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    Make The Most Of Every Day

    Examine your practice to sift out time wasters

    By Learning Forward
    Categories: Resources
    October 2015
    High-quality schools are very busy organizations, and whenever there is a new development in the field of education that requires teacher attention (peer coaching, personalized learning, metacognition, brain research, cooperative learning, etc.), many teachers ask: “But where will the time come from?” In our years of facilitating professional learning to schools around the world, we have heard this question hundreds of times. At first, we assumed that it might be a way for teachers to mask resistance to a new idea or initiative. But we have heard it so many times from hard-working and dedicated teachers that we have come to realize that teachers meant exactly what they were saying: Where will the time come from? How We Talk About Time Time is a slippery

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    Authors

    William Powell and Ochan Kusuma-Powell

    William Powell (bpowell49@yahoo.com) and Ochan Kusuma-Powell (okpowell@yahoo.com) are co-directors of Education Across Frontiers.

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