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The Good Trouble Questionnaire: Ben Nadler

Ben Nadler makes good trouble as a member of the new Union of Harford Community College Faculty, where he is an English professor. He is among the organizers who founded the new faculty union at HCC, MSEA’s first higher ed unit in the state. Read more about MSEA’s newest members here. What do you love […]
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Breakthroughs: Together We Are Better, Stronger, Wiser

Erica McAndrew is the 2022-2023 Carroll County Teacher of the Year and a first-grade teacher at Spring Garden Elementary, where she has taught for 29 years. She has her masters in elementary math leadership and had her thesis published about her passion, math and children’s literature. Over the last 29 years, the profession of teaching […]
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David Trone for U.S. Senate

With Senator Ben Cardin retiring, Marylanders will elect a new U.S. senator in November 2024 for the first time since Sen. Chris Van Hollen was elected to his first term in 2016. At the 2023 MSEA Fall Representative Assembly, delegates from across the state voted to recommend Rep. David Trone (D-6th) to NEA for endorsement. […]
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Inside MSEA with Sean Johnson: See you in Annapolis

This issue of ActionLine includes a summary of key initiatives that will be part of MSEA’s legislative program during the upcoming General Assembly session. There is a lot of power in having MSEA lobbyists working for you while you are working for students. But that power is best realized when your voice is part of […]
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A Message from Cheryl Bost: Our Lives Are Overly Scheduled!

Whether you’re working to meet job expectations, family expectations, or just adulting in general, do you, like me, check your calendar to know where you’re supposed to be when? Do you feel like you’re on a hamster wheel and you can’t get off because…if you don’t do the work, who will? When someone tells you […]
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MSEA Members Receive Year-Long NEA Foundation Fellowships

The NEA Foundation is philanthropic organization that supports educators through the Global Learning Fellowship program (GLF) and its Learning and Leadership, Student Success, Envision Equity, and many other subject-specific and inquiry-based grants. The GLF is the NEA Foundation’s signature investment in educators’ global learning, collaboration, and leadership with a year-long program designed to enhance educators’ […]
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A Word from Legal: IEPS and Accommodations

The list of accommodations within an IEP should only be those accommodations necessary for the child to receive a free, appropriate public education (FAPE). It is not specific enough to say something would be “beneficial;” after all, every child would benefit from smaller class sizes. In this case, the question to ask is “does the […]
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MSEA's Professional Learning Portal: mseaportal.org
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MSEA Prepares Legislative Priorities as Session Nears

THIS MONTH IN ANNAPOLIS Approaching 2024 Session, MSEA Prioritizes Educator Shortage Solutions The 2024 General Assembly opens January 10, and MSEA is prepared to advocate for key priorities that members have identified. Key priorities include maintaining strong funding levels for the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future and students, educators, and schools throughout the state; the development […]
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