What Educators Appreciated About Each Other This Year
Over 20,000 of you expressed your appreciation for the hard work and determination of your fellow educators. Here are a
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Education
Education, discipline that is concerned with methods of teaching and learning in schools or school-like environments as opposed to various nonformal and informal means of socialization (e.g., rural development projects and education through parent-child relationships).
Teacher Moves That Cultivate Learner Agency
Helping students become independent, questioning thinkers begins with stepping back and guiding them to take the lead in their learning.
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Paul Tough on Fixing Higher Education’s Broken System
For his book The Inequality Machine: How College Divides Us (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2019), journalist Paul Tough, an expert on the conditions
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Researcher Behind ‘10,000-Hour Rule’ Says Good Teaching Matters, Not Just Practice
You’ve probably heard of the 10,000 hour rule, which was popularized by Malcolm Gladwell’s blockbuster book “Outliers.” As Gladwell tells
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The Mental Health Crisis Causing Teachers to Quit
Lesley Allen will never know what triggered her final panic attack last fall. She was outside supervising a group of
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The Dos and Don’ts of Celebrating Teacher Appreciation Week
It’s that time of year when the “We Appreciate You!” emails start rolling in, along with their discounts, freebies, and
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Help me help you: How to get more from coaching
Organizations are increasingly retaining coaches not only for the leadership development of top executives but also for building better functioning
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The Learning Zone / One Habit that Improves Conversation Skills
When Vivek Murthy was chosen to be the nation’s 19th surgeon general in 2014, he anticipated, as he explains in
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Teacher diversity: Bold steps toward solutions that work
“Raise your hand if, throughout your entire K-12 education, you never were taught by a teacher of color.” The speaker
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For this Memphis assistant principal, middle school is more than a workplace. It’s home.
Some families are related by blood, and other families, like the team at KIPP Memphis Collegiate Middle School, form because
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