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Here’s How Math Anxiety Is Passed from Teacher to Student, And How to Break the Cycle

Editor’s note: This column is an edited version of Jason Ablin’s original post, Mentor Teachers and Classroom Environments, which you can read here. I call the design of classroom space the second...

Mentoring

Inside the Decade-Long Plan to Recruit, Hire and Retain 9,000 Black Educators Across the Country

Across the entire United States, there aren’t nearly enough Black teachers inside classrooms. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, less than 7% of teachers nationwide are Black;...

remote learning

How Do We 'IGNITE' Social Change in the Next Generation of Leaders?

The impact of COVID-19 on the education community was astonishing. Educators pivoted all of their curricula to a virtual landscape for the first time. Guardians found themselves supplementing as...

student support

We're Not Just Doing Distance Learning, We're Teaching Through a Crisis

When I last wrote about mentoring in January 2020, I discussed how it built stronger connections between myself and my students. That remains true, but in the age of COVID, mentoring has become...

Mentoring

My School Let Me Work a Four-Day Week. It Changed Everything.

Last spring, as a teacher at Alma del Mar Charter Public School in New Bedford, Massachusetts, I got to participate in the pilot of something that, to me, was unheard of in public education: For...

school leadership

There’s Ineffective Teaching in Every School. It Doesn't Have to Be This Way.

I recently heard a familiar, stinging remark from a policymaker: Allison, if we’re going to increase education funding significantly, we must address the issue of bad teachers in our classrooms. I...

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