Collaboration

Your RSA partners with higher education and helps run the National Rural Education Association and its advocacy arm, the NRE Advocacy Consortium.

We also help lead rural-focused, dynamic coalitions like the ones supporting the Farm to School program and Community Schools efforts. We work to gather the most insightful, relevant, and helpful information for members.

If there’s a new idea, a promising practice, or a new approach to intractable problems, we’ll make sure you know ASAP.

RSA Student Video Contests

We are proud to collaborate with school districts across the state to highlight rural students, inspire creativity, and showcase how integral rural schools are to their communities.

National Rural Education Assoc.

RSA is a longstanding member of the NREA and we are proud to continue to follow our mission of raising rural voices and strengthening rural communities in New York and beyond.

2025 Teacher of the Year

RSA highlights the wonderful level of teaching in rural school districts with its NYS Rural Teacher of the Year award to increase awareness of the value rural education brings to its communities.