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Keeping Your Contract Strong

Once your local has ratified a new contract through the collective bargaining process, it’s up to you — and the members of your union — to protect and enforce it. There’s no value in a contract that is not vigilantly held to scrutiny at every suspected violation. Collective bargaining is a serious legal undertaking and the outcome is codified […]
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Teacher’s Toolkit: Waves, Critters, and Fishnets on the Bay

Margarita Rochow, director at ELMS Environmental Center in St. Mary’s County. Photo credit: Brion McCarthy Second-career educator Margarita Rochow is the director of ELMS Environmental Education Center in St. Mary’s County. What fascinates her besides the great outdoors? The brain, why we’re here, cultures, landscapes, and individuals near and far, and the truth. See if you can […]
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Educators and Innovation

Congratulations to MSEA’s 2017-2018 NEA Foundation Student Achievement/Learning and Leadership awardees Brian Cook, Worcester County, and Sheena Jordan and Rainya Miller, Prince George’s County. “By directly funding educator-conceived and led projects, the foundation enables educators to chart their own course to solve teaching and learning challenges,” said Harriet Sanford of the NEA Foundation. The foundation […]
Racial and Social Justice

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Teaching while Black

Jason Fahie is a physical education teacher at Harper’s Choice Middle School in Howard County. (Photo © Stephen Cherry) When I moved to Maryland 11 years ago, I was the only Black male teacher in my building. I had to learn to navigate a new environment while, once again, being an ambassador for my commu­nity. I […]
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“Colleagues, It’s Been an Honor”

MSEA President Betty Weller Colleagues — it’s been an honor. It’s been an honor to have been your president over the last six years. I’m so proud of the work we’ve done togeth­er — with our students, with our communities, and with our voices. We’ve had tough conversations — whether on improving the faulty implemen­tation of new standards and testing, how underfunding […]
Racial and Social Justice

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The Racial Bias in You

Personal racial bias comes in so many forms that it feels almost too overwhelming — and complicated — to talk about. For educators it means unambiguously confronting personal obstacles to reaching and teaching every student. It means having the often painful and painfully honest conversations with yourself and your colleagues to discover and realize that deeply rooted biases indeed […]
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“We are desperate to be understood.”

    Katherine Bonilla Gutierrez is a 2018 graduate of Frederick High School in Frederick County. Katherine traveled alone from El Salvador to Frederick to be with her mother, who left her country for the U.S. when Katherine was six.   Katherine Bonilla Gutierrez is a 2018 graduate of Frederick High School, Frederick County. Katherine […]
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Gov. Hogan: Educators Shouldn’t Have a Voice on the State Board of Education

The day before the Memorial Day holiday, Gov. Hogan vetoed bipartisan legislation that would have added two current teachers to the State Board of Education. He claimed that the bill would “move Maryland in exactly the wrong direction.” Hogan said that teachers on the State Board would be “special interest group representatives” whose participation would […]
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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. […]
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