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Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

One of the hallmark accommodations of inclusive classrooms is more adults, whether a certified special education teacher, a teaching assistant (TA), or both. Having more people in the room can be instrumental to student growth when effective co-teaching and personalized practices are in place, especially modified rotational models.

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Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

This means looking at key practices such as Tier 1 instruction, pedagogy, assessment, feedback, differentiation, RTI , real co-teaching , and professional learning to see where there is an opportunity to grow. The above paragraph sets Quest Junior High School apart from many other, if not all, schools across the country and the world.

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Improvement is a Never-Ending Process

A Principal's Reflections

While you can read specifics by clicking on the hyperlinks above, the one common thread has been a collective belief held by all educators that improvement was and always will be a natural component of teaching, learning, and leadership. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

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TAH Multiday Prompts Discussion of Partisanship, Then and Now

Teaching American History

Cade Lohrding teaches social studies for all three grades at Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas. Kiowa County Junior High School in Greensburg, Kansas, provided a substitute teacher so that Lohrding could fly on a Friday into Burbank Airport in time for the seminars opening reception and dinner that night.

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How Spending Downtime With My Students Has Dramatically Reshaped My Teaching

ED Surge

In my current role as a special education teacher at a junior high school in New Orleans, I teach 24 neurodivergent students in three classes across two grades, and I’m a case manager for 14 students. But I can tell there’s more to know about my students. My grandmother and sister found ways to break down that barrier.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. He finds it easy to teach himself with online content as his guide. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965. Four years later, at the age of thirty, Reid returned to Gaston County and began teaching.