"Restorative Practice"

Systemic poverty, institutional racism, mass incarceration, school funding and supports, technology, class sizes, under-resourced communities, lack of fresh air and exercise, student access to drugs, the opioid crisis — all these things and more help to create the difficult classroom environments so many of our students and educators are experiencing today. But the overwhelming questions of who […]

A PGCEA member from Dwight D. Eisenhower Middle School. It was the day after National Teacher Appreciation Day, but members of the Prince George’s County Educators’ Association (PGCEA) weren’t feeling it. They’d missed step increases during the recession in 2009, 2010, and 2011 that were never made up and were put on the back burner year […]

Educators together! Garrett County Education Association Vice President Stephanie Lewis and President Patrick Damon prep before a recent board of education meeting. We said our kids can’t wait and now they don’t have to. The opportunities that the Blueprint for Maryland’s Future bring to public education are game-changing. It’s a $1.1 billion infusion of funding […]

  Kathryn Henn is an early childhood educator with 42 years of experience. She is certified in early childhood, elementary, and special education, and holds a master’s degree in special education from Johns Hopkins University. Kathryn is a Carroll County Education Association building representative. At a Carroll County Board of Education meeting a few months […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

This is our moment — if we are to be successful in our work influencing the recommendations of the commission to right the $3 billion annual funding deficit that our schools face, we need to educate each other, our communities, and our representatives in Annapolis. Meet Liz, Ronnie, Dwayne, Betty, Jeff, and Vernon — six MSEA activists who are […]

MSEA’s 2017 Emerging Leaders at the Summer Leadership Conference. They will be studying and meeting throughout the year. MSEA members came to MSEA’s 2017 Summer Leadership Conference at Salisbury University July 19–21 for insight, support, and skill-building to improve their schools and workplaces. Eight different three-day schools focused on union and workplace issues like advocacy, conflict […]