Year: 2020

The American Federation of Teachers and Education Minnesota-Roseville are seeking educators interested in collaborating with colleagues across the district and nation to join theAFT Teacher Leaders Program.

We are looking for 10 members to join the 2020-2021 cohort. The cohort members will spend the year collaborating with other teacher leaders, elected officials, activists and policy experts to delve into educational issues that continue to threaten our profession. For additional details please click HERE. Thanks to Jodi Kyllonen for assuming the role of facilitator for this year’s cohort!

Education Minnesota will hold its annual MEA conference virtually this October due to the COVID-19 pandemic.   Details can be found HERE.

The 2020 MEA conference will feature live sessions via webinar on Thursday, Oct. 15. There will also be new relicensure course offerings on Education Minnesota’s online learning platform LearnUpon for members to complete at their own pace. 

We hope everyone’s school year is off to as good a start as can be expected considering the circumstances.  Please take a moment to review the EM-R Leadership Roster in order to know who your building reps are.  Please use your building reps as your first point of contact for union issues.  For more in-depth issues or ones that require a greater degree of discretion please reach out to your Member Rights Advocate listed on the roster. 

EM-R leadership continues to meet with district admin multiple times per week.   Recent topics for discussion have included on-going safety concerns, district communication, blended learning-related issues, medical accommodations for DL, and TDE among many others.

Education Minnesota-Roseville educators were selected to participate in the American Federation of Teachers Teacher Leaders Program.  The program supports educators over an academic year in learning about educational issues both local, statewide and national and culminates in an action research project and showcase.  The topics were broad and interesting and the results will be beneficial and impactful for future policy decisions both at ISD 623 and elsewhere.

The showcase is at this link.

Here are the topics that were researched by our Teacher-Leader cohort:

Stanefski, Kay and Eustis: Cell Phone Policy |Presentation |Research Summary

Dodge and Stahlman: Co-Teaching | Presentation | Recording

Gibson & Castro-Franco: Educational Funding Equity| Presentation

Kyllonen: The Effect of Year Around Schooling | Paper|Presentation

Jones & Perchyshyn: Timed Tests for Adult Education Literature Review| Presentation

EM-R is sponsoring two separate financial seminars later this month that will take place in the RAHS Media Center.  Both will be put on by financial advisors from Ed MN ESI.  

Seminar 1 –  Managing Your Money So You Can Plan for the Future 

Tuesday, Jan 21,  4:15 – 5:15 RAHS Media Center

Refreshments Provided

Seminar 2 –   When Can I Afford to Retire?

Thursday, Jan 23  4:15 – 6:00pm RAHS Media Center

Box Meal Provided

See attachments for details and registration link.  RSVP required for each seminar!