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Teachers Empowerment

Why It Matters Teaching has historically been a profession which granted practitioners some degree of autonomy in their classrooms, but larger institutional decisions affecting their work were still controlled by administrators and policymakers. Everything from hiring, budgeting, scheduling, textbook and technology selections to professional development and curriculum is often in the hands of others. The […]

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What Qualities Do Principals Look for in a New Teacher?

 WANT IT ALL! “It’s impossible to select one characteristic that sets a teacher candidate apart from others,” said Gary Cardwell, principal at Crockett Elementary School (Wichita Falls, Texas). “I would never use a single characteristic to employ a teacher, rather I consider many characteristics as parts of a mosaic that make up an entire picture.” […]

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