Washington state’s 2019 Teacher of the Year: ‘Be proud of yourself. Be brave. Be bold.’
Robert Hand, a family and consumer sciences instructor at Mount Vernon High School, will now contend for the national teacher of the year award.
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A pediatrician and author makes the link between painful childhood experiences and their physiological effects, which could have important implications for schools.
Guest essay: Social-emotional skills should be part of every lesson
‘If we don’t teach to the heart, we will never reach the mind,’ says Lyon Terry, Washington state’s Teacher of the Year in 2015.
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Trauma-informed education is spreading from alternative high schools to comprehensive ones, and it’s not always an easy fit.
Leschi used to be a divided school. So teachers and parents made a change.
Seattle's Leschi Elementary just finished its second year of a blended Montessori-contemporary program supporting racial balance a unified school community. So far, it seems to...
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