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EduTip 29: Build relationships with a sp...

JENNIFER GONZALEZ
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Lots of teachers give students some kind of questionnaire at the beginning of a school year to get to know them, but what do you do with that information after you get it? By putting responses into a spreadsheet, you'll have a relationship-building tool you can use all year.

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