Posts Tagged ‘Less Stress For Teachers’
How Administrators Can Offer Successful PD for Teachers
Recently an outlet made a media request for this question: How can administrators offer successful PD for teachers? The catch was that the answer needed to be five sentences or less. Here is the quick tips list I shared for how administrators can offer successful professional development for teachers: *Assess teachers’ needs. *Seek out a…
Read MoreBack to School Preparation for Teachers
Back to school preparation for teachers has been pretty standard in the past. If you’ve been teaching for a while, you know the drill. Your school district releases the next school year’s calendar in the spring, and you mark your first professional development date for the fall on your calendar. Once school is done for…
Read MoreNational Teacher Appreciation Week – What’s the big deal?
National Teacher Appreciation Week is celebrated during May each year. In 2019, it will take place from May 6-10. Teachers will be given inexpensive trinkets and treated to snacks, which are lovely gestures. But when you think about what teachers have to deal with throughout the year, it’s important to thank them year-round, and not…
Read MoreNational Teacher Appreciation Week – Why say thank you?
National Teacher Appreciation Week runs from May 7 -11, 2018. It’s a time when teachers are given their annual donut or taco breakfast as a thank you for their hard work. Do you know what they’d enjoy in addition to that? A simple “thank you” from you. Good teachers make it look easy. But behind…
Read MoreProject Management Lessons Learned – When Things Don’t Go According to Plan (part 2)
In last week’s post, I gave the background behind my project management lessons learned from an audio book project. I’ll pick up where I left off last time… What I didn’t count on were all of the small details that presented large hiccups. Authors can’t submit a chapter at a time to see if ACX…
Read MoreProject Management Lessons Learned – When Things Don’t Go According to Plan
Project management lessons learned are not foreign to me; after all, this is what I teach to my clients in order to help them improve their time management and productivity. What is a challenge for me, though, is dealing with outside forces that you can’t control…forces that can screw up everything that you’re trying to…
Read MoreNational Teacher Appreciation Week 2017 – May 8 – 12
Since National Teacher Appreciation Week 2017 is starting on May 8th, now is a great time to look at how we can lower stress levels for teachers. How can you improve teacher productivity, which in turn will increase test scores? How can you raise teacher morale and increase the retention rate? How can you help ease “the overwhelm” for teachers?…
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