Sign up for Missouri NEA's NEW Beginning Teacher Assistance Program—Ecosystems for Empowerment for Early Career Educators.
Fall Semester
Registration Deadline: Aug. 15, 2024
Member Fee: $75
Non-Member Fee: $100
Registration Limit: 35 registrants per region
BTAP Facilitated Regions
- East + Northeast
- Central + North Central
West + Northwest- South
Questions? Contact MNEA Professional Practice Program Services Administrative Assistant Olivia Compton (olivia.compton@mnea.org, (417) 569-1401).
All teachers with a Missouri Initial Professional Certificate (IPC) must participate in a beginning teacher assistance program (BTAP) before upgrading their certificate. The courses that you will be enrolled in at MNEA Learns will be gradually released each semester; these courses cover the topics in the BTAP Rule (5 CSR 20-400.385). Participants will be enrolled in the program for 2 years in accordance with state requriements (5 CSR 20-400.385). This is a DESE approved program.
Much like the mechanisms that create the ecosystems that regulate the health of our planet, MNEA has overhauled our Early Career Educator Program to include the following:
- Network: Just as trees develop interconnected root systems, MNEA’s Ecosystem of Empowerment for ECEs ensures that the initial establishment of a teacher's professional networks is not only within their district but also expands to their region, state, and national resources and support systems.
- Shade and Shelter: For growth and stress reduction, tree canopies provide share and shelter for each other. Regional facilitator-mentors are accomplished teachers and leaders who provide guidance for growth and experience in how to navigate typical challenges of the teaching profession.
- Stability: Through the Ecosystem of Empowerment programming, the stability of consistent meetings with facilitator-mentors and support from fellow ECEs is a anchor for participants—much like the mutual support of trees growing close together.
- Resource Sharing: The transfer of resources helps everyone in a network and within the Ecosystem of Empowerment, Facilitator-Mentors and ECEs regularly share all resources for teachers to best support all students. Resource sharing leads to the promotion of overall forest—teacher—resilience.
- Belonging: All educators deserve to be supported and encouraged and empowered by fellow educators; this space is for you and every early career educator.
