Above and Beyond
Matt Cottone, a sixth-grade World Studies teacher at Van Hoosen Middle School in Rochester, has been selected as a 2020 NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow. As a fellow, Cottone will…
DetailsMEA Voice Magazine – August 2019
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Member Spotlight: Karen Sands-Meabrod
In 22 years, the K-2 paraeducator working with students on the autism spectrum in West Bloomfield—has seen good (kids) and bad (cuts) What’s your typical day like as a paraeducator…
DetailsPaul Blewett Friend of Education award winners
Three MEA members received the Paul Blewett Friend of Education Award in April for their work to help MEA and public education. The honor comes with a monetary award endowed…
DetailsNew MTOY: How Can I Help the Profession?
Every Michigan Teacher of the Year brings personal passions to the role as spokesperson for the state’s educators. The state’s top teacher for 2019 sums up her mission in two…
DetailsSVSU Prof is National Higher Educator of the Year
How to reduce student attrition is a topic of great interest to college administrators, but Saginaw Valley State University (SVSU) Communication Professor Dr. David Schneider is on a mission to…
DetailsInnovation: Learning to Work Toward a Vision
MEA member Carrie Warning says she’s like a mother with her first- and second-year engineering and design students. She teaches and hand-holds the juniors but lets go with the returning…
DetailsInnovation: A ‘Menu’ for Learning and Engagement
William Renner knows technology evolves at about a three-year rate, so the goal in his middle school computer science classes is not for students to learn the ins and outs…
DetailsInnovation
It’s not about perfection, and it doesn’t move in a straight line. But it’s what we do as educators—always developing new ways to reach and teach our students. Given the…
Details“Fund our Schools! Fund our schools!”
Thousands of public school supporters from across the state repeatedly broke into thunderous chants accompanied by banging noise makers and waving homemade signs at two June #RedForEd rallies at the…
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