First Time Delegate Reception

First time delegates are encouraged to attend the First Time Delegate Reception from 1:30 - 3:00 pm at the Convention Expo Center - directly behind the Expo Hall.

Dining Out While in Boston

To avoid waiting in long lines, try calling ahead of time or using an app such as OpenTable.


Apple Users: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/opentable-restaurant-reservations/id296581815?mt=8


Android Users: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.opentable&referrer=mat_click_id%3D07504fbb46c57ca1ef5687dc639eb0db-20170628-5490

Area Food & Attractions

Thank you to Heather for putting this wonderful list together! 

Places around Renaissance Hotel: (pulled from Hotel Website and Google) 

Shopping/Groceries 

• Walgreens
• Rite Aid Pharmacy
• Shell Gas 
• 7-Eleven
• Stop & Shop
• Whole Foods Market
• Bob's Grocery Store
• Beacon Capital Market

Transportation 

• Silverline Way (bus)
• South Station (train)

Food/Drink 

• Coppa 
• Butcher Shop
• Atlantic Fish Company
• Bukowski's Tavern
• Cheers Boston
• L'Aroma Cafe
• Morton's Steakhouse 

Food around Convention Center

• Jimmy John’s 
• Dunkin Donuts
• Fargo’s Deli of Course 

Suggested Places to Eat around Boston

• Durgin Park 
• Union Oyster Bar & Grill 
• Eataly 
• Summer Shack 
• Back Bay Social Club Back Bay area-restaurants are good in this area 
• Legal Test Kitchen 
• Empire 75 on Liberty Wharf 
• Babbo 
• L’Osteria 
• Bricco 

Suggested Things to Do/See 

• Salem-day trip 
• Boston Common and Public Gardens
• The Freedom Trail 
• Paul Revere’s House 
• Old North Church-walk up Hull Street in front of church, cemetery on right good views of Bunker Hill, on left Skinny House (smallest house in Boston)
• Any Museum 
• Duck Tours or Swan Boat 
• Fenway Park

Registration Help

Please see the below images if you are having problems using the NEA RA registration system.


If you have not received an email from NEA RA (email would be from RASupport@nea.org), please contact Maggie!

State Contacts Needed!!

Below is a list of the states we still need state contacts for - if you would like to add your name, please contact Maggie at maggie.brueggemann@mnea.org!

REMAINING STATE CONTACTS
Connecticut
Delaware
Georgia
Idaho
Indiana
Kentucky
Maryland
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
North Carolina
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Please contact Maggie at maggie.brueggemann@mnea.org if you would like to be a state contact!

The Findings of the NEA Charter Taskforce in Support of the Proposed Charter Policy Statement

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Logistical Changes - A message from President Lily Eskelsen-Garcia

Highlights of Logistical Changes to 2017 Boston RA

This year the Executive Committee was charged with reviewing the process and content of the Representative Assembly to improve the workings of our highest representative body. We will implement the following, which are within the purview of the president who manages the agenda.

1. The biggest change comes due to bus and bus driver availability. We don’t often go past 8:30pm at an RA, but when we do, we must replace drivers who cannot pick up delegates, return them to their hotels, and get back to their bus barns before a 15-hour window restricting, by law, how many hours a driver can be on duty. We don’t want to take the chance of having some delegates stranded without buses. We have set a hard-stop time on the final day: We must adjourn on or before 8:00 pm.

2. Even so, it’s our intent to design this RA so that we will be able to handle the business before us on or before 8pm. We are taking several steps to maximize the time we have for business:

a. We’ll limit or eliminate most speeches. Eliminate most welcomes and speeches by guests; eliminate candidate thank you’s at close of the RA; shorter PAC & finance presentations; and generally avoid nonbusiness-related speeches. 

b. The president will appoint a small committee of delegates as an NBI Consolidation Committee to review NBIs that might be combined. No one will be required to combine NBIs, of course, but the committee will bring to the attention of Makers of Motions that are connected, and if they agree to combine, they will be recognized and will be allowed to make the Consolidated Motion together. 

c. We’ll try to keep “Requests for Information” to a minimum by setting up a physical “NBI Information” kiosk and a text number where delegates with questions can get answers.

3. To encourage delegates to reflect on our mission and focus the business of the RA on that mission, we intentionally built the agenda around mission themes each day:

a. Day 1: Union Strength – Member Advocacy

b. Day 2: Professional Practice

c. Day 3: Social Justice

d. Day 4: Our Mission