Renewing Your AWSA Membership Online

With the state of the economy, we in the educational leadership profession need each other's support more than ever. There is an easy way we can help AWSA strengthen services for all of us in these tough times.

AWSA has developed an online process for membership renewal and conference registration. If every AWSA member used this online process to conduct business we could redeploy 50% of one of our staff members time from data entry to value added work strengthening our information, professional development and advocacy services.

This online process requires you to login to your member portal on our website. We know that none of us look forward to having another login and password. However, once you have logged in once or twice it will be a breeze.

Our staff stands ready to help you with any questions or difficulties you encounter the first time you try the online process. Since this is a busy season for membership renewal we have included directions below. (Clicking on any of the links below will open up a new window so you are able to follow along with these directions as you proceed.)

1. Log in to your personal portal page using your new login information. Since AWSA moved to a new website format on June 4, 2009, all members have different login information, the information on your member card is no longer valid.

Username: look up username
Password: (*If you have not logged on to the new website your password is AWSA.) If you have logged in but forgot what you reset your password to, click here to recover.

2. The next screen you should see is a password reset screen.  You are required to select a new password for yourself, it can be anything you'd like.  A strong password will include a combinations of letters and numbers.  We recommend saving this new password/username combination somewhere readily available because you will use this login information quite often.  Once you reset your password (if prompted to do so), you will go to your portal page. On your portal page you will look for the link that says Renew. It will either be under your name or under the Alerts heading. Click on Renew, you will be taken to a screen with all of your contact/school district/national association information. (*Any field with a red asterisk next to it is a required field, you cannot proceed beyond this page without filling in these fields.)  If you plan to affiliate with a national association be sure to select yes from the appropriate association's dropdown menu.

3. The next page will ask you what payment method you plan to use. Select the proper method depending on how you will be paying membership dues. If you have a credit card to use, you will want to pay now. If you would like to print out an invoice/pay by purchase order you can select to be billed.

4. If you will be paying by check or PO, a copy of your invoice or indication of invoice number can be sent with the payment.

If you select “Bill Me”, you will need to return to your portal page and print out/download an invoice. The system does not automatically send you an invoice.