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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) Ask them to sit with you at the faculty meeting. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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A school district is building a DIY broadband network

The Hechinger Report

While the federal government awards billions of dollars annually to get schools and libraries online, through its E-rate program, Albemarle’s project is technically ineligible for that because it’s “off campus,” even though it will be an extension of the school network with all its security, filters and firewalls.

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Many Hispanic students never have a teacher who looks like them

The Hechinger Report

In a 2004 study of Tennessee third-graders, Thomas S. One reason the gap between the numbers of minority teachers and minority students persists is because minority teachers leave the profession at higher rates than white teachers. “I Her mother, who works in the kitchen at a Chuck E. Photo: Timothy Pratt. Not like me.”.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

By the time I met Pierre-Floyd, I’d talked to dozens of students who said the white educators were well-meaning but often expected black kids to enroll at majority-white colleges and meet white ideals of success. You meet people you didn’t know before.”. Pierre-Floyd is different. She didn’t want to take her students to Amsterdam. “How

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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