Member Spotlight

AEA congratulates Nancy Parra-Quinlan, a STEM/CTE teacher at Kino Junior High in the Mesa Public Schools district, on being named the Arizona Educational Foundation’s (AEF) 2022 Arizona Teacher of the Year.

Kimo Homer is an Aspiring Educator from Flagstaff, Arizona and a student at Northern Arizona University.

Videos posted by teachers to TikTok, a wildly popular social media app, have been viewed at least 5 billion times. They are finding fun, new ways to talk about their profession while also offering teaching tips, student-teacher connections, and more.

This rural, northern Arizona association has grown from 15 to 150-plus members in only a year. How did they do it?

Q&A with Phoenix Union Classified Employees Association member and DACA activist Hugo Arreola.