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Your Union
About your teacher’s union–Education Minnesota-Roseville.
EM-R will be sponsoring a number of financial planning and loan forgiveness seminars this school year. Over the next week you will be receiving several short videos giving some additional information on the financial benefits included in your benefits plan that has been bargained by your union or is part of state statute. The first regards your pension and is just under four minutes. Once you earn three years of service credit, you are vested and become eligible for retirement, disability and survivor benefits.
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For details on your pension, visit your retirement fund website: Teachers Retirement (MinnesotaTRA.org) Public Employees Retirement Association (MNPERA.org) …
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6 teacher leaders from EMR spent Friday evening and Saturday in Bloomington with our union family in Education Minnesota doing the business of the organization and working on how we can be #unionstrong as a local union, and a state-wide organization.
Maria Le was published on the NEA Foundation’s website. Her article on building Relationships is honest, sincere ad good heart advice on what it takes to be an excellent teacher. Check it out here.
Education Minnesota Roseville’s Greg Ueland is a nominee for Minnesota Teacher of the Year. Greg, who has been an AVID Teacher and a coach of Volleyball and Track is a teacher who is very involved in being a force for support and accountability for the entire school. Greg is a teacher who is very involved in the building and one of the many awesome teachers in Education Minnesota Roseville. He joins 166 other candidates for this year’s Minnesota Teacher of the Year Program. Good luck Mr. Ueland!
EMR family, please be aware that our fellow educators in St. Paul will be authorizing a strike vote on January 31. We hope for the best for St. Paul. Read more here.
Math Teacher at RAHS Joe Weyer joins the many Nationally Board Certified teachers in Roseville Schools. Nationally Board Certified teacher. Certification entails a rigorous process of learning and reflection and we are extremely proud of those educators who achieve this recognition. Joe is one of the reasons that Education Minnesota Roseville makes ISD 623 an outstanding school district,
Ira Sanders, a High School Social Studies teacher from RAHS published this wonderful editorial by Ira Sanders. Ira is another example of the awesome professional educators in our district and his story is one that has been inspirational for so many of our students over the years. We are lucky to have him on our staff and he speaks of a truth that is really important for all of us to grapple with.
Education Minnesota Foundation grants available throughout 2017-18 school year
The Education Minnesota Foundation for Excellence in Teaching and Learning will offer the following grants to eligible members during the 2017-18 school year. Various grants are described below. Additional information on the grants and application materials can be found HERE.
Professional Development Grants: Formerly called Classroom Professional Development, Higher Education Faculty Professional Development and Education Support Professionals Professional Development
ESPs and teachers may request up to $1,500, and higher education faculty may request up to $3,000.
Applications are due Nov. 1 and April 6, 2018.
Bruce Vento Science Educator Professional Development Grant
Science educators may request up to $1,500.
Applications are due Dec. 8.
Classroom-Focused Grants: Formerly called Classroom Project, Classroom Technology and Second-Year Classroom
Applicants may request up to $3,000 for a project designed now and implemented in the upcoming school year.
Applications are due Dec. 8.
IMPACT Grant
IMPACT Grant projects must be coordinated by an active member of Education Minnesota who has teamed up with a nonprofit organization or their local union/school district. Approximately $15,000 is available for one year.
Applications are due Jan. 12, 2018.
National Board Certified Teachers (NBCT) Scholarship
The Foundation Board is looking to award scholarships to members who are applying to be a NBCT.
Applications are due Nov. 1.
Educators will yet again find the tools and inspiration they need to grow professionally at MEA, the union-sponsored professional development event Oct. 19-20 at the Saint Paul RiverCentre.
East Oakland teacher and school leader Jeff Duncan-Andrade will headline this year’s conference. Duncan-Andrade, an associate professor of Raza Studies and Education at San Francisco State University, will speak about equity in education and how community responsive practices can transform engagement and outcomes for all students.
A change to this year’s conference is that Friday will now be open to members only. Education Minnesota wants to make sure our members can get the most up-to-date training. Friday’s workshops will focus on relicensure areas. Register online to save your spot. In the past, many workshops have been so popular, we have had to turn away attendees.
For more details, look for the conference preview in the October issue of the Minnesota Educator or on the website at www.educationminnesota.org/events.aspx#mea.
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