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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

Sustaining and improving outcomes relies on good morale. 2004), "Making workplace fun more functional", Industrial and Commercial Training, Vol. Some schools have large-scale team-building events both on and off-site. If you go this route, elicit feedback from staff on what options they think will be best. & Ryan, R. Newstrom, J.W.

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How the NSA’s post-9/11 hiring might address the teacher shortage

eSchool News

I would eventually serve a deployment to Iraq in 2004, earning the Global War on Terrorism Civilian Service Medal. More active formation of camaraderie In my 2022 article The Endless War , I shared thoughts of how the experience of surviving the pandemic together as a school community felt like when I served in Iraq in 2004.

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Use Personalized Learning Tools to Boost Classroom Equity

EdTech Magazine

Learning outcomes emphasize competencies that include application and creation of knowledge, along with the development of important skills and disposition. The number of states with policies in place to promote and facilitate competency-based systems has grown from just a handful in 2004 to 43 states in 2018. by Wendy McMahon.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

2004, November). The Effects of Comprehensive Parent Engagement on Student Learning Outcomes. A randomized trial examining the effects of parent engagement on early language and literacy. Journal of School Psychology. Redding, S., Langdon, J., Meyer, J., & Sheley, P. Harvard Family Research Project. Sheridan, S.M., Boviard, J.A.,

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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.

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Lasting Gains from Preschool

Digital Promise

The study looked specifically at one preschool enrichment program: the Chicago School Readiness Project (CSRP), a teacher professional development and coaching intervention that ran in 35 Chicago Head Start centers in 2004 and 2005. The program had already been shown to have raised participants’ grades in high school.

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KidWind Supports New Children’s Book Featuring Women in Energy

eSchool News

One of the major outcomes of REES was the need to broaden and diversify the renewable energy education workforce. Since 2004, KidWind has held more than 800 training events for more than 50,000 teachers all over the world. For more information about our trainings, challenges and curricular materials, visit www.kidwind.org.

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