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4 Assets to Transform Your Career (and Your Life!)

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When did you first decide to become an educator, and what motivated you? Was it your love for uplifting others or your passion for the content? Maybe it’s the thrill of witnessing your students’ enthusiasm for learning or the joy of working alongside your colleagues. […]

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Fostering Hope through Action: Teaching Climate Change

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I taught middle school science for 34 years. Like many educators, my classroom instruction was hands-on and engaging, but it followed the standard curriculum, covering basic concepts without much deviation. Then, in 2007, my perspective shifted dramatically after attending a screening of Al Gore’s An […]

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Three Questions Scheduling Teams Must Ask When Creating Equitable Bell Schedules

To achieve resource equity in school scheduling, scheduling teams—or we call them, the   “Architects of Equity” —must recognize and understand the impacts that bell schedules have on scheduling. Regardless of the bell schedule that is selected, Architects of Equity must stay focused on what a […]

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Why Every Classroom Should Participate in CS Education Week…Especially Yours!

You may already know that Computer Science Education Week happens every year during the second week of December, but you may not have known that the movement is geared toward everyone. It’s not just for STEM classrooms. Of course Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math classes […]

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Radical Self-Care for Teachers

We all have opinions on how best to support teachers and improve education. When we ask what we can do for teachers and not to teachers, we will find that for some, it would be better pay. For others, it would be more support through […]

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Making Space and Time for Every Student in Math Discussions

[Adapted from Interweaving Equitable Participation and Deep Mathematics: Building Community in the Elementary Classroom by Susan Jo Russell and Deborah Schifter] Many students are, at first, reluctant to contribute their ideas in whole-class mathematics discussion. Some students may have had classroom experiences in which only […]

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Eight Steps to Aligning Your School Budget with Your Instructional Vision and Organizational Mission

“Are We Somewhere in The Nowhere?” When it comes to the budgetary planning process, principals frequently become lost, wandering in the direction of less than meaningful activities.  Campus leaders find themselves diverted into an instructional “somewhere in the nowhere,” all the while attempting to align […]

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Literacy Achievement and Self-Efficacy

Literacy Identity Much conversation has taken place recently about students building STEM identities and how these self-perceptions affect who is entering the STEM fields (Singer et al., 2020). The thinking is that if students can imagine themselves as a successful microbiologist, mechanical engineer, financial analysist […]

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Three Reminders for Educators in the Face of Adversity

Have you ever prepared to go to work in the morning and wondered how you will ever get through the day? Perhaps you’ve felt weighed down by stress, trials or traumatic events that are occurring in your life outside of school, or maybe your role […]

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The Power of Tutoring to Empower Students Struggling in Math

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Years ago, Steve marveled at how 15 one-hour tutoring sessions allowed him to address more than he ever could in 180 50-minute Algebra 1 classes.  He didn’t just cover the math, but instead, he was able to teach it with far more understanding and achievement.  […]

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