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How to Increase Family Involvement with Connection

Waterford

Check out Waterford’s on-demand webinar page and learn how to implement CARES, a framework for inclusive family communication, genuine relationships, clear and flexible expectations, and concrete support, in your schools. Including families in the planning of these events can help them be invested in the classroom.

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Quiet In The Classroom: How To Recognize And Support Introverted Entrepreneurs

EdNews Daily

Quite often, in the classroom or the boardroom, introverts are forgotten, especially when the loudest person always runs the show. How to Recognize and Encourage Your Young Introverted Entrepreneur at Home. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Create Student-Centered Classrooms.

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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. Read on to discover what self-care is, why it’s important for educators, and how to bring it into your daily life as well as into your school. National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, June 2014, pp. What is Self-Care?

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How to teach critical thinking skills online

eSchool News

What we hear about less, however, are the most effective techniques for teaching those skills and how teachers can implement them in the classroom—especially now that schools are forced to provide virtual instruction during the COVID-19 pandemic. Related content: 8 learning apps for students with special needs.

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

Edsurge

In my experience, this profoundly impacts how students show up in the classroom. How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms? The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice.

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Unlocking the Power of Creativity and AI: Preparing Students for the Future Workforce

Edsurge

Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. They need to feel empowered and have ongoing support to bring AI into the classroom in a developmentally appropriate way that is best for their students.

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How to Unleash the Potential of Every Child

The CoolCatTeacher

Now, Tom is a 10-year classroom veteran who is working to make his classroom (and help others) connect with kids in new ways. And I’ve been in the classroom now for ten years. We teach people how to live lives. Somehow, he connected with books though and became a high school and college graduate. And in fact, it was.

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