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5 Steps Toward Building Successful Digital Communities Infused With Rigor and Relevance

A Principal's Reflections

BYOD enhances learning, increases productivity, allows students to grow their research skills, and gives teachers the chance to teach appropriate digital responsibility. Employing the energy surrounding personal devices allows them to use the tools that help them do what they do better.

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How One District Takes STEM Learning to the Next Level

ED Surge

So, we incorporated principles like Universal Design for Learning (UDL) to ensure cultural relevancy and inclusivity, created project prompts around climate change and mental well-being and designed professional learning and curriculum supports to emphasize our district’s priorities.

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The Power of Claim-Evidence-Question

Catlin Tucker

This phase underscores the significance of critical evaluation, research skills, and reasoning. Artistic Interpretation: Students make claims about the meaning of a piece of artwork, provide evidence drawing from the visual elements and techniques, and ask questions about artistic techniques and/or cultural context.

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Genealogy course takes high schoolers deep into their family histories

The Hechinger Report

Especially where our school is not culturally diverse, within our genealogies, we are,” Brunelle said. Reagan is already using her newfound research skills in a history class. In a school that is more than 90 percent white, her genealogy course offers a rare opportunity to talk about diversity.

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Celebrating Black Joy

C3 Teachers

Almost ten years ago, I started off teaching and I truly believed that I didn’t need to teach Black History Month or any other cultural month (Hispanic Heritage, Native American History Month, etc.) Frustrated, I asked myself, “how is this celebrating the richness of historically oppressed peoples and cultures?” for that matter.

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Three Ways to Help Teachers Use Research

Digital Promise

As we talked with educators at our Research Summit and in our League of Innovative Schools , we heard a recurring theme: teachers (and innovation) thrive in a “culture of data” where research use is encouraged, and staff are given opportunities to build their research skills.

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Defending the liberal arts: How my students took the higher-learning plunge, from the banks of the St. Lawrence

The Hechinger Report

Reading, writing assignments, presentations and discussions covered history, cultural difference, environmental manipulation and what was technically possible. Our first-year programs examine fundamental human questions; promote collaborative learning; and develop reading, writing, speaking and research skills. Just as the St.

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