Imagine on your first day of work walking into a board room filled with 30 of your company’s most important clients. You’re expected to present on the company’s core products. Sounds scary, right? Ironically, this is what new teachers experience on their first day. They enter a classroom filled with our community’s most important clients: [...]
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Education Trust’s Kati Haycock pointed out that sustaining teachers is a greater challenge than recruiting them to the field, particularly for teachers working in the most challenging schools. This is particularly problematic given that in the next 10 years, 25,000 new teachers will be needed in this country to fill vacant positions due to retirement [...]
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Recruiting and retaining high quality teachers is a high risk game. We all make mistakes at work from time to time. I know there have been times where I have felt overwhelmed or unclear about making the most strategic decision, but the risk was relatively low. Everything was fixable. However, for teachers, the risk impacts the 30 [...]
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Today, over 600 people attended the first Minnesota Meeting. It was the first in a three-part series on education titled Raising Expectations. I was incredibly excited to have many of you join us at At The Table. I think that all in attendance were both moved and alarmed by the cold, hard facts about the [...]
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An recent article in the New York Times surprised me. A study, conducted by Blackbaud Inc., looked at online giving experiences of 24 nonprofit organizations that collectively have 9.5 million donors and revenues of $747 million. The results showed that people who donate online to a nonprofit for the first time do not return online [...]
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