• Benefits for Individual Members
• Benefits for Organizational Members
• Benefits for State Affiliates
• 2011 NAAE Awards Powerpoint Presentation (explanation of all NAAE awards)

As a professional association for agricultural educators, NAAE provides benefits to assist members with professional growth - both tangible and intangible benefits to help members become more effective and efficient as agricultural educators. Some membership benefits include:

• Professional Liability Insurance Coverage and other insurance options through the Trust for Insuring Educators (for active, active life, and student members)

  • $100,000 in-dues professional liability insurance coverage.  In-dues coverage does not include job protection benefits.
  • Low rates for professional liability insurance upgrades -- $35 for $1 million coverage; $50 for $2 million coverage.  Upgrades include valuable job protection benefits that provide legal support if you're subject to termination, reassignment, demotion or suspension.
  • Group rates on other insurance products, including life insurance, health insurance, and even a brand new option for pet health insurance.
  • First year members get $60,000 life insurance for free from TIE.

  For more information about these benefits or to upgrade your professional liability insurance coverage, visit http://www.ftj.com/NAAE.
  
  

• Hotel Discounts with Choice Hotels International
  15 percent NAAE member discounts at the following brand hotels: Comfort Inn®, Comfort Suites®, Quality®, Sleep Inn®, Clarion®, MainStay Suites®, Econo Lodge®, and Rodeway Inn®.
• Discount on Membership in the National Science Teachers Association
  Become a member of NSTA and expand your professional development opportunties. NSTA is offering a special discount membership rate of $60 for NAAE members. That's a 19% savings off regular NSTA dues. Take advantage of new opportunities and resources that will help enhance your career. Details.
  
• Legislative advocacy for the profession -NAAE monitors governmental affairs affecting agricultural education and assists in developing priorities and strategies to effect federal legislation and appropriations. NAAE has representatives on several national organization boards to represent your interests and concerns.
• NAAE Legislative Action Center - a powerful tool for members to use when trying to build relationships or advocate for ag education, whether on the state or national level.
• Technical and pedagogical in-service education - we offer more than 70 professional development workshops geared specifically for agricultural educators at our annual convention, as well as webinars on a variety of agricultural education topics.
• Leadership and personal development - run for a NAAE office, facilitate a community on NAAE's Communities of Practice, or get involved with our National Teach Ag Campaign, just to name a few possibilities. NAAE provides many opportunities to lead the profession.
• Awards and recognition programs - NAAE takes pride in recognizing excellence in agricultural education as well as individuals and organizational that make outstanding contributions to the organization. . Members have the opportunity to apply for state and national recognition or nominate other individuals or organizations for recognition through a variety of programs.
• Communities of Practice professional networking site - join a community of your peers - members post ideas, have discussions, and share tried-and-true techniques for creating a better ag program.
• News updates about ag education issues
• Instructional materials and resources Communities of Practice is a great place to find instructional materials and resources from your peers as well as governmental agencies, FFA, and more.
• News & Views - Our national newsletter keeps you updated on news and trends in agricultural education, resources, legislative advocacy, and NAAE activities and events.
• U.S. Ag Ed Listserv -The National Association of Agricultural Educators (NAAE) in cooperation with Purdue University has developed an electronic mail listserv for use by agricultural education teachers, state staff, teacher educators, and others interested in agricultural education. The listserv allows someone to send one message to the listserv and have that message forwarded on to all subscribers to the list. It has capabilities to send text mesAg sages and attached files.
• National Teach Ag Campaign - There is currently a national shortage of agricultural educators, and NAAE has taken the lead in recruiting students to think about a career in agricultural education. Join the Teach Ag Campaign, find resources to help you talk to your students about a career in ag ed, or help your students find a college or university with an ag ed program.
• National Teach Ag Day - part of the National Teach Ag Campaign, National Teach Ag Day is a day designated to celebrate the profession of agricultural education and to encourage your students to consider a career in ag ed.
• National Science Teachers Association (NSTA) - Discounted membership rate for NAAE members. Go to the NSTA website to join NSTA for $65 per year ... a 13 percent discount over the regular annual membership rate.

Download a NAAE Membership Brochure
How to join NAAE  

back to top

Learn more about organizational membership
See a listing of current NAAE Organizational members

Benefits of Organizational Membership

• Two small advertisements in News and Views, NAAE's bi-monthly electronic newsletter Details
• The opportunity to participate in the Organizational Members/Business Partners Reception at the NAAE convention. This reception is designed for you to interact with our state leaders who attend our annual meeting.
• We will also "stuff" your printed information or other promotional piece in the convention registration packets so that all convention participants will be exposed to your services and products.
• Recognition for your organization on the NAAE home page with a link to your website. Organizational members page
• Access to the NAAE mailing list (at your request, we'll provide you a disk or email of the NAAE members' mailing labels for your direct mail needs).
• Recognition in the NAAE web-based annual report.
• The opportunity to support school-based ag teachers nationwide.

back to top

• Legislative advocacy for the profession -In addition to what NAAE does with federal legislation and advocacy, NAAE can provide some assistance in working through state-level legislative issues by consulting with the state association's advocacy committee, working to help place legislative alerts on the NAAE Legislative action center, and more. Contact Jay Jackman, NAAE Executive Director, for details.
• State Affiliate Webpage Hosting -- To allow state agricultural education association members better access to timely state-level information,NAAE will host a webapage for each state agricultural education's association. The webpages will be included here, on the state affiliates section of NAAE's website. This program has been started as a way to help states who do not currently have a website. If your state association already has its own website, you do not have to start using the NAAE program. NAAE will still have a link from this page to your state association's webiste. For compete guidelines, download this document.

back to top