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Feb 28, 2020

[Weekly Inspiration] Female Welding Teacher Inspires Students to go into Trade

It’s almost Women’s History Month and a Female Tech Ed Teacher in Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin, is paving the way and inspiring her female students to enter the field.
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McKenna Wierman

Feb 27, 2020

10 Phoebe Buffay GIFS to Use as Positive Mantras During this Testing Season

Teachers have a tendency to be extra hard on themselves during testing season.
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Fabiola Garcia

Jan 30, 2020

[EdNews Round Up] The Biggest K-12 Trends to Watch in 2020

Sustainability, high education, school funding, technology in the classroom and more! In this EdNews Round Up, we dive into what experts are considering the top education trends to watch in 2020.
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McKenna Wierman

Jan 03, 2020

[Weekly Inspiration] This Stern Calculus Teacher Has a Soft Secret

For his students, Jim O’Connor has always been a stern-but-capable, respected-but-feared high-school math teacher. Nearly all of them like him, but they also might say that he’s a bit of a drudge. And for most of his life, that’s all his students ever thought of him.
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Chris Gruhlke

Dec 20, 2019

[Weekly Inspiration] Words of Wisdom from a 40-Year School Secretary

When Nila Brown joined the Anne Arundel County school system in Maryland, Jimmy Carter was president and Love Boat was still on television. At the time, she had just graduated and was just excited and proud to get to work with a district she loved. 42 years later, Nila can reflect back on having made a very big difference.
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Chris Gruhlke

Dec 13, 2019

[Weekly Inspiration] Former Student Surprises 3rd Grade Teacher 40 Years Later

Cindy Davis of Provo, Utah wanted one thing for her birthday in 2017 – to thank her former 3rd grade teacher, Margarat Foote.

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Brita Hammer

Dec 06, 2019

[Weekly Inspiration] This Middle School Teacher Fostered A Student Battling Kidney Disease

A few months ago, middle-school teacher Finn Lanning and 13-year-old student Damien knew each other only as teacher and student. This relationship was all normal, up until Damien approached his teacher one day and said that he wouldn’t be coming back to school.
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Chris Gruhlke

Nov 22, 2019

[Weekly Inspiration] Teacher Goes the Extra Mile to Bring Disabled Student on Field Trip

Every school in America is filled with students facing unique challenges. For Ryan King, a fourth grader in Louisville, that challenge is spina bifida, a rare spinal condition that keeps her bound to a wheelchair for mobility. And like any other 10-year-old, she hates to miss out on an adventure. When her school arranged a hiking field trip at a state park to look at fossil beds, she was very upset. But teacher Jim Freeman wasn’t about to let her be left out and made her an extraordinary offer.
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Chris Gruhlke