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It’s Time To Take Teacher Burnout Seriously. Here’s How.

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Exasperated school leaders request workshops to cope with widespread distress and disillusionment, which are spurring a mass teacher exodus. Many say they feel less effective when they’re stressed , which research shows can negatively impact the quality of their instruction, classroom management and relationships with students suffer.

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At Google’s Atlanta Offices, Georgia Educators Strive to Design a Culture of Innovation

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This Monday, the deputy superintendent for the Georgia Department of Education is lead 30 school leaders through a design thinking workshop hosted by the company. Erin O’Briant was a former Google employee who ran design-thinking workshops at the company for the last five years. Caitlin Dooley. draft ESSA plan.

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Moodle: The Unsung Hero of LMS Options

Ask a Tech Teacher

There are many companies out there that will assist in training your stakeholders and troubleshooting issues associated with your new Moodle LMS. By the time educators complete VerveEd’s exercises, they have the confidence to excel in their own Moodle classroom. Assign at least one person to manage the Moodle ecosystem.

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Preventing the Math Summer Slide

Digital Promise

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. Online classes, how-to videos, applications and games, workshops, camps and exploring the communities near you.

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Apple Shows What Chicago Students Can Do With Just 6 Weeks of Code

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The Everyone Can Code program offers curriculum and exercises that introduce students to Apple’s programming language, Swift, and its development tools, xCode. That’s the case for Abriel Simmons, a rising junior from the Pullman neighborhood who is currently an intern at Innovare, a company that visualizes data for schools and systems.

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A New Approach to Discipline Slashed Suspension Rates and Transformed This DC School

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Public Schools for six years, and she felt she’d hit her stride in the classroom. Instead, new teachers see a school where “safe places” with cool colors and comfy couches are common and custom classroom songs are sung with gusto. In Gunter’s classroom, that change started with the teacher. Then the new school year started.

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How to push past limiting beliefs to uncover what’s truly possible in your teaching

The Cornerstone for Teachers

By my third year in the classroom, I became frustrated with how little systemic change I thought I could make as a teacher. We may develop thoughts and assumptions that prevent us from cultivating and exercising full equity leadership. . Ask yourself, “Am I exercising curiosity or I am stubborn and stuck?

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