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New Teachers Need More Support. Here's an Easy Way to Help

ED Surge

Classroom walk-throughs and observations place undue stress on new teachers, eat into prep time and can exacerbate existing classroom management issues. School-wide PD often feels disconnected from a new teacher’s work. This resulted in an unfavorable ratio of mentor teachers to early-career and new teachers.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. I also teach media literacy.

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Tulsa study offers more evidence of pre-K’s benefits into adulthood

The Hechinger Report

Many people might think the main benefit of a high-quality preschool program is the academic boost it gives young children when they enter elementary school. But the strongest positive effects may show up years, and even decades, later and have little to do with test scores and grades.