Facilitators: Jennifer Kaseman, NYSUT Director of Membership Growth and Organizing; Loren Fountaine, Labor Relations Specialist, North Country Regional Office

Facilitators: Ron Gross, NYSUT Second Vice President and Jennifer Kaseman, NYSUT Director of Membership Growth and Organizing; Steve Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office

The Local Action Project (LAP) is about building power within locals. Year three is the culminating year in which locals will reflect on what they’ve accomplished so far and strategize to sustain their program into the future. Participants will reflect upon the pillars of LAP – Organizing, Social Justice, Political and Community Engagement and debrief on the progress made toward advancing these touchstones of LAP. Teams will use this reflection to inform the development of future campaigns.

Facilitators: Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office; Paul Aroune, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office

During this session, teams will learn about effective strategies for meaningful debrief. Using the campaign they planned and executed for year two as a basis for this debrief, teams will report out on their reflections, including successes and adversities, what they learned from those experiences and how those experiences will inform their work in the future. This exercise will provide the team with a framework for their presentations to the first- and second-year locals at the end of the week.

Facilitators: Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office; Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office

Participants in this workshop will examine their formal and informal organizational structures to analyze how they can or need to be transformed to facilitate and advance a sustainable LAP program in the future.

Facilitators: Paul Aroune, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office; Andy Voigt, Labor Relations Specialist, Central New York Regional Office

Coalition building is a critical element to strengthening your local and empowering your school community. This segment will allow locals to assess the efficacy of their community relationships in advancing their campaigns toward success. Locals will identify opportunities for community engagement that build long-term, substantive and productive coalitions within the community.

Facilitators: Steve Lagnena, Labor Relations Specialist, Suffolk Regional Office; Christine Sarni, Labor Relations Specialist, Nassau Regional Office

In this session, year three LAP Locals will explore social justice issues and how they intersect with core values of their membership. They will analyze their current plan and documents to identify how social justice issues can be used as internal organizing opportunities using a series of equity lens questions. The locals will focus on changing their one-to-one approach to refocus their emphasis on equity to expand their organizational development and include more equity into the chapter. They will identify opportunities to incorporate the tenets of social justice within their plans.

Facilitators: Michelle Couture, Labor Relations Specialist, UUP; Loren Fountaine, Labor Relations Specialist, North Country Regional Office

The purpose of this session will be to provide teams with time to reflect upon their year two campaigns as well as issues that have arisen throughout the course of the last year within New York state, the team’s region or within their local, in order to brainstorm a list of possible issues around which a successful campaign could be built in the future.

Facilitators: Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office; Andy Voigt, Labor Relations Specialist, Central New York Regional Office

After two years of focus on the LAP Pillars — Organizing, Social Justice, Community Engagement and Political Action this session will act as a complete overview with a focus on well-run campaigns. We will review the core components of a campaign and identification of worthy issues. Local LAP teams will draw from their previous years’ training to develop campaigns that will exist beyond their LAP training.

Facilitators: Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office; Loren Fountaine, Labor Relations Specialist, North Country Regional Office

Facilitators: Elizabeth Vignaux, Labor Relations Specialist, Western New York Regional Office; Andy Voigt, Labor Relations Specialist, Central New York Regional Office

In this session, year 3 LAP locals will share their experiences, lessons learned, and best practices with first- and second-year LAP Locals.