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Talking About Race and Social Justice In The Classroom

Edthena

Addressing these issues in classrooms requires a social and emotional approach for students. Social justice is about all people being able to benefit from something better. Practices in the classroom require a social-emotional approach. How do we define social justice?

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Multimodal ethnographies for teaching anthropological sensibilities

Teaching Anthropology

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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How Schools Can Use Cultural Performing Arts to Reimagine Community-Engaged Learning

ED Surge

What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity. When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. At first, I was annoyed.

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How Teach for America Crushed My Passion for Teaching

ED Surge

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

Teaching 101
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OPINION: Why attacking educators for antiracist teaching is dangerous

The Hechinger Report

As an educator creating antiracist classrooms, I have wrestled with how to teach children about race and race relations since far before our country’s recent racial reckoning. These bills forbid teachers from providing instruction that wades deeply into social justice topics. Stereotypes can be perpetuated.

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Leading in Uncertain Times

A Principal's Reflections

In the end, though, scalable change resulting in a transformation of teaching, learning, and leadership was more of an exception as opposed to the rule. A social justice movement formed in ways that many of us have never seen, which in turn has raised the central role that education must play to combat racism.

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5 Keys for Successful Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

However, the current pandemic and social justice movements across the globe have brought a more unified focus on the work that needs to be done. Successful remote learning is dependent on the consistent utilization of effective teaching strategies and pedagogy that empowers all kids to think and apply their thinking in relevant ways.

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