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

Waterford

13] Causes of stress can include lack of resources, class behavioral problems, or pressure relating to standardized test expectations, just to name a few, but they all lead to the same outcomes: weakened physical and emotional health.[1,5]. Public Health, 123(11), November 2009, pp. Self-Care Tools, Strategies and Assessment.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Achievement is the outcome. From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Noguera, Ph.D., Emery Stoops and Joyce King Stoops Dean of the USC Rossier School of Education, “we’ve been focused on the wrong question: How [do we] raise student achievement? About the Hosts.

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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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Inside a Preschool That Treats the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis

Edsurge

The National Head Start Association, a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, convened an Opioid Working Group in spring 2018 after hearing from educators that children in areas hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic were exhibiting an unusually high frequency and intensity of challenging behaviors.

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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. Almost 76,000 black students account for 90 percent or more of the enrollment in more than a fifth of the state’s schools, and the gulf in academic outcomes is indisputable.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Despite predictions that badges would be the “ new credential ” and that we were looking at a “ Future Full of Badges ,” it’s not clear that digital badges have provided us with a really meaningful way to assess skills or expertise. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) Crested Pigeon.

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