Aspiring Educators

This course focuses on strategies and skills needed to effectively build a safe learning community that fosters an environment of trust, support, motivation, and engagement. Participants will learn the fundamentals of restorative practices and how to transition to a restorative mindset with useable, real-world techniques that can be applied immediately. Implementation of preventative practices include, but are not limited to, a well-managed classroom with reduced student disruptions and behavior issues, an age-appropriate approach to behavior modifications, and a more positive and collaborative home-school relationship approach. This restorative practices course provides educators with a framework in which challenging behavior can be addressed in an authentic manner to bring understanding and make things right.

This course is free to MSEA members, and upon completion of all course requirements, certificated members will be eligible for two Continuing Professional Development credits through MSDE applicable to recertification.

Once you have registered, you’ll receive an email within a few days with instructions for how to access pre-session reading and assignments and the Zoom link for the first session.

Registration Deadline: September 23, 2022

Series Dates:
September 30, 2022: 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
October 1, 2022: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
October 14, 2022: 5 p.m.-8 p.m.
October 15, 2022: 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
October 28, 2022: 5 p.m.-8 p.m.

Contact: Evan West at [email protected]

Educators, students, and our school communities are facing years of recovery. New educators are recovering from the chaos and uncertainty of the pandemic, a shaky reality that defines their early years in the profession. At the same time, their students and families look to them for guidance.
This year’s conference is rooted in the foundations needed for education recovery. Speakers, workshops, and every member session is focused on the union and professional skills educators need to lift themselves and lead their students.
Breakouts (three per attendee) include classroom management, introductions to trauma informed / restorative practices, MSEA’s Praxis Prep for conditionally certified teachers and for teachers looking to the future – a session on National Board Certification.

Come for the learning, leave with friends and a foundation for recovery for you and your students.

Audience: MSEA members with six years or less in the profession.

Registration Deadline: Friday, October 21, 2022

Contact: Chelsea Akibo-Betts, at [email protected]