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In fairness, helping “failing schools” and “bad teachers” get better is also part of the attack on America’s education deficiencies, as embodied in “Race to the Top” and Obama’s proposed addition of “School Turnaround” grants. The problem is an irrational premise, setting up firings and closings as criteria for funding rather than as possible results [...]

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We’re all taking our bumper stickers for Obama off our cars.
Marcia Reback
Central Falls, Rhode Island (CNN) — Graduates of the nation’s most vilified high school descended upon campus Tuesday evening to support the school’s fired teachers. They also had a message for President Obama: Don’t bash our school.
“He doesn’t know us. He doesn’t know the [...]

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Writing teachers would agree that the most difficult population to inspire to write can be the boys that sit in front of you. I believe, in part, that is because so many of them prefer first to work in a non linguistic mode and secondly they enjoy writing and thinking about “boy” topics: hunting, rough [...]

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Ashtyn reads her poem, Imagine. She was inspired by the book, Imagine A Day, by Sarah L. Thomson. Ashtyn imitated Sarah Thomson’s text and ended up with a quality poem she was proud of and enjoyed sharing.

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Pointing and Questioning Stems

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Writers Lifeblood

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Writing Workshop Framework

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All the Places to Love Lesson

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Writing Program Assessment Survey

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Growing as Writers

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Yellow Sands

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Writing Workshop Checklist

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Mentors

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I Am From

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Selecting Mentor Texts for Writing Workshop

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Sketching People Mini Lessons in Writing Workshop

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William Blake Style Poetry

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Person vs. Self Conflict

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Writing Using the Five Senses

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Literary Terms

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High Teacher Turnover Drains School and District Resources
WASHINGTON, D.C. – June 20, 2007 –The teacher dropout problem is costing the nation billions of dollars, draining resources, diminishing teaching quality, and undermining the nation’s ability to close the student achievement gap, according to a new policy brief released today by the National Commission on Teaching and [...]

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Authors: Robert Shockley, Paul Guglielmino, Eliah Watlington

Published in: Teacher Recruitment and Retention
Shockley Guglielmino and Watlington

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In 2007, the National Commission on Teaching and America’s Future (NCTAF) completed an 18-month study of the costs of teacher turnover in five school districts – Chicago Public Schools (Chicago, Illinois), Milwaukee Public Schools (Milwaukee, Wisconsin), Granville County Schools (Granville, North Carolina), Jemez Valley Public Schools (New Mexico), and Santa Rosa Public Schools (New Mexico).
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By Lisa Singleton-Rickman
Staff Writer

Nearly half of all teachers quit during their first five years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics, but the numbers alone don’t convey the full severity of the problem.

“It’s not just the number of teachers leaving, but the quality of teachers,” said Don McMahon, a 40-year veteran teacher from Mesa, [...]

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Being a teacher for 36 years I can testify that society, kids and parents have dramatically changed and in large part, not for the good (especially over the last five years). For the most part, the teaching profession has a very small number of ineffective teachers just as you would expect any profession to be [...]

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Jessica Jentis fit the profile of a typical American teacher: She was white, held a master’s degree and quit 2 1/2 years after starting her career.
According to a new study from the National Education Association, a teachers union, half of new U.S. teachers are likely to quit within the first five years because of poor [...]

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FORT WAYNE, IN (Indiana’s NewsCenter) — Cuts in education funding, diminished job security and mounting pressures to boost student achievement are boosting frustration for those in the teaching profession.