What My Students Learned About Academic Freedom—and What it Means for All of Us

By Julianne Siegfriedt, PhD., Assistant Professor in Sociology and Women & Gender Studies, University of Southern Maine. All views are expressed...

What I Love About School Magazine Cover Contest

MEA is pleased to showcase student artwork from our 9th annual Maine Educator Art Cover Contest. This year’s submissions highlighted what students...

My Hero Works at School Essay Contest

This year, MEA received dozens of submissions for the annual My Hero Works in School essay contest. Each year, it is a highlight for us to read...
MEA Salary Guide 2022-23

MEA Salary Guide 2022-23

MEA maintains a salary database to better help members understand how educators are paid across Maine. MEA encourages you to use this information as...

Student for a Day

Student for a Day

Elected Leaders Get Much-Needed Lesson From inside her 6th grade classroom at Gorham Middle School, teacher Theresa Arsenault, shared the importance...

Editor’s Note – Spring 2023

Editor’s Note – Spring 2023

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...

The Right to Know and Your Rights

The Right to Know and Your Rights

The Maine Freedom of Access Act (FOAA) gives anyone in Maine the broad right to access public records, including information about public schools....

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