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Frenship Teacher Fired Over #imnotracist Post on Facebook

By Staff Frenship ISD said Thursday that the teacher who wrote a controversial Facebook post was fired.  She was not mentioned by name in the statement but she had been previously identified as Karen Fitzgibbons, a teacher at Bennett Elementary … Continue reading

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Frenship ISD teacher apologizes after McKinney-related segregation post

By Karen Michael & Adam D. Young A Frenship teacher said she apologized after writing a Facebook post saying she was “almost to the point” of wanting segregation regarding a racially charged police issue in McKinney. Karen Fitzgibbons, a teacher … Continue reading

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Child Hunger So Common That Three-Quarters Of Teachers Have Hungry Students

By Alan Pyke Three-quarters of America’s teachers have students who routinely show up to school hungry and half say hunger is a serious problem in their classrooms, according to No Kid Hungry’s annual educator survey. The numbers represent a significant … Continue reading

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Ring the school bell year-round

By Esther J. Cepeda It’s mid-August and parents across the country are breathing a sigh of relief that their tours of duty as surrogate educators finally will end. It’s a burden that many parents bear because they know that the … Continue reading

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Rita Pierson – Every kid needs a champion

A fantastic presentation from a seasoned, experienced teacher to new teachers and old ones who have lost their “spark.”

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Tyler DeWitt: Hey science teachers — make it fun

A teacher who can make learning fun and interesting is priceless. Those teachers are national treasures. From a student perspective there’s nothing like a teacher who can break down a complex physics or chemistry topic by relating it to their … Continue reading

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Pupils are not your Facebook friends, net privacy expert warns teachers

The title says it all. If the U.S. school system doesn’t already have such a guideline, I think it’s far overdue. Pupils are not your Facebook friends, net privacy expert warns teachers | Education | The Guardian.

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