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One Question Can Change the Trajectory of Student Discipline
Anyone who is in a school nowadays will all agree on one thing: Student discipline has changed significantly in the past few years and not for the better. Somewhere between Zero Tolerance and poorly implemented Restorative Practices, there has to be a happy medium. While there is research that shows an effective Restorative Practice system…
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We Can Show Teachers Appreciation by Adding Planning Time
In honor of teacher appreciation week, it’s time to address the serious disconnect between the teacher evaluation process and algorithm and what a teacher does day-in and day-out. In Pennsylvania, the evaluation model tries to accommodate the nuances of the teaching profession by using a calculation tool that adds a bunch of pieces of teaching…
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Why Wording Matters: How We Talk About Students Perpetuates Biases
By not distinguishing how to talk and write about people from how we communicate about things or ideas, we contribute to and reinforce our own and others’ biases (positive and negative) by how we use our words to describe people. The way we communicate is really essential to how we are perceived and how we…
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