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Holiday tips for a festively-decorated, smoothly-functioning classroom
The holidays can be a stressful time for teachers, between planning festive activities and decorations to simply keeping your students focused as the countdown to winter break draws closer and closer. To help you keep students engaged and learning and to help you keep your sanity as we enter December, we’ve put together some tips […]
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December 15th, 2015
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Tips for First-Year Teachers
The first year of your teaching career can be overwhelming. You have stepped away from being the student to having students of your own, and now it’s time to put what you’ve learned into practice. It is not uncommon for first-year teachers to feel uneasy as they gain their footing and discover for themselves what […]
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December 8th, 2015
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Commencement Words of Wisdom
“I came to William Woods looking for my life,” Dr. Gina (Gentry) Loudon told an audience of graduating students, faculty and parents the William Woods University commencement this May. Dr. Gina as she is known to readers and followers is a conservative author, anchor, columnist, talk show host and frequent news commentator. She returned to […]
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July 30th, 2015
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To read or not to read — the Missourian and American Library Association draw attention to banned books
Whether you’re teaching beginning readers or senior high school seminar, every teacher, principal and superintendent will encounter the issue of “appropriate material.” Missouri teachers can access an excellent resource on book challenges and bans in the state of Missouri from the Missourian. The publication submitted Sunshine requests for public records of book challenges to all […]
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October 9th, 2014
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