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2018 Education Innovation Clusters Convening: Looking to the Future

Digital Promise

Roberts (@DoctorDRoberts) July 17, 2018. — Frank Bonsal III (@FrankBonsal) July 17, 2018. — The ExCITe Center (@excitecenter) July 17, 2018. Education is the social justice issue of our time…period. — Carly Croman (@carly_croman) July 17, 2018. — Demetrius C.

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Students sick of ‘lip service’ from universities over racism

The Hechinger Report

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Credit: Lourdes Torrey. I changed majors.”. “I

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How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Stereotype Threat in Your Class this School Year

Digital Promise

Are you decorating your room in a manner that is representative of all cultures ? Educators also should work towards learning about the backgrounds of their students so they understand students’ cultural and social norms. The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library.

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OPINION: Police reform is useless unless it helps those in prison, too

The Hechinger Report

Seeing a need to balance the scales, in 2016, several members of Monroe’s 70-year-old Hispanic Culture Group, myself included, formed an organization aimed at creating educational opportunities for a demographic that seemed forgotten by everybody else.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. But it also shows how hard it can be to change the culture of a school — and the mindsets of its teachers.

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Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

It was written in 2018 by Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew Kay, and he based it on his experiences having these conversations with his own students. The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation.

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Enrollment and financial crises threaten growing list of academic disciplines

The Hechinger Report

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.