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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students

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How Low-Carb Diets Fuel High-Achieving Students Have you ever considered that your diet could be the secret weapon in your quest for academic success? Low-carb diets are more than just a trend; they’re transforming high-achievers into unstoppable forces in classrooms and beyond.

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What Would It Take to Attract Gen Z to Teaching?

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With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

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To Close the Math Achievement Gap, We Must Recognize What Students Bring to the Classroom

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Nationally, mathematics achievement on average remains low with glaring, persistent inequities across racial and ethnic groups. According to the National Assessment of Educational Progress in 2022, students in fourth and eighth grade had the largest decline in mathematics achievement since 1990.

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Lessons Learned My First 5 Years Of Teaching

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It’s always interesting to find out what new teachers learned in their early teaching that affected their later years. It makes teaching easy if kids love to be in the room every day. Below are five lessons that I have learned in my first five years of teaching. Those were the darkest days of my teaching career.

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Opportunities for Swift Achievement Gains

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The post Opportunities for Swift Achievement Gains first appeared on MiddleWeb. Cathy Gassenheimer says that reading Results Now 2.0 is disturbing but notes Schmoker includes a way out of "the current education quagmire."

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Teaching Math

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Studies show that mathematical reasoning ability is crucial in early education, and when children understand math before entering elementary school, they have higher achievement on both reading and math tests later in their school years. 15+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy. Have students try these. Math Games in the Classroom.

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They Started Teaching During the Pandemic Year. Where Are They Now?

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Of those five, one left teaching during her third year, and another will resign next month, at the end of the school year. The other three are still teaching and plan to continue. years, I have been teaching Algebra I and geometry for grades nine and 10 at Becton Regional High School. It's hard to teach math, period.

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