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Oct 2023
12m 3s

216: Your Teachers Need a Win

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
About this episode

I have no new strategies or tools or books to share with you this week. Nothing new to implement. Just a simple call to action for administrators to start giving your teachers more specific, genuine positive feedback. They need it. 


Thanks to NoRedInk and The Modern Classrooms Project for sponsoring this episode.


You can read this podcast as a post at cultofpedagogy.com/your-teachers-need-a-win/.

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