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Our blog offers top insights and analysis of the education sector from our staff, member deans, and guest authors.
A few years ago, I spent of the better part of a school year sitting in the back of classrooms in 20 different high schools.
“A shift in mindset reconditioning our brains.”
That’s how a site coordinator, who has been at Texas Tech for 11 years, described the…
Juliet Curci, senior director of school and community partnerships for Temple University’s College of Education, wants two things: for all…
The data our member deans want most – and have the most difficulty getting – is data on how their graduates are doing once they’re in classrooms…
In the hallway of an elementary school run by the University of Chicago’s Urban Education Institute, a little boy zooms past me, eager to return to…
Jennifer Green is the CEO and co-founder of Urban Teachers, a residency program for teacher preparation. Founded in 2009, Urban Teachers is committed…
Patricia Alvarez McHatton is the dean of the College of Education and P-16 Integration at the University of Texas-Rio Grande Valley. UT-Rio Grande…
You wouldn’t expect to get better at something – writing, say – without receiving feedback on your performance. Feedback has a widely accepted…
Normally, a first day on the job is fairly standard: a lot of paperwork, toe-tapping, and questions about where to find the coffee. My first day as…
“Teaching is an oppressed profession.”
It was late last year. A group of teacher-candidates were seated in a circle at one of the institutions…