Jon Konen
Winner of the 2018 National Distinguished Principal Award
Jon Konen is an educator in Montana and freelance writing in Hamilton, Montana. He has been a teacher, instructional coach, elementary principal, high school principal, curriculum director, and superintendent.
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Articles and Blogs on Teacher.org
Individual Articles: EducationDegree.com
A Teacher’s Guide to Managing Stress
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5 Steps To Earning A Teaching Degree & Starting Your Career
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How to Choose a Teaching Certificate Specialty
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Teaching Degree ROI Guide: The Return on Investment You Can Expect with a Degree in Education
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Getting Black and Latino Teachers To The Head of the Class
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From Service Member to Educator: A Guide for Military Veterans Who Want to Become Teachers
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No Limits, No Ceilings: Women Teaching in Science Technology Engineering and Math
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Walking the Talk: 12 Action Areas for Schools to Combat Climate Change
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Individual Articles: Teacher.org
Learning How to Say No and Set Boundaries with Parents
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If You Had Only One Behavior Strategy To Use In Your Classroom, What Would It Be?
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Live Your Code: 7 Strategies That Will Help You Be the Most Effecdtive Educator You Can Be
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8 Ways to Fall In Love With Teaching Again and Make Your Career Work for You
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“What Advice Would You Give Your First-Year Self?”
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Strategies for Keeping Toxic Positivity Out of School Culture
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How Practicing a Little Email Etiquette Can Save Faculty a Lot of Unnecessary Stress
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Why Public Education is Worth Fighting For – A Counterpoint to All the Negativity Out There About State of our Schools
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Why Public Education is Worth Fighting For – 10 Strategies that Help us Stay Solutions-Oriented Problem-Solvers
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Why Public Education is Worth Fighting For – A Guide to Understanding School Funding Issues and the Steps We can Take to Save Public Education
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5 Ways to Put your Money Where Your Mouth Is In Building Supportive Relationships with Your Students
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October is National Principals Month – 9 X 5 Unique Ways to Celebrate Your Principal
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How the Pandemic Has Taught Us to Get Back to Basics and Embrace the Concept of Total Wellness
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Powerful Educational Technology Solutions That Will Outlive the Pandemic
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How the Challenges Created by COVIC Will be Good For the Future of Education
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Before We Rush to Get Back to Normal, Let’s Think About Which Part of Normal is Actually Worth Getting Back To
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Ever Wonder What Your Teacher Benefits Are Really Worth?
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Top 6 Reasons Why 2020-21 Was the Worst School Year Ever…and Why Next Year WIll Be Better
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Top 10 Pieces of Advice I Wish I got as a Graduating Senior
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If You’re a Teacher Thinking About Moving, There are 8 Questions You Need to Ask Yourself (And your Heart) Before Making the Decision
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11 Strategies Teachers Can Use to Deal with Difficult Adults
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Teacher Self Care: 5 Strategies for Giving Yourself Time to Recoup…So You’re Able to Give More of Yourself
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“If not us, then who?” – 7 Reasons Why Remote Learning Options NEED to be a Permanent Part of Public Education
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3 + 3 = COVID19: Solutions for Remote Learning Under Stay-at-Home Orders
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COVID-19 REALITY: 5 Reasons Why Teachers Are Working Harder Now than They Ever Have
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Be Visionary: 6 Ways the Corona Virus Outbreak Offers the Perfect Opportunity to Bring Real Change to Education
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Leadership in Teaching: 5 Reasons to Rise
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9 Reasons to Give “THAT” Kid Somer Extra Attention
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8 Reasons Why Blogging Can Support Your Growth as an Educator
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10 Reasons Why You Should Move to Montana to Teach
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Zugzwang Zigzag: An Educator’s Nightmare
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A Slice of Huckleberry Pie At the Crossroads of Public Education
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3 Wishes I Made to a Genie to Change Education
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10 Reminders to Keep Your Sanity
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8 Teacher Tips When Dealing with Divoriced Families
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7 Reasons You Will Want to Teach Like a Rock Star: Meet Hal Bowman!
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Playing with a Full Deck…Including the Wild Card: 53 Reasons to Be A Wild Card Teacher
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8 Strategies As the Wild Card to Change Stale Curriculum
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9 Reasons Not to Listen to Them…the Jokers!
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7 Steps for Putting the “PH” Back in PHUN in Your Classroom
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You Are the Wild Card: A Summer Guide to Putting the PH Back in Phun!
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Expand Your Tool Box: 5 Behavioral Strategies to Try Out Next Year
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10 Things You Should Not Do This Summer: Permission to Pause
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Don’t Leave, We Need You! 8 “Cries” and “Whys” For Not Leaving Teaching
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4 Strategies to Reframe Student and Parent Comments to the Positive
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Leadership: 7 Unintentional Lessons I learned from Failure
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The Construction Foreman Parent: 5 Strategies for Raising a Kind and Humble Child
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15 Memes That Make Me Laugh, Cry, and Try!
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The Toilet Paper Caper: Why We Should Celebrate Our Janitors
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7 Reasons Why I am Humbled to Win the NDP Award As Told By My Elementary Students – Part 1
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11 Ways Football is Your Classroom
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8 Things to Think About As you Start the School Year
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7 Reasons You Have the Best Community for Education
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The Top 3 Ways to Ward off Energy Vampires
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Why Public Education?…This Independence Day We Take A Look at How Public Schools Strengthen Society by Strengthening Individuals
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The “Not-So Dreaded” End of the Year Evaluation: 3 Reasons Why Principals Should Celebrate You!
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5 Reasons All Educators Should Be Recruiting the Next Crop of Teachers
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7 Strategies to Combat Community Opposition to Public Schools
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A Principal’s 12,000 Steps
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8 Ways Teachers Can Build School Culture with the Support of Their Principal
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Snapchat Will Not Be the Death of Me! 7 Lessons to Teach Responsibility
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10 Reasons to Have a Passion Partner
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3 Questions to Tackle in Showing Professionalism
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3 Questions to Tackle When Growing and Developing Professionally
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5 Questions to Improve the Participation in the Professional Community
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6 Questions to Tackle When Communicating with Families
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5 Questions to Tackle When Maintaining Accurate Records
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5 Questions to Tackle when Reflecting on Teaching
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6 Questions to Tackle when Demonstrating Flexilibty and Responsiveness in the Classroom
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6 Questions to Tackle in Using Assessment in Instruction
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6 Questions to Tackle when Engaging Students in Learning
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5 Questions to Tackle in Using Questioning and Discussion Techniques
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6 Questions to Tackle in Being Exemplary when Communicating with Students
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7 Questions to Ask in Managing Student Behavior
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How Does Early Childhood Education Funding Impact District Administrators
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6 Questions to Taackle in Managing Classroom Procedures
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5 Questions in Estabilshing a Culture for Learning
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6 Questions to Tackle in Creating an Environment of Respect and Rapport
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8 Questions to Tackle in Designing Student Assessments
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7 Questions in Designing Coherent Instruction
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10 Demonstrating Knowledge of Resources
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8 Questions to Tackle in Setting Instructional Outcomes
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9 Questions to Tackle in Demonstrating Knowledge of Your Students
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10 Questions to Tackle in Demonstrating Knowledge of Content and Pedagogy
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8 Ways to Teach Empathy
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One School Wide Philosophy: High-Trusting Relationships
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13 Ideas to Combat Bullying at the Community Level
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6 of the Most Hideous Cyber Bullying Tactics Used By Students
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3 Types of Bullying in School +1 Immense Social Challenge
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20 Ideas to Successfully Use Bully Data
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Provocative Victims and 7+ Practices for Victory
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9 Strategies We Can Teach Students to Problem Solve
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#1 Instructional Lesson for All Students on Bully Prevention
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11 Communication Strategies to Combat Bullying
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5 Reasons Why Schools Have a Difficult Time Stopping Bully Behaviors
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How to Raise a Defender
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10 Ways to Empower Defenders
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5 Reasons Why Strong Instruction Affects Bully Prevention
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7 Reasons Why a PBIS is Needed to Combat Bullying
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6+ Steps to Addressing Bullying When it Occurs
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5 Reasons Why Need to Define Bully Behavior and Stop Generalizing Events as Bullying
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5 Reasons Why Daily 5 is the Best Reading Structure out There
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Karma: 4 Lessons Learned from ISS/OSS
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8 Questions for Proactive Reflection
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13 Manners My Mom Tuaght Me That Affect Behavior
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The Best Teaming Rubric Out There: How Would You Score Your Team?
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The Best LIVE PD, EVER: 7 People Who Supported my Elucidation of Education
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Pay People More vs. Pay More People
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8 Steps to Start a Power of Praise Program
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5 Components to a Great Weekly Lesson Plan
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9 Reasons Culture Trumps Strategy
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9 Ideas You Can Use Without Taking Away Recess
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3 Things You Should Be Tracking with All Behavior
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4 Arguments for Technology Infusion in Schools
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5 Ways to be an In and Out Burger, and Not an Applebee’s
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5 Trends in Professional Development We Must Think About
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212 Degrees of Customer Service in Education
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5 Strategies to Teach Children Patience That My Dad Taught Me
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Not 400:1, But 400 1:1s: 21 Tips to Form Strong Kid Relationships
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“I am Not the Queen!”…What would you Tell New Teachers to the Profession?
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Sleep vs. ADHD: 21 Questions to Ask
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The Power of Buddy Classrooms: 19 Ideas
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The “Double Scoop” — Student Emotions
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Can a Kindness Campaign Truly Change Your School?
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How Do You Like Your Principal to Celebrate You?
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Teaching Degree ROI Guide: The Return on Investment You Can Expect with a Degree in Education
Reviewed by Jon Konen, District Superintendent You can’t turn on the news or open a paper today without hearing about the […]
Getting Black and Latino Teachers To The Head of the Class
A Comprehensive Guide for Black and Latino Students Pursuing Careers in Teaching As America becomes more diverse, statistics show we […]
From Service Member to Educator: A Guide for Military Veterans Who Want to Become Teachers
Something that has probably bugged you a lot since you’ve gotten out of the service is the blanket assumption that […]
