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Your heart is slightly bigger than the average human heart, but that's because you're a teacher. 
-- Aaron Bacall
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School & Community
MSTA’s award-winning magazine is mailed to members’ homes four times a year. The most recent issue included the stories listed below. Click on the highlighted title to read the featured story.
Features
Teachers for tomorrow
For more than 70 years, Future Teachers of America has identified and nurtured the next generation of Missouri teachers.
Opinion: The real reason to teach
Why do you teach? One educator shares his answer.
Lists, lists, lists!
Your education "bests," "mosts" and "tops"
Bargaining for everyone
What’s the best way to negotiate salaries? MSTA believes everyone should have a seat at the table.
Avenue to success
Students at Avenue City R-9 thrive on low class sizes and high parental involvement. The state’s other K-8 districts have similar stories to tell.
What do you want to be when you grow up?
A career-exploration program at Fordland R-3 encourages students to consider the question.
Departments
FORUM
Salaries for all school employees; a teacher remembered
NOTEBOOK
Juggling schools in Kansas City; NCLB narrows curricula; righting spelling bee wrongs; spotlight on autism
PEOPLE
Mayor Barbara Lohr leads Jackson; triplets teach at Northwest R-1; a teacher raises awareness of human trafficking; members win honors and awards.
NEWS
Professional-development opportunities, Bunker Hill contributors, news about MSTA’s teacher salary campaign and a new IRS rule
TECHNOLOGY
The eMINTS/METS grant impacts one teacher's classroom.
LEGAL
How to deal with grievances
RESOURCES
Free and low-cost programs for your classroom and your career
CLOSE UP
Tom O’Donnell, Scotland Co. R-1
Columns
AGENDA
Are we there yet? by MSTA Executive Director Kent King
PERSPECTIVE
It’s warm inside, by MSTA President Linda Schnakenberg