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Bringing ‘inclusive innovation’ to school districts

The Hechinger Report

In October 2020, Digital Promise launched the Center for Inclusive Innovation, as a way to create this support. There was much more emphasis on critical thinking and primary source investigation. Smith, now the chief inclusive innovation officer at Digital Promise, is the center’s co-leader.

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OPINION: We must do a better job of teaching Asian American history in our schools

The Hechinger Report

And — since the 2020 national reckonings about racial injustice, the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement and ongoing debates about critical race theory — how can we reimagine the U.S. What stereotypes and misperceptions still abound? Even more importantly: How can policies and education help improve our status in the U.S.?

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PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring

The Hechinger Report

The first showed promising results for low-income immigrant middle schoolers in Italy in the spring of 2020. When it was repeated during the 2020-21 school year, it again showed that students’ test scores shot up when they received four hours of online tutoring a week from university students. Paying tutors might help too. “In

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

ED Surge

What I like most about this book is that Moore explains how teaching Black history, something he’s done for three decades, was different during the 2020 racial uprisings, and he provides actionable insights for white people (or any non-Black person) to counteract anti-Blackness and racism in America.

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For Native Americans, Unequal Child Care Funding Leaves Tribes in Need

ED Surge

Intersection of Less Funding and Less Employment As it currently stands, tribal child counts help divvy up dollars from the Child Care and Development Block Grant, the primary source of child care funding in the U.S. Take the actual dollar amounts received by tribes in 2020. million in mandatory funding.

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Creating Performance Levels Descriptors to Support Inquiry in the Post-COVID Classroom

C3 Teachers

Prior to 2020, I tended to evaluate initial student performance holistically. Students’ pre-assessment work is grouped based upon the descriptors in order to design instructional scaffolding to support student growth as they work through formative performance tasks and the featured primary sources from the IDM template.

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The Nationwide Reading Struggle

Studies Weekly

Many kindergarten and first-grade students missed out on crucial language learning during 2020 and 2021. Students across the country are falling more than one grade level behind where their reading scores should be.