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The Pocomoke High School Equity Warriors

At Pocomoke High School, a small, diverse school in Worcester County, Principal Jen Rayne makes sure that inclusion and equity are the core values that drive everything they do. “Examining all that we do under a lens of inclusion creates safe spaces, free of discrimination.” The students and staff featured here are speaking up and […]
Education Support Professionals

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My Turn: JoAnn Fritz

JoAnn Fritz is a bus driver and president of her local support staff union, KCESPA, the Kent County Education and Support Professional Association. She is a 2023 ESP Union Summer Organizer, one of 13 members canvassing across the state using the ESP Bill of Rights to build strength and power and win better contracts in […]
Educator Voice|Professional Practice|Teacher Toolkit

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Teachers' Toolkit: St. Mary's County's Nathan Swick and Arnold Skinner

Nathan Swick and Arnold Skinner are veteran educators (and friends!) delivering career-making instruction to students at Dr. James A. Forrest Career and Technology Center in St. Mary’s County. From the classroom to their maker-space labs, these educators help students find new and exciting ways to develop critical thinking, creative, and collaborative skills and test their […]
Educator Voice|Good Trouble|Racial and Social Justice

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The Good Trouble Questionnaire: Brad DeSantos

Brad DeSantos is an education activist, social studies teacher at Catonsville High School in Baltimore County, and a member of his union, the Teachers Association on Baltimore County (TABCO), since 2004. He took the Good Trouble Questionnaire for the June 2023 issue of ActionLine. What do you love the most about public schools? Public schools […]

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Breakthroughs: Communicating Communication

Brianne Souder teaches foundations of art and ceramics at Rising Sun High School in Cecil County. An art educator for 18 years, she loves helping students discover their artistic potential and the mental health benefits of the visual arts. She is Cecil County’s 2023-2024 Teacher of the Year. I was the child who came home […]
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Employers, Employees, and Marijuana

When the 2023 General Assembly passed legislation to legalize recreational marijuana in Maryland (House Bill 556/Senate Bill 516), employers hoped that the comprehensive legislation would provide clarification for both employers and employees about the param­eters of testing and the repercussions of use. Unfortunately, the bill didn’t contain any general workplace provisions for either group. The […]
Education Support Professionals|Educator Voice|Racial and Social Justice|Union Updates

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2023 ESP Bill of Rights Summer Organizers

The buzz has been building now for over a year: Public education support staff deserve a living wage, fairness, and support no matter what they do or where they work. Union members across the state are leading the campaign with MSEA’s ESP Bill of Rights—a clear testimony to the issues ESP members say are their […]
Educator Voice|Racial and Social Justice

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MSEA Awards and Social and Racial Justice Grants

“Our members are activists in their classrooms, in their civic clubs and special interests groups, at their places of worship, and in their broader communities. Now, more than ever, we must shine a light on the important contributions our members and others make to the issues and causes that impact public education. These awards and […]
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Washington County Fourth Graders Visit the State House

Checkmate! Washington County fourth-grade teacher Robby Burton (far right) and his chess-playing class from Eastern Elementary School visited Gov. Moore at the State House on June 5. Gov. Moore, an avid chess player himself, saw the class chess supplies during a Read Across America event and invited the students to visit him to see his […]
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