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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. Some lost the chance to participate in school plays and performances.

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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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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. They are K-12 classroom teachers of language and literacy, science, history, math and music; school counselors; learning, tech and special ed coaches; and principals and administrators in urban, suburban and rural communities. on March 21, 2021.

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OPINION: When ‘business as usual’ is no longer defensible in the liberal arts

The Hechinger Report

In addition to field-specific knowledge in, for example, computer science or history, sound liberal arts education delivers the development of transferable skills, such as “critical thinking.” It aims to cultivate attributes — empathy is one — associated with leadership and civic responsibility. Start with a definition.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, courses at all grade levels include Indigenous history, numeracy, land-based science and language classes in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa, Spanish and Zuni. Discussions of tribal culture were limited to a few isolated craft projects during a history unit and inaccurate portrayals of Indians at the “First Thanksgiving,” he recalled.

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The BrandED Conversation

A Principal's Reflections

I had just finished back-to-back projects that resulted in Digital Leadership and Uncommon Learning, which took up a great deal of my time. We scratched the surface in 2013 as I worked with her to include a chapter on branding in Digital Leadership, which later came out early in 2014. However, there was more to this story.

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New Orleans finally has control of its own schools, but will all parents really have a say?

The Hechinger Report

Brian Beabout, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans, said there needs to be a balance between this kind of activism and citywide needs. The best interests of public school kids in the city won’t be served by neighborhood community engagement if it’s left unchecked.”.