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Teacher Well-Being Depends on Workload, School Climate and Feeling Supported

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While the report cautions that the research field is in its infancy and the teacher well-being drivers it identifies may not be exhaustive, it offers the framework to start conversations at schools that want to better support teachers.

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What Asian American Educators Shared During a National Reckoning With Racism and Pandemic

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Identity-Affirming Professional Learning Networks Overwhelmingly, the 80 Asian American K-12 educators we spoke with described the critical role that identity-affirming and supportive professional community played in their lives. They also spoke about the difference that supportive leadership made.

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Researchers Have Identified the Starkest Cases of School District Segregation

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There are better options: for more inclusive district maps, more equitable and sensible approaches to raising school revenues, and funding systems that support students based on their needs, not their communities’ wealth.” But often, the students have complex needs, and families are more reliant on schools for support.

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To Serve Bilingual Students, This Future Teacher Will Draw on Her Own Experience

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I think that sense of community and support from my own teachers and counselors helped me decide that this was something that I wanted to do. Then I moved to a French-speaking region in Canada with my family, so I had to learn French in addition to everything else that comes from moving countries. Why does the field need you right now?

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What Would It Take to Attract Gen Z to Teaching?

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And according to a literature review conducted by the researchers, Americans who are part of Gen Z say they want jobs that provide financial security and ongoing support, along with flexibility, autonomy, collaboration and a sense of purpose. That lends itself to both flexibility and support, she notes.

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Revised Federal Edtech Plan Calls for Closing Digital Divides

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Despite significant gains across the country in getting devices into the hands of every student and stable internet into their schools and homes, not everyone has access. Another challenge: whether teachers are supported. But getting devices into students' hands is just one step in lifting education in the digital age.

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An Innovative Journey to Scalable Computer Science Programs

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Valerie Brock Computer Science Education Manager, NYC Public Schools Computer Science for All Brock: In 2017, after 10 years of teaching in NYC Public Schools, the largest school district in the country, I transitioned to an “out-of-classroom” position. I was tasked with providing reading intervention services for at-risk K-8 students.