HCEA is over 5,000 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 central office technical, management and technical employees at the HCPSS Central Office.

HCEA is the professional association and also the exclusive representative in collective bargaining for all teachers and most education support professionals in Howard County.