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One Idea to Keep Teachers From Quitting — End the Teacher Time Crunch

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And among educators from 14 different schools studied by a Harvard researcher for the 2019 book “ Where Teachers Thrive ,” most teachers said they did not have enough time to accomplish the “essential” duties of their jobs. on Teachers Pay Teachers,” a popular platform that educators use to buy educational materials from each other.

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A 5-Step Plan to Improve Professional Learning in Your School

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When will this PD end so I can get back to lesson planning and grading student work?” For those who have been educators for any length of time, I’m sure this is a familiar scenario. From there, you can construct a solid professional learning plan for your team. Not sure how to set a five-year plan?

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Teaching Through the Trauma of Student Loss

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During my teacher preparation in college, I had fears about how to create engaging lesson plans, how to make connections with students and how to help students who needed more support. I learned the basics of how to be a teacher in my college classes and then learned even more during student teaching from experienced educators.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

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Part of the challenge of the question is that it’s easier to think about classroom instruction in terms of lessons or units of curriculum than moments or actions. I can show you my lesson plans, my binders, my Google Classroom pages, but it’s harder to show you a moment when a young person felt challenged or included or inspired.

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A New Mindset for Teachers: Self-Care Is Not Selfish

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There was a time when I would come to school sick beyond belief because I did not want to disappoint anyone, and let’s face it, because the hassle of leaving lesson plans for subs who never completed them drove me absolutely crazy. That is, until the 2018-2019 school year, when several staff members fell ill. All day, every day.

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Teaching Broke My Heart. That's Why I Resigned.

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In North Carolina, where I live, teachers are paid for “show time” with students, but there is little regard—and certainly no reward—for the hours of unpaid preparation and lesson planning it takes to keep a classroom running. In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike. It’s just a reality of the job.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

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Generative AI has stormed into education. Most of its applications, though, are either geared toward students (better tutoring solutions, for instance), or aimed at making quick, on-the-spot lesson plans for teachers. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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