How Trauma-Informed Teaching Builds A Sense of Safety And Care

KQED News Mind/Shift - Katrina Schwartz "Third grade teacher Anita [...]

June 6th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Teacher, Teacher Training, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Four ways to make teacher evaluations meaningful

The Hechinger Report - Ross Wiener and Danielle M. Gonzales [...]

May 31st, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Teacher, Teacher Evaluations, Teacher Training, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Professional development should make teachers feel urgent, not small and isolated

E-School News - Sarah Brown Wessling "Technology, collaboration, and new [...]

May 31st, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, School, School Accountability, Teacher, Teacher Training, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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No need to be anxious, it’s just Mandarin

The Global Times - Loraine Lu "The most frequent question [...]

May 30th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Brain development and Language, Childhood Education, Children, China, Chinese, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, Mandarin, News, School, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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The Benefits of Teaching in Two Languages

The Atlantic - Valeria Pelet "From New York to Utah, [...]

May 29th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Bilingual, Child Development, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Foreign Language, Language, language and academic achievement, Language Immersion, Learning, News, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Lesson Study: When Teachers Team Up to Improve Teaching

KQED News Mind/Shift - Katrina Schwartz "This kind of detailed [...]

May 28th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, School, Teacher, Teacher Accountability, Teacher Training, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Five reasons to embrace the class quiz, according to cognitive science

TES - Megan Smith "Quizzes and tests help students to [...]

May 27th, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Attendance, Learning, Quiz, Students, Study, Teacher, Teaching, Testing|Tags: Education, School|

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Secret Teacher: we must end the spiral of negativity in teaching

The Guardian - Staff Writer "I’m a firm believer that [...]

May 21st, 2016|Categories: Academic Performance, Accountability, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Teacher, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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Teacher residencies: A long-term strategy to solve California teacher shortages

Ed Source - Linda Darling-Hammond and Steve Barr "This was [...]

May 19th, 2016|Categories: 21st Century Skills, Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, California, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, Teacher, Teacher Training, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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How We Make Teaching Too Hard for Mere Mortals

Education Next - Robert Pondiscio "If you caught your pediatrician [...]

May 16th, 2016|Categories: Academic Achievement, Academic Performance, Accountability, Achievement Gap, Childhood Education, Children, Current Events, Education, Learning, News, School, Teacher, Teacher Accountability, Teaching, United States (U.S.)|Tags: Education, schools|

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