{"id":2725,"date":"2025-09-03T08:21:27","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T14:21:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/?p=2725"},"modified":"2025-09-03T11:26:52","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T17:26:52","slug":"welcome-back-students-teachers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/2025\/09\/03\/welcome-back-students-teachers\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome Back Students &amp; Teachers"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"has-medium-font-size\" style=\"font-style:normal;font-weight:600\">Welcome Back to a New School Year!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We hope you had a chance to recharge and are feeling ready for the challenges and triumphs ahead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As we begin this school year, we want to remind you that your union is here to support you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This year, we\u2019re focused on rebuilding our organization and are in the process of finalizing our strategic plan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some of our top agenda items for this year include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Violence in schools<\/strong> \u2013 Advocating for safer learning environments for all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Teacher recruitment and retention<\/strong> \u2013Working to improve working conditions, including smaller class sizes and ensuring substitutes are available so teachers aren\u2019t required to provide coverage and lose valuable preparation time.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Public education funding<\/strong> \u2013 Ensuring adequate resources for our students.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Anti-hate <\/strong>\u2013 Promoting inclusive, safe spaces for everyone.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Check out our beginning teacher resources <strong><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/beginning-teachers\/\">here<\/a><\/em><\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-9-16 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Welcome Back!\" width=\"563\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xp6V7IEF6mM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome Back to a New School Year! We hope you had a chance to recharge and are feeling ready for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2726,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized","post-thumbnail-displayed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2725"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2742,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2725\/revisions\/2742"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mbteach.org\/mtscms\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}