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Our History Is Not Lost: Resources for Learning and Teaching the Fullness of Black History

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Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. From studying African and Black American history, I developed what Joyce E. King calls “ diaspora literacy ” to contend with the reflection of white supremacy in my paternal lineage and its connection to world history.

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There Is An Elephant in the Classroom and It Taught Me About My Black History.

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Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. The mainstream may not fully recognize them, but that hasn’t stopped Black changemakers with a grassroots appeal, like former DC Public Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson.

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“It’s so hard and so challenging:” An oral history of year three of pandemic schooling

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Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. Teachers certainly will have to adjust some of our pedagogy, and extended deadlines might just become a norm, or having more flexibility about how kids are able to complete assignments. FAYETTEVILLE, ARKANSAS.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

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Asian American Teachers in U.S. Pedagogy, Culture & Society, Vol. I try to be very explicit and adamant about, this is who I am.” Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City." Yale University Press. [v] v] Chow, Candace J., Classrooms: Identity Performances and Pedagogical Practices.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

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Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history.

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CRT debate repeats past battles about state history textbooks

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“It is a continuation or even a recreation of the 90s,” said Wayne Flynt, a retired Alabama history professor. People who in that time wanted to have books make a ton of money for them as public school adoptions had to understand: That was not an educational process. Many are no longer used in Alabama schools.

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Who picks school curriculum? Idaho law hands more power to parents

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By contrast, “parents don’t understand the pedagogy of what happens in a curriculum,” said Hoy. Related: States were adding lessons about Native American history. Educators want to know, for example, if lessons are clear and organized, and whether they connect to prior learning and support students of differing levels.