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I’m a teacher, but I was also “that student”

eSchool News

Growing up, an unsteady family life meant that I frequently moved from school to school, and such an upbringing left me with no desire to focus on schoolwork, feeling like a failure because I lacked the foundation a consistent education would have given me. In that moment, I began forging my own educational path.

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Educators Need More Than Self-Care. They Need Self-Compassion.

Edsurge

Kristin Neff, a widely recognized research psychologist, self-compassion can improve well-being and it helps us work toward our goals with positive motivation (the desire for our own happiness) rather than negative motivation (fear of failure and inadequacy). Expecting perfection of ourselves can result in feelings of failure or inadequacy.

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7 questions after Governor Branstad’s school funding veto

Dangerously Irrelevant

We have the third-highest average ACT score of states that test at least half of their graduates. These, personnel sharing arrangements, and other successes are a testament to the hard work of our educators, school systems, and communities. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery?

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