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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

Edsurge

Some approaches include “advocacy centers” where students are coached through strong emotions with activities like yoga, breathing exercises or calming music. And that's when the counselors would do what they do best, which is talk to the students and assess the situation. How can I help you?’” Cole-Ochoa says.

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How Access to Technology Can Create Equity in Schools

Digital Promise

That means we shouldn’t just use edtech to replace worksheets, run “drill and kill” exercises, or crunch assessment performance numbers. Hear a teacher’s experience with cultivating agency and self-advocacy in her students to better understand what they needed from their learning environment.

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The Power of Rubrics—Students Take Control of Their Own Learning and Achievement

EdNews Daily

As Rachel’s story illustrates, in addition to being outstanding assessment tools, rubrics perform another, equally important function. For rubrics to serve as a teaching tool, as well as a valid assessment tool, they must meet certain criteria. A Tool for Self-Advocacy. Rubrics as Teaching Tools. Rubrics change that.

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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) They have also been completing job-embedded tasks after these sessions and completed a reflective questionnaire as part of ICLE’s Digital Practice Assessment (DPA) process.

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New Teacher-Focused Program Launched to Drive Literacy Results for Alaska Students

eSchool News

Participants access learning via textbooks, video clips, interactive learning tasks, and webinars and have opportunities to practice skills via weekly online discussion forums, webinars, collaboration activities, self-check exercises, and homework assignments. Instructors will provide support to participants through feedback and dialogue.

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

Waterford

By eating well, sleeping enough, exercising, and finding other ways to take care of yourself, self-care can help your reach your potential in the classroom, which will in turn help your students succeed, too.[8]. Self-Care Tools, Strategies and Assessment. National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, June 2014, pp.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

Anxiety about grades and assessments is one of the major causes (outside of ACEs) of student stress.[12] 5] If you notice a student who seems to struggle with stress more than others, you can offer them additional SEL exercises to practice on their own. The Science of Early Life Toxic Stress for Pediatric Practice and Advocacy.

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