Conquering your emails - an important skill for the modern educator

By Dan Haesler
Community contribution / April 18, 2018

I started teaching in 1999, when within the school, communication was via the morning staff briefing and through memos or the like posted in my pigeonhole, that I might – or more likely might not – get to every day.

And if something was really important, you’d go and find the person you needed to speak to and have a ...

This story appeared in the April 2018 edition of Australian Teacher Magazine.

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Conquering your emails - an important skill for the modern educator

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