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Education Support Professionals

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David Pickens Is MSEA’s ESP of the Year

ESP of the Year David Pickens with Helen Wilkerson, president, Secretaries and Assistants Association of Anne Arundel County (SAAAAC), and Debbie Schaefer, chair, MSEA’s ESP Organizing Committee. “Regardless of your status, your title, or where you are on a pay scale, you indeed are priceless and vital to the development of young people.” — David Pickens, MSEA […]
Pedagogy

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Breakthroughs: Using Data to Target Student Growth

St. Mary’s County educator Bernadette Scheetz is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Mathematics. In 2012–2013, she was the county’s Teacher of the Year and a finalist for Maryland Teacher of the Year. She taught middle school mathematics for 12 years before returning to the elementary level. She is currently a math and […]
Education Support Professionals

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Organizing Works

Members from the four counties are networking and learning from one another at events like the recent ESP Eastern Shore Leadership Training. When education support profession­als on the Eastern Shore won a long, hard-fought battle for collective bar­gaining rights in 2003, it was the very last group of public school education employees in the state […]
School Funding

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Inside MSEA with David Helfman

MSEA Executive Director David Helfman After more than three years of service on the Kirwan Commission, filled with several dozen full commission and work group meetings, public hearings, and hours of preparation and talking with MSEA members and leaders about commission proposals, I recently cast my final vote as a commission member. In a 19–3 vote, […]
School Funding

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What’s next for school funding?

Part of the massive crowd at the March for Our Schools in Annapolis. (Photo © Stephen Cherry.) After three years of meetings, research, and public hearings about Maryland’s underfunded public schools, on November 21 the Kirwan Commission held its final meeting and took its final votes. So what does it all mean for students, educators, and […]
School Funding

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MSEA Statement on Kirwan Commission Final Vote on School Funding Formula

“This is a potentially game-changing moment for our students and our state—a once-in-a-generation opportunity to expand career and technical education, hire more educators and increase their pay, provide additional support to struggling learners, and create lasting educational equity and a more prosperous future for Maryland. Educators applaud the hard work of the Kirwan Commission and […]
Educator Voice

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10 Questions with Rachel McCusker

Educators have our first-ever opportunity to elect an active teacher to the Maryland State Board of Education to serve as a voice for educators and students. It’s so important for us to have a strong voice on the board — which currently has zero public school teachers. When the board makes decisions on issues like school discipline, […]

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MSEA Statement on Maryland Senate Leadership Change

“President Miller is a Maryland legend whose dedicated service, bipartisan collaboration, and strong leadership have guided our state for decades,” said Baltimore County elementary school teacher and MSEA President Cheryl Bost. “While we’re grateful that he will continue to serve in the Senate, Annapolis simply won’t be the same without Mike Miller sharing and shaping history […]
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Top 10 Moments at the 2019 MSEA Convention

Whether you were in Ocean City and want to relive the highlights or didn’t make it and want to see what you missed, here are 10 of the top moments from this year’s convention: 1. Focus on Winning the Fight for More School Funding We’ve come a long way — and have an important opportunity […]
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