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 freedom to try a different approach, we learn what works and what doesn’t and constantly hone our practice to prepare the kids we serve to […]
By Brenda Ortega MEA Voice Editor MEA member Robert Lurie feels a special connection to Anne Frank, the Jewish teenager whose diary became a classic of world literature after she perished in the Holocaust. Lurie’s father was a Jewish American soldier who fought in World War II to liberate Anne and others, and his 90-year-old […]
Center Line math teacher Robert Boccomino retired on June 14 after a 25-year career in education, but that didn’t stop him from showing up at the Michigan Capitol four days later to fight for the future of new and aspiring educators coming up behind him. “I’m doing this for the younger teachers, because now by […]
Over the past 18 months, MEA member Nicole Haney has been heart-broken by images of immigrant children in detention – including those separated from their parents for no good reason – so she attended a rally at the state Capitol to make her voice heard.
An updated Michigan Code of Educational Ethics has been approved by the Michigan Department of Education (MDE) to guide local policy and decision-making beginning this school year. Adapted from a model code developed by a national panel of practicing teachers and administrators, Michigan’s document covers a range of expectations such as integrity in instruction, maintaining […]
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 make it the concern of every instructor and professor as well. A longtime member and leader of MEA’s higher education branch, Michigan Association for Higher […]
[Editor’s Note: Asked to comment about her former teacher, Robert Lurie, for an article about him in MEA Voice magazine, Reilly wrote the following reply in response to the question how has Mr. Lurie influenced your life?] By Reilly Farr Waverly High School Class of 2019 Where do I even begin with this? I’ll start with a […]
Earlier this month, the entire field of candidates for president were invited to a forum on education issues at the NEA Representative Assembly in Houston. Ten candidates accepted the invite and answered questions submitted by NEA members from across the country on topics ranging from funding to school employee pay to standardized testing to healthcare. […]
NEA’s new StrongPublicSchools.org website offers some great tools to help you learn more about the candidates for the 2020 presidential race and get engaged in next year’s election: – Compare Candidates – Especially useful given the number of candidates running, the Compare Candidates tool lets you select from everyone running to learn more about their stances on issues important for […]
Delegates to the NEA Representative Assembly will get to hear first-hand from 10 presidential candidates who accepted an invitation to a forum at the annual event in Houston this Friday – and you can join them via a livestream of the event. The #StrongPublicSchools Presidential Forum will occur from 3-5 p.m. Eastern time on Friday, […]
