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[ad_1] Dear We Are Teachers, For my first two years of teaching 7th grade math, the big feedback was to improve my classroom management. Now that...
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[ad_1] Dear We Are Teachers, I was recently diagnosed with ADHD, and it has shed a ton of light on certain behaviors and patterns in my...