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Tips for Supporting Teachers With Family Engagement Challenges

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By Alex Shultz
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Like many school leaders, Ryan Daniel, principal of Fort Foote Elementary School in Maryland, was once a teacher. In her sixth-grade classroom, an unforgettable experience taught her not to prejudge her students or their families. When the school year began, Daniel was warned about a boy in her class who was described by her colleagues as angry, often in trouble, and liable to sleep through lessons.
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How to Plan Highly Effective Back-to-School Meetings

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By Alex Shultz
| Edutopia Verified
In mid-July, the clicks of a band camp metronome echoing down the hallway mark the unofficial start of the school year for Jon Minton, principal of Elizabethton High School in Tennessee. It’s a welcome sound after a month or so of relative silence, during which Minton limits interactions with his teachers. Prior to mid-July, if Minton has something he needs to communicate immediately—a change to a teacher’s schedule or assigned classroom, for example—he’ll text or call the teacher.
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What to Do When One of Your Best Teachers Leaves

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By Alex Shultz
| Edutopia Verified
There isn’t a perfect way for a principal to break the news to faculty about a departing educator—especially a star educator, the type who serves as the connective tissue of an entire grade or department. But there isa wrong way: getting ahead of the educator’s own announcement. When I recently spoke to Deborah Dennie, principal of Leonardtown Middle School in Maryland, she described how she once faced this very predicament.
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