ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

During Hispanic Heritage Month, our colleagues came together to support two of our affinity groups. They canceled gym classes, changed classroom schedules and most of our 700 students joined us in the gym for a community celebration of identity, culture and affinity.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture. For years we have embraced the effective integration of technology to enhance the teaching and learning process.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

This feeling drives her to continue sharing these memories, turning what could be mere nostalgia into an active practice of care that connects her children to their heritage. Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. Im teaching her! But if you dont measure, how will they learn?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

To help Native communities heal from that trauma, the report recommends an explicit federal policy of cultural revitalization, one that supports the work of Indigenous peoples and tribes to preserve and strengthen their languages and cultures. The post Native communities want schools to teach Native languages.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

The report, released in May during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, surveyed over 5,000 Americans from diverse backgrounds and includes findings about Asian American stereotypes, visibility and acceptance. not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. . —

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined. All three of these historic royals have been the subject of “Gen Z Teaches History,” a viral video series created by Lauren Cella, who teaches 10th grade history. And they're like, ‘No, Miss, they do.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

They want to see themselves and their cultures reflected in the books we read, and they don’t want token representation. They nod along as we cover topics that connect to stories their grandparents shared with them, like tales of migration and cultural celebrations. She is a 2023-24 Teach Plus Colorado Policy Fellow.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

One could say that a classroom of “heritage learners” is full of swans mistaken for ugly ducklings. The term “heritage learners” is defined as people whose proficiency or knowledge of a language (and culture) comes from their community or family. They understand what you say in Spanish from Day One!

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Even when the instruction is available, courses often lack cultural relevance that would allow Native students to authentically engage with the material, the report says. In addition, many Native students attend schools that may lack the hardware, software and high-speed internet needed for these classes.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

As a teacher in Hawaiʻi, I am keenly aware and reminded of my identity as a "local" teacher, one whose family heritage traces back generations in the same community. For Indigenous and Native peoples, who have a deep sense of place that is woven into their cultures, practices and genealogy, this can be seen as disrespectful.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. Cultural and social relevance.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

For example, many math lessons focus on teaching the one correct path to reach the one right answer to a problem. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ? Incorporate Productive Struggle and a Sense of Belonging to Improve Math Learning.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Teaching these subjects is vital because each equips students with essential knowledge and both hard and soft skills.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

To them, loving and teaching our youth was a great honor despite the devaluation educators often experience. Goal 2: Provide Practical Guidance and Space for Cross-Cultural Engagement I believe a key part of DEIB is building intercultural competence within an organization. What is the nature of the stories being told?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Teaching students about their heritage, and about other groups’ heritage, allows students to break free of stereotypes and appreciate their challenges and triumphs. Now, the things my school was teaching me started to mean something very different. Education is. The only option was to flee.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander. Karen Kong, 16, has unwavering pride in her Chinese American heritage, rooted in her sense of family and honor.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. This is how Nathan interacts with treasure and heritage sites.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Students are once again in the crosshairs of our nation’s political culture, following the College Board’s decision to buckle under political pressure and strip their Advanced Placement African-American studies course of essential topics for what is supposed to be a rigorous, college-level course.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

Students want to be connected, cultured and aware of the realities beyond the classroom. For me, a Spanish course is more than grammar structures; it is about connection, cultural competency and global engagement. What we cultivate in the classroom eventually ends up impacting the entire culture of our school.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Even before enslavement, teaching and learning existed in Africa. Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. African communities built cities, states and kingdoms.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Both of us were making sense of material traces of the past, creating explanations based on our teachings and experiences. But the work also produces knowledge relevant for the Wajãpi people: I share with them information about federal laws related to cultural heritage and environmental protection.

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Archaeology Heritage K-12 History 120

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. That’s partly why he’s interested in classical learning, a form of education that often emphasizes the “classics” of Western heritage.

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ED Surge

APRIL 21, 2023

As a newcomer specialist, I teach students who have been in the United States for less than a year. There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. As an abbreviated course, we met for 10 classes — each two hours long — over a period of six weeks.

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Sapiens

JUNE 25, 2024

For two years, they have been meeting over Zoom as part of a seven-member Teaching Circle. The mission of the Teaching Circle, envisioned by Lac Seul First Nation co-author George Kenny, is to articulate a worldview held by Indigenous cultural Insiders. The Teaching Circle is cast wide.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality. such as Black, Indigenous, Pacific Islander and Latino students—often teaching and working at the heart of these communities for decades.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

public schools raise questions about whether curricula and edtech are staying culturally relevant. It’s not just the product side of technology that needs more Latino representation, Noriega says, it’s also the teaching side. There’s a missing human connection when it comes to teaching students about technology, he says.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

While the majority of the population is monolingual, America is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world , with more than 350 languages spoken within its borders, including a wealth of Indigenous and heritage languages. But it’s also important to recognize that English-only communication is limited.

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Pedagogy and Formation

MARCH 21, 2022

The stories were written to teach me, rather than being provided to engage, enrich and transform me through the power of story. For example, some teachers see it is as a vehicle for sustaining our cultural heritage. It sustains, enriches and sometimes rebukes the cultural practices of our day.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Tommy Chang, Boston Public Schools superintendent.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

But as I walk by these images, I wonder how the fresh-faced teacher who promised to never “teach” Black History Month has now decorated the whole school with Black images. Frustrated, I asked myself, “how is this celebrating the richness of historically oppressed peoples and cultures?” for that matter.

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Heritage American History Pedagogy History 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

But to pursue a teaching degree at a public, comprehensive university, she’ll need to commute four hours roundtrip or leave the town she grew up in and loves. It could also help stem the region’s brain drain and alleviate a teaching shortage that has forced the school to hire a growing number of career changers, she added.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Moreta teaches the science section in Spanish. in the language, but they do want to speak,” said Dr. Reisinger, who this spring will teach a French section of a new course, Global Advertising (there is also a section in Spanish). Yet, she said, “When I teach third-semester French, I talk about immigration issues.”

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