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For some kids, returning to school post-pandemic means a daunting wall of administrative obstacles 

The Hechinger Report

After a few hours, the elementary school called: Come pick up your son, they told her. Related: When the punishment is the same as the crime: Suspended for missing class To many observers, Tameka’s troubles stem from Atlanta’s rapid gentrification. She runs through pre-kindergarten counting exercises on a phone.

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How Teachers are Leaning on Each Other to Stay Resilient During COVID-19

MindShift

In addition to her new lunch routine, Zayas, who teaches STEM and social studies at a public school in Leander, Texas, has set a regular time when she turns off her computer at night. “I’m Even before COVID-19 , recent studies found that 93% of elementary school teachers and 94% of middle school teachers experience high stress.

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College and career readiness activities

Kathy Schrock

This exercise will help students understand both the educational and training aspects of the career. In addition, besides the informational infographic they can create, they can also make an advocacy infographic for promoting this career. Here are a few resources for this age group. Here are a few resources for this age group.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library. For a new generation of educators, these pursuits have something in common: They’re all appropriate learning exercises that can take place in the school library.

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SEL: A Leadership Roundtable

techlearning

We take a team approach, but our mindfulness initiative stems from the top. She always begins her meetings with a mindfulness exercise. It was run by our elementary school guidance counselor. We want to embrace the diversity students bring to schools and help them feel comfortable. We even had them do some yoga.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: When a hyped school model proves difficult to replicate. But that wasn’t a thing then.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts. They have not spent a second thinking about what kind of environment they are recruiting people to,” says El-Mekki, who invokes Martin Luther King Jr.’s

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