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Leadership / First Year of Teaching
Leadership /First year of Teaching Complacency-The Poison of Excellence When addressing his players, Vince Lombardi, the legendary Hall of Fame Football Coach of the Green Bay Packers once said, “Gentlemen, we will chase perfection, and we will chase it relentlessly, knowing all the while we can never attain it. But along the way, we shall…
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Best Practice /First Year of Teaching
Best Practice /First Year of Teaching The Influence of Teaching Part II In my last article, I shared some concepts presented by Dr. Ronald Ferguson and his work that focuses on the reduction and the closing of the minority achievement gap, most specifically his work with the Tripod Project. (Ferguson, 2015) I hope you found…
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Best Practice / First Year of Teaching
Best Practice /First Year of Teaching The Influence of Teaching Over a decade ago, I started to follow closely the work of Dr. Ronald Ferguson and his work on closing the minority achievement gap in schools. I thought his work was powerful and more importantly, it made a great deal of sense to me. I…