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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. Though she didnt initially see herself ever becoming a school librarian, Rhue has come to love the dynamism and variety of her job. I'm an educator.

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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

In partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), we hosted a roundtable with district and organizational leaders to understand how students with learning differences were supported during remote learning necessitated by the pandemic, and to imagine the future.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. They also wanted school officials to send a clear message to the community that Lusher supported Black Lives Matter. They encountered mostly silence.

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Many Eyes Are on the Teachers Who Leave. What About the Ones Who Stay?

ED Surge

According to the National Association of Independent Schools, teachers at independent schools are twice as likely to leave the profession than public school teachers. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. In my first school, the workload was unbearable. My teaching career has been turbulent.

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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

ED Surge

Youth organizers in MIStudentsDream were encouraged by this policy, but they immediately had one major concern: What about charter schools? In Detroit, almost half of the student population attends a charter school. Unfortunately, there is no clear definition of a sanctuary school, much less a whole district.

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How My School Chooses Courage Over Fear to Prioritize DEI

ED Surge

As an educator, I work within and around systems that are designed to lock out historically marginalized communities; this is why I lead and educate through a DEI lens. My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership.

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A virtual tour of blended-learning schools, so others can see how it’s done

The Hechinger Report

Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. These teachers might be on the right track, but they’re hampered if there isn’t a trailblazing school nearby that they can visit. The Learning Accelerator winnowed it down to six top-performing schools.