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NEA’s Representative Assembly: Why All the Fuss?

#RedforEd lifts off at the 2018 NEA Representative Assembly. July marks the biggest event on the national education union calendar — NEA’S 2019 Representative Assembly. Some 8,000 delegates convene, representing 3 million public school employees from across the country, who together set policy and chart the direction of NEA business. It’s the largest democratic deliberative assembly in […]
Discipline-Related Issues

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What’s Adultism Anyway?

Another -ism may be just enough to ruin your summer holiday, but here’s one that begins to make sense the more you think about it. “Adultism” is the way relationships among adults and children are commonly accepted by both parties to be directed by the adult. Yes, parents, educators, and other adults must take responsibility […]
Education Support Professionals

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My Turn: Roy Jackson

Roy Jackson is the building supervisor at Pocomoke Elementary School in Worcester County. I started out at Snow Hill Elementary in 1998 as a custodian and two years later began working at Pocomoke Elementary where I am the building supervisor/head custodian today. The best part of my job is getting to know students and helping […]
Racial and Social Justice

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Promoting Respect and Empathy

You can set the stage for a caring classroom in the 2019–2020 school year with help from another great toolkit from MSEA’s partnership with First Book. The new Promoting Respect and Empathy: A Toolkit for Educators of All Grades includes more than 20 activities from educators to help build more of the valuable social skills students need. You […]
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The Power of Play

  Special contributor and Jedi Chad Pavlekovich is a STEM science teacher in Wicomico County. Pavlekovich has an outdoor garden at school where they grow a large amount of produce. It’s well documented that young children have a curiosity that rivals even the best scientists and innovators, yet we quash this trait with heavily structured test-driven […]
Racial and Social Justice

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Black Girls and Discipline

In the mountains of research about school discipline, there’s one group of students that has only recently begun to receive the attention it deserves. That group is Black girls. According to the National Black Women’s Justice Institute analysis of Department of Education Office for Civil Rights Data from 2015–2016, Black girls are seven times more […]
School Funding

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Getting the Blueprint Right Means …

Cecil County educators rallied at a county budget hearing to call for the school funding they need to serve their students. With $1.1 billion in new funding from the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future bill headed to local school systems in the next three years — and possibly more on the way after the 2020 General Assembly rewrites […]
Discipline-Related Issues

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The School Discipline Crisis

Systemic poverty, institutional racism, mass incarceration, school funding and supports, technology, class sizes, under-resourced communities, lack of fresh air and exercise, student access to drugs, the opioid crisis — all these things and more help to create the difficult classroom environments so many of our students and educators are experiencing today. But the overwhelming questions of who […]
Union Updates

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Big Wins in Prince George’s

A PGCEA member from Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School. It was the day after National Teacher Appreciation Day, but members of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association (PGCEA) weren’t feeling it. They’d missed step increases during the recession in 2009, 2010, and 2011 that were never made up and were put on the back burner year […]
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