Engaging in Appropriate Conversations
View article online in the Maine Educator Online September Issue. By: Teal Ruland | nea.org What’s on and off-limits to talk about with students might seem obvious, but it isn’t always so black and white. Sometimes it can be hard to avoid uncomfortable details about...
MEA Contracts: Best of the Best
Collective bargaining gives educators a voice. Through collective bargaining, MEA members negotiate for more than their own economic security. They are also securing vital resources to help their students and the communities in which they live. Every organization,...
Victims of the Drug Crisis
A student wakes in the middle of the night to use the rest room and finds her mother sitting at the kitchen table with a needle in her arm. An entire family of students removed from their home due to substance use by parents. Two students with parents who died of...
School Safety
Every educator, parent and community member has the hope that our schools are safe places for students to learn. In an effort to reach that goal, a group of both security and education stakeholders, including the MEA and the Maine Department of Education, came...Free Stuff!
It’s one of the best four letter words out there-FREE-especially when you’re on a tight budget. Maine Educator found a few freebies! Shakespeare Library Tales from Shakespeare by Charles and Mary Lamb (Grades 3-8) Downloadable audio files of Tales from...
