ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Creativity builds advocacy skills that employers want, such as communication, collaboration and critical thinking. Today’s careers require creativity.

Advocacy 111

Advocacy K-12 Critical Thinking Project-Based Learning 111

ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2024

Still, despite these challenges, I believe my story is important — not only to create a better understanding of Muslim culture and Muslim women’s identity, but also to build a more welcoming educational environment for Muslim educators and students.

Professional Development 22

Professional Development Advocacy Cultures Humanities 22

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

Public School 131

Public School Civics Private School K-12 131

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

Providing students personalized lessons has been a strategy “accessible to people with the means for a while,” said Maria Worthen, vice president for federal and state policy at the International Association for Online Learning, or iNacol, a nonprofit advocacy organization that promotes online and blended learning.

Education 111

Education Advocacy Leadership Education Policy 111

ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

Elementary schools could have “one day where younger kids engage with experiential learning with partner organizations,” suggests Scott Goldstein, founder of a teacher advocacy organization in Washington, D.C. And so does not retaining or hiring qualified teachers. Let them create schedules to do so one day a week.

Teaching 145

Teaching Elementary School K-12 Advocacy 145

ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

Advocacy 109

Advocacy Leadership Government Library 109

ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

In 2019, Detroit Public Schools Community District officially declared themselves a Sanctuary District , a testament to parent organizing and advocacy in the city. Like so many of my colleagues and friends, I have had to push back against White-centric curriculum to create projects and units that are culturally relevant.

Charter School 101

Charter School Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 101

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. This could mean providing additional training for teachers on the instructional use of digital learning tools—how they’re going to use technology.

Advocacy 70

Advocacy Classroom Management Elementary School Public School 70

ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

Teachers began building lessons centered on identity formation, and soon after, students began to embrace their identity and individuality which transformed our classroom and community culture. When students saw the results of the work they had done, this affirmed how identity, advocacy and doing the work yields positive results.

Community Engagement 97

Community Engagement Advocacy Middle School Cultures 97

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing Is Values-Aligned As Black womxn educators, coming together to define our values allows us to name for ourselves who we are and who we want to be in our classrooms, schools and districts. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

Education 125

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 125

ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I A Devoted Career Kang has devoted her career to early childhood education—an early love that she says was forged during her experience growing up as the oldest child of Korean immigrants.

K-12 104

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

And just a third of all students say they have ever used each of four principal types of career services — help with resumes and interviews, networking opportunities and career fairs — according to another survey, by the education technology company Cengage. You’re trying to get used to your weirdo roommate. That’s okay.”.

Advocacy 107

Advocacy Educational Technology Cultures Education 107

ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

“We see that advanced math coursework is a huge predictor of college success, but this stuff is all foundational,” said Lakisha Young, founder and CEO of The Oakland Reach, a parent-led advocacy group focused on better supporting low-income students of color in Oakland. It’s a cultural hub and one of the city’s most diverse neighborhoods.

Education 116

Education Social Justice Tutoring Advocacy 116

ED Surge

MAY 24, 2023

The state partnered with Asian Americans Advancing Justice Chicago (AAAJ Chicago) — a local advocacy organization focused on advancing civil rights and racial equity, which advocated for the passage of the TEAACH Act — to support implementation.

Inclusive Curriculum 104

Inclusive Curriculum American History Primary Sources Professional Development 104

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

It’s just been exacerbated by the pandemic,” said Rebeca Shackleford, the director of federal government relations at All4Ed, an education advocacy nonprofit. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new. It’s social work.”.

High School 125

High School K-12 Public School Library 125

ED Surge

MAY 16, 2023

The film is made as a work of advocacy, by the group Represent Justice, but it goes out of its way to try to understand the views of all the parties involved, including the campus resource officer, Ben Fields. How do you hope this film is used in an education setting? So it just challenged me to do more work.

Humanities 95

Humanities Advocacy Cultures High School 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 86

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 86

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Later on, Ta opened an email from their school that mentioned the Kentucky Student Voice Team, a state-level group that was started in 2012 to bring students into the advocacy process. While the controversy pushed some people away, Ta found they enjoyed having critical conversations. It seemed like good resume padding, Ta says.

Civics 120

Civics Education Government K-12 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

Leadership 145

Leadership Charter School Cultures Social Studies 145

ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK.

Teaching 143

Teaching Middle School Museum Educational Technology 143

ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2022

Students are forming clubs, organizing sit-ins and walk-outs, and engaging in advocacy about all sorts of issues. These students will be our next leaders, from judges and law enforcement officials to educators and everything in between.

History 100

History Teaching Civics Civic Engagement 100

ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. What Can Education Leaders Do? who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D.,

Heritage 101

Heritage Education K-12 American History 101

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Extremist groups fueled and funded campaigns in Massachusetts urging parents to “opt out” of sex education, denying their children vital information about topics including puberty, healthy relationships, consent, self-advocacy and more.

Lesson Plan 105

Lesson Plan Social Justice K-12 Advocacy 105

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Leaders at the Idaho Association for the Education of Young Children, a nonprofit advocacy group, were not making progress persuading lawmakers at the statehouse. The need is so great for investment in early childhood education. ‘Community Spirit Trumps Anyone’s Political Agenda’ The first of the collaboratives launched in 2018.

Education 129

Education Government K-12 Advocacy 129

ED Surge

MAY 7, 2025

Though AHA researchers stress they found no indoctrination, politicization or deliberate classroom malpractice, the heavy-handed political rhetoric from the White House harms teachers, says Emma Humphries, a former history teacher and now chief education officer at the civics advocacy group iCivics.

History 103

History Civics Museum American History 103

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies. and elsewhere.

Humanities 145

Humanities Oral History Archiving Pedagogy 145