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Why Healing Affinity Spaces Are Necessary for Black Women Educators

ED Surge

A middle school teacher shared how her values compete with her capacity to care for her own mental well-being while caring for her students from underserved communities in Georgia: "My values are advocacy and mental health. This integrity moves us from individual to collective or communal healing.

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Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity

The Hechinger Report

And a number of schools in Washington, D.C., For example, at the Howard University Middle School of Math and Science, on the university’s campus, 78 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch and about half are considered “at-risk.” Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Weekly Update. Higher Education.

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Guest Post: From Consumption to Creation: Future Ready Librarians Embrace Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. That said, it’s often difficult to effectively tell the story about how librarians make a difference for students and colleagues.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. To do this well, they often need small-group or one-on-one teaching, which is non-existent in many schools’ math instruction. There is also a deep-seated societal belief that some people have a natural aptitude for math.

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Coronavirus is the practice run for schools. But soon comes climate change

The Hechinger Report

“Because we are a coastal community prone to hurricanes, a coastal community prone to the arrival of literally dozens of thousands of children, immigrants,” Carvalho said, “we have naturally adapted to dealing with crises whether they are human crises, environmental crises or health crises.”. Rebecca Newburn, middle school science teacher.

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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Middle school students at Kaleidoscope Academy, a district charter school in Appleton, Wisconsin, are constantly moving. Department of Health and Human Services. Despite her stated disinterest, the level of physical activity Anna and her classmates experience during their school day is unusual and probably beneficial.

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Using vocational education to teach academic courses

The Hechinger Report

Instead of packing up to leave, students migrate over to the room’s pathology lab, well-appointed with microscopes, replicas of human skulls and anatomical models of internal organs. When 16-year-old junior Marion Valcorza first arrived at the school she found a much different experience than what she was accustomed to. “I

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