teaching

Guest Post via @dariapizzuto: Writing your dissertation and teaching? Tips on how not to lose your mind

As many of you know, I enrolled in my PhD program back in spring of 2014. Since then, I’ve been taking three classes per semester to fulfil my graduation requirements, teaching full time, and serving on various school and university committees. And although all my coursework is complete (YAY), I now find myself on a […]

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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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