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Your classroom does not have to be Pinterest-worthy: Stay reflective on the WHY & avoid comparison

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I did it already, but mine looks amateurish in comparison. Oh hey, I have a set-up similar to that…but my handwriting is atrocious, and it’s not colorful, and basically my version looks like total crap in comparison. So we hand wrote and handmade everything and it all looked pretty awful in comparison to today’s standards.

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Want resilient and well-adjusted kids? Let them play

The Hechinger Report

When the researchers compared information about the inmates’ childhoods with a population outside the prison, they found that the comparison group could provide abundant examples of free play in childhood, while the group inside prison largely could not. Supporting the most beneficial play activities, however, can take training and planning.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Related: The Every Student Succeeds Act includes some new ideas on how to train better teachers. Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

students in kindergarten through 12th grade that is Hispanic increased from 19 to 25 percent between 2003 and 2013, while the black non-Hispanic population dropped from 17 to 16 percent and the white non-Hispanic population fell from 59 to 50 percent. By way of comparison, white non-Hispanics make up just 31.8 The share of U.S.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

Roshunda Harris-Allen and Trashonda Dixon in LETRS training. Though her teaching experience and training were in the upper grades, too, she’d been a principal at one of Bethlehem’s elementary schools. She happened to be out on medical leave when the training began, but her colleagues warned her she wouldn’t like it.

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

So after hunting around and doing comparison reviews I purchased the 2015 Roku 2 , which is standalone, plugs into Ethernet connections and is service agnostic, which I really appreciate. Bluetooth lets you upload the data to your phone, which makes tracking your training a lot easier. It tracks sleeps, activity, and counts laps.

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For safer schools, we need more hugs, not more guns

The Hechinger Report

Yet the discourse on prevention has been twisted to focus on whether or not school personnel should have guns and be trained to use them. His administration plans to do this in part by providing funding for educators to receive firearms training and allowing them to bring weapons into the classroom for protection.