Jennifer Gonzales

As of May 10th, FAFSA completions for high school students remain 17.2% below last year's numbers. However, this metric alone fails to capture the complexity of the situation. --> Students from lower-income districts exhibit a larger completion gap of 20.1% in comparison to higher-income districts, with a similar difference observed between high-minority and low-minority districts. --> It's important to note that these figures only apply to high school students aged 19 or younger submitting the FAFSA for the first time. We lack information about rates for people who are not in high school. Working adults 25 and older make up nearly 40% of the learners attending college. --> Rates vary significantly within and between states, ranging from a high of 25% below last year for Mississippi to a low of 3.8% below last year for Indiana. --> There are also variations between different counties or regions and different types of schools within states. What's clear is that these figures will have a significant impact on enrollment.

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We are here for the kids, SO that means prioritizing the health and growth of our teachers who do the work EVERYDAY. It takes guts to do personal work so your professional work is authentic, and these educators are the epitome of what is right in Alabama and education ❤️🏆. #maslowforteachers #maslowbeforeblooms #coffeecountyschoolsystem

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Are you creative? Convinced you’re not? Creativity can be learned, it can become an integral part of your classroom! EDU 905: Creativity and Innovation: 100% Online Grad Course for K12 Teachers June 3 to July 14 https://lnkd.in/eNc7KSJR  @eduspirePD #edtech #onlinecourses #teacherPD #creativity #innovation

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Drowning in Course Copy Chaos? National Louis University went from error-prone processes to streamlined success with Ellucian solutions! They reduced errors by 95% and individual copy requests by 70%. Learn how they did it & free up faculty time for what matters most: students! Read the full case study here: https://lnkd.in/gzkiSE97. #StudentSuccess #HigherEdTech

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Louder for those who claim to sit front. “So if these students are “less resilient,” it’s not because they’re not resilient — it’s because they were forced to expend so much of that resiliency over the last five years. But even that framing smells of bullshit. Here is a micro-generation that, if we’re to listen to the commentariat, is detached and anti-social thanks to smartphones and disillusioned by coming of age in the middle of multiple economic, social, political, and viral disruptions. By that logic, these students should be removed from the world to the point of nihilism. But what we’re seeing in these protests is the near opposite. It’s not nihilism. It’s activism. These protests aren’t taking place on forums or social media; they’re happening in physical space. It’s not a disengagement from a world that has largely left them to fend for themselves; it’s a brave, angry, and frequently messy engagement. I look at the protests and see students funneling their grief in a way that disrupts the narrative of their own disengagement. And I see them using the tools they were given to fend for themselves during the pandemic — the surgical mask — to fight surveillance. I see adults, not children, furious about the inhumane Israeli assault on Palestine, and advocating for their institutions’ disinvestment in that war. If you listen closely, they’re also mad, and righteously so, about so much else — including the idea that peacefully protesting is “ruining” their college experience. College is about learning how to learn. It’s also an education, as Hamilton Nolan puts it, in bullshit: in how an institution, or a workplace, or a boss can profess one belief and govern in a way that utterly compromises it.“

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It used to be that if you were a school counselor or someone who was involved with special education you were the only one dealing with the Multi-Tiered System of Support (MTSS). However, that is no longer the case. All K-12 educators must be involved. I would encourage you to read an interesting white paper on the subject. https://lnkd.in/eB66gnmB

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Effective instruction must be tailored to meet the instructional needs of all the students in the classroom. In the same way, professional development must also be tailored to meet the needs of individual teachers. If you need help, preparing, planning and presenting targeted professional development for your teachers, let’s talk.

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Businesses, come learn about the benefits of hosting an apprenticeship program. Families, come learn about how apprenticeship can benefit your family!

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Webinar next week! Come hear how DeKalb County School District became a registered teacher apprenticeship program in Georgia.

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Level up with The InterACTIVE Class book! 📕 Practical tips and strategies for creating engaging, student-centered classrooms that foster collaboration and critical thinking! ❤️ Learn more ⤵️ https://amzn.to/2ZR0Eod #interACTIVEclass

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Y’all! I am excited to share some exciting news! My friend, Ashley Philipps, has just published her first book The Teacher's Guide to Changing Careers! If you don’t know Ashley, she is a former teacher and she wrote this guide for other k12 teachers who are looking for a career change! This resource will help you: -determine if leaving the classroom is right for you, -plan your exit, -figure out what companies/industries/roles suit you, -build your brand, -build your network, and -get tips and advice from other former teachers. Click the link in the comments to get your copy today! This book is a conversational read and will give you actionable steps you can take to give you hope today!! #teacher #careerchange #transitionteacher #booklaunch

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The Parent-Infant and Child Facilitator Spring 24 training (PICC Spring 24) begins on May 5th! We are entering the last week for enrollment and I look forward to being with this new cohort of students, who continue to enroll. These environments, prepared for both the adult and child, can evolve in ways that are unique to you. Through our six weeks together online, you will explore your vision and longing to serve families through a study that is self-paced, and which you have lifetime access to....... returning as you need. Along with the nuts and bolts of creating a Montessori Playgroup, you will enter into experiential practices to deepen your understanding of yourself. You will practice observation and engage weekly with your learning cohort and me. I continue to experience and observe transformative processes within adults at Ananda Montessori, and this is inspiring. One parent who began just a few weeks ago shared how she recognizes that as she frees up more within herself.....her assumptions, expectations, and beliefs about herself and her child.....she sees her child is more free to explore independently. I have noticed this same mirroring quality in PICC, over the past 12 years. Releasing and deepening understanding within a community of learners. As Amanda Grano, a graduate of PICC and owner of Grano Montessori says of this training: "This course has been amazing! It's beautiful, deep, thought provoking, and I've learned just as much about myself through this course as I have learned about starting a Montessori Parent and Child Community. It's practical while also being deeply focused on the core of the Montessori philosophy. I highly recommend it if you are at all interested in starting a Parent and Child group!" ~So, if you have been thinking about joining now, I encourage you to visit the link and read more. Some people have asked when I will offer this training again, and I have not set dates other than NOW. https://lnkd.in/ehaw-_s3

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As a teacher, the best moments are the little moments, the "teachable" moments where you get across an idea or lesson that is less about the technical aspects and more about how to see the world. Boot camp students typically frustrate themselves with the fact that they never seem to "know enough." They have it in their heads that somehow they're going to master programming by learning every single detail, every single subject. To them, it's not okay to just muddle through something or try your best and see how it turns out. To those students, I show them my "CSS The Definitive Guide" which is a 1,090 page tome on all things CSS. That's over a thousand pages ON A SINGLE SUBJECT. It's okay to muddle through, it's okay to try something out to see if it sticks, and it's okay to Google things. It's okay.

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