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Stony Brook University Receives $700,000 to Address Shortage of Diverse and Prepared K-12 Leaders

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Strengthening a Diverse Leadership Pipeline Through Leadership Preparation and Development” is a partnership of faculty from five schools: Stony Brook, City College of New York, Fordham University, Hofstra University, and St. “The

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George Washington University Adjunct Faculty to Potentially Receive Raise and Base Salary Increase

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It also doubles the $700 professional development fund adjuncts have for work expenses and bans full-time faculty from taking some of part-time professors’ pay when co-teaching, according to union officials. I can’t pay our adjunct faculty what they deserve,” said Lisa Page, director of GW’s creative writing program.

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How to Address the Dearth in Black Male Teachers

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The MALE program was launched in 2019, months before the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, Strachan pointed out, but said that has not stopped its efforts. The initiative offers scholarships up to $10,000 per academic year, books and support for testing, seminars, professional development, and community service hours.

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Benefits of Integrating Service-Learning With Other High-Impact Practices

The Scholarly Teacher

2019; Salam et al., 2019) found that service-learning leads to the “overall betterment of the local community” (p. Students also developed and administered a short survey to better understand barriers for residents to agree to soil testing. In a meta-analysis of the service-learning literature, Salam et al. Cherian, T.,

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Engaging Students in Faculty Research

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2019; Schwartz et al., 2018), stimulating academic inquiry and promoting interdisciplinary learning, career development, cultural awareness, leadership, and professional and intellectual skills. This allowed us to build professional portfolios and increase our professional networking. Gulf Publishing. Popescu, D.,

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Culturally-Sustaining K-12 Education: Who’s Teaching the Teachers?

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Consider this: The World Health Organization’s (WHO) 2019 updated definition of burnout includes three dimensions: “Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. Likewise, we have witnessed frustration by teachers for the same reasons. Dr. Donna Y.

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Examples of Excelencia

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It also added professional development for all the tutors and faculty. With our staff, we’ve engaged in professional development through International Coaching Federation, which is one of the largest governing bodies for coaching,” says Heim. “It Approximately 80% of the students who access EAP are Latino.