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“There Is the Racial Conversation Which We Need to Dive into, Right?”

José Vilson is a New York City middle school math teacher and author of This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and the Future of Education,(Haymarket Books, 2014). He’s also the founder of EduColor, a coalition of teachers, parents, and other concerned citizens dedicated to the uplift of people of color in education. […]
Racial and Social Justice

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“Lead with Love.”

Monique Morris is an award-winning author and social justice scholar with nearly three decades of experience in the areas of education, civil rights, juvenile and social justice. Dr. Morris is the author of several books, including Pushout: The Criminalization of Black Girls in Schools (The New Press, 2016), and has written and lectured often on social justice […]
Racial and Social Justice

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We Need to Improve Minority Teacher Turnover

Photo © NEA Minority teachers have the power to make their schools a better place — and be a critical role model, ally, and advocate for all students, especially minority students. In fact, research has shown that minority teachers may lead to greater academic gains by minority students and can play an important role in closing achievement gaps. […]
School Funding

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Here’s What We Won Thanks to YOU!

We made it happen! Thanks to members in every county, MSEA’s campaign to FIX the FUND went far beyond schoolhouse walls — and could now mean an additional $500 million annually for our schools. Legislators agreed nearly unanimously: Maryland needs to right the murky promise made in 2008 that state casino revenues that went into the Education […]
School Funding

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We’re Taking Full Advantage of EVERY Opportunity

MSEA’s GO Team leaders are spearheading grassroots efforts across the state to mobilize members in the fight for school funding. SPRING — FALL MSEA seeks candidate pledges to support the Maryland Promise of ending the underfunding of our schools and providing every family and community a great public school and the opportunity to succeed. SPRING — SUMMER The Kirwan Commission […]
School Funding

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The Unthinkable Happened…Again

A sign at MSEA’s march to Fix the Fund on March 19, 2018. The unthinkable has happened again and again and again. The hopeful notion we all still hold on to that “it won’t happen here” was shattered when Great Mills High School, not far from where the Potomac River meets the Chesapeake Bay, became the […]
Legal Questions

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Who Decides What’s on the Bargaining Table?

Educators know they have some basic rights thanks to the contract negotiated by their local association bargaining team. Salary and wages, health and life insurance, sick leave and sick leave banks, retiree health care provisions, and more are, in fact, mandatory subjects of bargaining. Your local association brings those and other issues — ones imposed by the […]
Education Support Professionals

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ESPs Are Building Power at Their Locals, MSEA, and NEA

Empowerment was more than a buzzword at MSEA’s ESP Professional Development Day and the 2018 NEA Education Support Professionals Conference in Orlando, where MSEA members found opportunities for professional growth and building union strength at every event and workshop. Meet the NEA ESP of the Year. First-time attendee Casey Rudzinski, Frederick County, was among MSEA’s delegation of 53 members […]
Pedagogy

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“But I Thought You Were Happy in Middle School?”

Annie Mewborn is a ninth grade English teacher at Easton High School and 2016–2017 Talbot County Teacher of the Year. She is in her 13th year as an educator and holds a master’s degree in education, specializing in learning and technology. “Why would you want to leave middle school, I thought you were happy there?” […]
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