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School Counselors Helping More Women Go Into Computer Science: Tips and Advice to Find the Fit

The CoolCatTeacher

Today, Angela Cleveland talks about the tips, resources, and ideas to help encourage young women to go into Computer Science. She is the 2017 New Jersey State School Counselor of the Year. So what are some of the resources that counselors can access that will help them in this area? Listen Now. Stream by clicking here.

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Tennessee law could hold back thousands of third graders in bid to help kids recover from the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

The retention policy is part of a state law passed in 2021 that was meant to boost long-lagging reading scores and stem pandemic learning losses. From 2017 to 2019 , Mississippi had the highest jump in fourth grade reading scores in the nation. Melissa Knapp, Harpeth Valley Elementary’s literacy coach, observes a first grade class.

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Improving Social-Emotional Learning by Teaching Executive Function

edWeb.net

He believes executive function skills should be taught early on through a “marriage” with SEL so that students have as many tools and resources as possible. Most recently she served various roles with Project Lead The Way, a national STEM curriculum and professional development company.

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. We have districts that have all the resources in the world, and we have districts that are really challenged. Obstacles to Implementing the Vision in Virginia.

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

techlearning

We take a team approach, but our mindfulness initiative stems from the top. Counselors then contacted parents and put together resources to help students. All of our grade 5-12 students completed the Gallup Student Poll in the fall of 2017, and that sparked our interest in the need to coordinate our many student services.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. However, there were still 25 elementary schools in the district without access to Hazel’s mental health resources.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

Partly because of these and related efforts, the number of teachers from underrepresented racial and ethnic groups more than doubled over the last 30 years—from about 327,000 in the late 1980s to 810,000 in the 2017-18 school year. s worry, expressed shortly before his death, that he had integrated Black Americans “into a burning house.”

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