Alaina Adams Teacher Leadership

Nobody Puts Teacher Leadership in a Corner!

Alaina Adams Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

If you’ve seen the movie, Dirty Dancing, you most likely remember the line, “Nobody puts Baby in a corner.” And if you remember this line, then you most likely remember how determined Patrick Swayze’s character was to place his beloved Baby

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Daniela A. Robles Teacher Leadership

Many of us strive to influence the system we serve by focusing on building capacity in order to increase teacher craftsmanship and efficacy. And yet I wonder, if we strive to build the capacity of those who are not in

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This Just In

Eve Rifkin Uncategorized

The US Department of Education just release some “good news”. The national graduation rate is at an all-time high and the achievement gap between white students and student of color has narrowed. Arizona educators would be well-advised, however, to take

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Schools = Huge Money Pits

Donnie Dicus Uncategorized

Election season has come and gone. Several Arizona districts were quite happy as their overrides passed. Others were disappointed as their overrides died at the ballots. As a teacher, it’s easy to be furious at these voters. “Why don’t they

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Is there really a shortage?

Angelia Ebner Uncategorized

  Is there really a teacher shortage? When I looked up the word shortage this is what I found: it is a state or situation in which something needed cannot be obtained in sufficient amounts, and its synonyms are scarcity, dearth, paucity,

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