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New MY World 360° Playlist Premiering at Global Festival of Action

Digital Promise

Leading up to the SDG Global Festival of Action , we’re thrilled to announce a new MY World 360 ° playlist featuring immersive storytelling and design projects from across the globe. Since launching in March 2018, MY World 360 ° has screened 31 immersive stories at UN events around the world.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

and World History teacher at Art in Motion School in Chicago. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. History class. Victoria was in my U.S. Photo courtesy of Winchester.

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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

ED Surge

From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history. My wife and I chose Aniefuna because in studying Black history, we learned that our land was never lost.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

She drives over an hour each way to teach world history at LaGrange High School in Lake Charles. Louisiana averaged 441 students per counselor during the 2018-2019 school year. “You could look up and see the sky,” she said. Mold started to grow on the walls, and then the second storm let more water in.

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When typical middle school antics mean suspensions, handcuffs or jail

The Hechinger Report

That means they’re not “reading Mark Twain and Shakespeare and Maya Angelou,” taking algebra or learning world history, said Raymond Pierce, president of the Southern Education Foundation. Harris, a former military police officer, corporate marketer and restauranteur, was a school administrator in demand in the summer of 2018.