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We will be hosting a book club to study the book, The Anxious Generation by Johnathan Haidt. Whether you are a teacher, a parent, a grandparent or just care about changes in today’s youth, this book club is for you. This opportunity is open to all MFPE members. If you are an educator, you will earn OPI renewal units for your time. MFPE will provide books up to 40 members.
We will have our first meeting via Zoom on Thursday, February 26 from 5-6 pm. You will be expected to read approximately two chapters a week.
We will meet Thursdays 5-6 pm February 26 – March 26.
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Kellen Alger, recipient of our 2026 Award for Teaching Excellence, seen here with NEA Deputy Executive Director Karen White, MFPE President Amanda Curtis, ESP of the Year Britt Postma, and NEA Executive Director Kim Anderson
Calling all active MFPE members working in Montana’s public schools! Teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff are eligible to apply for the 2027 Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence. Presented by the NEA Foundation and NEA, a total of five awardees from across the country will be honored.
MFPE awards one applicant from Montana and submits their application into the national pool for this award.
In addition to being honored at MFPE’s annual Montana Teacher Celebration, MFPE’s awardee will receive a cash prize and expenses-paid travel with a guest of choice to Washington, DC for the NEA Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Gala in February, 2027.
Each of the five awardees selected for the Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence will receive $10,000 plus expenses-paid travel for themselves and a guest.
The NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence recipient, selected from the five Horace Mann awardees, will receive $25,000 in cash and a commemorative gift.
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]]>The Montana Professional Teaching Foundation created the Karen Cox Memorial Grants to help. Named for the late Karen Cox, one of Montana’s great teachers, these grants are not intended to replace school funds but rather to support teachers who dig into their own pockets to help their students succeed.
The grants are small ($500 maximum) but mighty. Successful applicants put funds to great use such as purchasing tool belts for shop classes, wobble chairs, full-spectrum lighting, stress management tools, hand chimes, kindergarten coding materials, and more that students can use for years.
Download the grant application information and application form BELOW. The form is fillable, or you can print it to fill it out. Mail a hard copy of the form to Donna Graveley, MPTF, 1232 E 6th Ave., Helena, MT 59601.
Grant applications must be received by December 2 each year.
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]]>- positively impacts student learning, social-emotional well-being, health, and/or safety
- positively impacts families and/or the local community
- uses union engagement and activism to positively impact other school employees’ professional importance and reputation, wages, working conditions, and/or effectiveness
- positively impacts colleagues
Who’s a “classified school employee”? They’re the paraprofessionals, education support professionals, bus drivers, cafeteria workers, maintenance and janitorial staff, and so many others who help students be successful in pre-school or Head Start all the way through college, and it’s time to select the next MFPE Education Support Professional of the Year (ESPOTY).
In addition to being honored at MFPE’s Celebration of Education, MFPE’s awardee will receive expenses-paid travel to the NEA ESP National Conference and will be invited to address the MFPE Annual Conference.
Please send your nomination using the document below to Donna Graveley at [email protected] by August 11th. Donna will then send them our application due September 5th.
Send your nomination in today. No, it’s not weird to nominate yourself!
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]]>If you are not an MFPE member and would still like to stand with us to protect public schools and public services, please join us at mfpe.org/protectmontana.
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Jen Carmody, our 2024 Award for Teaching Excellence recipient, celebrating with her family.
Calling all active MFPE members working in Montana’s public schools! Teachers, education support professionals, and higher education faculty and staff are eligible to apply for the 2026 Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence. Presented by the NEA Foundation and NEA, a total of five awardees from across the country will be honored.
MFPE awards one applicant from Montana and submits their application into the national pool for this award.
In addition to being honored at MFPE’s annual Montana Teacher Celebration, MFPE’s awardee will receive a cash prize and expenses-paid travel with a guest of choice to Washington, DC for the NEA Foundation’s Salute to Excellence in Education Gala in February, 2026.
Each of the five awardees selected for the Horace Mann Awards for Teaching Excellence will receive $10,000 plus expenses-paid travel for themselves and a guest.
The NEA Member Benefits Award for Teaching Excellence recipient, selected from the five Horace Mann awardees, will receive $25,000 in cash and a commemorative gift.
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]]>If you are not an MFPE member and would still like to stand with us to protect public schools and public services, please join us at mfpe.org/protectmontana.
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