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The Challenges Educators Face

A Principal's Reflections

integration of universally designed practices to help all students (which covers social justice, restorative practices, SEL) and somehow helping more teachers embrace that accommodations are not cheating. You can see the tweet below. What specific challenges do you face in education? Inclusion and REAL collaborative teaching.

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OPINION: Students need tools to safeguard their mental health in uncertain times

The Hechinger Report

An analysis of Twitter sentiment designed to uncover the state of public mental health tracked similar words and phrases, suggesting rates of anxiety, stress and depression this spring were significantly higher than at the same time in 2019. It seems easy to blame global events for these feelings.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Teaching ‘anthropologically’ through multimodal practices enhances social justice and more often than not empowers students to challenge dominant power structures and to critically reflect on issues of power and privilege, the same way that anthropologists tamper with the academic and ethnographic text as a dominant narrative mode.

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This Children’s Book Author and Future Teacher Wants to Help Ignite Joy in Learning

ED Surge

I took one course called Schools and Society and another called Social Justice in Urban Education. co-authors Shirelle Hurt and London Jones at their book release party in 2019. We wrote it during the summer of 2019, when I was transitioning from 10th grade to 11th grade. Photo courtesy of Campbell.

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Six Strategies for Equitable Education Systems

Digital Promise

During the 2019-20 school year, 10 districts from across the United States—including nine districts from the League of Innovative Schools—joined a learning cohort, convened by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and Digital Promise, to explore this question.

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Renowned HBCU creates a ‘safe haven’ for Black feminist and queer studies

The Hechinger Report

The women’s college received 13,614 applications for the fall of 2022 – a 48 percent increase over the 9,179 who applied in fall of 2019, according to a spokesperson for the college. Application figures suggest increased interest in Spelman over the past few years.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition.