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Anthony Fauci: 'Get Teachers Vaccinated as Quickly as We Possibly Can'
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Teachers, are you in favor of free school lunches for all students? Why or why not?
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Joe Biden to Teachers: 'You Deserve a Raise, Not Just Praise'
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Jahana Hayes, the 2016 National Teacher of the Year, has won her race for a U.S. House seat, representing Connecticut’s 5th district.
#ElectionNight
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In the face of Trump attacks on critical race theory, Terri N. Watson suggests that educators reinforce their support of it by recognizing that "differences are not deficits" and demanding that schools are equitably funded.
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"Building relationships with students is the most important thing a teacher can do."
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@Eagles
player Chris Long pledges a portion of his salary to groups supporting educational equity.
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When a special education teacher and a regular classroom teacher are teamed in the classroom, they can multiply each other’s strengths. Here’s a look at a successful co-teaching partnership:
#speced
#coteaching
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Legislation from
@RepMaxineWaters
is taking aim at how Betsy DeVos is handling civil rights issues.
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Schools across the country are ditching the traditional parent-teacher conference for academic workshops, where it's the parents who are learning the skills their children need to master.
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"Building relationships with students is the most important thing a teacher can do."
#ewopinion
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Neuroscience confirms that kids need strong, positive, supportive relationships to thrive in their education.
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"Teachers cannot be silent during this time. Teachers have to take a stand. Students are absorbing this, [and] they're going to ask themselves later on in life or even now, 'What was my teacher doing during this time?'"
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A study of Houston schools finds that an influx of arts lessons led to reductions in disciplinary infractions, increased writing achievement, and strengthened student compassion.
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Neuroscience confirms that kids need strong, positive, supportive relationships to thrive in their education.
#ewopinion
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Schools across the country are ditching the traditional parent-teacher conference for academic workshops, where it's the parents who are learning the skills their children need to master.
#BacktoSchool
#Back2School
#BackToSchool2018
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Neuroscience confirms that kids need strong, positive, supportive relationships to thrive in their education.
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Neuroscience confirms that kids need strong, positive, supportive relationships to thrive in their education.
#ewopinion
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Schools across the country are ditching the traditional parent-teacher conference for academic workshops, where it's the parents who are learning the skills their children need to master.
#BacktoSchool
#Back2School
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"High absenteeism will persist as long as students see little connection between their studies and their future plans."
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A study of Houston schools finds that an influx of arts lessons led to reductions in disciplinary infractions, increased writing achievement, and strengthened student compassion.
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A study of Houston schools finds that an influx of arts lessons led to reductions in disciplinary infractions, increased writing achievement, and strengthened student compassion.
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"High absenteeism will persist as long as students see little connection between their studies and their future plans."
#ewopinion
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Elementary students matched with the same teacher two years in a row show improvement in test scores, according to a study.
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Schools across the country are ditching the traditional parent-teacher conference for academic workshops, where it's the parents who are learning the skills their children need to master.
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Schools across the country are ditching the traditional parent-teacher conference for academic workshops, where it's the parents who are learning the skills their children need to master.
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"Building relationships with students is the most important thing a teacher can do."
#ewopinion
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"Teachers and parents need each other. This school year, let’s reach out when we have something to thank each other for, not just when we have a complaint."
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Happy
#TeacherAppreciationWeek
! We want to help you (virtually)
#ThankATeacher
.
Simply save one of these cards to email or print out and mail to your favorite teacher! 💙
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National Teacher of the Year Jahana Hayes Is Running For Congress
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Chicago students walk out in silent protest of gun violence:
#StudentWalkout
#NationalWalkoutDay
#NationalStudentWalkout
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Malala Yousafzai makes history by becoming the youngest winner of the Nobel Peace Prize
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A study of Houston schools finds that an influx of arts lessons led to reductions in disciplinary infractions, increased writing achievement, and strengthened student compassion.
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"Teachers who refuse to take a day off when they need the rest are setting themselves up for burnout."
#ewopinion
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Schools across the country are ditching the traditional parent-teacher conference for academic workshops, where it's the parents who are learning the skills their children need to master.
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"Building relationships with students is the most important thing a teacher can do."
#ewopinion
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Kentucky Is Set to Be the First State to Finish Vaccinating Teachers
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When a special education teacher and a regular classroom teacher are teamed in the classroom, they can multiply each other’s strengths. Here’s a look at a successful co-teaching partnership:
#speced
#coteaching
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John Hattie's landmark "Visible Learning" research concluded that one of the most important influences of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
Watch his keynote presentation from our
#LeadersToLearnFrom
event:
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"Teachers and parents need each other. This school year, let’s reach out when we have something to thank each other for, not just when we have a complaint."
#EWopinion
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Anthony Fauci to Teachers: You'll Be 'Part of the Experiment' in Reopening Schools
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The children exposed to high levels of lead-laced drinking water from Michigan's Flint River are entering schools now and the school system is straining to meet their special education needs.
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"Teachers and parents need each other. This school year, let’s reach out when we have something to thank each other for, not just when we have a complaint."
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Being a principal means "spending time each day building relationships."
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#principals
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"Teachers have way too much to do today as it is," Sen.
@ChrisMurphyCT
said at a news conference. "They need to be educators, they need to be social workers, they need to be grief counselors. They don't need to be marksmen."
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"Teachers who refuse to take a day off when they need the rest are setting themselves up for burnout."
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Former preschool teacher Sen. Patty Murray, D-Wash., is set to become the chairwoman of the Senate education committee.
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Being a principal means "spending time each day building relationships."
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#principals
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"High absenteeism will persist as long as students see little connection between their studies and their future plans."
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Chicago Public Schools—once labeled the worst in the nation—now lead the country in academic growth, a study finds.
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"[Teachers] need a level of social-emotional competence that's way above the norm. The average person, you couldn't stick them in a classroom with 25 kids and expect them to be successful as a teacher."
Happy teachers practice self-care:
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"Teachers and parents need each other. This school year, let’s reach out when we have something to thank each other for, not just when we have a complaint."
#EWopinion
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In teachers’ lounges and copy rooms all over the country, teachers complain about their students. But it’s toxic for students, and for teachers’ feelings about their work, writes Lauren Vargas.
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Some school districts are finding a payoff in providing child care for educators.
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#BetsyDeVos
is no stranger to protestors, but she faced an especially tough crowd at Harvard yesterday.
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As of Jan. 5, 2022, at least 1,238 active and retired K-12 educators and personnel have died of COVID-19. Of those, 422 were active teachers.
In this memorial, we remember some of the dedicated educators lost to their communities and to the field.
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Teachers spend an average of $479 on school supplies, federal data show.
“It’s either me buy it, or [my students] not have that experience, and I always choose for them to have that experience, even if it’s at my own family’s expense.”
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A study of 900 middle schoolers finds that students who report having a sense of belonging both at home and school are less likely to engage in bullying.
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"Self-care is not selfish. That's something I have to remind teachers because so often we put ourselves last."
Happy teachers lead to happy students, educators and researchers say.
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Principals say coaching, not compliance, is what they need from the central office.
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John Hattie's landmark "Visible Learning" research concluded that one of the most important influences of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
Watch his keynote presentation from our
#LeadersToLearnFrom
event:
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John Hattie's landmark "Visible Learning" research concluded that one of the most important influences of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
Watch his keynote presentation from our
#LeadersToLearnFrom
event:
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"Equity is not measured in how many conferences we attend, books we read or posters we display in our classrooms; it must be measured by its reflection in our practice."
#ewopinion
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"High absenteeism will persist as long as students see little connection between their studies and their future plans."
#ewopinion
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Teenagers' brain malleability means that interventions during secondary school can help students overcome trauma or adversity in their early life, researchers say.
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An award-winning high school principal learned that the best way to build trust with teachers and staff was to show them that she didn't have all the answers and needed their expertise and help.
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New studies are painting a clearer picture of why teacher-student relationships matter and how teachers should cultivate them.
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Carol Dweck clarifies her theories on "fixed" and "growth" mindsets.
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"Building relationships with students is the most important thing a teacher can do."
#EWopinion
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The Democrat's victory could reverse Trump-era positions on COVID-19, civil rights, and K-12 funding, and will cost Education Secretary Betsy DeVos her job.
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John Hattie's landmark "Visible Learning" research concluded that one of the most important influences of student achievement is how teachers think about learning and their own role.
Watch his keynote presentation from our
#LeadersToLearnFrom
event:
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"[Teachers] need a level of social-emotional competence that's way above the norm. The average person, you couldn't stick them in a classroom with 25 kids and expect them to be successful as a teacher."
Happy teachers practice self-care:
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@RodRobinsonRVA
, a social studies teacher who works with students in juvenile detention, has won the 2019 National Teacher of the Year award.
#NTOY19
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"This is going to be a teacher-oriented Department of Education, and it's not going to come from the top down—it's going to come from the teachers up," said Biden.
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"High absenteeism will persist as long as students see little connection between their studies and their future plans."
#ewopinion
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"Building relationships with students is the most important thing a teacher can do."
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"A good education should, inherently, cause us discomfort."
Why "To Kill A Mockingbird" matters:
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"Teachers and parents need each other. This school year, let’s reach out when we have something to thank each other for, not just when we have a complaint."
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"The kids who are being suspended are the same kids who are really struggling," said the Ohio Senate education chair. "They're kids from poverty, kids with multiple [adverse childhood experiences].”
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"As a teacher, I felt that if I didn't make an effort to pronounce their name correctly, it showed I didn't care about who they were."
For
#ELLs
, a mispronounced name is often the first of many slights they experience in classrooms:
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Some are taking care of their siblings, some are struggling with limited or nonexistent wifi access, and some even work full-time essential jobs.
@PeterMDeWitt
explores why students are absent from online learning.
#EWopinion
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School districts are sending healthy frozen meals—that would otherwise have been thrown away—home on weekends with students whose families are food insecure.
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"High absenteeism will persist as long as students see little connection between their studies and their future plans."
#ewopinion
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National Teacher of the Year Set to Join House Education Committee
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"Accusing traditional public school teachers of abusing the system by taking days off is a denial of the reality of the classroom. I challenge anyone who disagrees to teach for two months in a randomly assigned public school."
#EWOpinion
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“This history teacher is making history.”
Former National Teacher of the Year
@JahanaHayesCT
is elected to the U.S. House.
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A second-grade teacher gave their students an "innovators' compass" to resolve their own playground conflicts. Here's how it went:
#ewopinion
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Teachers' impact on non-cognitive or social-emotional skills—like self-restraint and motivation—is more predictive of students' long-term success than their impact on test scores, a study says.
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Obama to launch "My Brother's Keeper" as an independent organization:
http://t.co/Vbf2bl2y3G
http://t.co/QxckhWaoPp
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Keeping students and teachers together for two years in a row—also known as “looping”—is a low-cost way to improve test scores, researchers say.
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