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5 Tips To Improve Your Teaching And Boost Your Career

EdNews Daily

Organizations such as these typically produce ample resources and hold networking events, which can be beneficial in advancing your career. Everything a New Elementary Teacher REALLY Needs to Know (But Didn’t Learn in College). Minneapolis: Free Spirit Publishing, 2013. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 2003. Kriegel, Otis.

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

In 2009, just over 50 percent of children entering Immokalee’s six elementary schools were considered “kindergarten ready,” as determined by Florida’s kindergarten screening exam, the Florida Assessment for Instruction in Reading. By 2013, the last year for which data is available, the gap between the two groups had shrunk to just 10 percent.

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. As I reflected on the events of today, I began to think of my journey as a teacher here in Philadelphia. I am called in November and am placed at an elementary school in Southwest Philadelphia. September 2010 – June 2013. June 2013. August 15, 2013.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

The public comes on weekends to swim in the competition-size pool, throw events in the recreation center and watch performances in the 700-seat theater. In 2003, before the Great Recession, Whitmore Lake was like thousands of other school districts across the country. In the elementary school, art classes were cut.

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

Overflow crowd from the August 15, 2013 SRC meeting. As I reflected on the events of today, I began to think of my journey as a teacher here in Philadelphia. I am called in November and am placed at an elementary school in Southwest Philadelphia. September 2010 – June 2013. June 2013. August 15, 2013.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ).

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Something NEW is coming to Truth for Teachers…

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’m pretty cagey about sharing personal details about where I live for privacy reasons but back in 2013, we bought a little cottage in the mountains about 2 hours outside of Brooklyn where my husband is based, and over the years I have increasingly spent more and more time here. So that was the first half of my summer.