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Teacher's Toolkit: Melissa Carpenter, Charles County Fifth Grade Teacher

Melissa Carpenter is a fifth grade teacher at William B. Wade Elementary School in Waldorf and is the 2024 Maryland nominee for the NEA Foundation’s Travelers Insurance Award. Now established in her career, she was active in MSEA’s Early Career Educator program, which hosts an annual conference and supports chapters in local unions across the […]
Pedagogy|Professional Practice

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Achieving NBC! National Board Certification Is an Attainable Goal

Hannah Allen is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Mathematics. She attained this certification in one year while simultaneously finishing up her master’s in curriculum and instruction from Frostburg State University. She just completed her sixth year of teaching 6th grade mathematics and enriched mathematics at Northern Middle School in Washington County. She […]
Union Updates

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A Final Message from President Cheryl Bost: "Let’s Continue to Go, Fight, Win!"

I am so proud to have served as the president of MSEA—the largest labor union in Maryland and growing every day. I am so proud of the collective work we have done re­sulting in the historic funding of public education, seeing educators using their voices on boards and in elected offices where decisions are being […]
Educator Voice|Elections

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2024 Elections: Apple Ballots Win the Day!

If you’ve ever been an Apple Ballot volunteer, you know it can be fun, exhausting, rewarding, and surprising—especial-ly when you strike up a friendship with that volunteer handing out literature for the other candidate…and discover that you really do have a lot in common! That’s why so many local union members add theirnames to the […]
Educator Voice|Elections

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2024 School Board Elections: There's No Down Time

With so much at stake in school board races across Maryland, there’s little downtime from the May primaries to the November general election. Already in locals where these school board races are so critical, candidates are planning and campaigning, and local educator unions are strategizing how to maximize educators’ influence at the voting booth. State […]
Elections

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Angela Alsobrooks for U.S. Senate

Delegates to MSEA’s Representative Assembly met in a special session in May to approve the MSEA Endorsement Council’s recommendation of Angela Alsobrooks for U.S. Senate to fill the seat of retiring Sen. Ben Cardin. That recommendation was then forwarded to, and approved by, NEA. Visit the Angela Alsobrooks for Senate website. Alsobrooks is the current […]
Educator Voice|School Funding

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2024 Election Results: A Big Win for Cecil County

In Cecil County, citizens led by well-organized local pro-public education forces celebrated the win they needed most when they ousted County Executive Danielle Hornberger in the May primary. After three years of maintenance of effort only funding by Hornberger, and her 2024-2025 proposed budget of brutal cuts which included slashing middle school sports, music programs, […]
Education Support Professionals|Educator Voice|Elections

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Educator-Recommended Candidates Sweep Primaries, Work for November Wins

THIS MONTH IN ANNAPOLIS Educators’ Recommended Candidates Win Primary Races More than 90% of educator-recommended candidates emerged victorious in the May primary races at all levels of government, giving educators an excellent opportunity to see champions for schools and students hold elected office at many different levels. For the always important board of education races, […]
Education Support Professionals|Educator Voice|Professional Practice|School Funding

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General Assembly 2024

A Big Lift  Throughout the 90-day session, MSEA’s lobbyists tracked approximately 400 pieces of legislation and provided testimony on 150. While most of MSEA’s legislative priorities passed, other bills did not cross the finish line but raised awareness on critical topics that impact educators and students daily. We also worked successfully to prevent the passage […]
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