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2019 MSEA Convention

Join us at the Roland E. Powell Convention Center in Ocean City October 18–19 for MSEA’s 152nd Convention — two days of workshops and exhibits plus our annual Representative Assembly where delegates gather to do the work of the association. MSEA Convention FAQs. Bonus: MSEA Takes Over Seacrets — one of Ocean City’s favorite nightclubs on Friday night! Contact […]
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Using Our Power and Influence

Our big win in the 2019 General Assembly funded the first three years of the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future, adding $1.1 billion in new funding for improved salaries, staffing, and student programs. Now it’s time to update the state funding formula — making sure that every school in the state has adequate and equitable resources […]
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What’s Play Good For? PLENTY!

Here are just some of the benefits of more outdoor time and play: Better school performance Time spent in nature and increased fitness improves cognitive function. More creativity Outdoor play uses and nurtures the imagination and encourages collaboration. Much higher levels of fitness Kids are more active when they are outdoors. More friends Children who […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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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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“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, […]
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