Audience: New teacher
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To Vote or Not to Vote: Why Educators Need to Do More Than Help Students Register to Vote
Guest Blog By Julie Holderbaum, Minerva EA/OEA | Many educators discuss the importance of voting with our students. But can we do more to alleviate their anxiety and fear of the unknown, to make them feel that their voice matters?
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2020-2021 OEA Member Resource Guide
The new 2020-2021 OEA Member Resource Guide is an overview to help you make the most of your OEA Membership
OEA Day of Collaboration: Distance Education Webinar Series
Save the Date to join the Ohio Education Association during Mondays in August for our Day of Collaboration: Distance Webinar Series
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‘A’ is for Advocacy – Why We Must All Become Activist Educators
Guest Blog By Julie Holderbaum, Minerva EA/OEA | During the past few months, Ohio’s teachers have found ways to creatively teach every content area while being separated physically from our students.
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Taking Comfort in What We Know: Surviving as a Type A Teacher in Times of Uncertainty
Guest Blog By Julie Holderbaum, Minerva EA/OEA | I’m a Type A teacher who thrives on planning. It’s difficult to plan when there are so many questions and so few answers. I can’t help but feel truly overwhelmed.
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Why Ohio’s Report Card System Is Failing to Make the Grade
Guest Blog By Julie Holderbaum, Minerva EA/OEA | Ohio’s taxpayers want our schools to produce flourishing young adults who will contribute in meaningful and healthy ways to our society, and they spend a lot of money to ensure that this happens.
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About OEA/NEA Micro-Credentials
OEA/NEA Micro-credentials are a competency-based digital form of professional learning. In addition, they can be used to increase an educator’s skill and/or knowledge in a topic area to grow their professional practice and student success.
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2019-2020 OEA Member Resource Guide
The 2019-2020 OEA Member Resource Guide is available as an overview to help you make the most of your OEA Membership
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Dear So-called Average Teacher
Guest Blog By Julie Holderbaum, Minerva EA/OEA | Now that summer is here and you have time to breathe and reflect on the school year that just ended, maybe you’re feeling that your year was just, well, average. We don’t always see, in immediate hindsight, the seeds that we have planted and the impact that we have had…
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OEA VP Scott DiMauro: Graduation Requirements & State Takeover
It is simply unfair and unreasonable to expect that students who are already half way through their high school careers should be expected to meet a whole new set of requirements for graduation.