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Yes, Your School Librarian Can Do That (and More)

Cult of Pedagogy

The American Association of School Librarians has an Advocacy Toolkit packed with information and links to tools that can help you advocate for school librarians. You can help them by learning about what they do, sharing their resources with your networks, giving donations, or volunteering.

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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

Student agency (voice, choice, advocacy) – Are students empowered to own their learning (blended/personalized/virtual learning options, they select tool to be used, etc.) You can access and download the form HERE if you wish. The group conversations and reflection that ensued after the walks were conducted was terrific!

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

A research group at Johns Hopkins University, the Everyone Graduates Center , downloaded data on each state’s absenteeism from the Department of Education website, ED Data Express , and shared it with Attendance Works, which, in turn, shared it with me.). Some states did not require taking daily attendance in 2020-21.

Advocacy 101
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Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Application Deadline: February 25, 2025

Political Science Now

Incorporation of advocacy into human rights courses. Download the Full Call for Proposals Here George Andreopoulos is Professor of Political Science at John Jay College of Criminal Justice and at the Graduate Center, CUNY, and the founding Director of the Center for International Human Rights at John Jay College.

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Few preschool apps are developmentally appropriate, report finds

The Hechinger Report

Josh Golin, executive director of the Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood, a nonprofit advocacy group, said many apps have been “falsely marketed as educational” for years, even though there is no evidence that the apps actually help children learn.

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Iowa school poverty and report card rankings

Dangerously Irrelevant

I downloaded the Department’s school report card data and combined them with its free lunch data. State department educational policy advocacy: “Evidence-based” or puffery? In other words, down the road it is possible that some report card categories may have few or no schools in them. Excel file. Keynote file.

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Short Course: Learning for Democracy: Lessons in Power and Persuasion

Political Science Now

Instructor : Titus Alexander has four decades of experience in civic education, engagement, and advocacy at a local, national, and international level. He currently teaches an advanced apprenticeship in Campaigning, Leadership and Management for Britain’s biggest trade union.

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