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School Safety Solution: Bring Back Homerooms, Only BETTER, to Know and Support Students

December 10, 2021 By Nancy Bailey 11 Comments

School districts might devise solutions to understand students better. Here’s one suggestion. Bring back a more personalized homeroom with smaller student groups (10 to 15 students) along with an adult mentor for at least 20 minutes each day. Students need smaller groups to get to know each other and feel supported to understand there’s no […]

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13 Reasons Why Grade Retention is Terrible, and 12 Better Solutions

May 30, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 22 Comments

There are few education issues that anger me more than massive retention of third graders based on one test score! Mississippi recently became the latest state to embrace retention. It’s a huge mistake. Adults fail children by not assisting them with their learning problems. Why is massive school retention terrible? A retained student doesn’t learn […]

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Recess and Behavior Problems: Foolproof Methods to Help Students Succeed

April 28, 2015 By Nancy Bailey 1 Comment

This will be my last post for those teachers who asked what they could do to deal with a student’s behavior if they didn’t use recess as a carrot for behavior. Troubling student behavior in today’s overcrowded, diverse classrooms is a huge problem for many teachers. I struggled even with smaller class sizes in special […]

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rachelannelevy Rachel for Delegate @rachelannelevy ·
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Wow. I just sent an email to my school board yesterday in support of the many good things in the proposed budget.

This will have a very negative effect on many school district budgets in Virginia and on our kids' education.

Not good, not good at all.
https://richmond.com/news/state-and-regional/govt-and-politics/local-school-divisions-short-201-million-in-aid-because-of-state-error/article_6138b1e2-a0f1-11ed-8b54-87263b50295e.html

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vfleischfresser Vaughan Fleischfresser @vfleischfresser ·
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For some people, there’s nothing better than singing in a choir. For some people, there’s nothing better than playing in a music ensemble. For some people, there’s nothing better than making music with others. For some people, there’s nothing better or more important than music.

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joshcowenmsu Josh Cowen @joshcowenmsu ·
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Anyone want to stop flunking third graders today, and focus on #literacy supports instead? #miched #mileg

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joshcowenmsu Josh Cowen @joshcowenmsu ·
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Look the reason the Right wants to keep retaining MI 3rd graders is they want parents of those 5000 kids to keep getting the “your kid may flunk” letter MDE has been required to send. #miched #mileg 🙄

Strategically that plays into the plan to undermine #publicschools

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@susanoha @NancyEBailey1 "Sell What We Do": The Manufactured Crisis to Hide the Story Being Sold https://radicalscholarship.com/2023/01/30/sell-what-we-do-the-manufactured-crisis-to-hide-the-story-being-sold/

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