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The question of whether or not to leave a workplace can be a challenging one for many teachers. In this blog, one teacher shares her process with exploring core values, and allowing those values to guide her in her decision to change her district.

STEM teacher retention is essential to student success but must mean more than just keeping teachers in the classroom. The Knowles Teacher Initiative has found that building communities of teacher leaders is a powerful strategy for sustaining early-career educators. Read the whole article in Phi Delta Kappan.

Ayanna Perry’s article Plotting your status: An equity strategy was recently published in the MTLT journal. This article invites teachers to plot their status, using a Desmos activity, to support reflection on their classroom practice.

Knowles Director, Outreach and Dissemination, Dr. Ayanna Perry joined AMTE-TX President, Carrie Cutler for AMTE-TX Tea Time, to discuss teacher leadership in practice.

This unit uses the phenomenon of the food industry and the driving question “How does nitrogen fertilizer for blueberry crops impact life on Earth?” As students interrogate the stakeholders and impacts of using food crop fertilizers, they will also learn about stoichiometry and the basics of chemical reactions.