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Time for Teachers: Self-Assessment with Community Support as Individual Solutions

Ed Timke

Educators often cite a lack of time as one of their most significant stressors. How can we help teachers find the balance necessary to feel satisfied in their jobs and meet their social and emotional needs? This third post in the Time for Teachers blog series will discuss the importance of a self-assessment in addressing individual problems and solutions teachers face. This is not to say the onus of addressing challenges should fall squarely on the shoulders of individual teachers. Teachers need a community of practice and support to help them identify problems they might face individually that could benefit from solutions that come from consulting with colleagues.

Tips and Tools, Teaching, Research, Social Emotional Learning
SEP 13, 2022
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Time for Teachers: Agile Meetings and Short Pulse Surveys as Systemic Solutions

Ed Timke

Educators often cite a lack of time as one of their most significant stressors. How can we help teachers find the balance necessary to feel satisfied in their jobs and meet their social and emotional needs? This second post in the Time for Teachers blog series will discuss two possible solutions that can help all educators save time while addressing needs to serve students and communities: agile meetings and short pulse surveys.

Tips and Tools, Teaching, Research, Social Emotional Learning
SEP 06, 2022
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Bolstering Michigan's Teacher Recruitment through Grow Your Own Programs

Ed Timke

There is a teacher recruitment and retention crisis in Michigan and across the country. Why is there a crisis? What can be done? This last post in a blog series on teacher recruitment and retention summarizes the potential to address the crisis through Grow Your Own Programs.

Research, Teacher Recruitment & Retention
AUG 01, 2022
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Supports associated with teacher retention in Michigan

Ed Timke

There is a teacher recruitment and retention crisis in Michigan and across the country. Why is there a crisis? What can be done? This third post in a blog series on teacher recruitment and retention summarizes an important recent study on factors that help teacher retention in Michigan.

Research, Teacher Recruitment & Retention
JUN 02, 2022
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Time for Teachers: Importance of Distinguishing Systemic from Individual Barriers and Solutions

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Educators often cite a lack of time as one of their most significant stressors. How can we help teachers find the balance necessary to feel satisfied in their jobs and meet their social and emotional needs? This first post in the Time for Teachers blog series will distinguish systemic from individual barriers, which is essential to ensure that finding time for themselves is not an undue burden on individual teachers. Some challenges require state-, district-, and school-wide solutions.

Teaching, Research, Social Emotional Learning
JAN 31, 2022
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Teacher recruitment and retention in Michigan - Challenges and potential solutions

Ed Timke

There is a teacher shortage in Michigan and across the country. Why is there a crisis? What can be done? This second post in a blog series on teacher recruitment and retention focuses on challenges and potential solutions in Michigan.

Research, Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Recruitment & Retention
DEC 01, 2021
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Teacher recruitment and retention: A snapshot of an ongoing crisis

Ed Timke

There is a teacher recruitment and retention crisis in Michigan and across the country. Why is there a crisis? What can be done? This first post in a blog series on teacher recruitment and retention provides a snapshot of the crisis and some initial recommendations on how to fight it.

Research, Social Emotional Learning, Teacher Recruitment & Retention
AUG 17, 2021