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How Schools Can Use Cultural Performing Arts to Reimagine Community-Engaged Learning

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What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity. When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. At first, I was annoyed.

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Educators are Disengaged and Distracted. Better Workplace Culture Could Win Them Back.

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Shuck: So, getting a little academic here, we would call engagement the maintenance, intensity, and direction of effort and energy that we give something. We can talk about it in terms of community engagement, faculty engagement, family engagement, relationship engagement.

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Teaching Bilingual Learners in Rural Schools

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We are the only school in the region who started a dual language program,” said Rossina Sandoval, Southwest DuBois County School District’s director of community engagement, in an interview with the Daily Yonder. Today, Cruz works as a Hispanic community engagement director for Purdue Extension.

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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'

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Our most recent cohort of fellows included educators across a variety of grades and content areas, including a high school principal, an elementary school paraprofessional, a math and computer science teacher, and a school and community engagement manager, to name a few.

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Making Progress

A Principal's Reflections

Over the past 2 years I have worked collaboratively with my staff to cultivate a culture of learning that engages students, is meaningful/relevant, promotes critical thought/problem-solving, and is flexible in that risk-taking is encouraged in order to promote innovative practices.

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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

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Strong family and community engagement can enhance learning outcomes and help to create a sense of belonging. Relationships are critical in engaging students and families in meaningful and culturally appropriate ways, and are associated with increased literacy acquisition, lower dropout rates and improved attendance.

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How My School Turned Tragedy Into an Opportunity for Student and Family Engagement

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What started as a daunting task became a mission to reignite the passion and engagement of our students while strengthening our local community. This presentation resulted in the district adopting a new food program for our district that was culturally appropriate, appealing, and good for students.