Boise Education Association

06/10/2026

🗳️ Help Support Boise Schools — Become a Poll Worker!

The Boise School District Board of Trustees Election is coming up, and we're looking for community members to help make Election Day a success.

Serving as a poll worker is a great way to support public education, give back to your community, and help ensure a smooth and successful election process.

✅ Serve your community
✅ Support Boise students and schools
✅ Make a difference in local elections

📅 Apply by July 27

Whether you're a parent, retiree, staff member, college student, or community volunteer, we encourage you to get involved.

📍 Learn more and apply:
Boise School District Elections Information
https://www.boiseschools.org/Elections

06/05/2026

We owe it to the women who were brave, who sacrificed, and who believed. Use this November as a time to make your voice heard. ✅ 🍏

On this day, June 4, 1919, the U.S. Congress passed the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote.

It wasn’t just a law — it was the culmination of decades of struggle, marches, arrests, and voices that refused to be silenced. For generations of women, June 4 was the day their dignity was written into the nation’s future.

Imagine the emotion of that moment: mothers who had fought for their daughters, daughters who had carried the torch for their mothers. It was proof that persistence, even when met with ridicule or violence, could bend history toward justice.

June 4 reminds us that equality is never given — it is won, carried forward by courage and hope.

06/05/2026

Powerful lessons from the past being applied today. 🍏

🦋 How One IEA Member Turned a Middle School Hallway Into a Lesson About Humanity 🦋

Every year, Raul Pedraza's eighth grade social studies students create original artwork and memorials honoring the victims of the Holocaust. Butterflies have become a central symbol in Vallivue Middle School’s annual exhibit, inspired by a poem by Pavel Friedman, a young prisoner imprisoned in the Terezín ghetto.

Read about Pedraza's celebrated work and its impact in IEA Reporter: https://bit.ly/49BOh4y



Vallivue Education Association
Wassmuth Center for Human Rights
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum

05/14/2026

So very true! 🍏

Take care of the adults taking care of the students.

05/14/2026

Our educators make a difference! We see you and appreciate you. 🍏

05/05/2026

You are appreciated. You are seen. You matter. 🍏❤️

PASS IT ON | Are you a teacher or nurse, or do you know one? Here are some deals they can use this week: http://www.ktvb.com/article/news/nation-world/teacher-appreciation-week-freebies-discounts-2026/507-93dad0db-b7d8-4000-a779-cb9edceb82df?utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook_KTVB

05/04/2026

Yahoo! Ice cream! 🍏

Happy Teacher Appreciation Week! 🍎 As a thank you to everyone furthering education, either teaching or helping schools function, from May 4-8, The STIL is giving free singles to school staff when they show their school staff ID!

05/02/2026

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May 1 is International Workers’ Day.

It began with workers demanding dignity, safety, and a voice on the job.

From the 8-hour workday strikes of 1856
to the tragedy of Haymarket in 1886 Chicago
to generations of organizing that followed—
May Day has always been about one thing: workers standing together to shape their future.

More than a century later, that fight isn’t over.

Worker power has been challenged.
But something is shifting again.

Today, nearly 7 in 10 Americans support unions.
More people—especially young workers—want a stronger voice on the job.

That momentum matters.

And in Idaho, what happens next isn’t abstract.
It will be decided by voters in the May 19 primary election.

This May Day, we’re not just reflecting—we’re preparing:
✔️ Check your voter registration
✔️ Request your absentee ballot or vote early in-person
✔️Review our voter guide
✔️ Connect with local association leaders and attend a phone bank or door-knocking event
✔️ Help reach other educators to GOTV for the primary election

Because the same principle still holds:

When workers show up together, we don’t just respond to history...

we make it.

MAY MATTERS: https://bit.ly/4roiD0j

04/30/2026

Did someone say “ICE CREAM”?!?! 🍦
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Next week is 🌟Teacher Appreciation Week🌟 and we want to celebrate our teachers! Treasure Valley school districts, this is for you! We will be choosing 3 random teachers from the comments & surprising them at school in our ice cream truck with free ice cream next week! If you want a chance to surprise your favorite teacher with free ice cream, nominate them down below! Include their name and what school they teach at in the Treasure Valley!💟🎉

Let's show our teachers some love next week! Nominate away!⬇️🎉

04/18/2026

✅ Get it done!