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

Waterford

In fact, practicing self-care can be in the best interest of everyone in your classroom. Self-care activities can be small- to large-scale habits, with examples ranging from packing a healthy lunch to waking up early every day to do a mindfulness meditation before work. Occupational Outlook Handbook: High School Teachers.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

But one day in February, after refusing to go into her classroom and allegedly cursing at her teachers, the seventh grader was sent home to learn online indefinitely. Sometimes, there is no system in place for tracking how many students are being punished this way or how many days of in-person classroom learning they are forced to miss. “We

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How Strategic Thinking and Planning Make for Improved Behavior

edWeb.net

Extended intervention support to kindergarten classrooms. Attendance is an example of expedited data collection. Following attendance weekly to make fixes earlier—for example, calling and meeting with parents of chronically absent students—has reduced absenteeism by 50%. State-sponsored PBIS training through a whole-child lens.

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

Graphite Blog

Each of us -- teachers and students alike -- enter classrooms from different perspectives and points of view. Challenging or Difficult Conversations Controversial and difficult conversations are unavoidable in classrooms, especially those grappling with important cultural, social, and political issues.

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Deciding what matters: Authentic teaching through setting boundaries

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I was introduced to Gerardo’s work through a podcast he co-hosts with Kevin Adams called “Too Dope Teachers,” and his advocacy for equity and antiracism. The teacher was still considered to be the center of what happens in a classroom. Their zip codes, for example, still determine the type of educational support they receive.

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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

“Personalized learning” can mean that students “move at their own pace” through lessons and assignments, for example, unlike those classrooms where everyone is expected to move through material together. (In In an invented history of education, this has been the instructional arrangement for all of history.)

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

We work with teachers and administrators to create life-long learning patterns in students, whether that’s by curating resources for classroom research projects or by coming into the classroom to teach a lesson on how to do research themselves. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates.