Jaclyn Day
Why Do We Struggle to Evaluate Teacher Performance and What Biases Impact Feedback?
How Video-Based Observation Can Encourage Open Discussions About Teaching Performance As presenters, we struggle to evaluate our performance due to the distractions and biases we encounter while presenting. The same goes for administrators when evaluating the performance of their teachers.
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Maintaining a Clean Student Database Doesn’t Have to be Challenging
Tips and Tools to Simplify Record Updating Maintaining an updated and duplicate-free database is difficult. Because people consistently move addresses, change phone numbers and emails, and their family situation changes, there can be a lot of hands in your database
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Why Are There Not More Middle-Class Students in Private Schools?
There’s no doubt that the majority of private K-12 schools are schools for the wealthy, but with FACTS, that doesn’t have to be the case.
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Help Your School Grow Social Media Reach, Audience
Ideas and Tactics for Success Schools all over the country are working to find the perfect recipe for social media success. I feel your pain. It seems as soon as you start seeing success on one social media channel, there
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Website Mistakes Your School Should Avoid in 2018
Plus what to consider when updating your design I recently spoke with a school administrator who expressed her frustration about the rapidly changing trends around school website design. “It feels like we have to update our website every year,” she
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Listening in a Mobile World
How to stay present during conversations We all probably like to think we’re a good listener. After all, we wouldn’t be able to interact with families, manage school operations, and spend time with students if we weren’t able to listen,
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Digital Citizenship Plays a Role in the Classroom
How the tools schools need are changing For many generations, we have been teaching civics in our schools; students are taught how our government works and who we are as a nation. We want students to feel empowered to become
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Here’s to Partnerships, Collaboration, and Success
A Reflection on How Our Partner Schools Impacted FACTS Throughout 2017. ’Tis the season for reflecting, and on behalf of the FACTS team, I can tell you that we have plenty to reminisce about. But before I dive into all
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Turn Your School’s Pinterest Account into an Effective Marketing Tool
How do you distinguish your school online using social media? Social media marketing is more important than ever and Pinterest is rapidly becoming one of the most widely-used among school marketing professionals. How do you take full advantage of your
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