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After the March — Educators Together

Educators together! Garrett County Education Association Vice President Stephanie Lewis and President Patrick Damon prep before a recent board of education meeting. We said our kids can’t wait and now they don’t have to. The opportunities that the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future bring to public education are game-changing. It’s a $1.1 billion infusion of funding […]
Early Career Educators

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MSEA’s Early Career Educator Task Force

Classroom management, creating collegial relationships, establishing rapport with students, communicating with parents, finding a mentor, managing student debt, finding an affordable place to live. Early educators are faced with these tremendous challenges head-on in the first several years of their career. That’s why members Mercedes Barbosa and Michelle Eirhart presented a new business item establishing […]
Education Support Professionals

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My Turn: Beth Poole

Beth Poole, media tech, Church Creek Elementary and Fountain Green Elementary Schools, Harford County In2000, my husband suddenly announced that he had been promoted and that we would need to move away from everything that we knew to start a new adventure. Once we were established with our boys in school and my husband at his […]
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Cheryl Bost: This Is the Beginning

Martin Luther King, Jr.’s words still ring true today, “The labor movement was the principal force that transformed misery and despair into hope and progress.” Leading thousands of educators, parents, students, education advocates, and elected officials in the March for Our Schools from Navy Stadium down Rowe Boulevard towards the oldest capitol dome in the […]
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Inside MSEA: $60,000 Starting Salary for Teachers

MSEA Executive Director David Helfman The Kirwan Commission’s January report recommends significant policies to better support our public schools and school children. From expanded access to pre-K to enhanced career technical education programs, from greater supports for schools in concentrated poverty, to greater resources for special education, the policy recommendations are critical for our success. One […]
Legal Questions

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A Word from the Legal Team on Working with Parents

Every educator wants parents who are involved in their child’s education. Time has proven to us over and over again that it’s essential. But some parents can go a bit…overboard. As an educator have you ever experienced a parent who: • Questions your subject matter knowledge? • Questions your grading rubric? • Complains about you […]
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We Marched — and Won $1 Billion for Schools

Photos © Stephen Cherry We’ve been working very hard for this. MSEA’s non-stop multi-year education funding campaign has focused on providing as much input, influence, and support as possible to the state’s updating of the school funding formula for the first time in 20 years. It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to re-think and re-prioritize the needs of […]
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“Everyone should be aware of their ability to enact change.”

How did MSEA get 8,500 members to Annapolis for the March for Our Schools? One word: ORGANIZING. Members studied the issues, attended skill-building trainings, held 10-minute meetings, educated colleagues in countless one-on-one meetings, made phone calls, texted co-workers, and wrote emails. All that work led to the largest rally Annapolis has seen in nearly a […]
Education Support Professionals

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ESP of the Year Awards

Senate passes new national award for classified employees   On March 28, the U.S. Senate approved the Recognizing Achievement in Classified School Employees Act, legislation that provides national, annual recognition for the outstanding contributions of education support professionals and classified school employees to the nation’s public schools and the students they serve. NEA has nearly […]
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