Guest post by Robert Ward via @RewardingEdu: Why I Left the School I Loved

After twenty-one years teaching English at a public middle school in South Los Angeles, my eventual choice to change schools was an agonizing decision in a career that had more than its fair share of dilemmas and disasters. With utterly no training, I had begun my career at this chronically under-performing school as an “emergency” […]

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Guest Post via @tiffbutton: Old School vs New School: Where Did the Student Motivation Go?

Tiffany Boley is a Title I Interventionist, assistant track coach, event & wedding planner, #DENstar, #AKA1908, and the Founder/Moderator of #title1edchat.  Connect with her on Twitter at @tiffbutton. “MOTIVATION is what gets you started. HABIT is what keeps you going.” -Jim Rohn, Entrepreneur Now, I am not that old, but compared to how students are now and how it […]

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