.jpg) Rodney N. Ellis Sr., most recently an Eighth-grade Language Arts teacher at Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy, currently serves as vice president of the NCAE. He began a two-year term on July 1, 2008.
Ellis has been an active NCAE member and leader for 13 years. He was president of the Student NCAE chapter at Winston-Salem State University from 1996-1998. He was elected to two consecutive terms as president of the Forsyth County Association of Educators (FCAE), the local affiliate of the NCAE, from 2003-2007. He was also FCAE vice president. In 2005, he was elected to his current position on the NCAE Board of Directors, where he has served on both the Government Relations and Finance and Personnel committees.
At the national level, Ellis has represented Winston-Salem/Forsyth County for the last five years as a delegate to the National Education Association (NEA) annual convention and representative assembly, the world’s largest democratic, deliberative body.
An educator for10 years, Ellis was honored as Teacher of the Year at Winston-Salem Preparatory Academy for the 2000-01 school year. He was the 2002 recipient of the Black Achievers Award from the YMCA and, in the same year, was named Phi Beta Sigma’s Man of the Year. Ellis is also currently a member of the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Teacher Academy, a position he was appointed to in 2005 by the governor’s office.
His community service includes being an active member of Goodwill Baptist Church in Winston-Salem where he has served on the board of directors and as president of youth ministries. He organizes step-drill teams as well with various community youth groups and churches.
A native of Mocksville, NC, Ellis earned a bachelor’s degree in Middle Grades Education from Winston-Salem State University.
NCAE is the state’s largest education association, representing more than 65,000 active, retired and student members in North Carolina.
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Rodney Ellis
NCAE Vice President
NCAE Center
P.O. Box 27347
Raleigh, N.C. 27611
800/662-7924 x206
rodney.ellis@ncae.org
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