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Google Slides: Photos For Class

Teacher Tech

Use Photos For Class in Google Slides Recently Google has updated how images are inserted into Google Slides (and other Google Apps.) It is important that we remember usage rights and attribution when we or our students use images in Google Slides. The best way to use images is use your own images. Take your […]. The post Google Slides: Photos For Class appeared first on Teacher Tech.

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Two Lessons From My First Administrative Mentor

Reflections

When I was completing coursework to become an administrator, I saw leadership (and its inherent responsibilities) in an incomplete way. I was certain I was cut out for the job and could do things differently than I was seeing them done around me. If only I could secure that just right position! I will forever be thankful to the first administrator that took a chance on letting me jump from the classroom to a district level position coordinating elementary special education services.

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Mississippi’s darkest days on display in new museums

The Hechinger Report

The Mississippi Civil Rights Museum in Jackson. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. JACKSON, Miss — She didn’t want him to go, but Mamie Till-Mobley put her 14-year-old baby on a train to Mississippi in 1955 to visit his relatives, anyway. A week later, she got him back: gargled down and spat up by the Tallahatchie River. What happened to Emmett Till was brutal, but the tragedy has been sanitized in Mississippi textbooks and in discussions of this state’s violent, racist history.

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