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New Zealand has a problem with mathematics. Can a new strategy make a difference for students?

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Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger Report The country also plans to devote $20 million in professional development (a little over $11 million in U.S. Clair principal, who helped provide professional development to teachers during the Numeracy Project years. dollars) to help teachers make the change.

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Beyond the Classroom: Building Faculty Capacity for Success: Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Join APSAs Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the third event of their professional development workshop series! In 2017, she was elected to serve on APSA council and was the first community college faculty member to ever be elected to this position.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

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This is not uncommon, as many schools struggle to fill vacancies due to persistent shortages, often employing substitutes and in some cases, inexperienced teachers who may lack the knowledge and training around curriculum and pedagogy to deliver instruction as effectively as the teacher who left.

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A New Feature of Teacher Prep Programs? Compensating Future Educators for Their Time

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We found that the combined effect of tutors' knowledge of both reading development and culturally responsive pedagogy was significantly correlated with students' reading development,” Sodani shared in an email. A legislative change in 2017 allowed the college to begin offering bachelor’s degrees for the first time.

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Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

Political Science Now

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. He also served as President of APSA’s Political Science Education Organized Section (2009-2011) and as the Founding President of the Learning Communities Association (2016-2017).

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

A curriculum expert who reviewed the pedagogy explained to me that the unit was “weak” and does not meet Common Core standards as the creator claimed. According to a 2017 federal survey of teachers , more than half — millions of teachers — were using materials from Teachers Pay Teachers every week.)

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Curricular Innovations in Political Science at Community Colleges: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Community Colleges Virtual Workshop Series

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She has also developed the following readers: Women in Politics, American Public Policy and the current Anthology, Social Justice Movements ©2017, Cognella Academic Publishing and the 2nd edition, Social Justice Movements ©2023.