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Teaching Jobs and CareersTeaching is both a Career and PassionIn this interview, ASCD author Margaret Searle discusses the field of education and the value teaching offers as a career and passion for young people.Margaret Searle · Aug 6, 2015 · 1 min read
Teacher AppreciationWhat if Key and Peele Are on to Something?Comedy Central’s viral “TeachingCenter” sketch imagines a world where teachers sign million-dollar contracts and students wear their jerseys.Donna Krache · Aug 5, 2015 · 3 min read
K-12 TeachersEducation Week: Pluto Photos Give Teachers New Avenues for Space LessonsEducation Week reports on how photos from NASA's New Horizons probe give teachers new ways to bring Pluto into space science lessons in their classrooms.EdCircuit Staff · Aug 5, 2015 · 1 min read
Personalized LearningPersonalized Learning Encompasses Teacher PDIn this interview, assistant principal Allison Rodman of Mariana Bracetti Academy in Philadelphia discusses personalizing professional development for teachers.Allison Rodman · Jul 31, 2015 · 1 min read
K-12 TeachersNIH: Sound Advice: High School Music Training Sharpens Language SkillsPhoto credit: David Hawgoodby Dr. Francis CollinsWhen children enter the first grade, their brains are primed for learning experiences, significantly more so, in fact, than adult brains. For instance, scientists have documented that musical training during grade school produces a signature set of benefits for the brain and for behavior—benefits that can last a lifetime, whether or not people continue to play music.Now, researchers at Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, have some good news for teenagers who missed out on learning to play musical instruments as young kids. Even when musical training isn’t started until high school, it produces meaningful changes in how the brain processes sound. And those changes have positive benefits not only for a teen’s musical abilities, but also for skills related to reading and writing.Read the rest of the story on the National Institutes of Health Director's Blog.EdCircuit Staff · Jul 30, 2015 · 1 min read
Teacher RetentionASCD: Importance of Teacher Education Prep ProgramsEmily Davis, ASCD Emerging Leader, is the New Teacher Center Program Director, Santa Cruz/Silicon Valley New Teacher Project. Davis is also the author of Making Mentoring Work. Davis stalks about her work and the topics currently driving education. Summary of Making Mentoring Work (published by Rowman and Littlefield): Making Mentoring Work is a practical guide for school leaders interested in beginning or enhancing their mentoring programs for new teachers. Readers can use the mentoring program rubric to pre-assess their program and then choose the chapters that correspond to areas of growth. Each chapter provides background research as well as practical steps and tools to make mentoring work in a school environment. At the end of each section, readers will find discussion guides that support program leaders in making the next steps; organizing conversations with stakeholders that will transform and streamline new teacher support programs; and increase new teacher retention and practice.Emily Davis · Jul 27, 2015 · 1 min read
Professional DevelopmentASCD: Pete Hall – Reflection Supporting Teacher EffectivenessIn this interview, ASCD Faculty member and former principal Pete Hall explains how reflection supports teachers' professional growth and effectiveness.Pete Hall · Jul 22, 2015 · 1 min read
Professional DevelopmentTeacher Effectiveness Tools Reach New HeightsIn this interview, IRIS Connect's Andy Newell discusses the company's U.S. expansion and the video tools that let teachers take control of their development.Andy Newell · Jul 7, 2015 · 1 min read
K-12 TeachersFrom AFT: How Due Process Protects Teachers and Studentsby Richard D. KahlenbergTeacher tenure rights, first established more than a century ago, are under unprecedented attack. Tenure—which was enacted to protect students’ education and those who provide it—is under assault from coast to coast, in state legislatures, in state courtrooms, and in the media.In June 2014, in the case of Vergara v. California, a state court judge struck down teacher tenure and seniority laws as a violation of the state’s constitution.* Former CNN and NBC journalist Campbell Brown has championed a copycat case, Wright v. New York, challenging the Empire State’s tenure law (which was consolidated with another New York case challenging tenure, Davids v. New York). Similar cases are reportedly in the works in several other states.Read the rest of the story at AFT.EdCircuit Staff · Jun 30, 2015 · 1 min read

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