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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 […]
Education Support Professionals|Educator Voice|Professional Practice|School Funding

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General Assembly 2024

A Big Lift  Throughout the 90-day session, MSEA’s lobbyists tracked approximately 400 pieces of legislation and provided testimony on 150. While most of MSEA’s legislative priorities passed, other bills did not cross the finish line but raised awareness on critical topics that impact educators and students daily. We also worked successfully to prevent the passage […]
Education Support Professionals|Professional Practice

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My Turn: Anne Arundel County Early Career Intervention Technician Monet Eberhart

Monet Eberhart is an early career intervention technical at Point Pleasant Resource Center in Anne Arundel County and the vice president of her local, the Secretaries and Assistants Association of Anne Arundel County. Working with early childhood education students is a profound journey that intertwines passion, community impact, and personal inspiration. The foundation of this […]
Pedagogy|Professional Practice

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Breakthroughs: Finding Our Locus of Control

Kathleen Klecan is the 2020 Maryland School Counselor of the Year and the lead school counselor at Brunswick Elementary School in Frederick County. She also serves as the master teacher for new school counselors in Frederick County Public Schools and is the lead of the mentoring committee for the Maryland School Counselor Association. There is […]
Educator Voice|Professional Practice|Racial and Social Justice

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Baltimore County Teacher Wins 2024 Latinx Teacher of the Year

Baltimore County educator and member of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County (TABCO) Edwin Pérez is the winner of the Latinx Education Collaborative 2024 Latinx Teacher of the Year. There were 116 nominees from across the country for the organization’s 2024 award. Pérez is an educator-activist who attended MSEA’s Minority Leadership Training and is now […]
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Pathways to Educator Licensure

Confused about the new changes and pathways to licensure? Newly created MSEA explainers break down the 2024 legislation and regulations that expand pathways to certification and changes in licensure. The briefs, provided by MSEA’s Center for Policy and Practice (CEPP), show the changes in COMAR’s formal education licensure language, what’s changed, what’s required in different […]
Professional Practice|Teacher Toolkit

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Teacher's Toolkit: Media Specialist Ali Schilpp, Garrett County Media Specialist

Meet media specialist Ali Schilpp, the media specialist at Northern Garrett Middle School in Garrett County. She’s also a National Board Certified teacher librarian and the 2023-24 county teacher of the year. She’s a member of the Garrett County Education Association. MY MISSION The library is the largest classroom in the school and strives to […]
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Teacher's Toolkit: Tenisha Newman, Baltimore County English Teacher

Tenisha Newman is a first-generation college graduate and a 9th grade English teacher at Catonsville High School in Baltimore County. She’s a member of the Teachers Association of Baltimore County. REPRESENTATION MATTERS When I was a student in my high school, I realized that many of our texts did not hold representation of different minority […]
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