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How to Build Alliances in Your Local Communities

MiddleWeb

It can be time consuming but definitely worth the effort! The post How to Build Alliances in Your Local Communities first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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

Waterford

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. The definition of self-care is any action that you use to improve your health and well-being. National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project, June 2014, pp. What is Self-Care?

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How to Unleash the Potential of Every Child

The CoolCatTeacher

Look at the Motive behind our Motivation Vicki: But Tom, as we finish up, give us a 30-second pep talk about how to stay motivated this week in our classrooms. We teach people how to live lives. It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. Tom: Right? We’re not just teachers.

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

EdNews Daily

How to Recognize and Encourage Your Young Introverted Entrepreneur at Home. Advocate: Young introverts need parental advocacy for public school. Schools can change the definition of participation and offer different ways to meet the needs of introverts.

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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

Edsurge

In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city. Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of a sanctuary school, much less a whole district.

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To better serve first-generation students, expand the definition

The Hechinger Report

Yes, there’s the federal definition: a student is first-generation if neither parent has a bachelor’s degree. Despite the narrow federal definition, many believe these are students who need to be identified and given added resources and support both to get through the college application process and to thrive once they get on campus.

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Framework: Distinctive Schools’ Map to Personalized Learning

Edsurge

Distinctive Schools , a network of high-performing charter schools in Chicago, Minnesota and Michigan, offers an example of how to create and operate a personalized learning system.