MNEA Connects

MNEA's Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, summarizes the 2024 Missouri Legislative Session and explains the major parts of SB 727. 

MNEA Members: Interested in being a part of the resolutions commit…

➡️Changing Landscape of the Board

➡️Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Report

➡️Reactions to SB 727

➡️Well-Prepared Teachers 

➡️New Strategic Plan. More Detailed Roadmap. 

➡️Rules. Rules. Rules. Rules.

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Alicia Kleoppel (NKC-NEA), Lindsey Weatherby (SDNEA), Erin Mareth (Nevada NEA), and Mandy Frayer (Park Hill NEA) debrief their experience at NEA National Leadership Summit in March 2024 and discuss w…

➡️Update on MSIP 6 APR Release

➡️Health & Family Education Academic Performance Standards Open for Public Comment

➡️DESE Partnership with Missouri Department of Mental Health

➡️Notice of Rulemaking &…

MNEA's Otto Fajen reflects on the first 12 weeks of the session and forecasts the last 7 weeks in a conversation with Samantha Hayes about the Missouri Legislative Session (in regards to Education)…

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

➡️Reports on Literacy Program Initiatives and LETRS Training in Missouri

➡️Accreditation of Missouri Educator…

MNEA's Otto Fajen and Samantha Hayes recap another month of the legislative session in regard to movement on education legislation, which covers the reason behind Senate’s month delay, to Initiative …

NEA Senior Director, Andy Slaughter and interim NEA Director, MNEA Vice President Rebeka McIntosh, recap the latest NEA Superweek that occurred the first full week of February. They recap their work …

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

➡️MNEA Members honored as 2023 Milken Educators

➡️4-Day School Week Report

➡️MSIP 6 APR Updates and Resour…

MNEA's Otto Fajen and Samantha Hayes delve into early 2024 Missouri Legislative Session, focusing on key education legislation. The following legislation is referred to in the podcast:

• SB 727 (Koenig…

Happy 2024, MNEA Connects Listeners!! We are happy to bring another year of podcasting to you! 

MNEA Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, and Samantha Hayes, MNEA Director of Professional Practice, di…

MNEA Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, talks about the upcoming, 2024 Missouri legislative session, including his thoughts, predications, and #hashtag (hint: see title). 

MNEA Members: Interested i…

SDNEA member and local leader, Lindsey Weatherby, hosts an episode with Colin Davitt, Director of Imagination and Wonder at Lindbergh School District, to discuss ChatGPT in Schools and how it can be …

MNEA Legislative Director, Otto Fajen, gives the history and general format of the MNEA Resolutions and explains how they help him in his work at the Missouri capitol.

MNEA Resolutions

NEA Resoluti…

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

Top Takeaways from the October 2023 State Board meeting

➡️Greg Kester, Potosi MNEA Member, Recognized as 2024 M…

In the final installment of this three-part, member-led episode, Social Studies Teacher, MNEA member and NEA Director, Andy Slaughter, interviews Dr. DeAnna Massie, Professor at Lewis and Clark Colle…

Missouri NEA discusses Horace Mann’s Educator Advisory Panel Study white paper, Checks & Balance: How Financial Stress and Heavier Workloads are Accelerating the Teacher Shortage, from November 2022,…

In Episode 123, Samanth Hayes talks with Dr. Jason Adams, Learning Forward Missouri President and Assistant Superintendent of Learning for Webster Groves School District, about Learning Forward Misso…

• Agenda, Minutes, and Recordings from August 15, 2023 of the Missouri State Board of Education Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education.
• Consideration of a Notice of Proposed Rulemaki…

In June 2023, Otto discussed what happens when the Missouri Legislative Session ends. Now in August, as the summer comes to a close and recently-signed bills go into effect soon (August 28th), Otto d…