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Education Support Professionals

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Jackie Waul: MSEA’s 2018–2019 ESP of the Year

MSEA’s ESP of the Year Jackie Waul at the Calvert County Education Support Professionals Day. When Jackie Waul took the stage at MSEA’s 2018 Representative Assembly in October, more than 600 of her colleagues cheered the modest Calvert County building services employee. Waul was honored for her union activism and her motivation to advance her […]
Pedagogy

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My Mentor Revived My Career!

Richard Warren is the 2019 Maryland Teacher of the Year and a secondary STEM teacher at Crisfield High School in Somerset County. Richard’s degrees include a master’s in teaching and a doctorate in educational leadership. My career as a teacher has not always been the easiest. My first few years of teaching were the most […]
Education Support Professionals

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ESPs: Organizing and Negotiating for Success

  Members register at the Calvert County Education Support Professional Development Day in November. Activism like that of the custodians in Washington County, proves that orga­nizing — coming together for the common good — works. It’s the power of a strong voice and collective action that turned the heads of Washington County’s Board of Education. Now custodians are in […]
School Funding

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What About My School’s Leaky Roof?

You probably read about students freez­ing in Baltimore City schools when more than one-third of the city’s schools — and students — went without sufficient heat during the cold spell last January. It was a big story that gained national attention. Nine months later, it was the heat wave at the start of the school year with 105 degree […]
Education Support Professionals

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My Turn: Lisa Brashears

  Lisa Brashears is a 29-year veteran bus driver for the Frederick County Public Schools. “Without us the system would crumble — children would have no way to get to school, there would be no one to prepare and serve nutritious breakfasts and lunches, and school buildings would be dirty and unsafe.” — Lisa Brashears In1989, I was the mother […]
Union Updates

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Inside MSEA: A New Member Benefits

MSEA Executive Director David Helfman Were you an MSEA member in 2011? If so, you may remember a column I wrote after shifting my personal auto and home insurance from State Farm to the NEA Member Benefits-endorsed California Casualty. I increased my cover­age, dropped my premiums by 32%, and never looked back. I’m still delighted with […]
Education Support Professionals

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Custodians in Washington County Push Back

  Members Richard Wilhide, Don Gehr, James Bowers, Melonie Boyce, and their colleagues helped prevent the harmful reorganization of the school custodian workforce in Washington County. We “Shook the Bones of the Board Members” For the past nine months, the custodians of the Washington County Education Support Professionals have empowered one another and raised the volume […]
Teacher Toolkit

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Teachers’ Toolkit: Construction, HVAC, Plumbing, and Welding

Photo © Brion McCarthy Rick Webster, Construction Trades “An advisory committee contact says contractors can’t find people and that they need an influx of new skilled workers. Students can walk away from my program career- or college-ready with a complete skill set ready for a variety of construction trades — carpentry, architecture, project management. The opportunities and benefits […]
Legal Questions

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Your Evaluation … “Developing?“ “Ineffective?” Now What?

You’re a tenured teacher with an Advanced Professional Certificate and you’ve just been evaluated as less than effective — which means a designation of either developing or ineffective. It’s time to make some choices. What to Do? You Can: 1. Participate in the development of a Performance Improvement Plan to identify resources and support in the areas identified […]
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