About Us
Howard County Education Association
HCEA is over 6,000 of your colleagues: teachers, counselors, psychologists, pupil personnel workers, interpreters, therapists (speech, occupational, physical and school mental health therapists), school social workers, secretaries, clerks, registrars, assistants (instructional, media, special education, health, food service, security and student assistants), and employees in HCPSS central office technical and management positions. HCEA is the professional association and also the exclusive representative in collective bargaining for all teachers and most education support professionals in Howard County.

Who is HCEA?
HCEA is sometimes called the “teachers’ union.” We are actually more than 5,000 teachers, counselors, psychologists, pupil personnel workers, interpreters, therapists (speech, occupational, physical and school mental health therapists), assistants (instructional, health, media, special ed, student, and food and nutrition service assistants), school social workers, secretaries, clerks, registrars and Central Office technical employees.

Member Benefits
By becoming a member of HCEA you are gaining valuable benefits from three levels of associations: county, state, and national. Each level of association is there to serve your needs in helping you do your job and being an effective influence for your students.