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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. If professional learning was not emphasized, it’s definitely not too late. Equity There have always been issues with equity when it comes to education.

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How do you teach antiracism to the youngest students?

The Hechinger Report

It was definitely painted in the light that ‘these problems are in the past,’ and ‘America is the land of the free’ and ‘everyone is equal here.’ ”. Ever since the police killing of George Floyd in Minneapolis in late May spurred what may be the largest social movement in U.S.

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Why Accessibility Must Be a Part of Diversity, Equity and Inclusivity Initiatives

ED Surge

Shari Eberts, a hearing health advocate and speaker, offers guidance through these definitions: Diversity is the presence of differences that may include race, gender, religion, sexual orientation, ethnicity, nationality, socioeconomic status, language, (dis)ability, age, religious commitment or political perspective.

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Innovation Study Tours Explore Equity in Diverse Settings

Digital Promise

Through school visits and panel discussions with TDSB officials, district leaders explored local policies and systems, the use of data for equity, and professional development and training for teachers and leaders, keeping an eye and ear toward what they could bring back to their own school communities. Dr. Baron Davis.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

Gifted education needs to diversify, they said — for racial and social justice, and because otherwise it might not survive. Despite a century of research, definitions of giftedness are fuzzy. Psychologists later poked holes in that definition. But is it possible to make gifted education representative?

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