A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

This places them in the most important role to usher in and sustain meaningful change in the classroom that will ultimately shape school culture for the better. Josh articulates how teachers have to be ready and willing to change the way they think about teaching to be able to effectively work with this new generation of learners.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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 Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2022

When I started my career 10 years ago, teaching “grit” was all the rage, but that era of character education shortly met its well-deserved end (a topic for a different day). However, separating their practices from everyday teaching is dangerous. Our students deserve teaching that resists fads and responds to their needs.

Teaching 141

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Don’t Use Physical Education As Punishment contributed by Dr. Kymm Ballard, Executive Director for SPARK Think about any time you’ve seen “army boot camp” portrayed in pop culture — are you picturing the traditional drill sergeant, ordering his troops to do endless laps and push-ups, as punishment for their errors that day?

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 13, 2024

2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level kskordal Fri, 12/13/2024 - 09:40 Image The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level: Kathleen R. Durkin James T. Stark Please click each name above to read the full award citations.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

No Tech Use the first 5 minutes of a class or meeting to ask the group this question: “What are five words you’d use to describe our school culture today?” Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. Learn more at alpacapacks.com/pedagogy. Come back for more.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. Classroom walk-throughs and observations place undue stress on new teachers, eat into prep time and can exacerbate existing classroom management issues.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances. This also teaches students to hone their self-directed learning skills as they own more of the responsibility for their learning.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode as I tried to figure out how to create a graphic organizer for my students’ first essay.

Humanities 133

Humanities Cultures Classroom Management Leadership 133

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

It’s an ironic twist: The very behaviors that educators often work to suppress in the classroom may be critical to students’ success in the workforce. How can classroom teachers balance their roles in preparing students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy with classroom management?

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ED Surge

JUNE 15, 2022

Many say they feel less effective when they’re stressed , which research shows can negatively impact the quality of their instruction, classroom management and relationships with students suffer. Burnout now dominates cultural conversations around school and work. Second, it is difficult to implement.

Classroom Management 134

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

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. Relationships require maintenance.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

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. So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent. Let’s go.

Lesson Plan 130

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Elly Eckhoff listened intently as a group of veteran teachers listed what they think rookie teachers need before entering the classroom: more time student teaching and more training in how to communicate with colleagues, parents and students themselves. Photo: Peggy Barmore. COLUMBIA, Mo. And then she spoke. Photo: Peggy Barmore.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

He went into teaching with the goal of building strong relationships with students of color. Bradley, who has 15 years of teaching experience, acts as a mentor. It’s the type of support that the union hopes will help teachers grow in the classroom while empowering them to pursue leadership roles.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

In order to get to that point, I had to do a lot more than simply teach students the skills to engage in a conflict resolution dialogue. Within my own culture, circles are often used symbolically and literally for their ability to promote equity, interconnection and holism.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2023

If you want to feel the soul of a city, go into one of its public school classrooms. I understood this intimately during my time student teaching on the East Coast in Boston. Most often, it is my ethnic identity that is imposed on me by the majority culture, and usually at the expense of my identity as a disabled person.

Cultures 98

Cultures Classroom Management Humanities Public School 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

During their first few days in the classroom, they are bombarded with a variety of situations they had not anticipated, and are often caught off guard by the realities of teaching. When new teachers aren’t supported to rapidly develop skills and address the realities of the classroom, it’s their students who pay the price.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The paradigm of persistent problems Mary Kennedy’s seminal (2015) paper “Parsing the practice of teaching” sets out the idea that every teacher, no matter their experience, expertise or context, faces the same persistent problems of teaching. Script a short teaching sequence to perform. Live modelling.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2019

I said, ‘OK, I’ll try it, but it’s not going to work,’ ” recalled Lopes, who teaches at the William D’Abate Elementary School. I don’t want to leave teaching. The analogy is that you can’t teach somebody to play piano if you don’t know how to play piano.”. Her immediate reaction: “What a bunch of baloney!”. “I

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

said teacher Kierston James, 40, who oversaw Albert, a fellow with the Brothers Empowered to Teach (BE2T) Initiative. Though Wilson has maybe a dozen African American male teachers on its K-8 staff, only one of them teaches within Wilson’s primary school, in the second grade. Growing up, Albert, now 22, saw almost no men teaching. “I

Elementary School 108

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Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 10, 2023

The first time was in April of this year, when we did an overview of trauma-informed teaching. ” “The cultural narrative about trauma usually pushes us to one of two directions,” Venet says, “the first direction being that people with trauma are broken. This is Alex’s third time on the podcast.

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Pedagogy Library Cultures Classroom Management 130

Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

But regardless of where they come from, these mindsets hurt our relationships with students, and that makes everything else worse, from behavior to academics to the culture of school as a whole. Alex Shevrin Venet What is unconditional positive regard, and why is it such an important part of trauma-informed teaching?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Rather than allowing students to learn concepts at their own pace, schools are pressured by high-stakes testing to teach very specific standards by very specific deadlines. Whether my own kids are “good at school” or not, how do I make sure that the culture of academic pressure and urgency in school doesn’t negatively impact their self-worth?

Elementary School 98

Elementary School Psychology Classroom Management Humanities 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

To begin the process of reversing the school’s suspension rate, Morgan-Thompson knew her teachers needed stronger classroom management skills. Following guidance from the district, she immediately enrolled her teachers in training that would help them gain control of their classrooms.

Elementary School 98

Elementary School Classroom Management High School Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Math teachers also started changing their teaching style to give personalized instruction to students with different learning needs. Arnett also said that schools must be ready to foster a shift in classroom instruction and, on a larger scale, a change in school culture towards technology in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2017

In contrast, Colorado has 35 such avenues for certification, and Washington state has 53 different routes to gaining a teaching certificate. While the numerous routes may allow for flexibility in finding and developing teaching staff, the cost of inconsistency likely does not serve students or schools very well.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 21, 2023

Even the most experienced teachers find themselves teaching “that one class” that needs extra support and structure when implementing the station rotation model. Stay tuned for more easy-to-implement management tips! She spent eleven years teaching English Language Arts and History at the middle school level.

Middle School 98

Middle School History Cultures Classroom Management 98

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Grow your own’ has really caught on fire,” said Edwards, in part because of research showing that about 85 percent of teachers teach within 40 miles of where they grew up. An unstable workforce also affects the school culture, said Pipes: “Once we have people here that are years and years and years in, we know how things are run.”

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Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 97

Letters and Ink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

Creating a set of classroom expectations for your students is more challenging than it seems at first. When I first started out teaching, I tried to stick to the same rules my own teachers had for me in high school. I post mine: Next to my door In the back of the classroom On the home page of my LMS On my daily slide deck 3.

Humanities 52

Humanities Cultures Teaching High School 52

Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I know what it feels like to want to be the best teacher you can be and not necessarily have someone that you can access to say, like, “Hey, how do you teach inquiry style learning in a middle school classroom or high school classroom?” How does using video improve teaching practice? So, I’ve been there.

Teaching 98

Teaching Artifacts Research Professional Development 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Anthony Boccia, a newly hired special education teacher at Valley High, has three years to complete earn an official teaching license before the district revokes his provisional license. Working long hours, Boccia — known at Valley High as Mr. Tony — is learning how to run his classroom via trial and error, one day at a time.

Professional Development 104

Professional Development High School Teaching Classroom Management 104

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

Why are there so few Black men in the teaching profession? Du Bois, the need to prove that Black people are capable of the heights of cultural excellence was a large part of the reason for the focus on education. You noted that HBCUs tend to generate a lot of interest in teaching. So it's less about classroom management.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2018

I have worked in the field of teacher preparation for over a decade, and arming teachers would change the work of teaching even more fundamentally than many may realize. A well-recognized problem facing the teaching profession is how to prepare teachers for classroom management, a euphemistic term for keeping order in the classroom.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I started at the beginning, teaching him that any number multiplied by zero is zero. When the pandemic forced us to close our school buildings, we offered distance learning, but we were often teaching to black screens. If there ever has been a time to embrace shared authority in our classrooms, that time is now.

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