OPPORTUNITY
NEA GPS Network Online Community Facilitators Needed
Please submit by February 7th, 2014.
Stipend provided
Email your interest to: Barbara at bfrank@nea.org
Become an online community facilitator to encourage people to collaborate, share resources,
and improve public education through the NEA GPS NETWORK.
What is this?
The NEA Great Public Schools Network is a place where people come together to share ideas and
resources to improve student success. It is free and open to all! NEA established the site in July of 2013
and is looking to create active communities working together to improve public education. Check it out at
gpsnetwork.org.
We are looking for online leaders who want to facilitate communities by collaborating through
discussions and engaging others around particular areas of expertise.
What areas of expertise?
Some topics are already up and being discussed, but people can create their own groups too. We are
looking for people to lead on these important topics:
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Classroom Management
Teacher Evaluation
Class Size
Student Bullying
Staff Bullying
Achievement Gap
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Flipped Classroom
ELL/ESL/ESOL/Bilingual
Education
Special Education
Literacy
NBCT
What is the online community facilitator’s role?
The facilitator’s role is to lead the online community, to grow and nurture it. This means making the
community exciting, vibrant, and a welcoming place to discuss professional topics and share resources.
Resources may be from NEA, affiliates, or any other reliable sources.
What would your ideal online, community facilitator look like?
Effective community facilitators need to have experience in education, online community engagement, and
expertise in a particular area to create and maintain a vibrant community. Time will need to be dedicated to
developing the community, as it takes 7-9 months, 2-5 hours a week, to start up an effective group.
Effective communication skills in writing and through digital engagement are important. NEA will provide
training on maximizing the use of the site and fulfilling your role. The facilitator should already be actively
engaged in online communities and have demonstrated successes in this area.
What is the stipend?
NEA members who are community facilitators will receive a stipend of $2,500 USD per year, paid
quarterly. If you want to share the responsibility with a partner (who also needs to fill out an application
form), you’d split the payment and each get $1,250. The community you facilitate has to be active, and so
do you, to get paid. Our benchmark is that to build a great community usually takes 2-5 hours a week and
takes about 7-9 months.
Interested?
We’ve outlined the process and identified what we’d like to know about you.
Submissions will be reviewed beginning February 7th, 2014, or until filled.
Including your resume is acceptable. Please send your information to Barbara at bfrank@nea.org
GPS Network Online Community Facilitator
SUBMISSION REQUEST FORM
Please answer these questions and send to Barbara bfrank@nea.org.
Please submit by February 7th, , 2014
Resumes may be included.
ABOUT YOU
What’s your name?
Best way to get back in touch with you (email, phone)?
If you have a partner you wish to share facilitation with, please identify.
What is your background in education, and what are you doing now?
Where do you live?
Are you an NEA member? What is your local and state association? What other leadership
roles have you played?
 What’s your area of expertise (please share your expertise in each category you check):
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Classroom Management
Teacher Evaluation
Class Size
Student Bullying
Staff Bullying
Achievement Gap
 Flipped Classroom
 ELL/ESL/ESOL/Bilingual
Education
 Special Education
 NBCT
 Literacy
Other topic(s) you’d like to propose for future consideration:
ABOUT YOU, PROFESSIONALLY AND DIGITALLY
1. Why would you like to be a NEA GPS Network Online Community Facilitator? What in
your background would help make you great at this?
2. What’s been your professional experience in the “area of expertise” you identified?
(share for each category checked)
3. What are your favorite online education sites? What makes them your favorites? How
do you use them?
4. What experience do you have facilitating or engaging in online communities/groups?
(links welcome)
5. How many hours a week do you spend in online social media sites?
6. How would you go about recruiting people for your online group? What do you believe
is the key to success with online community facilitation?
7. Share what you learned from your greatest success and non-success in online
community engagements.
8. Please view the gpsnetwork.org site. What do you like best about the concept? What
suggestions would you make for improvement?
9. We want your leadership in promoting the whole of the NEA GPS Network, as well as
your group. How would you do this?
10. This is a small stipend for what could be a fair amount of work. Why would you want to
take on this leadership opportunity? How do you see it fitting into your other duties
and responsibilities?
11. What else would you like to share about yourself personally or professionally?
12. Please share the contact information (name, position, phone, or email) for people who
could tell us about you in regards to your area of expertise, online engagement, and
professionally.
Thank you very much for your interest.
Submissions will be reviewed beginning February 7th, 2014, or until filled.
Including your resume is acceptable. Please send your information to Barbara at bfrank@nea.org