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“I want to be a teacher, but I can’t afford it.”

The Cornerstone for Teachers

These days, we are just starting to realize that keeping salary a secret is a ploy for companies, not some privacy protection for employees. By comparison, teachers in New York can expect to make around $85K per year. What can I do to make ends meet? So, let’s talk about it! 65K sounds like a respectable place to start, right?

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How Mindfulness Can Help Teachers and Students Manage Challenging Situations

MindShift

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Norton & Company. Let’s imagine that this is the moment a parent challenges you in a meeting or the moment you learn that a colleague was diagnosed with a serious illness. meeting confrontation.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance.

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As students return to college, a basic question persists: What are they learning?

The Hechinger Report

Higher education has found itself under increasing pressure to change that, just as has happened in elementary and secondary schools, where a battery of standardized tests constantly check in on what students know. Technology companies may come up with new ways of measuring learning, Johnson said. “I

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The Rise of eSports in Education: Breaking New Ground

The CoolCatTeacher

And we have grade checks every three weeks in every secondary school in the state. It runs more like a track meet than anything else. That's the closest comparison. If you have parents involved, you'd have to have a parent meeting. It runs more like a track meet or a spelling bee than anything that you can think of.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

This past year presented numerous challenges for educators, leaving many of us scrambling to do our best to meet the rising needs with limited time and resources – which isn’t sustainable. Throughout the year, we’ve seen districts and edtech companies fall victim to these attacks, compelling districts to adopt a defensive stance.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor?