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Hundreds of STEM Grants Have Been Terminated. K-12 Math Educators Will Lose Out

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Bruce McLaren has committed his career to understanding how education technologies, especially digital games and intelligent-tutoring systems, can help children learn. This signals to STEM education researchers the consequences of failing to intervene sooner. One such game is called Decimal Point.

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As a Principal, I Thought I Promoted Psychological Safety. Then a Colleague Spoke Up.

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This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? He’s not really about equity work, look at the culture he’s created. I kept thinking, “Me? I was starting to believe these things. I wish I had.

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

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Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture? Is engagement kind of a necessary precondition for building culture? And these facets of culture all live in a similar space.

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Should Educators Put Disclosures on Teaching Materials When They Use AI?

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At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. Even if an educator decides to cite an AI chatbot, though, the mechanics can be tricky, Yongpradit says.

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What New Research Says About Fostering a ‘Sense of Belonging’ in Classrooms

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That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. And people have that history in their awareness and the fight that their communities have engaged in to be able to access education.

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What If Myths, Metaphors and Riddles Are the Key to Reshaping K-12 Education?

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“For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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Is ‘Crisis’ Thinking About Youth Mental Health Doing More Harm Than Good?

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One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. What Motivates the Adolescent Brain?