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Regroup, Reorganize, Recharge

Educators have less summer than everyone else in education- if they get a summer at all. That makes time management and prioritization imperative. You won’t be able to do everything you want, so what takes precedence? To paraphrase the old saying, there are three R’s to the educator’s summer: regroup, reorganize, and recharge. Here […]

4 Tips for Putting Together a School Event Calendar

One key preparation for an upcoming school year is laying out the school event calendar. This process may take many different forms and requires a lot of forethought, communication, and sometimes revision. You may be a “set it and forget it” teacher who sets things up once and leaves them alone, or perhaps you […]

Teacher Tools to Defeat Summer Learning Loss

The summer learning loss is real. Research shows that it can cause students to forget 22 percent or more of what they learned over the school year, making a teacher spend a month of review at the beginning of the next year just to get students caught back up. This might seem like the territory of […]