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

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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. Sources : 1. and Wang, L. Self-Care Inventory.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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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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Transfer students start getting more of the credits they’ve already earned

The Hechinger Report

The advocacy group estimates that a California student starting at a community college who does manage to transfer to a four-year university and get a bachelor’s degree pays $38,000 more for it than a student who starts as a freshman at the four-year school, forced to take the same courses again and again.

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

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

The Hechinger Report

The idea, popular among well-funded education philanthropies and education advocacy groups, is gaining ground across the United States. In Vermont, the Agency of Education is monitoring the rollout through its regular quality reviews, and tracks student outcomes. percent between 2009 and 2017. percent to 89.1 All over the map’.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

A 2009 study concluded that no one explicitly shows teachers how to teach to “different needs.” Students with disabilities who are placed in general education classrooms get more instructional time , have fewer absences and have better post-secondary outcomes, research shows. Educators say little has changed since then.

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The college-going gap between Black and white Americans was always bad. It’s getting worse

The Hechinger Report

But the outcomes aren’t showing that,” said Justin Nalley, senior policy analyst at the Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies, a Black think tank. The study followed 23,000 students beginning in 2009, when they were in the ninth grade. I can’t be mad that the opportunities are different, because it’s out of my control.

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