Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2020

We’ve been intentional about taking time as an organization this year to recognize how white supremacy cultural norms show up in our practices. Below, we share some reflections on our recent Equity in the Driver’s Seat project , as well as our considerations for sustaining the commitment to equity in 2021.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

But that figure can be higher, such as in Los Angeles Unified School District, where 70 percent of homeless students were chronically absent in 2021-2022. As many as 37 percent of homeless students are chronically absent, according to a report from the National Center for Homeless Education.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

Those threats have only increased since last year as schools have become a focal point of the culture wars, contributing to challenges the teaching profession has long faced in recruiting and retaining teachers from underrepresented backgrounds. The post The culture wars are driving teachers from the classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Read on for the full list of the stories most popular with readers in 2021. School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care by Sean Slade “We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools,” writes school leadership expert Sean Slade.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 29, 2021

This edition of noted content for educators includes how to lead more effective teacher PD, address teacher stress, and create a classroom culture of learning. Building a culture of mutual trust between teachers and administrators can improve relationships and even happiness. Read more at Edutopia: Creating a Culture of Learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Through our Voices of Change project, EdSurge has been conversing with educators and school leaders to understand how schools are adapting to meet the needs of their learning communities as they face the 2021-22 school year. Reducing Systemic Barriers to Getting Mental Healthcare Receiving mental healthcare in this country is no easy feat.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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Edthena

JULY 22, 2021

According to Givens, rigorous sight is a disciplined and vigilant practice of intellectual inquiry into power dynamics and anti-Blackness as well as into the life and culture of Black people through conceptual engagement with their lived experiences.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 27, 2020

Other pieces included topics that I traditionally cover but with new angles such as pedagogy, change leadership, and school culture. In 2021 we need to use these lessons to drive systemic change. It is always an honor to share the incredible work of educators in the field.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes resources all about building and maintaining a culture of collective efficacy, student empathy, and teacher sustainability. Here are 3 actions that help cultivate a culture of collective efficacy. Read more at ASCD: Three Actions for Building a Culture of Collective Ef?cacy.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , “equity is about making sure every student is a powerful learner.” ” So what does true intellectual engagement look like for students and how can teachers create a classroom environment with a strong culture of learning?

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Edthena

JANUARY 28, 2021

The imagined university would have faculty with experience in culturally responsive instruction. This recommendation would create an online Premier University for early educators, which would consolidate components of early education preparation that currently exist separate from one another. Optimize project-based training.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Previous discoveries in Sulawesi include a 44,000-year-old painting depicting half-human hunters pursuing wild animals with spears and ropes, further emphasizing the region’s ancient cultural richness. Archaeological evidence in Australia dates back at least 60,000 years, highlighting the ancient roots of Aboriginal cultures.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Tonya Clarke, the coordinator of K-12 mathematics for Clayton County schools, and her colleagues shared the Cardi B lesson at a math convention earlier this fall as an example of a culturally relevant lesson that can lure students into thinking about math in a way that is engaging and exciting. The initial idea draws them in,” Clarke said.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5 In 2021-22, 6.5 We are always constantly trying to build a stronger school culture," she said. "In

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

In her role as a member of the district’s curriculum development team, Alicia ensures that culturally responsive literature and topics of social justice are represented. She is a knowledgeable and skilled instructional coach. Alicia is also committed to equity and social justice. Jill Taylor.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

8) for teaching controversial and sensitive histories (inspired by work from colleagues such as Mohamud & Whitburn, 2016; Mohamud & Whitburn, 2019; Elias & Spafford, 2021; Kerridge & Snelson, 2022) that provide a valuable tool for developing our approach to handling this challenge in the classroom. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

The Trans Rights Indicator Project (TRIP) provides insight into the legal situations transgender people faced in 173 countries from 2000 to 2021. Finally, I conclude with a preliminary analysis of three institutional and cultural factors that may help explain variation in transgender rights throughout the world. Read the full article.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. Nationally, in 2021, U.S.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A scholar of Sikkimese religions and cultures, Kalzang saw plastic khatak and lungta when visiting his relatives’ newborns. They also appear in many other connected cosmologies on and around the Tibetan plateau, including in Nepal, Bhutan, India, Mongolia, and Tibetan cultural areas of the People’s Republic of China.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. Yet Americans of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have been underrepresented in this country for years, according to Connie Chang’s article for Parents published April 2021. Then have them figure out the cost to buy all the ingredients.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Brown found herself sharing advice with so many educators looking to emulate her path that in 2021, she published a book on the subject. When Robbins left education in March 2021, it was for a client success specialist job at an edtech company. She has since been promoted to client success manager. “It

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Credit : Deb Lindsey for the Washington Post via Getty Images) That’s the topic of an article published in Nature in February 2021. They were unable to prove the hypothesis, citing the difficulty to interpret correlations between culture and environment. Credit : L Bromham et al, Nature Human Behavior, 2021.)

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Native students are also more likely to face racism and microaggressions than white students, and there’s often a disconnect between their cultural identities and Western higher education institutions, according to Native American higher education experts. Students on the Fort Lewis College campus in April 2021.

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Society for Classical Studies

JULY 17, 2024

It is promoted by the International Association ETYGRAM ( [link] ) devoted to the study of indigenous (or “emic”) ancient Greek etymologies and follows three editions in 2016, 2018, 2021. It is rather a cultural construction, which is both an art of punning and an attempt to uncover deep semantic motivations.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

The national survey was conducted in 2021 by researchers at San Diego State University, including Zahner, who also directs the university’s Center for Research in Mathematics and Science Education, and the English Learners Success Forum, a nonprofit that seeks to improve the quality of instructional materials for English learners.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2021

These benefits are widely recognized by educators; Promethean’s 2021/22 State of Technology in Education report found that SEL is the top priority for schools across the country. Download Promethean’s full report, The State of Technology in Education 2021/2 , and talk to the experts.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2023

The chart compares racial and ethnic makeup of the residents within each school district (not only students) from 2009 to 2021. We selected this timeframe because each year actually represents the tailend of five-year data estimates, with data gathered from 2005-2009 and the newest from 2017-2021. Source: American Community Survey.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2023

In 2021-22, the national Healthy Minds Survey found that college students’ anxiety and depression were at historic levels, with 37 percent reporting some anxiety and 44 percent experiencing some depression in the two weeks prior to the survey. Research also shows that culturally relevant learning experiences improve academic success.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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Life and Landscapes

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

He worked two years for The Sentinel-News in Shelbyville and then from 1978 to 2021 in the Lexington Herald-Leader’s Frankfort bureau. After retiring in December 2021 from the Herald-Leader, he became a freelance writer for various publications.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Spanish is by far the most common home language among English learners, accounting for roughly 75 percent of them, according to the National Center for Education Statistics’ most recent numbers from fall 2021. Arabic, the second-most common home language, comes in with a mere 2.5 percent share of English learners nationwide.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2024

The flare-up of the education culture wars in 2021 also added to the pressures on districts’ top administrators. The pandemic made superintendents’ jobs even harder. On top of their other duties, they had to make decisions about masking and vaccines and address such issues as community food needs.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.”

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