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The Good Trouble Questionnaire

Jordan Seguin, a special educator at Bay View Elementary School, makes good trouble for the Cecil County Classroom Teachers Association. She took took the questionnaire for the June/July 2024 issue of ActionLine. What do you love the most about public schools? I grew up in public schools. I love that public schools support every student […]
Early Career Educators|Educator Voice

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Q&A with New Education Graduate Michaela Redden

Meet Michaela Redden, formerly an MSEA Aspiring Educator member now a 2024 graduate of Hood College, recently hired special education teacher, and active union member in Frederick County. What are you most looking forward to in your first year in the classroom? I’m looking forward to building connections within the school and community and building […]
Education Support Professionals

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ESP Bill of Rights Summer '24 Canvassing

MSEA members are nearly two years in to the union’s ESP Bill of Rights campaign for a living wage, fairness, and respect and the movement continues to gain traction across Maryland and beyond. NEA has adopted MSEA’s campaign and other NEA state affiliates are planning campaigns using the model. That’s a big deal! Right now, […]
Education Support Professionals|Professional Practice|School Funding|Union Updates

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FACT or FICTION: The Truth About the Blueprint

The Blueprint is complicated and there are often contradictory messages about what it is and what it isn’t. At its core, the Blueprint really can transform public education for Maryland students and educators. It took years of study, debate, and education of school, state, and local leaders to become law. It reflects many of the […]
Education Support Professionals

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My Turn: St. Mary's County Building Service Manager Katrina Mills

Meet Katrina Mills, the building service manager at George Washington Carver Elementary School in St. Mary’s County. She’s serves on the Education Association of St. Mary’s County board of directors and negotiations subcommittee. In their most recent contract, support staff won a 7% increase in pay this year and next and increased their shoe reimbursement […]
Professional Practice|Teacher Toolkit

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Teacher's Toolkit: Melissa Carpenter, Charles County Fifth Grade Teacher

Melissa Carpenter is a fifth grade teacher at William B. Wade Elementary School in Waldorf and is the 2024 Maryland nominee for the NEA Foundation’s Travelers Insurance Award. Now established in her career, she was active in MSEA’s Early Career Educator program, which hosts an annual conference and supports chapters in local unions across the […]
Pedagogy|Professional Practice

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Achieving NBC! National Board Certification Is an Attainable Goal

Hannah Allen is a National Board Certified Teacher in Early Adolescence Mathematics. She attained this certification in one year while simultaneously finishing up her master’s in curriculum and instruction from Frostburg State University. She just completed her sixth year of teaching 6th grade mathematics and enriched mathematics at Northern Middle School in Washington County. She […]
Union Updates

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A Final Message from President Cheryl Bost: "Let’s Continue to Go, Fight, Win!"

I am so proud to have served as the president of MSEA—the largest labor union in Maryland and growing every day. I am so proud of the collective work we have done re­sulting in the historic funding of public education, seeing educators using their voices on boards and in elected offices where decisions are being […]
Educator Voice|Elections

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2024 Elections: Apple Ballots Win the Day!

If you’ve ever been an Apple Ballot volunteer, you know it can be fun, exhausting, rewarding, and surprising—especial-ly when you strike up a friendship with that volunteer handing out literature for the other candidate…and discover that you really do have a lot in common! That’s why so many local union members add theirnames to the […]
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