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It’s nearing the beginning of another academic year when the educational accountability machine starts cranking out new sets of data—data to be sorted and scrubbed by so-called professional learning communities who will disaggregate the information to identify deficits and plan interventions to be responded to and evaluated in the continuous improvement cycle of teaching and [...]
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As parents and as teachers, we’re especially aware as a new school year starts of the importance of the teacher-student relationship. It’s at the forefront of our children’s minds, too: ”Who will be my new teacher?” they ask. “Will my teacher be strict? Will she like me?”
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