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Discipline-Related Issues

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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 […]
Union Updates

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“Red for Ed Is Not a Teachers’ Movement, It’s a People’s Movement.”

Baltimore County government teacher Katherine Mullen was in Washington, D.C. to brief the Congressional Progressive caucus on educators and school issues. It’s not often a public school educator gets to be part of a formal briefing to a Congressional caucus, but that’s exactly what Baltimore County government teacher Katherine Mullen and colleagues from California, New Mexico, […]
Teacher Toolkit

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Toolkit: Grammy Award Nominee for Music Education Brandi Jason

Brandi Jason and her clarinet. Brandi Jason is the instrumental music director at Liberty High School in Carroll County. She’s also the 2019–2020 Carroll County Teacher of the Year and a four-time Grammy Music Educator nominee — a 2016 and 2018 semi-finalist and a 2017 finalist! INVEST IN SMALL UPGRADES Not all programs can afford intermediate or […]
Union Updates

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It’s Been a Very Good Year

MSEA President Cheryl Bost and MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. A message from MSEA President Cheryl Bost and MSEA Executive Director David Helfman. Despite the Supreme Court decision attacking unions through the elimination of agency fees, MSEA’s membership didn’t shrink — it increased. More than 8,500 members and supporters marched in Annapolis for school funding, leading to state […]
Pedagogy

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Refining Reading Instruction

“We need accessible experts who have a deep understanding of research and best practices in literacy instruction, and we need to grow those experts in our schools and share what we know with our communities.” Kellie Hall is an instructional resource teacher at Hollywood Elementary School in St. Mary’s County. She is a voracious reader […]
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