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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

Educational psychology: developing learners (7th ed.). In Shawn Berry’s 8th-grade math class, I observed students writing down individual learning goals for the lesson based on unpacked standards in the form of learning targets. In life, this might be the most critical competency that educators can cultivate in the classroom. Ormrod, J.

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Middle school’s moment: What the science tells us about improving the middle grades

The Hechinger Report

Today, some 70 years after reformers launched a movement to make the middle grades more responsive to the needs of early adolescents, too many middle schools continue to operate like mini high schools, on a “cells and bells” model, said Chad Ratliff, the principal of Community Lab School. Peter Gray, Boston College.

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School support staffers stuck earning poverty level wages

The Hechinger Report

The educational environment got more difficult physically, emotionally, mentally and psychologically,” said Mark Klaisner, the president of the Illinois Association of Regional Superintendents of Schools. In high school, another aide helped her prepare for the ACT. NAPERVILLE, Ill. People were feeling trauma.

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