A Psychology Teacher Writes

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Photo by Artem Podrez on Pexels.com “There’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back.” How many times have we heard or said that after attending a PD session? And yes, some of those sessions may well have been truly awful for all kinds of reasons. But one of the things people sometimes grumble about is that there was nothing new : “I know all this, I’ve been teaching for years” “I didn’t take any new ideas from that” “Nothing new but it was nice to hear that I’m doing everything right” The last o

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The need to strengthen the science, technology, math and engineering (STEM) careers pipeline has received renewed interest lately. Whether students can successfully flow through the pipeline to fill vital jobs in the country may have significance for the national interest , according to some observers. So what would it take to make STEM truly open to would-be future scientists?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Public school teaching remains a female- dominated profession. Nearly 80 percent of classroom teachers in our public schools are women. Yet when it comes to the top job — superintendent — just three in 10 are women. Nearly half of the country’s 500 largest school districts had a change in leadership during the pandemic, but men still filled more than 70 percent of those vacancies, research by Women Leading Ed , a national network working to grow and strengthen the pipeline of women in education

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The post How Indigenous Youth and Elders Work Together to Pass On Cultural Knowledge appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2023

When Tha Cung looked over his sixth-grade class schedule, he took notice of the math block. He had been placed in an advanced class. This story also appeared in The Associated Press and The Dallas Morning News “I didn’t know ‘honors’ even existed,” he said. Tha was little when his family immigrated from Myanmar, and, for much of his time in Dallas schools, he took courses designed for children who are learning English.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

ST. PAUL, Minn. — Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. During debate exercises, there’s been a “consolidation” around points of view that are more left-leaning, he says, and a reluctance to make the case for extreme right-leaning positions.

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