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Get your grading under control with these 7 mental shifts + habits

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Megan Faherty. As a high school teacher, I hear this refrain all the time: “I love working with students, I enjoy planning, but ugh! I know that to many teachers, “Assign less work,” sounds like, “Don’t do your job. What’s good for teachers is what’s good for students.

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Get your grading under control with these 7 mental shifts + habits

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This article is written by Truth for Teachers writer Megan Faherty. As a high school teacher, I hear this refrain all the time: “I love working with students, I enjoy planning, but ugh! I know that to many teachers, “Assign less work,” sounds like, “Don’t do your job. What’s good for teachers is what’s good for students.

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Overcoming decision paralysis: how to make better choices more quickly

The Cornerstone for Teachers

My team and I have been swamped with emails from 40 Hour Teacher Workweek Club members and really needed some sort of program that would allow us to have a proper help desk where members can get their questions answered and submit a help ticket if they need assistance. Should I use interactive notebooks with my class?

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How to fight disillusionment when the school year isn’t going as planned

The Cornerstone for Teachers

The first roadblock of discouragement tends to hit a little sooner than most teachers are expecting. And it’s not just new teachers this happens to–when you’ve been in the profession for awhile, you realize some disillusionment is a normal part of teaching, but you convince yourself that THIS year will be different.

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24 classroom games to make student learning FUN

The Cornerstone for Teachers

It seems that the general public is waking up to the fact that teachers are burned out. Some of the systems that could be changed in order to support teachers (many of which are described in this 2021 NEA article on teacher burnout ) are being doubled down vs. released. when games are incorporated into learning. Why play games?

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How to take charge of your teaching evaluation

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: I’m talking to Take Charge of Your Teaching Evaluation author Jennifer Ansbach about what a healthy teacher evaluation looks like and the three things you can do to take charge. Why teachers are feeling so anxious about the evaluation process.

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How to take charge of your teaching evaluation

The Cornerstone for Teachers

This week on the Truth for Teachers podcast: I’m talking to “Take Charge of Your Teaching Evaluation” author Jennifer Ansbach about what a healthy teacher evaluation looks like, and the three things you can do to take charge of yours. Why teachers are feeling so anxious about the evaluation process.

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