Early Career Educators

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 […]
Early Career Educators|School Funding

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How Personal Stories Change and Make Public Policy

This issue recaps many successes of the 2023 Maryland General Assembly session. I am so proud of the leaders, members, and staff who provided the research, testimony, stories, and hard work to deliver significant victories for educators and schools. We have proven time and again that the voice of educators through testimony, emails, phone calls, […]
Early Career Educators

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Aspiring Educators Deserve Paid Internships

The teacher shortage is affect­ing the whole of education—teach­ing and learning for students and educators, building quality relationships with students and parents, class sizes, opportu­nities for differentiation so that all students are reached, behavioral challenges, and more. Declines in teacher prep programs are a nationwide emergency. MSEA believes that one answer to improving teacher recruitment […]
Early Career Educators|Educator Voice

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The Good Trouble Questionnaire: Aspiring Educator Jailyn Bridgeforth

Welcome to MSEA’s new Good Trouble Questionnaire where we ask member-activists why they do what they do for public education and the causes they believe in. In this issue, MSEA Aspiring Educator Jailyn Bridgeforth takes the questionnaire. What do you love the most in our public schools? That public schools are for every child everywhere. […]
Early Career Educators|Professional Practice|Racial and Social Justice

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2021 Maryland Teacher of the Year: "Teaching is a revolutionary act of love"

Meet Brianna Ross, Maryland’s new Teacher of the Year and a Baltimore County middle school social studies teacher who also serves as her school’s equity liaison and department chair. ActionLine interviewed Brianna recently focusing on the issues of race and inequality and her perspective as a social studies and history teacher. As a middle school […]
Early Career Educators|Professional Practice

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New! Best Practice Wednesdays and Praxis Prep

MSEA PD News and Updates MSEA’s new Center for Education Policy and Practice (CEPP) is ready to help you grow in your profession! CEPP’s mission is to provide policy guidance and professional development on issues like building your instructional toolkit, supporting you through National Board Certification, training on racial and social justice, and skill-building for […]
Early Career Educators|Professional Practice|Racial and Social Justice

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Passing the Praxis: MSEA Works to Build a Diverse Teaching Corps

“Representation absolutely mat­ters and it matters for … almost every educational outcome you can think of,” Seth Gershenson told the Washington Post last December. Gershenson, a public policy professor at American University, is a co-author of the upcoming book Teacher Diversity and Student Success (Febru­ary 2021, Harvard Publishing Group). He says that teacher diversity should […]
Early Career Educators|Professional Practice|Racial and Social Justice

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MSEA's Praxis Core Prep: The Power of Representation

John Bailey is a student at the Community College of Baltimore County majoring in secondary teacher education with plans to attend an Historically Black College or University as a history major. He’s already a member of MSEA’s Aspiring Educators—in fact, he’s president of the growing CCBC chapter, inspiring others to become active early in their […]
Early Career Educators

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Topics that will be covered include: updates and changes to teacher certification due to the pandemic, behavior management, social emotional learning, racial justice, and self-care.
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