Union Updates

May 23, 2017

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Frederick SPARKS Connects Educators with Their Union

“Before I was a SPARKS myself, I didn’t know that I was a union member,” Casey Keenan says. “Once I knew that I could make a difference and that my voice could be heard, I was all in.” Keenan is the fire under the red hot Frederick County Teachers Association’s SPARKS program — one of several in […]

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What’s the Change You Want to See?

IEO grants are all about encouraging distributive leadership — the opposite of the top-down style of management and leadership most of us have come to know. Distributive leadership builds from the base and helps generate activity and activism that’s relevant, efficient, and accessible to everyone involved. Creative, innovative organizing That’s what MSEA’s Innovative Engagement and Organizing (IEO) […]

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Celebrating You, Your Work, Your Action

Each day during the 2017 General Assembly, delegates and senators walked by MSEA’s Annapolis headquarters on Main Street greeted by larger-than-life banners of educator members, a reminder perhaps of the faces of those who will carry the weight of implementing the education policies and bills they would be working on. The banners are not only […]

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Newly-Elected MSEA Leaders to Focus on the 2017–2018 Educators’ Agenda

When MSEA’s Board of Directors meets in September to discuss the 2017–2018 Educators’ Agenda, five new faces will be seated at the table, the largest turnover in many years. Newcomers Erika Strauss Chavarria, Howard, and Brian Donoughe, Howard, were elected to the NEA and MSEA boards of directors. They will join Russell Leone, Anne Arundel, […]

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It’s Like a Gym Membership. You Gotta Use Your Union Card to Get the Rewards.

BE A PLAYER. You know what’s working and what isn’t. Change happens through a powerful voice. Get in the game. · Ask questions — find out who the players are. Click here to see MSEA’s Board of Directors. Click here to visit your local website. · Make your move. Check your local or MSEA calendar. Attend a […]

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School Boards? Yeah, they matter.

Local school boards have some of the strongest power over education issues like working conditions, superintendent hiring, educator contracts, calendar decisions, curricula, testing, and much more. The Good News: These 21 Educator-Backed School Board Candidates Won in MarylandWhile almost all media attention went to presidential and congressional races in 2016, Marylanders also had the…mseanewsfeed.com That’s […]

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