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Ideas for January• Place a “Welcome back from the holidays!” note onmembers’ mailboxes or work stations.• Plan a building/work site celebration around the newyear or Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday.• Sign up for membership any new employees hired forthe second term.• Begin making plans in your building to observe ReadAcross America.• Conduct the AEA Regular Election/NEA StateDelegate Election in your building/work site.• Have a work site meeting to give your membersthumbnail sketches of important legislation.• Remember to submit new enrollment forms to themembership chair.• Cut out important articles from the Alabama SchoolJournal and put on the association bulletin board.Change them each week.• Make certain that you have established a work sitetelephone tree so that you can communicate quicklywith your members.Ideas for February• Look for opportunities to invite your associationpresident to meet with your building/work sitemembers. Do the same for your UniServ Director.• February is Black History Month; plan an event tocommemorate some event in black history.• Continue to recruit new members. Turn forms intomembership chair immediately.• Attend your local association representative assembly orgeneral meeting. Invite other members to accompanyyou.• Do something special for your members for Valentine’sDay.• Encourage newer members to participate in “EmergingLeader” opportunities.Monthly Ideas for Association LeadersIdeas for March• Participate in Read Across America, then send yourRead Across America articles and pictures forpublication in the Alabama School Journal.• If any member has been ill or gone on a short leave,place a “welcome back!” note in his/her mailbox.• Explore setting up a building/work site softball teamthis spring. Challenge other buildings/work sites to dothe same.• March is Women’s History Month.• Read your association publications and attendassociation meetings.• Attend school board meeting(s).• Begin to seek potential candidates for associationoffices, including association rep. If you’re convincedabout someone, personally ask him/her to run foroffice. Then, actively support your choice.Ideas for April• Do something special for your building/work sitesecretaries during National Secretaries Week thismonth.• Personally ask some members to help you completean association task this month. Keep it simple andshort.• Ask members to plan to attend the AEA LeadershipConference in June.• Attend school board meeting(s)....continued on next page29