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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

A study using a large email survey of managers found overwhelming support for having fun in the workplace. You can also share stories across social media as a way to share successes more broadly, something I dive into deeply in Digital Leadership. Some schools have large-scale team-building events both on and off-site.

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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Family Surveys Send out an anonymous family survey at the beginning of the year and after each quarter or semester. These surveys encourage involvement by showing that you value your families’ opinions. Social Media This method for connecting with families continues to grow in popularity. 2004, November).

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

2] More than half of students surveyed say they learn best by doing, not by listening.[3] Communicate with parents through tech: Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[10]. They can likely teach you something.[9]. Reissman, H. “7

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Teachers’ essential guide to cyberbullying prevention

eSchool News

Reported data on how many kids experience cyberbullying can vary depending on the age of kids surveyed and how cyberbullying is defined. According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

Edsurge

A few years after John Boyer began teaching world geography at Virginia Tech , a survey revealed that 58 percent of college-aged Americans could not locate Japan on a map. Sixty-nine percent could not find the United Kingdom. Boyer raced ahead undaunted. He loved the scope and implications of his subject. The great thing about geography is.

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Teachers' Essential Guide to Cyberbullying Prevention

Graphite Blog

Reported data on how many kids experience cyberbullying can vary depending on the age of kids surveyed and how cyberbullying is defined. According to the 2018 Common Sense report Social Media, Social Life , 13 percent of teens age 13-17 say they’ve been cyberbullied, including 9 percent who say it has happened to them more than twice.

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Can this rural high school ‘drop the drama’?

The Hechinger Report

To some, this might sound like little more than classic “Mean Girls” behavior, as immortalized in the 2004 cult teen flick, but it can include mean boys, too. Indeed, schools nationwide are dealing with the ramifications of social media. Their students are telling them. Wellington sees the effects of unkind behavior firsthand.