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Free Resources to Support Your Makerspace

A Principal's Reflections

To learn more in depth about the concepts associated with making be sure to purchase the book World’s of Making by Laura Fleming and check out her website. In schools it is being used to teach all kinds of skills and subjects from math to foreign languages to social justice to fair trade.

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 1

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thought I’d post a quick update on how my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice , is going. We are trying to approach the class through a very broad social justice lens, which means that we’re discussing a variety of different school leadership equity contexts. I’ve got six students in the class.

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The Challenges Educators Face

A Principal's Reflections

Technology, most specifically social media, has flattened the world. Remember when we had to get all of our professional literature and information from journals, books, conferences, over the phone, or people that we came in direct contact with? We live in amazing times. Inclusion and REAL collaborative teaching.

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PROOF POINTS: Stanford’s Jo Boaler talks about her new book ‘MATH-ish’ and takes on her critics

The Hechinger Report

Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH- ish ,” Boaler is fighting back. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?: Boaler also saw math as a lever to promote social justice. But despite all her fans, she has sparked controversy at nearly every stage of her career.

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This Children’s Book Author and Future Teacher Wants to Help Ignite Joy in Learning

ED Surge

The program later gave her an opportunity to co-author and publish her first children’s book at age 16. One of my classmates had written and published a book as a first grader — with the help of his parents, obviously — and she allowed him to read his story to the class. Two years in a row, I chose to do a book project.

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OPINION: When books are banned, ‘education is impoverished, and everyone loses’

The Hechinger Report

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. Among the banned books were children’s stories about Rosa Parks and Martin Luther King, Jr., Related: Using critical race theory to understand the backlash against it.

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Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

.” But if you happen to live in a place where conversations about race are allowed or even encouraged in school, or if you’ve decided that it’s worth it to try despite the risk — I’m here to recommend two books that will be incredibly helpful companions in that work. What can they do?

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