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10 Women Who Rock . . . and Teach!

Lisa Michelle DabbsMarch 8, 2012

Tags Leadership, Mentoring, New Teachers, Primary (K-2), Teacher Development, Technology Integration, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

As March is now upon us, it's important to note that we have a unique opportunity this month to celebrate . . . women! March is Women's History Month, a time to honor the contributions women have made over the centuries.

As March is now upon us, it's important to note that we have a unique opportunity this month to celebrate . . . women! March is Women's History Month, a time to honor the contributions women have made over the centuries. Read More

New Teacher Academy: Building Relationships

Lisa Michelle DabbsFebruary 14, 2012

Tags Classroom Management, New Teachers, Professional Learning Network (PLN), , Teacher Development, All Grades

Welcome to the fifth and final week of Edutopia's New Teacher Academy blog series! I'm excited to be here with you sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. It's been great to have had the opportunity to provide resources for new teachers in five key areas. As we wrap up our series, we will continue to collaborate on these five topics in more detail on New Teacher chat, my weekly chat on Twitter, and also at my blog Teaching with Soul.

New Teacher Academy: Delivery of Instruction

Lisa Michelle DabbsJanuary 31, 2012

Tags Classroom Technology, New Teachers, Professional Development, Project-Based Learning, Teacher Development, Technology Integration

Welcome to week three of Edutopia's New Teacher Academy blog series! I'm excited to be here with you sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. I hope that you will stay with us as we continue to look at five key topics designed to provide resources for new teachers in five key areas. To collaborate in more detail on these and other topics, I invite you to join my weekly New Teacher chat on Twitter, and also to visit my blog Teaching with Soul.

New Teacher Academy: Lesson Planning

Lisa Michelle DabbsJanuary 24, 2012

Tags Lesson Plans, New Teachers, Primary (K-2), Professional Development, Teacher Development, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

Welcome to week two of Edutopia's New Teacher Academy blog series! I'm excited to be here with you sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. I hope that you will stay with us as we continue to look at five key topics designed to provide resources for new teachers in five key areas. To collaborate in more detail on these and other topics, I invite you to join my weekly New Teacher chat on Twitter, and also to visit my blog Teaching with Soul.

New Teacher Academy: Classroom Management

Lisa Michelle DabbsJanuary 17, 2012

Tags Classroom Management, New Teachers, Professional Development, , Teacher Development, All Grades

Welcome to Edutopia's New Teacher Academy! I'm so happy to be here sharing my passion to support and mentor new teachers. I hope that you will join us for all five key topics that we'll cover in this series, because that's our mission: offering resources to new teachers. To collaborate in more detail on these and other topics, I invite you to join my weekly New Teacher chat on Twitter, and also to visit my blog Teaching with Soul.

Message to New Teachers for a New Year: Patience, Persistence and Peace

Lisa Michelle DabbsJanuary 4, 2012

Tags New Teachers, Primary (K-2), Professional Learning Network (PLN), , Teacher Development, Upper Elementary (3-5), Middle (6-8), High (9-12)

Dear New Teacher,

Congratulations! You made it through the holiday rush, classroom busyness and maybe even some college class craziness. If you've come this far, you should give yourself a hug and feel a great sense of accomplishment.

Kicking off 2012 with Two Blog Series

Betty RayDecember 28, 2011

Tags Diversity, New Teachers

Join us for two new blog series featuring weekly posts from two prominent educators.

Embracing Continuous Improvement with EdTech

Mary Beth HertzDecember 12, 2011

Tags Classroom Technology, New Teachers, Professional Development, Teacher Development, Technology Integration, All Grades

If you are a connected, networked educator (or even if you're not), it's easy to begin comparing yourself to all those online examples of excellence in ed tech. "Look at the way so-and-so is using blogging with his or her second graders!" or "I love how this person uses Skype to bring experts into their classroom!"

New Teachers: Is Your Principal a P.A.L (Pretty Awesome Leader)?

Lisa Michelle DabbsNovember 17, 2011

Tags Leadership, Mentoring, New Teachers, Principals, Teacher Development, All Grades

A few weeks ago while discussing a topic for the next new teacher chat on Twitter, a pre-service teacher sent me a private tweet. She asked if I knew the best way a principal should work to support new teachers on their campus. I responded by saying that I thought it would make a perfect topic for an upcoming chat. As a result, our November 2 chat topic was "How should a principal support a new teacher?"

The Emerging Age Bias

Pernille RippNovember 3, 2011

Tags New Teachers, Professional Learning Network (PLN), Teacher Development, All Grades

"You know I was worried at first, because she was so old, but it turned out she was really good..." A friend and I are discussing her child's teacher. Her words resonate with me because I have heard them a lot lately; she was so old...old... and I wonder since when did being a veteran teacher become a negative quality in America?