Category : “Mentoring”

Why Good Feedback for Students Must Start with Administrators

March 5, 2019Jaime Festa-Daigle Education, Mentoring, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

Schools are working harder than ever to find ways to improve the learning for their students. Schools are experimenting with technology implementation, lowering class size, even implementing mindfulness, and while each of these practices may be wonderful, there is no

Redirecting Applause

September 27, 2018James King Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Love, Mentoring, Teacher Leadership

No one will ever describe me as humble. Ever. Like Lady Gaga, I live for “the applause, applause, applause. I live for the applause-plause, live for the applause-plause!” With that said, I one time misspelled “ego” in my school’s spelling

Failure Is an Option

August 28, 2018Jen Hudson Mentoring, Teacher Leadership

Their motions are similar: Wide-eyed, pupils darting from side to side, hands fidgeting, an upturn of a smile only to be replaced by a quick, nervous bite of the lips. They scan the room, looking for both a seat and

THE LAST STUDENT TEACHER

March 20, 2018Mike Vargas Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, Professional Development, Science, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

I have a student teacher this semester. His name is Brandon and he is currently the only student teacher for Physics in the state of Arizona. Like the last Jedi, he has the force inside of him to do good,

Must Like Kids

February 15, 2018Beth Maloney Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, Professional Development, Uncategorized

You may have heard that 70-80% of new restaurants fail within the first year. As it turns out, that often cited statistic is exaggerated: the actual figure is 17%, according to Forbes. It turns out the chance of success is

Sidekick

January 23, 2018Beth Maloney Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

It’s 7:00 am on a gray and chilly Saturday morning and I’m rushing out the door, dressed and coffee in hand. As I kiss my sleepy daughter and husband goodbye, my husband exclaims, “Have fun being a sidekick!” We have

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A Jonah Day aka Academic Struggle in High Achieviers

January 9, 2018Yolanda Wheelington Assessment, Current Affairs, Education, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Literacy, Love, Mathematics, Mentoring, Parent Involvment, Science, Social Issues, Uncategorized, Web/Tech, Weblogs

There I stood in my lovely class of 1st – 3rd graders with 29 eagerly engaged students and 3 crying in agony. The cries were not from physical pain, but the emotional turmoil that sets in when we sit in places of discomfort.

I’m Fun at Holiday Parties, Really!

December 23, 2017Beth Maloney Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership

Around the holidays, many visitors and holiday party-goers comment on how tired I look. I don’t think they mean this unkindly – it’s true, I do look exhausted this time of year (and many other times throughout the school year).

From the Mouths of Babes

December 5, 2017Alaina Adams Education, Education Policy, Elementary, Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, Parent Involvment, Social Issues, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

Pick a blog on this site and you’ll see just how important it is that we train and retain a new generation of quality educators; we simply don’t have enough on a national level – and low pay and per pupil

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