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ACTION ALERT: Texas HB 6 With Vital Instructional Materials Funding- House is Voting April 6th!

EdTechSandyK

The following is a legislative action alert I received today from Jennifer Bergland and TCEA Advocacy. advocacy educational technology instructional materials legislation Texas Texas legislature textbook txedbudget' It is reposted here with permission. Even if you are reading this late in the day Tuesday, call your rep!

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

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Reeves, 2006) Being able to identify the “go-to” or most trusted person in a network to leverage their relationships with others to effect change is more likely to result in change than working from the superintendent down, although you need both approaches. She always begins her meetings with a mindfulness exercise.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

And our teachers, in terms of being able to exercise that creative juice, that it lets them really explore learning in a way that gets at passions of teachers. Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. If our kids don’t leave us with that, then we’ve done an incredible disservice.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

The Civil Rights Movement is a case history of what it means to be American, and what it means to exercise constitutional rights.”. 0 — Number of fourth-grade classrooms in Mississippi that use a social studies textbook published more recently than 2006. “It Maureen Costello, director of Teaching Tolerance. For the study of U.S.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office. Photo: Jesse Pratt Lopez. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids.