Month: February 2019

MSRS (Minnesota State Retirement System) is offering a number of free, half-day

pre-retirement seminars.  The seminars are geared towards those within five years of retirement and cover social security benefits and your health care savings plans.  

Schedules and registration information can be found HERE. 

To find out additional information about your HCSP account (this is the one the district matches 2% of your salary each year) go to www.msrs.state.mn.us to log in or create an account.  

The field of possible candidates for this year’s Minnesota Teacher of the Year honor has been narrowed to 40, and 2 of those 40 are members of EM-R! Congratulations to Jeff Davies, RAHS Industrial Technology teacher and Myriam Castro-Franco, Little Canada Elementary 3-4 teacher. A selection panel of 23 community leaders chose the semifinalists from an initial field of 168 candidates from across the state.

The panel will review the semifinalists’ portfolios again and review semifinalist video submissions in late March and will select about 10 finalists from among the group. The current Minnesota Teacher of the Year, Kelly D. Holstine, will announce her successor at a banquet May 5 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre in St. Paul.

More information is available on the Education Minnesota Page:https://educationminnesota.org/news/media-resources/news-releases/Teacher-of-the-Year-candidate-field-narrowed-to-40