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Let’s talk: Teachers pushed to converse more with youngest kids

The Hechinger Report

The trend crosses traditional political divides. In 2020, state officials enacted a law requiring any early learning program that receives public funding to participate in the states child care improvement system, which includes a teacher-child interaction scale. Virginia has taken it even further.

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Learning to teach from naughty avatars

The Hechinger Report

University of Virginia researchers find that classroom simulations, combined with coaching, help prospective teachers improve their classroom management skills. Many users are underwhelmed and longing for the moment we can return to traditional in-person instruction.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 04

Dangerously Irrelevant

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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Teacher Engagement Part II: Emotional Engagement

Catlin Tucker

Two main factors can have a significant impact on a teacher’s emotional engagement at work: The quality of their relationships with students Student behaviors and classroom management. Student Behaviors and Classroom Management.

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

The Hechinger Report

These states provide a window into the patchwork approach across the South that allows those without traditional training to lead a classroom. In Alabama, nearly 2,000 of the state’s 47,500 teachers — 4 percent — didn’t hold a full certificate in 2020-21, the most recent year for which data is available.

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Why Don’t We Trust Students?

Catlin Tucker

It’s no surprise that by high school, nearly 75% of students report negative feelings – tired, stressed, and bored– about school (Moeller, Brackett, Ivcevic & White, 2020). Companies are prioritizing skills and competencies over traditional qualifications, creating a more diverse and adaptable workforce. Moeller, J.,

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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. In 2020, Reach University started the program focused on school employees without a degree. She’s also a teacher-in-training.