow the AEOP's on Twitter and Facebook to see what's going on and what they're learning to see if that's something you want to be a part of.
These associations can be local, such as county or district, state, area (geographical cluster areas) and national. The National Association of Educational Office Professionals is the parent organization for this group of affiliates. The tier then goes, area, state, and local. Depending on your affiliate, if you have one close to you, you may have professional developments, workshop days/nights, team building activities, networking and even celebrating administrators and other support staff.
This weekend I was lucky enough to attend the California State Association of Educational Office Professionals. While our group may be small right now, we are definitely mighty. Between the networking conversations that were taking place, we were able to listen to presentations about the climate in the workplace and how to navigate through the various climates that we as office professionals need to handle on a day to day basis. Another good workshop was how to turn your attitude into a positive one, even when sometimes that is difficult. The workshops on the second day allowed me the ability to learn how to manage the balancing act and to make my job the best I can make it.
Overall, one of the best workshops I had the pleasure of sitting in on this weekend was about the LCAP (Local Control Accountability Program) and the Fiscal Responsibility by Trevor Johnson of Hemet Unified School District. Not working directly with accounting but hearing about what my department does for our District's LCAP Goals (I'm goal #2 in my district) and given an understanding of how it's all put together, what it means, how it's analyzed, and what can come of it, was really educational. I now understand what my counterparts at work are talking about when they're discussing the planning and analysis of this very detailed document and how important it is.
We finished off this event with a wonderful endnote speaker from the Kern County Superintendent of Schools, Traco Matthews. While very inspiring and motivating, even after having a nice lunch when usually we would want to nod off, he really wants all of us in the audience to succeed and to find out what we consider to be a success in our minds and to achieve it. While I am thrilled to have sat in on his speech, it really made me think. I'm most likely going to work on my "homework" that will help me work on myself. Because only you can change your internal atmosphere.
By having a great boss that allows me to continue to grow, learn and adapt within my job I'm able to get close to what I deem as a success. I appreciate that I'm given the support. I strongly encourage you to look up your local, state, area or national organization to invest in yourself to help you grow and be a better person both on the job and in general. Even if you can't get to actual professional developments, follow the AEOP's on Twitter and Facebook to see what's going on and what they're learning to see if that's something you want to be a part of.
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