Week of 6-13-2022 - UPDATE

Inside this issue

• Doug Mastriano’s plan to put more guns in schools threatens student safety
• Share your school safety ideas and stories
• PSEA’s PEARL and Center for Professional Learning upcoming classes
• PSEA Member Benefits spotlight: URL life insurance

As if you didn’t already have enough to worry about, state Sen. Doug Mastriano wants to put more guns in our public schools. This will endanger students, school staff, and first responders.

Mastriano, the Republican candidate for governor, said recently that he plans to introduce a bill allowing school employees to be armed while on school property, provided they possess a valid Pennsylvania concealed carry permit and undergo a firearms course.

This is a terrible idea. The last thing we need is more firearms in our schools, creating even more opportunities for students and staff to be injured or killed.

PSEA is strongly in favor of strategies that will actually keep students and our members safe. We know all of you are experts in educating and caring for our students, not in using firearms in dangerous situations.

This is just another in a long line of Doug Mastriano’s bad ideas. Mastriano:

• Wants to cut public school funding IN HALF
• Believes public schools are overfunded and educators are overpaid
• Wants to make it harder for educators to collectively bargain for better salaries, benefits, and working conditions

His policies would be an unmitigated disaster for Pennsylvania’s public schools. And now he wants to make them less safe on top of it.

We are all devastated by the recent mass shootings that have occurred in public schools across America. And PSEA is committed to working with our elected leaders to find ways to ensure that these tragedies never happen again. That’s why we strongly oppose bad ideas like this one.

PSEA has always been a leader on school safety issues because PSEA members know what policies work and don’t work in their schools and classrooms.

That’s why we’re asking you to share your ideas about school safety and your personal stories that you think would help us identify school safety priorities so we can advocate for them in the General Assembly and throughout state government.

Please click on the link below to share your ideas and stories with us now.

PEARL

Do you need help earning Act 48 credits, Chapter 14 verification, or postgraduate credits? As a PSEA member, you have exclusive access to over 95 easy-to-follow courses and progressions through PEARL.

Enjoy classes like these at your own speed and on your own time:

• Time Management and Organization for Online Learning
• Differentiating and Team Teaching: Distance Learning Edition
• Math at a Distance: Best Practices

Webinars

• "*NEW* Understanding Students and Empathy"
  • June 22, 4-5:30 p.m.
• Google Workspace + UDL = Learning for All
  • July 13, 4-5:30 p.m.
• Leveling Up your Virtual White Board with MURAL
  • July 20, 4-5:30 p.m.

Book Discussions

• All Learning is Social & Emotional (2-part series)
  • July 12, 10-11 a.m. - Part 1, Chapters 1-4
  • Aug. 11, 10-11 a.m. - Part 2, Chapters 5-7
• Rolling Warrior
  • July 21, 10-11 a.m.

Member Well-being

• Mindful Mondays
  • June 20, 8:30-9:15 a.m.
• Mindful Mondays
  • July 18, 8:30-9:15 a.m.
• Mindful Mondays
  • Aug. 1, 8:30-9:15 a.m.

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