Best Practice Wednesday

Best Practice Wednesday

ESP Power and RESPect—A Snapshot

This snapshot is an overview of MSEA’s larger ESP Power and RESPect workshop where you’ll learn to recognize your value on the job and the power of your voice. You’ll develop stronger communication skills, learn the importance of being assertive, and focus on how to organize around issues confronting ESPs and students. You’ll come away […]

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PD Snap: Raising the Bar and Introduction to EdTPA Domain 2

In the first Raising the Bar PD Snap, we examined how to build on the concepts of Domain One of the Framework for Teaching. This snapshot focuses on Domain 2–The Classroom Environment. In our ever-changing public education environment, the worlds our students learn in and that we work and teach in are more challenging than […]

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Restorative Practices for ESP Snapshot

In many cases, education support professionals are called upon to intervene with students in their times of most serious need. Whether it’s a paraprofessional dealing with a student in the midst of an emotional crisis or a school nurse working with a student showing signs of trauma at home, our ESP members handle it all. […]

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Raise the Bar: Surviving the Evaluation Process – Domain 1

Do you need help maneuvering through your observation and evaluation process? Are you at the end of your conditional certificate and need support with the Praxis? Would you like to strengthen your knowledge about the teacher certification process? Do you know what edTPA is? Are you concerned about how the new Blueprint for Maryland’s Future […]

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Social/Emotional Learning and Trauma Informed Approaches for ESP

Do you know that 67% of students experience at least two seriously traumatic events in their lives? Because of these traumas, riding a bus, going to the health room, eating lunch, playing on the playground, and simply walking down the hallway can hold emotional triggers for some students.  The Blueprint for Maryland’s Future addresses this […]

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Educator Evaluation Portfolios: How to Make the Evaluation Process Work for You

Join MSEA’s CEPP team and member experts for Best Practice Wednesdays and snapshots of educator-centered issues starting October 27 and continuing every other week. In this session, educators will learn strategies for gathering professional artifacts to demonstrate growth in the Danielson Framework for Teaching Domains and how to use those artifacts in pre- and post-observation […]
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