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How our district turned a sea of data into a compass for change

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That’s just one example among many that illustrates the success we’ve had already at establishing a culture where data is prized. We adjusted our resources, and this year, 96 percent of K-5 students met typical growth in English language arts. We look at it. We do something with it at all levels of our organization.

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Ice Breakers for High School Students: 45 Interactive Questions + Activities

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Beat the Teacher: Compete against the whole class in a trivia contest with topics like pop culture, movies, or your specific subject matter. Conversation Starters Ice Breaker Activities for Team Building & Morning Meeting By Informed Decisions Grades: 6th-12th Subjects: Family Consumer Sciences, School Counseling Standards: CCSS W.7.1,

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98+ Wondrous Would You Rather Questions for High School Students

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By Mindful and Kind Counseling Grades: 6th-12th You can create your own slides or use one of these 40 premade Would You Rather question slides. Experience the cultural traditions of Buddhist Asia or Renaissance Europe? Its also a great bell ringer journaling activity for English to keep career exploration in your upperclassmens minds.

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Racism is a subtle, silent enemy of STEM classrooms

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This thread of inequity continues through other groups of students such as English Language Learners and Students with Disabilities. We as educators can also serve as gatekeepers to either advanced studies, special education, counseling, etc. We are clearly not serving our Black students.

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Why Old Arguments for Earning a Diploma Don't Resonate With My Students — and Which Ones Will

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What Happens When Students Don’t Receive a Diploma Culturally, graduation is a right of passage and a source of immense pride. Admittedly, I find it hard to counsel them when the value of a diploma and the future of society keeps moving before I have time to adjust. How will it shape their self image and how their loved ones see them?

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What Public School Teachers Want: Less Disruption

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Brick and mortar charter schools have been known to use questionable (and unethical) recruitment techniques and “counseling out” poor standardized test-takers. Teachers want the focus off of the flawed standardized data culture and back on the children as developing human beings who deserve more than test prep and basic skills.

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We Need to Make Schools Human Again. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect.

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Go beyond “checking-in” to building a culture of relational trust. In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure. The picture at the top of this article is a 1997 band photo of my husband who is now a high school English teacher.

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