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Caring and Curriculum Can Prompt School-Wide Change

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Whether she’s searching for standards-aligned curriculum or playing dress-up, the Tool Elementary School principal does whatever it takes to lift her students from struggling to successful. Department of Education named Tool Elementary a National Blue Ribbon School. White Papers. Caring is Christal Calhoun’s superpower.

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Creating a Vision for Your School and Getting Buy In from Stakeholders

The CoolCatTeacher

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’ 2018 Teacher’s Guide to Technology for more than 200 tools with special tips, videos, and screenshots to get you started. Date: February 22, 2018. We read their white paper for transforming teaching and Learning. What can it look like in an elementary classroom? Listen Now. Lynn: Sure.

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2 Big Teachers Unions Call For Rethinking Student Involvement In Lockdown Drills

MindShift

in 2018, rumors started flying over Snapchat and text that the school was really under attack. In a white paper out Tuesday , the groups say they do not recommend active shooter training for students. ” The first time it happened, not long after the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla.,

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all. During her 4th year of teaching Courtney was nominated for and became 1 of 12 finalists for the 2018 Minnesota Teacher of the Year.

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If schools don’t overhaul discipline, ‘teachers will still be calling the police on our Black students’

The Hechinger Report

To head that off, they began asking teachers to sign a “ Black Sanctuary Pledge ” in 2018. In Texas’ Round Rock Independent School District, an assistant high school principal called the police on three students for taking animal crackers and pretzels from a teachers lounge in 2018, according to local media reports.

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