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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 […]
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 […]
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More Than Appreciation — We Need Respect, Autonomy, Resources

MSEA President Cheryl Bost at the March for Our Schools on March 11, 2019. Photo © Stephen Cherry I want to let you in on a secret — I have an issue with Teacher Appreciation Week. It’s not about all the thanks you’ll get, which are incredibly well deserved. The work we do to help our students — inspiring their […]
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Saying Goodbye to Mike Busch

It is impossible to reflect on the 2019 legislative session without recognizing the difficult news on the passing of House Speaker Michael E. Busch. On the day before Sine Die — the last day of the legislative session — Speaker Busch died after complications of pneumonia that followed previous health challenges after a liver transplant two years ago. His […]
School Funding

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We Marched — and Won $1 Billion for Schools

Photos © Stephen Cherry We’ve been working very hard for this. MSEA’s non-stop multi-year education funding campaign has focused on providing as much input, influence, and support as possible to the state’s updating of the school funding formula for the first time in 20 years. It’s a once-in-a-generation opportunity to re-think and re-prioritize the needs of […]

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MSEA Offers Series of Racial Justice Workshops

Study how to create more just and effective learning environments at one of MSEA’s free Racial Justice in Education trainings to be held across the state May through September. You’ll learn how to talk about racial equity at your school or worksite, plus heighten your awareness on the history of race and racial justice in […]
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