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A Systematic Approach to Social and Emotional Support

A Principal's Reflections

All of this has led to a dramatic increase in discipline issues and a significant amount of time having to be spent on classroom management and establishing routines. For SEL to be more than a buzzword or fad, it needs to be embedded into school culture. It is frustrating for teachers and administrators alike.

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10 Strategies to Strengthen Instruction and Learning

A Principal's Reflections

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When I think back to my training to become a teacher, there were some reasonably consistent norms.

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The Giraffe Award: How a Small Celebration Can Change Your Team’s Culture

Education Elements

Being on the other side of that teacher table was a role that I did not take lightly, and I engaged in my work each day operating under the belief that any slip ups in classroom management or poorly executed lesson plans would result in the loss of precious moments for my students to learn and grow.

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

ED Surge

This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach? For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools.

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The end of ‘sink or swim’? Four ways district leaders can help first-year teachers overcome common struggles

The Hechinger Report

Getting to Know the Students: Frequently new teachers are placed in a classroom with children of strikingly different backgrounds from their own. Whether it’s a difference in race, income, cultural background or learning style, they are rarely in a classroom that mirrors their own experience.

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What should new teachers know before they set foot in a classroom?

The Hechinger Report

They listed among their younger colleagues’ strengths: lesson planning, the ability to adjust their teaching to the needs of students, and preparedness to address the academic needs of struggling students. We do classroom management really differently than how it’s carried out in the schools,” Pensavalle said.

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8 Ed Tech Tools to Try in 2024

Cult of Pedagogy

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. The Tools 1. MagicSchool magicschool.ai Diffit web.diffit.me Need a text on a particular topic?