Features, Maine Educator Online, News, Spring 23
What Needs to Be Done to Tackle the Educator Shortage The root cause of educator dissatisfaction and frustration is a lack of staff, support and respect, and not a perceived inability to manage stress. To prevent an exodus from the profession, MEA believes district...
Maine Educator Online, News, Salary Info, Spring 23
MEA maintains a salary database to better help members understand how educators are paid across Maine. MEA encourages you to use this information as you advocate for wages and benefits in your district. The data on the following pages is based off of contracts...
Features, Maine Educator Online, News, Spring 23
If it can happen on a computer or digitally or with a camera of some sort, Julie York at South Portland High School has likely taught it. Her classes are an outlet for many kids in the school who she says might have otherwise been “lost.” “I try to give them things...
Maine Educator Online, News, Spring 23
Elected Leaders Get Much-Needed Lesson From inside her 6th grade classroom at Gorham Middle School, teacher Theresa Arsenault, shared the importance of exercise as part of her daily lesson. The difference on this day, House Majority Leader Maureen Terry looked on as...
Features, Maine Educator Online, News, Spring 23
As both educators and students work to prioritize mental health to make schools places where people feel ready to work and learn, one teacher in Bath turned to yoga for herself and her students. Johnna Stanton teaches AP Language and Composition, 9th grade English,...
Maine Educator Online, News, Spring 23
Bottom Feeding My favorite color is yellow. I love how it’s so bright and sunny. Which is odd because yellow DOES NOT match my disposition. Perhaps that’s why I am drawn to it. I’m salty, sarcastic, from Jersey, and believe in living like a halibut, a bottom feeder,...
