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My Mentor Revived My Career!

Richard Warren is the 2019 Maryland Teacher of the Year and a secondary STEM teacher at Crisfield High School in Somerset County. Richard’s degrees include a master’s in teaching and a doctorate in educational leadership. My career as a teacher has not always been the easiest. My first few years of teaching were the most […]
Union Updates

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Advocacy from the Heart in Washington County

Matias Meza shares concerns about cyberbullying at a PESO meeting in Washington County. Advocacy comes from need and need comes from the heart. Washington County students, educators, and parents have filled a void in public school advocacy with a new group called PESO — it’s the Parent, Educator, Student Organization, an independent citizen-led group founded by its […]
School Funding

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MSEA President Cheryl Bost on Maryland’s New Star Rating System

MSEA President Cheryl Bost On December 4, I sat before the State Board of Education to be sure our voice was heard concerning Maryland’s new star rating system for school accountability. Our position is firm: rating schools doesn’t improve them; educators and parents in their communities do. School accountability only works if educators and parents drive […]
Early Career Educators

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Richard Warren: Maryland’s 2018–2019 Teacher of the Year

  Richard Warren congratulates a student in his STEM class on a stellar rocket launch. Richard Warren’s first period STEM classroom is a group of 8th grade students who usually don’t get to spend much time together. It’s a pilot class that brings together students of different abilities — from severely disabled students with IEPs to gifted and […]
School Funding

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Looking Ahead — Harder Work, Bigger Wins

Our campaign for a Maryland Promise began as a commitment to create equal opportunity in every community for every child in Maryland. We’re halfway to making that promise a reality. Passing the Fix the Fund Act in the 2018 General Assembly, then passing Question 1 on the ballot in November were the two critical first […]
Education Support Professionals

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Jackie Waul: MSEA’s 2018–2019 ESP of the Year

MSEA’s ESP of the Year Jackie Waul at the Calvert County Education Support Professionals Day. When Jackie Waul took the stage at MSEA’s 2018 Representative Assembly in October, more than 600 of her colleagues cheered the modest Calvert County building services employee. Waul was honored for her union activism and her motivation to advance her […]
Education Support Professionals

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My Turn: Lisa Brashears

  Lisa Brashears is a 29-year veteran bus driver for the Frederick County Public Schools. “Without us the system would crumble — children would have no way to get to school, there would be no one to prepare and serve nutritious breakfasts and lunches, and school buildings would be dirty and unsafe.” — Lisa Brashears In1989, I was the mother […]
School Funding

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What About My School’s Leaky Roof?

You probably read about students freez­ing in Baltimore City schools when more than one-third of the city’s schools — and students — went without sufficient heat during the cold spell last January. It was a big story that gained national attention. Nine months later, it was the heat wave at the start of the school year with 105 degree […]
Legal Questions

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Your Evaluation … “Developing?“ “Ineffective?” Now What?

You’re a tenured teacher with an Advanced Professional Certificate and you’ve just been evaluated as less than effective — which means a designation of either developing or ineffective. It’s time to make some choices. What to Do? You Can: 1. Participate in the development of a Performance Improvement Plan to identify resources and support in the areas identified […]
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