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Prioritizing teacher well-being can help schools retain talent

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With the median high school teacher salary being around $62,870, educators often don’t have a lot of leeway to pay for physical and mental wellness resources themselves. While all administrators should consider it a priority to arrange fair pay, it’s also important to look at what other resources you can offer.

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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

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A place like this would benefit every high school student,” he says. Helping Students See Options Cafécollege Houston is across the street from a Fiesta Mart grocery store and a high school that mostly serves Hispanic students. That was the case for Canizales. Additionally, because Canizales is not a U.S.

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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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Back before the internet made it possible—and popular—for people to document their lives in real time, teenagers found themselves preserved between the pages of their high school yearbooks—forever young. We encourage schools to define success as four-year, or slightly longer, graduation rates,” Schaeffer explains.

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How Schools Can Host College Tours and Fairs Virtually

EdTech Magazine

The coronavirus pandemic transformed how high school students are learning about prospective colleges. Instead of attending traditional college fairs or visiting their dream schools this fall, students are now connecting with admissions representatives online and going on virtual tours.

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How Schools Can Host College Tours and Fairs Virtually

EdTech Magazine

The coronavirus pandemic transformed how high school students are learning about prospective colleges. Instead of attending traditional college fairs or visiting their dream schools this fall, students are now connecting with admissions representatives online and going on virtual tours.

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How Schools Can Host College Tours and Fairs Virtually

EdTech Magazine

The coronavirus pandemic transformed how high school students are learning about prospective colleges. Instead of attending traditional college fairs or visiting their dream schools this fall, students are now connecting with admissions representatives online and going on virtual tours.

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Counselors Couldn’t Keep Up With Our Growing Mental Health Crisis, So Peers Stepped Up

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I was originally hired in 2015, to support the only counselor at our school, which served 500 students at the time. Even when I came on and there were two of us counseling, it wasn’t enough to support that many students. We launched the mentoring program as a strand of our existing service learning course at our high school.