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Legislation Introduced to Improve Educators' Working Conditions

THIS WEEK IN ANNAPOLISLegislation to Improve Educator Working Conditions among Bills Introduced Thursday at 5 p.m. saw the final deadline pass for legislators to file bills to be considered this session, which ends on April 11. Any Senate bill introduced after the 27th calendar day (which was February 6) of a session and any House […]
Education Support Professionals|Educator Voice|School Funding

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2023 General Assembly: Workload and Class Size among MSEA's Legislative Priorities

When it developed the union’s 2023 legislative priorities, MSEA’s member-led Legislative and Citizenship Committee sought to improve the extreme workload issues exacerbated by staffing shortages in every school building. The committee’s priorities also focused on strengthening the Blueprint to address the shortages through pay raises and strengthening educator voice and worker’s rights. In a letter […]
Education Support Professionals

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Has Your Worksite Endorsed the ESP Bill of Rights?

MSEA members in schools across the state are joining together to support a living wage, fairness, and respect for all support staff by signing the ESP Bill of Rights poster in their building. With each signature, support staff gain power and strength at the bargaining table to fight for better contracts to improve their jobs. […]
Racial and Social Justice|Union Updates

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2023 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration and MSEA Minority Recognition Awards

MSEA members gathered on January 14 for the 38th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration and Minority Recognition Awards. The celebration was held jointly with the annual Racial and Social Justice Summit, I Am Somebody! Leading the Change for Equitable and Just Schools, Communities, and Beyond. Keynote AddressAt the Dr. King celebration, members and […]
Education Support Professionals|Educator Voice

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My Turn: Pandora Jones

When I started in the school system, I was a paraeducator working with kids with special needs. My son was in elementary school at the time and it was an opportunity for us to be in the same district and on the same schedule, which allowed me to spend more time with him. After 10 […]
Professional Practice|Teacher Toolkit

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Teacher's Toolkit: Charles County Science Teacher Dyanna Finamore

Meet veteran Charles County educator Dyanna Finamore. She’s a science teacher whose energized practice is activating synapses in young students at Mt. Hope/Nanjemoy Elementary School. She’s taken her professional growth all the way to Tacoma, Washington and the Neural Education Institute using an NEA Learning and Leadership grant. Now she’s teaching her students new language […]
Educator Voice|Racial and Social Justice

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The Good Trouble Questionnaire: Everett Evansky

Welcome to MSEA’s new Good Trouble Questionnaire where we ask member-activists why they do what they do for public education and the causes they believe in. In this issue, MSEA science teacher Everett Evansky takes the questionnaire. What do you love the most about public schools? I am proud that we strive to welcome all […]
Elections|Union Updates

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A Message from President Cheryl Bost

January was a month of historic and spectacular firsts in Maryland. On January 3, Anthony Brown was sworn in as the state’s 47th attorney general, the first Black person to be elected to the position. He acknowledged the moment by saying that he takes office “at such a critical moment in our nation’s history—a moment […]
Pedagogy|Professional Practice

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Breakthroughs: Communicating with Parents

Cassie Hosler is an award-winning artist and art teacher at Church Hill and Sudlersville elementary schools, a new teacher mentor, and the Queen Anne’s County 2022 Teacher of the Year. She is a presenter at the district, state, and national levels on “Encouraging Communication with Parents in the Elementary Setting.” Hearing the phone ring and […]
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