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Discipline-Related Issues

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The School Discipline Crisis

Systemic poverty, institutional racism, mass incarceration, school funding and supports, technology, class sizes, under-resourced communities, lack of fresh air and exercise, student access to drugs, the opioid crisis — all these things and more help to create the difficult classroom environments so many of our students and educators are experiencing today. But the overwhelming questions of who […]
School Funding

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Getting the Blueprint Right Means …

Cecil County educators rallied at a county budget hearing to call for the school funding they need to serve their students. With $1.1 billion in new funding from the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future bill headed to local school systems in the next three years — and possibly more on the way after the 2020 General Assembly rewrites […]
Racial and Social Justice

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Promoting Respect and Empathy

You can set the stage for a caring classroom in the 2019–2020 school year with help from another great toolkit from MSEA’s partnership with First Book. The new Promoting Respect and Empathy: A Toolkit for Educators of All Grades includes more than 20 activities from educators to help build more of the valuable social skills students need. You […]
Discipline-Related Issues

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What’s Adultism Anyway?

Another -ism may be just enough to ruin your summer holiday, but here’s one that begins to make sense the more you think about it. “Adultism” is the way relationships among adults and children are commonly accepted by both parties to be directed by the adult. Yes, parents, educators, and other adults must take responsibility […]
Union Updates

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Big Wins in Prince George’s

A PGCEA member from Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School. It was the day after National Teacher Appreciation Day, but members of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association (PGCEA) weren’t feeling it. They’d missed step increases during the recession in 2009, 2010, and 2011 that were never made up and were put on the back burner year […]
Teacher Toolkit

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Toolkit: Grammy Award Nominee for Music Education Brandi Jason

Brandi Jason and her clarinet. Brandi Jason is the instrumental music director at Liberty High School in Carroll County. She’s also the 2019–2020 Carroll County Teacher of the Year and a four-time Grammy Music Educator nominee — a 2016 and 2018 semi-finalist and a 2017 finalist! INVEST IN SMALL UPGRADES Not all programs can afford intermediate or […]
Union Updates

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It’s Been a Very Good Year

MSEA President Cheryl Bost and MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. A message from MSEA President Cheryl Bost and MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. Despite the Supreme Court decision attacking unions through the elimination of agency fees, MSEA’s membership didn’t shrink — it increased. More than 8,500 members and supporters marched in Annapolis for school funding, leading to state […]
Pedagogy

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Refining Reading Instruction

“We need accessible experts who have a deep understanding of research and best practices in literacy instruction, and we need to grow those experts in our schools and share what we know with our communities.” Kellie Hall is an instructional resource teacher at Hollywood Elementary School in St. Mary’s County. She is a voracious reader […]
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NEA’s Representative Assembly: Why All the Fuss?

#RedforEd lifts off at the 2018 NEA Representative Assembly. July marks the biggest event on the national education union calendar — NEA’S 2019 Representative Assembly. Some 8,000 delegates convene, representing 3 million public school employees from across the country, who together set policy and chart the direction of NEA business. It’s the largest democratic deliberative assembly in […]
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