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Who Will Teach the Children? The 3 Keys to Building Globally Competitive, World Class Schools

EdNews Daily

I had graduated from college and was convinced that my college professors had transmitted all of the knowledge and training that they possessed. I had graduated from college and was convinced that my university professors had trained me with the skills I needed to thrive in the educational system. million trained teachers.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. The plenary Thought Leader Sessions will have more of a workshop feel, as will the concurrent sessions.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the perplexing study that’s inspired colleges to drop remedial math

The Hechinger Report

An experimental psychologist by training, Logue designed an experiment. In tandem with this college class, students attended an extra two-hour workshop each week where a college classmate who had already passed the class tutored them. Department of Education. The majority of these students dropped out without degrees.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. Once conditions are safer, district staff plan to visit students’ homes.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

For example, a coalition of organizations focused on literacy, headed by the nonprofit Flamboyan Foundation, holds workshops to train teachers in how to teach reading, stocks school libraries with culturally appropriate books and educates the broader community on the importance of reading. We are making a clarion call for help.”

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Minnesota has a persistent higher-ed gap: Are new efforts making a difference?

The Hechinger Report

Luckily for Nyakora — and the patient, Operation’s “Cavity Sam” —the surgery is only a game, part of a stress-management workshop for freshmen and sophomores in a program for underrepresented students here at Minnesota State University, Mankato. The man’s bright red nose lights up, and a buzzer sounds. Nyakora jumps, and his friends laugh.

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Professors Aren’t Good at Sharing Their Classroom Practices. Teaching Portfolios Might Help.

Edsurge

But Fernandes argues that workshops on improving teaching don’t draw in as many faculty as ones that stress adapting to 21st century tools, which she says students are calling for (as evidence, she points to a recent survey of students conducted by Educause). The rate of dropout or failure is down from 13 to 5 percent.