Wed.Jul 17, 2024

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Teach About Immigration

Zinn Education Project

March for Children in Chicago, 2018. Source: Flickr/Kurman Communications LLC The airwaves are full of inflammatory rhetoric about immigrants. Politicians are fear-mongering about an “invasion” at the Southern border. They ignore the invasions by the United States in countries around the world — as well as the U.S. economic and climate policies that have turned so many people into refugees.

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Principals Aren’t Encouraged to Be Vulnerable. That Needs to Change.

ED Surge

“Are you a boy or a girl?” the 5-year-old asked, staring at me as she waited for my response. I froze. Having worked primarily with middle and high schoolers, I wasn’t yet used to the blunt inquisitiveness of our younger students. I was caught off guard. It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families.

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Jean-Claude Brizard and Nedgine Paul Deroly Jointly Receive John P. McNulty Prize

Digital Promise

The post Jean-Claude Brizard and Nedgine Paul Deroly Jointly Receive John P. McNulty Prize appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Shared Reading: A Key to Student Engagement and Literacy Development

Heinemann Blog

Shared reading is a powerful instructional practice that bridges the gap between read-aloud sessions and independent reading, creating a joyful and supportive environment for all students.

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July 17 Update: New Program Codes and Updated Search

TCI

Explore what’s new this week: New Program Codes for CSV Rostering: For districts that auto-roster using CSVs, please note that our program codes have been updated. Use the new codes when auto-rostering to keep everything running smoothly. Search Slideshow Content: Our search tool now links with slideshows. Use the tool to find where key topics are covered in the slides with ease.

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CFP: 4th Etygram Conference

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: 4th Etygram Conference kskordal Wed, 07/17/2024 - 12:28 Image 4th Etygram Conference Ancient and Medieval Greek Etymology as heuristic and pedagogic tool. The case of common words 2025, April 28th-30th in Siena This international conference, to be held in Siena in April 2025 aims to attract researchers, mainly philologists, linguists and philosophers interested in ancient practices of etymologizing in Ancient Greek and Byzantine literature.

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The Politics and Limits of Aspiration

Anthropology News

Black youth experiences at a progressive low-fee private school in a postapartheid city illuminate the politics and limits of aspiration. On January 15, two days before the start of the 2024 school year, I joined 50 grade eight students and their guardians for an orientation at Launch, a high school in one of Cape Town’s oldest townships. Townships are peri-urban areas designated for black inhabitation by colonial and apartheid laws that largely remain marginalized despite South Africa’s 1994 d

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Theme Panel: Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference I, II and III

Political Science Now

Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference I Thursday, September 5, 8:00am – 5:30pm Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference II Friday, September 6, 8:00am – 5:30pm Learning from Global Democratic Challenges and Innovations Mini-Conference III Saturday, September 7, 8:00am – 5:30pm View all 2024 APSA Annual Meeting Theme Panels or View all 2024 APSA Annual Meeting Pre-Conference Short Courses.

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