Phyllis Fagell offers advice to educators. In this issue, an art teacher wants to know how she can make sure her students have a fulfilling experience in her class when her budget for supplies has ...been cut.
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Phyllis L. Fagell offers workplace advice to educators. In this month’s column, a teacher is frustrated by parents who blame her for their son’s misbehavior instead of partnering with her to help ...him. How can she avoid approaching them in anger?
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In Career Confidential, Phyllis Fagell answers work-related questions from educators. This month’s column includes a teacher who is frustrated that the principal isn’t much help when she sends ...students to him for their behavior.
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In Career Confidential, Phyllis Fagell offers workplace advice for teachers. In this issue, a teacher wonders how he should have reacted when he overheard students making fun of his breath.
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Phyllis Fagell offers workplace advice for educators in this regular Kappan column. This month, a math teacher is looking for ideas to ease students’ test anxiety.
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Phyllis L. Fagell offers work-related advice to educators. This month, a teacher wants to know how she can recover after telling an administrator to f**k off. A teacher candidate wonders why so many ...districts require in-person interviews when virtual options are available.
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In this Kappan column, Phyllis L. Fagell gives workplace advice to a teacher who longs for a sense of belonging with the other adults in the building. Fagell also weighs in on whether a staff ...development specialist should serve as a “go-between” for teachers and administrators.
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Phyllis Fagell gives career advice to educators. In this month’s column, a teacher asks if it’s acceptable to Google the names of students who are struggling to see if she can undercover underlying ...issues. A beginning teacher wants a mentor but isn’t sure how to go about building that relationship. A teacher who’s always willing to pitch in when the principal asks for help wants to get better at saying no.
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In this Kappan column, Phyllis Fagell offers workplace advice to educators. This month, a teacher doesn’t know how to respond when a parent reacts negatively to an email about her child. A principal ...is grappling with self-doubt after receiving criticism about his decisions. And a teacher fears that a personal, political disagreement with his principal will affect his career prospects as he seeks a new position.
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