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22+ Tips on How to Work Remotely

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Vacations, conferences, PD–all these take us away from our primary functions and the environment where we are most comfortable delivering our best work. I thought about this when I read an article by a technical subject teacher (math, I think) pulled away from his class for a conference. Life often interferes with work.

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Our Student-Led Conferences Were Falling Short. Here’s What We Changed.

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I was preparing for parent-teacher conferences. There was certainly a different culture around conferences at my new school, and apparently students were supposed to lead them, but out of habit, I did my breathing exercises and recited my mantra. Rob’s wasn’t the only conference that went this way.

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Dr. Albrecht Library 2.0 Blog: "Best Boss-Worst Boss Exercise" | "Team Success" Webinar

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Steve Albrecht in our " Library Service, Safety, & Security" section of Library 2.0 : "The "Best Boss – Worst Boss" Exercise: Assessing Yourself as a Library Leader" One way to think about how to be a better library leader is to think about who was a good leader for you. A useful exercise in improving your leadership skills.

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Professional Development Is Dying — and It's Most Evident in My Local Teacher Community

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In early spring this year, the local chapter of my teacher professional development organization held our first in-person conference since the pandemic. In the weeks leading up to the conference, I obsessively checked our registration platform almost hourly to see if the confirmed attendee numbers had increased beyond the low double digits.

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18 Things Teachers Do Before 8am

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She includes chores like exercise, eat a healthy breakfast, map out the day–all great ideas, but not pithy enough for the average teacher I know. Paste on your Reasonable face when a parent drops in for an impromptu conference, shoehorned in after s/he dropped off her/his child and before the 8am start-of-day.

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One Week Away! The Library 2.0 "Mental Health and Wellness" Mini-Conference.

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Our Library 2.023 mini-conference, " Mental Health and Wellness: Library Workers Thriving in Uncertain Times ," is just one week away and will be held online (and for free) next Tuesday, April 4th, 2023, from 12:00 - 3:00 pm US-Pacific Time. The final schedule for the conference, with links to each session, will be emailed later this week.

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Research Posters Are a Staple of Academic Conferences. Could a New Design Speed Discovery?

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Not only does the exercise deflate the morale of the scholars sharing posters, the ritual is incredibly inefficient at communicating science, Morrison argues. He remembers presenting his first research poster in 2017 at the Association for Psychological Science’s annual conference in Boston. embed tweet here] Dumbing Down Science?