MNEA Connects

Introducing, Pillar IV: Emotionally Upbeat Classrooms. This is the final episode in a 5-part series: Prosocial Education with Dr. Christi Bergin, Research Emerita and Director of the Prosocial Develo…

We all have questions about what it means if the US Department of Education closes or is reduced–especially educators, who serve students and communities every day. A few of the Columbia MNEA Executi…

Introducing, Pillar III: Teacher-Student Relationship. This is the latest episode in a 5-part series: Prosocial Education with Dr. Christi Bergin, Research Emerita and Director of the Prosocial Devel…

Samantha Hayes, MNEA Professional Practice Director, speaks with Nimble Founder and CEO, Lauren Dachelle, and Krista Pfeiffer, Nimble's Teacher Marketing Manager about Missouri’s new Job Board for ed…

Introducing, Pillar II: Inductive Discipline. This is the latest episode in a 5-part series: Prosocial Education with Dr. Christi Bergin, Research Emerita and Director of the Prosocial Development & …

Welcome to MNEA’s Top Takeaways from the April 2025 Missouri State Board of Education and MACCE Meetings

➡️State Board: School Funding Modernization Task force and Urban Education Commission 

➡️Sta…

Introducing, Pillar I: Praise! This is the newest episode in a 5-part series: Prosocial Education with Dr. Christi Bergin, Research Emerita and Director of the Prosocial Development & Education Resea…

MNEA's Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, and MNEA Professional Practice Director, Samantha Hayes, discuss moving education legislation in the 2025 Session of the Missouri Legislature. 

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Welcome to MNEA’s Top Takeaways from the March 2025 Missouri State Board of Education Meeting

➡️A Resolution to Honor Dallas DeWeese as Missouri’s 2025 Milken Educator

➡️Hickman Mills C-1 Appeals M…

Welcome to the newest MNEA Connects 5-part series: Prosocial Education with Dr. Christi Bergin, Research Emerita and Director of the Prosocial Development & Education Research Lab, and Dr. Jenn Foste…

Welcome to MNEA’s Top Takeaways from the February 2025 Missouri State Board of Education Meeting

➡️Approval of the Updated K-12 Missouri School Counseling Learning Standards

➡️All 42 Educator Prepa…

MNEA's Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, and MNEA Professional Practice Director, Samantha Hayes, kick off the third season of MNEA Connects with a debrief the start of Missouri’s 2025 Legislative Se…

Welcome to MNEA’s Top Takeaways from the January 2025 Missouri State Board of Education Meeting

➡️Missouri Teacher Workforce, Job Board, and Introduction of the Recruitment and Retention Playbook…

We are back with MNEA Connects 5-Part election series. In Part 4, Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, provides a 2024 election debrief and 2025 session forecast for the Missouri Legislature. 

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Welcome to MNEA’s “Top Takeaways from the October 2024 Missouri State Board of Education Meeting”

➡️Adoption of a Resolution to Honor Jennifer Jones, 2025 Missouri Teacher of the Year

➡️Update on Mis…

We are back with MNEA Connects 5-Part election series. In Part 3, Political Director, Liz Zerr, and MNEA Communications Director, Mark Jones, give a debrief of the primaries and an overview of the ba…

Welcome to MNEA’s “Top Takeaways from the September 2024 Missouri State Board of Education and MACCE Meeting”

➡️DESE Application for the Innovation Assessment Design Authority (IADA)

➡️State Board …

Welcome to MNEA’s “Top Takeaways from the August 2024 Missouri State Board of Education”

➡️2023 Success Ready Student Network Innovation Waiver Update and 2024 Waiver Approved

➡️Preliminary Fiscal …

We are back with MNEA Political Director, Liz Zerr, and MNEA Communications Director, Mark Jones to get a preview of the primary elections that are coming up on Tuesday, August 6. 

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In this episode, MNEA's Political Director, Liz Zerr, and MNEA Communications Director, Mark Jones go into the theory and scope of MNEA’s involvement in elections.

With 2024 being such an integral e…