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

ED Surge

While student engagement continues to be a significant issue for classrooms across the country, I believe the performing arts can be an opportunity for schools to reimagine community engagement in schools and get students back on track. Since then, I’ve learned that these methods are merely tools to transform culture and spaces.

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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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What’s Lost When a Teacher Leaves a School

ED Surge

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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Accelerating Adult Students Toward Employment

Digital Promise

This is reflected in the values of Dean of Adult Education Brent Stubbs. candidate in the higher educational leadership program at Georgia Southern University. From this community engagement, STC decided to add aviation mechanics and welding because those were skills that local industry required.

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I Love Being a Teacher, But I Can’t Survive on Compassion

ED Surge

I became inundated with demanding and unrealistic expectations and realized that one of the key ingredients to supporting my students was supportive leadership, and we didn't have that at my school. By the end of my fifth year of teaching, though, that excitement had changed.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

Though they have similar goals, school districts across the country take a broad range of approaches to competency-based education (CBE). Some start with pilots to show proof points, and others begin with community engagement to generate support. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

These responses—and lack of responses—were deeply troubling to many Asian American educators. The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. by 2060), they represent only 2 percent of educators in the U.S.

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