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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Examples include release time, professional learning opportunities off-site, a premium parking spot, tickets to school events, books, and school supplies. 2004), "Making workplace fun more functional", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. Some schools have large-scale team-building events both on and off-site.

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How an LMS Can Solve Professional Learning's Challenges—and Keep Master Teachers Engaged

Edsurge

The idea of using a learning management system (LMS) to deliver professional learning and development to K-12 educators is not new—but it’s not quite mainstream, either. The organization has been providing LMS-based professional learning for the state’s educators since 2004. “We Hint: Think AI.)

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PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

The Hechinger Report

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores. But they had to make other assumptions.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Helping Others Along – Motivation Theory and the SAMR Model

techlearning

For example, a paperless classroom takes time and energy to begin, but a teacher who makes over 100 copies a day might find themselves saving a significant amount of time if you consider the time it takes to stand by the copier over a year. Create variety (different kinds of examples, models, exercises, and presentation modalities).

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Five Compelling Reasons For Teaching Spatial Reasoning To Young Children

MindShift

For example, one research study found that the quality of block play at four years of age was a predictor of high school mathematics achievement (Wolfgang et al., For example, educators have found that some children who may be struggling in the area of number sense may excel in the area of spatial reasoning. Catherine D.

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Thursday Interview: The Personalized High School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Prior to joining ESR, Wolk served as a program associate with The Education Alliance at Brown University where she served on the core work group with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to write Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (NASSP 2004), and Breaking Ranks in the Middle (NASSP 2007).