Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 25, 2016

It’s a website, it’s a hashtag, it’s an email newsletter, it’s a weekly chat, it’s a call for social justice. Not because of social justice hectoring or out of some sense of privileged guilt or because we think it makes us look good but because the resources that are being shared and the conversations that are being held are IMPORTANT.

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Social Justice Education Leadership 75

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Rob Coyle Digital Credential Program Manager at 1EdTech Coyle: It seems every credentialing organization has its own definition of microcredentials, alternative credentials, digital credentials and badges.… EdSurge: How has the concept and practice of microcredentialing evolved over the years?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

The pop up definitions could distract children from the narrative, harming comprehension, but were effective in teaching new vocabulary words, which is desirable. For Kucirkova, improving digital books is a matter of “social justice”. Built-in dictionaries, a common feature, worked both ways.

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Research Social Justice Library Teaching 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2020

The social justice movement plays a role, too, since the transfer barrier disproportionately thwarts Black and Hispanic students. On the private side of things, they’re definitely feeling the squeeze due to the enrollment downturn,” said Decatur, of NEBHE. There’s definitely a sense of urgency, and rightfully so.”.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

This broader definition does not water down the concept of trauma; it makes it universal. Defining Trauma and Trauma-Informed Education “One of the really hard things in trauma-informed education and trauma in general is that there’s no agreed-upon definition for either of those things,” Venet explains.

Teaching 130

Teaching Pedagogy Classroom Management Social Justice 130

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

The school visit demonstrated how they advance student well-being and achievement through the use of community circles, and how they increase student agency through interdisciplinary, inquiry-based learning with a social justice lens. Start with issues that you see in your community that you want to address. Dr. Baron Davis.

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Middle School Social Justice Professional Development Cultures 110

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 16, 2017

So we spent a significant amount of time in a structured process that allowed them to pin down a definition that they could all agree on (woo hoo! social justice! There were some great student projects occurring, but there weren’t common understandings across classrooms and grade levels. student voice. student engagement.

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Social Justice Critical Thinking Education Leadership 70

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

For instance, if I was teaching Social Studies today… My students and I definitely would be tapping into an incredible diversity of online resources. We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. We could use Minecraft to design our own self-sustainable towns.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2023

Instead, this new documentary steps back to take a broader look at efforts to cast literacy as a social-justice issue — as the latest civil rights frontline. I was closeted and there was definitely shame connected to reading. EdSurge: What led you to tell this story? Jenny Mackenzie: Reading is personal for me.

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Social Justice Educational Technology Research Teaching 104

Anthropology News

MARCH 21, 2024

This vigorous and theoretically virtuosic interdisciplinarity was a definitive attribute of his work. Until the end of his life, Sánchez continued to think about these issues, and especially of the relationship between affect and the political theology of patriarchy, which latter force he identified as the greatest obstacle to social justice.

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Anthropology Social Justice Tradition Research 52

Geogramblings

APRIL 18, 2023

One monochrome projection, not 54 colonial constructs and definitely not 1.2 billion souls, hopes and dreams across six major climate zones 1.2

Geography 52

Geography Humanities Cultures Human Rights 52

Sapiens

APRIL 30, 2025

Mary has often been used as a tool of the patriarchy to uphold a definition of womanhood as meaning submissive, obedient, maternal, and sexually pure. As religious scholar TaNicolae writes , images of feminine divinity offer women the opportunity to find meaningfulness, empowerment, and sexual or psychological healing.

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Heritage Cultures Tradition Humanities 91

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

A year ago, a Pennsylvania school board voted to ban a long list of books and other materials relating to race and social justice. How can English teachers discuss Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” Philip Roth’s “The Human Stain” or Toni Morrison’s “Beloved” without considering race and social justice?

Social Justice 114

Social Justice Education American History K-12 114

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

She thinks the best summer programs don’t make kids sit in a math class for an hour every day in the summer, replicating the structure of traditional school, but engage kids in topics that they’re interested in, such as social justice.”Maybe Slavin advocates fusing summer camp with intensive, daily tutoring.

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Research Tutoring Social Justice Middle School 138

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

It feels really good to say, ‘I believe in this and that,’” said Dawn Larson, a social justice and equity co-chair of the Green Lake PTA. “To There was definitely a moment in the pandemic where we could have given up. We are a lip-service city and not everyone feels comfortable doing that.”.

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Public School Education K-12 Elementary School 145

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

But for Robinson, who attended an art high school in New York, “It was definitely worth the risk” to enroll in the fall at this small college with its alternative curriculum of self-directed learning and no grades or majors — shaky though its fate might seem. In 2020, it accepted no new students at all, and its future remained uncertain.

Social Justice 104

Social Justice Political Science Government Economics 104

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

The Arab students aren’t feeling that connection or that appreciation or that value, and knowing that their ancestors had a lot to do with how things are run today in all content areas, it would it definitely change their outlook on a lot of things.”

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

I’ve been dubbed a ‘social justice warrior’ (that’s a badge of honour). It is definitely worth a listen, with focus on the World Cup from timestamp 27:15. They are by definition and design inhumane. I’m a football fan. I’m an England fan. I’m an intersectional feminist.

Geography 52

Geography Social Justice Humanities Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2017

That’s because few funders are serious about social justice. What makes an organization serious about social justice? One of the planks of NCPR’s framework is to increase the number of serious social justice funders. “A There are other ways to see if a foundation is serious about social justice.

Social Justice 90

Social Justice Civic Engagement Advocacy Civics 90

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The definition of climate literacy its authors arrived at, after 21 months of work, includes eight essential principles that I’m summarizing here: 1. Planet Ed, for one, has just released a Youth Climate Action Guide with the Nature Conservancy that engages many areas of climate literacy, from mitigation to adaptation to justice. “I

Education 125

Education Museum Social Justice K-12 125

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

For much of its history, Antioch was ahead of its counterparts in more enviable ways, including its legacy of promoting social justice. “A And that’s definitely right — if you have an honestly defensible distinction. A hippy school,” its own students, alumni and faculty call it fondly. Related: The new minority on campus?

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Economics Social Justice Psychology Lesson Plan 90

Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

I’m not going to stop doing science communication or putting my face and name out there, doing what I do for climate justice, social justice, decolonising work, and science communication. C, we’re definitely going to hit 2°C, then 3°C, then 4°C. I’m not going to stop my podcast. No, I’m not.

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