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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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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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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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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Eventually, he’d like to serve as either the U.S.

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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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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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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

To them, educators should teach significant topics like the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement with more depth and breadth. Ever since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May spurred what may be the largest social movement in U.S. And they aren’t the only ones advocating the adoption of such curricula.

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