Teacher Wellness
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It’s Time to Rethink Formal Teacher Evaluations
Would teachers experience vastly better professional growth if all the time and energy spent on formal evaluation processes was spent on coaching in classrooms instead? Yes. Would staff wellness, culture, and climate in most learning communities improve? Yes. (For principals, too — formal evaluation reports eat up huge amounts of time and energy.) Can formal… Continue reading
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9 Survival Tips for New Teachers
How to survive and thrive in the toughest years of teaching. Dear New Teacher, Thank you for joining the teaching community. Thank you for your commitment to the learning and growth of our little people. Thank you for bringing your optimism, your ideas, your passions into our world. We love you. We need you. We’re… Continue reading
Teachers on Fire 