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Guest Post: Raising Expectations and Addressing Inequities in Edtech

Digital Promise

How does the company address racial equity and social justice in their mission? How does the company work directly with educators in classrooms that serve predominantly students of color to better understand how to create, include, or integrate culturally relevant curriculum and materials?

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How to Recognize, Avoid, and Stop Stereotype Threat in Your Class this School Year

Digital Promise

Are you decorating your room in a manner that is representative of all cultures ? Educators also should work towards learning about the backgrounds of their students so they understand students’ cultural and social norms. The NNSTOY Social Justice Book list is a great resource for building your classroom library.

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OPINION: We must remove barriers that keep teachers away from our profession and encourage a diverse workforce

The Hechinger Report

And once teachers of color are in the classroom, they need to be allowed to access and use instructional materials that foster essential discussions about culture, race and equity. Districts not making layoffs need to do more to recruit and hire teachers of color. Related: OPINION: Black male teachers were my father figures.

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Teaching ‘action civics’ engages kids — and ignites controversy

The Hechinger Report

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition.

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

This observation speaks to the idea that different modes of communication and expression are fundamental to understanding and interpreting different societies and cultures and, consequently, that the semiotic complexity of human experience cannot be contained in plain text.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. We could search for pins on Native American history , Middle East cultures , Japanese history , government , geography , sociology , psychology , economics , and numerous other topics. And so on… . National Archives, and maybe dig through the 5.3

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Innovation Study Tours Explore Equity in Diverse Settings

Digital Promise

These experiences provide a framework for learning that uses surroundings, communities, and cultures to invite inquiry, investigate biases, and deepen understanding. Over the past two years, TDSB has taken significant steps to shift their culture of equity to better support all students to be their authentic selves.