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H.S. Future Teachers Being Prepped for Common Core and Competency-Based Education

February 22, 2016 By Nancy Bailey 2 Comments

We hear we have a serious problem finding teachers for America’s classrooms. One solution is to encourage students in high school to become career teachers. Young people are full of vibrant ideas and high school should be considered a valuable place for teacher recruitment. I am not saying we should push students to be teachers, […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Badges, Bloomboard for Schools, Competency-Based Education, Digital Promise, Educators Rising, FTA, Future Teaches of America, Love2Learn, Micro-Credentialing, Relay Graduate School of Education, TNTP

Girl Scout Badges Made Just for Teachers!

April 30, 2014 By Nancy Bailey 8 Comments

A new corporate idea being revved up for public schools involves teachers earning badges…because there is nothing that says Free Market more than teachers competing with Girl Scouts. Here are some badges you can earn, teachers: Money Counts. Teachers, earn this badge when you spend 50% of your paycheck on materials that the school cannot […]

Filed Under: Featured Tagged With: Badges, Common Core, Corporations, Girl Scouts, students, teachers

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