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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

For many schools, this flies in the face of a traditional schooling mindset that was more geared to learners having to buy-in to a one-size-fits-all system where success was determined by how well everyone did under the same conditions more or less. How would you rate the level of learner advocacy in your school or district?

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Schools bar Native students from wearing traditional regalia at graduation

The Hechinger Report

It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. The traditional Yup’ik headdress Andrew wore at graduation is made of sealskin, beaver and wolf fur and trimmed with black and gold beads.

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Knowledge / Ignorance and Caring About the Food We Eat and Study

Anthropology News

Knowledge sometimes can cause these internal conflicts, and even stress, where weoftenhave to decide between making a choice that we feel is ethical and correct or making a choice that fits our personal food preferences, traditions, lifestyle, bank accounts, and access. It all goes back to knowledge is power and advocacy.

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How Creative Technology Can Help Students Take on the Future

ED Surge

Brian Johnsrud Director of Education Learning and Advocacy, Adobe To explore this challenge, EdSurge sat down with Brian Johnsrud , the director of education learning and advocacy at Adobe. Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. How is AI changing teaching and learning strategies?

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

They point to dismal scores on national history and civics exams — less than 25 percent scored as proficient — as proof that schools need to spend more time teaching students core facts about our system of government, and warn that civics projects are displacing that instruction. plastic bags) from accumulating in the first place.