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Arguing With Students: It’s All About the Toothpaste

November 9, 2015Sandy Merz Education, Life in the Classroom, Professional Development, Uncategorized

Two classroom management challenges came up recently in my engineering classes. In the first, two friends were horsing around and did some minor, easy to fix damage to their projects. Each claimed the other had started it. In the second,

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The Preparation Gap

October 27, 2015Danielle Brown Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

There are many factors that are impacting education, to include lack of funding, lack of teaching professionals in the classroom, and the lack of support for new professionals during the most crucial years. As a Hope Street Group National Teacher

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Who is driving the bus?

October 2, 2015Angelia Ebner Education, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

Do you get on or do you get left behind? Well, it depends on who is driving the bus? Have you ever sat in a professional development and thought “Why on earth am I here?” or “Could the rest of

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Rookie Moves

September 29, 2015Alaina Adams Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, Mentoring, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

Now that I’ve returned to the classroom, people keep asking: “How is it going?” And my answer has been pretty consistent: it’s wonderful, but it’s also kicking my proverbial rear end! It’s not like I forgot how complicated teaching was,

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Defeat Doesn’t Live Here

September 1, 2015Danielle Brown Current Affairs, Education, Education Policy, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership

Defeat. I think of this word and I think pain, rejection, frustration, and FAILURE. As I grow as a teacher leader there are times when I could let defeat consume and define me. As educators we experience highs and lows,

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Be Bold

August 30, 2015Jen Robinson Current Affairs, Education, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Uncategorized

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Why Do I Teach?

August 19, 2015Sandy Merz Current Affairs, Education, Life in the Classroom, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

On the third day of school I asked students, “Besides money, what is the one thing that you personally have to get from a job?” I thought it was a good question to begin our unit on career explorations. I

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Important but Misrepresented?

August 9, 2015Mike Lee Education, Education Policy, Professional Development, Uncategorized

I had every intention of writing about back to school, a theme that is being beautifully discussed by my fellow bloggers at Stories from School. But then a proverbial bomb was dropped on the world of professional development in the form

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I’m Back!

August 3, 2015Alaina Adams Education, Education Policy, Life in the Classroom, National Board Certification, Professional Development, Teacher Leadership, Uncategorized

Yes, it’s true: I have left my position working with adult learners at the Arizona K12 Center to return to a teaching position in the Phoenix Union High School District this year. Why? I can’t tell you how many times

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Teacher Eval: Liberace or the Kid Next Door?

May 27, 2015Sandy Merz Education Policy, Professional Development, Uncategorized

A quality evaluation is a beginning; a useless one, an end. That’s the conclusion I draw from a quote by the legendary Madeline Hunter in a recent Ed Week article by David Finley: “If you hear someone playing the piano,

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