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Teacher Quality

Competitive salaries, health insurance and retirement are key factors in recruiting and retaining quality teachers for Tennessee classrooms. 
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Who We Are: 

  • Educational assistants
  • Secretarial and clerical personnel
  • Food service workers
  • Non certificated supervisors
  • Transportation personnel
  • Substitute teachers
  • Non teaching school nurses
  • Student assistants
  • Youth service workers
  • Maintenance and repair personnel
  • Any non-certificated personnel

 

 

What We Do:

  • Work behind the scenes to make our schools run smoothly
  • Strengthen the safety net for at-risk children
  • Create strong ties with the community
  • Promote parent involvement and reach out to multi-cultural communities
  • Take pride in hard work and a job well done
  • Demonstrate the importance of people from all different backgrounds working together to help every child succeed

 

Without Us:

  • The school doors wouldn't open
  • The bells wouldn't ring
  • Classrooms wouldn't be clean and well maintained
  • Special students would miss the one-on-one support
  • The phones wouldn't be answered
  • The lights wouldn't go on
  • The paychecks wouldn't be issued
  • Students would go without lunch

 

Public schools run because of the work of ESP!