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A weekly meetup aims to keep black male teachers in the classroom

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Leave this field empty if you're human: Black male teachers are often asked to mentor or motivate students, particularly male of students of color, who their white colleagues may have trouble reaching. 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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‘More than a warm body’: Schools try long-term solutions to substitute teacher shortage

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Unlike the other subs — many of them parent volunteers or people looking for a little extra work — he’s a full-time, salaried employee with health benefits and a long-term contract with Everett Public Schools , north of Seattle. Nearly half of teacher absences went unfilled in the school district last fall.

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

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While tools can’t necessarily replace human coaches or in-depth professional development that districts conduct, they can help teachers take stock, and correct course. Copur-Gencturk says the frequency and quality of the feedback shouldn’t depend on how rich or poor a school district is. Then I can see and hear what’s going on.

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Uncertified teachers filling holes in schools across the South

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Dallas principals look for “highly-qualified” individuals committed to teaching who have strong academic backgrounds, said Robert Abel, the district’s human capital management chief. Texas lawmakers have embraced policies that give public schools flexibility in hiring uncertified teachers. 11, 2022, in Athens, Ala.

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I Spent Years Hiding Parts of My Identity When Students Really Needed Me to Embrace My Whole Self

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If you want to feel the soul of a city, go into one of its public school classrooms. We need to think of diversity beyond discrete, all-encompassing and exclusive labels and empower role models for students who are more than an ethnicity, a gender, a sexual orientation, or a disability, but unique and intricate human beings.

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Former educators answer call to return to school

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Thompson, 69, came out of retirement to teach English after learning that Jackson Public Schools were looking for help in local classrooms. The interim school superintendent of Jackson, Mississippi, where Thompson lives, issued a plea to retired teachers to come back. Longtime educator Hymethia W. Hymethia W.

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How to boost math skills in the early grades

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Leave this field empty if you're human: At this Prairie Oak session, educators looked for improvements on math-related issues identified last fall during the school’s first instructional round. Was classroom management stronger? Mississippi Learning. Were teachers working more closely with instructional coaches?