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Most educators said their school districts have not taken any action to prepare for more severe weather, a new survey finds.

During a "normal year," our vacancies run between 5% and 10%, which equates, roughly to 10 to 20 teachers — so far this spring, we have had 18 teacher vacancies for next year.

Hundreds of school districts across the country have declared they only want to hire "anti-racist" lackeys.

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Buildings. if we understand that and thoughtful principals and superintendents get that and creating those support systems to help keep our teachers sustained through of the difficult times, its absolutely possible. i can tell you anecdotally many schools are taking this extraordinarily seriously. i talked to superintendents. >> madeline, part of that, i mentioned, you know, student learning loss. concerns that have teachers have. tell me about what you found about sort of what is on the top of ...

Teachers, students. parents are worried about their children coming home every day. schools should not have to deal with that on top of everything else. we, the nation, have to decide our children and families are more important than guns and take common sense steps policy sense steps policy wise to make sure our children, parents, teachers can go to school and not live with the daily fear. it makes no sense whatsoever, it does not have to be this way. >> on that note. thank you, arne duncan, ma...

Students. do i think half the teachers will leave the profession next year? probably not. do i i think teachers are under tremendous stress. our helpers need helpers. teachers are heros today. we need to look out for them when we can to keep it going through the difficult time. >> i want to do a deeper dive on what can be done. madeline, let me ask you, first, clearly teachers have a lot of reasons to be stressed. what can you tell us about this very real threat of teacher shortages? are these f...

Are back in the classroom after rough start to the pandemic. of course, the return brought new challenges. schools everywhere dealing with huge staffing shortages, including subs and bus drivers. during the pandemic, issues like critical race theory became major flash points often take the criticism from school parents. school shootings are up. this is pushing a full third of teachers, in a new survey, said theyre likely to quit within two years. another 21% somewhat likely to quit. joining me n...

Jacob Lund / Alamy Stock Photo Math teachers are rethinking student assessments in creative ways that allow them to get a broader picture of kids’ conceptual math understanding, writes Madeline Will for Education Week. And while this creative approach to assessing student knowledge is, at least in part, due to remote learning, the strategies are powerful and make sense during a normal school year. “I think this is good for a lot of us math teachers because it’s forced us to rethink what ...