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Innovation Study Tours Explore Equity in Diverse Settings

Digital Promise

With 1:1 computer access for grades 3–8, students engage in coding, inquiry-based learning, and critical thinking beginning with Kindergarten. Bessborough Drive Elementary and Middle School is a dynamic neighborhood school that uses technology predominately to redefine learning. Dr. Baron Davis.

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The importance of common, shared understandings

Dangerously Irrelevant

Too often in our schools we use big, important ideas or terms – critical thinking! social justice! In other words, common, shared understandings are prerequisites for common, shared commitments. I love doing this kind of facilitation work with educators. technology integration! student inquiry! academic rigor!

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. They said that giftedness could also be creativity, and found that a high IQ score did not necessarily correspond with leadership, professional accomplishment or even success in school.

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National Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call Highlights

Zinn Education Project

The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. Rocio Inclan , senior director, National Education Association Center for Racial and Social Justice It’s an honor to join you, and to speak on behalf of the National Education Associations’ 3 million members.

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Teach Truth Day of Action 2024 Event Highlights

Zinn Education Project

Area Educators for Social Justice hosted interactive Teach Truth pop-up display tables on June 8 at: Busboys and Poets Brookland. Hundreds of people stopped by the booth hosted by the DC Area Educators for Social Justice at the Capital Pride festival on June 9. District of Columbia The D.C. Capital Pride Festival.