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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

Edsurge

Department of Health and Human Services in 2022 found that between 2016 and 2020, the number of children ages 3 to 17 diagnosed with anxiety grew by 29 percent, and those diagnosed with depression grew by 27 percent. Parents, educators, community leaders and everyday citizens need to meet the moment. A study released by the U.S.

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8 Ways to Help New Teachers Thrive (and Veteran Teachers Too!)

The CoolCatTeacher

The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) Progress through the teacher pipeline: 1992–93 college graduates and elementary/ secondary school teaching as of 1997.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

While seven of those 27 schools were able to reach 70 percent student proficiency in either English or math in 2016, none had attained 80 percent. At Arise, the school whose name begins with Achievement, not even 40 percent of students were proficient in 2016, based on composite scores for English and math.

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

The Hechinger Report

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. percent to 89.1 percent between 2009 and 2017.

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CES2017 Best of Show Tech Tools

EdTechTeam

Ozobot Evo Meet Evo: the golfball-sized bot that moves around the floor or table, responding to commands programmed using OzoBlockly. Fisher-Price Smart Cycle The stationary bike's combination of activity tracking and STEM-based edutainment (via apps on a mobile device) means that kids can exercise their bodies and their brains.

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What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Giving students permission to exercise their common sense shows them that they are people, too.

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In charter-school oversight, as in foreign affairs: Trust, but verify

The Hechinger Report

Trump listens as Betsy DeVos speaks at a “USA Thank You Tour 2016” event at the DeltaPlex in Grand Rapids, Mi. A Detroit Free Press investigation published in August 2016 found that 61 percent of the 370 charter schools in Michigan had contracted with full-service, for-profit EMOs. President-Elect Donald J. on Friday, Dec.