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Research-Influenced Learning Spaces

A Principal's Reflections

The consensus of this research is that the space itself has physical, social, and psychological effects. One study measured the impact of classroom design on 12 active learning practices, including collaboration, focus, opportunity to engage, physical movement, and stimulation (Scott-Webber, Strickland, & Kapitula, 2014).

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Are traditional admission policies increasing racial inequality?

The Hechinger Report

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014).

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We Must Teach Black History Like Our Lives Depend on It

ED Surge

When a grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in 2014, my mom called me, defeated. Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human. I will never forget that moment.

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To increase and maintain teacher diversity, listen to teachers of color

The Hechinger Report

And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. Since 2014, Grubb said, the largely Latino district has boosted teacher diversity by more than 30 percent, to a large extent by hiring Latino teachers to staff dual-language programs. In 2018-19, 45 percent of new teacher hires in Highline were people of color.

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Special education’s hidden racial gap

The Hechinger Report

White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition.

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How Educators Can Foster Student Motivation

Digital Promise

Callahan promotes autonomy by structuring his high school psychology course around the interests of his students. Psychological inquiry,11(4), 227-268. Journal of personality and social psychology, 87(2), 246. Facilitating optimal motivation and psychological well-being across life’s domains. Vansteenkiste, M.,

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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We Finally, the approach breaks from traditional classrooms where students are expected to sit and listen. We watch the show and dissect it.”. This approach is dynamic. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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