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Why Teacher Self-Care Matters and How to Practice Self-Care in Your School

Waterford

Public Health, 123(11), November 2009, pp. Vistas Online Journal, 2017, pp. The Professional Counselor, 2017, 7(3), pp. Self-Care Tools, Strategies and Assessment. National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, June 2014, pp. Sources : 1. and Wang, L. National Alliance on Mental Illness. Self-Care Inventory.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

In the four-column rubric for precalculus assessment, Machnik explained what it would take to be “emerging,” “developing,” “proficient” and “exemplary” in trigonometric equations. The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. percent to 89.1

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As More Children Show Symptoms of Trauma, Head Start Programs Expand Support Services

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But in recent years, as the opioid crisis has transformed homes and communities across Ohio—overdose death rates in the state are up 300 percent since 2009—those calls have skyrocketed in number. To support that effort, Prescott brought on Cara Brown, a licensed independent social worker, in July 2017.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. A few local pilot programs have been shown to slightly improve test scores and teacher satisfaction, but a 2017 study by RAND , commissioned by the Gates Foundation to study 40 Gates-funded schools, reads like a shrug.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Next on “Interpreting the 2017 NAEP Reading and Math Results.” “Over 20 advocacy groups complain to FTC that YouTube is violating children’s privacy law ,” Techcrunch reports. .” Via The Washington Post : “ ICE is moving to deport a veteran after Mattis assured that would not happen.”

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

State and federal education leaders have feted Mississippi’s four-year stretch of improvement on the National Assessment of Educational Progress. y the time Samara Rand started high school in 2009, the Mississippi Department of Education had labeled Holmes County Schools “at risk of failing.” Mississippi ranked No.

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The rural school district Obama fought to save

The Hechinger Report

A local teenage girl named Ty’sheoma Bethea wrote the president and members of Congress in February 2009, pleading for their help in replacing J.V. Achievement for rural students has been mostly flat in the Obama years, the National Assessment of Educational progress, or NAEP, shows. Photo: Alan Richard. We have a lot of potential.”.

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