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TITHING FOR TEACHERS: FOR A LEGACY OF EXCELLENCE, A LIFETIME OF TANGIBLE THANKS

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Addressing teacher evaluations currently based either on formal and mostly contractual agreements or high stakes test results; both of which are flawed metrics. A series of metrics, say a Likert scale (1-5 or NA) where they could identify and rate teachers based on objective criteria.

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GAMIFICATION – PLAYING AT (NOT) LEARNING

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Wrapping this around new metrics like ‘engagement analytics’ purveyors believe they can empirically demonstrate positive results—commercial and educational. So using any metrics, I challenge Gamification builders to reveal learning performance improvement by users in their real work achieved by Gamification techniques alone.

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5.1 Reasons How and Why to Build Learning with Social Media

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Use social media tools to communicate and report; and the leader can check the group’s progress by looking at metrics with tools (Social Oomph, etc.). Communicate frequently with the group to help them synthesize information. Stir the mix to change perspectives.

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Here’s a Way to Fix Relationships in Distress

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How deep the rift, how often the cuts and makeups and how long the cycle continues is a metric of whether the relationship has legs for a long run. All couples share dark moments from misunderstandings, misfortunes, malfeasance. People change, grow, and move towards or away from each other. Is it time to split up the books and furniture?

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The $125,000 Teacher – And Corporate Counterpart

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falling off of classroom control, low or static student metrics, that teacher is gone. As to the teachers, screened rigorously and fully aware that with no tenure protection they must effect significant change, work long hours on both lesson planning and peer evaluations. Should there be a.

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Treacherous Business Words Used in Learning « Wonderful Brain

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More often than we’d like to admit the resulting course has two-fold results: It is used, maybe, if it actually answers a need for which you thought it was made but never fully understood (shooting in the dark syndrome) or if it is delivered, the results are never exposed to any metric for measurement. BTW, mother’s are great at this. (At

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FEAR OF BRANDING – 10.1 Reasons to Move On

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What are the metrics and key performance indicators that say, ‘change now’ to convince bean counters of the necessity of the expenses accrued by such change? However, many companies take a hard look and must re-brand; not to do so would be organizational complacency and that can lead to early death. Moreover, there is a conundrum.

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