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Register Now for Annual Conference!
ASCD's Annual Conference takes place March 24–26. Join us and educators from across the world for A Collective Call to Action in Philadelphia, Pa.
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Ask the White House to Create a President's Council on the Whole Child
Use the White House's We the People petition tool to call for a President's Council comprising national leaders, state officials, educators, community members, and other experts to foster greater collaboration among the education, social, health, and safety agencies that support children and the coordination of programs at all levels to benefit families.
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Job Ramp
Looking for a new position? Trying to hire the best teachers? ASCD has its own job bank. Learn more at www.jobramp.org.
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Ten Years of Outstanding Young Educators
Meet ASCD Outstanding Young Educators from the past 10 years. Find out where their work has taken them and what drives their leadership today.
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The Power of Student Feedback
It makes sense for teachers to tap their students' knowledge, ideas, and thoughts about what changes should be made to the instructional methods, teacher traits, or classroom environment. Doing so also models the growth mind-set teachers expect from their students.
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Blog Watch:
Read the Best of the EduBlog Awards
Looking for great new education blogs to read? Is your RSS feed growing stale? A great antidote to a tired online reading list is the annual EduBlog Awards, which highlights worthy sites in a wide variety of categories.
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Reading: The Core Skill
The ability to read skillfully and with comprehension is the foundation of student achievement across the curriculum. Yet many students still come to the upper elementary grades without basic reading proficiency. This issue will look at what students at every grade level need to become strong readers.
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Supporting Preservice Teachers
In a classroom stint that often lasts little more than eight weeks, preservice teachers get the chance to put into practice everything they've learned in the college classroom. Along with education theory, student teachers have the guidance of a seasoned mentor teacher and the support of their professors as they face real students for the first time. But do preservice education programs do enough, especially when it comes to setting up new teachers for practical success in the classroom?
Articles in this issue of ASCD Express raise questions, offer practical ideas, and provoke creative challenges for educators at all levels—whether apprentice, journeyman, or veteran—and teacher educators who want to improve the classroom teaching experience of the education profession's newest members.
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Learning and Teaching for the Long Haul
 Teacher educators must give preservice teachers the proper support, challenges, opportunities, and space to grow into a teaching career that continues long after the practicum ends, writes Amy Baeder.
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The Benefits of Asking "How Can I Improve This Lesson?"
As a preservice teacher, Alice Kramer used a daily dialogue journal with her mentor teacher. The practicum became a reflective and professional experience that helped Kramer adjust lessons and hone her development in the art of teaching.
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Professional Relationships Influence Preservice Teacher Success
A preservice teacher's experience with a mentor teacher can influence a new educator's attitude toward the profession in profound ways—for good or for ill—point out researchers at the University of Alberta in Canada.
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Research-Based Best Practices for Preservice Teachers
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Learning How to Ask Questions
 Knowing how to ask students the right question at the right time is an important skill preservice teachers can learn that will serve them for a lifetime of teaching.
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Tech for Teachers:
Wonderful Word Clouds
 Tools to create word clouds not only make beautiful images, but they also give students and teachers another way to analyze text and revise writing.
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My Back Pages:
Frontiers in Education (1946)
In the post–WWII United States, education experts called for preservice teachers to understand children and their activities in a variety of settings beyond the school walls.
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Early Teamwork Gave New Teacher a Balanced Perspective
 Coplanning and coteaching with his mentor teacher were daily routines for Bryan Schmidt, who was given complete charge of the class on his 15th day as a student teacher. Such collegial support is a necessity, not a luxury, for preservice and new teachers.
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