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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

Teachers Pay Teachers

Conduct a casual formative assessment during a class discussion or group activity, and regularly check in with students who need more support. Give second (and third) chances For many reluctant learners, one school failure is enough to reinforce their belief that they’re poor students.

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Feeling the midyear slump? Recharge your meetings with MicroPD

eSchool News

As principal of a middle school, I meet weekly with teachers and school counselors to discuss team and department progress of our students. It’s fairly standard belief that professional development (PD) must go deeper than the one-and-done workshop; it must be more sustained, more relevant, and offer tangible takeaways.

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How and When to Give Feedback

Catlin Tucker

Enhances Self-Efficacy Process feedback can bolster students’ self-belief and confidence. When they receive feedback that acknowledges their effective strategies and effort, it reinforces the belief that they can succeed. This increased self-efficacy can lead to improved performance and a willingness to tackle more complex tasks.

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Reflecting on the Parkland tragedy, its lasting impacts, and work still to be done

eSchool News

My visit reinforced my belief that every student and educator has the right to learn and teach in an environment that is safe, supportive, and free from any threat of violence. And while there have been notable improvements since the Parkland tragedy, the work continues.

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Does your school have a growth mindset when it comes to change?

eSchool News

Belief that education needs to change. If the person believes that traditional teaching approaches have worked well for them in the past, and nothing needs to change, then it is less likely that discussion of and training in alternative approaches will actually create changes to methodologies.

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When Best Practices Fail Black and Brown Students, We Must Challenge Our Moral Contradictions

Edsurge

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. While discussing literature, Dr. Rudine Sims Bishops once stated: Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. In the book, she discusses the best way to teach Black children. What was I negotiating?

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There’s No Easy Protocol for Handling Classroom Conflict. We Must Challenge Ourselves.

Edsurge

We’re discussing (OK, let’s be honest, I am telling students) about a 1854 California Supreme Court Case that decreed “that the testimony of a Chinese man who witnessed a murder by a white man was inadmissible, largely based upon the opinion that the Chinese were ‘a race of people whom nature has marked as inferior.’” She didn’t apologize.

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