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Personalize: Meeting the Needs of ALL Learners

A Principal's Reflections

In March of 2022, I worked with a school system in Provo, Utah. The rest is now history. Here is the synopsis: Not Just One Way Are you an educator stuck in the traditional teaching or leadership mold, yearning for a spark to reignite your passion? Fate has a funny way of bringing together people with similar views and passions.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. The starkest example of growing inequality is in eighth grade math, wherethe achievement gap grew to the largest in the history of the test. They offset each other.

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These Native tribes are working with schools to boost attendance

The Hechinger Report

Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla. government boarding schools.

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Food as Care: Stories of Forced Displacement and Connection

Anthropology News

Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations.

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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Native American students miss school at higher rates. It only got worse during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. Bureau of Indian Education, which are not run by traditional districts. He was one of many. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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A Poetics of Liberation: An Imagined Archive

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A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. In my work, I do not try to balance the blood-tinged scales of history, nor do I write toward retribution. The time for that has passed.