Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 26, 2020

My online Leadership for Social Justice class launches in 2 weeks. Coronavirus Chronicles 006 – Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency. Coronavirus Chronicles 021 – San Diego County Office of Education. I thought it would be fun to crowdsource some ideas here. not theoretical philosophizing)?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2021

There is some incredible work happening right now related to women in P-12 educational leadership. Women Who Lead has more than 500 curated video conversations with over 70 women who hold leadership positions in education. WomenEd boasts a community of over 35,000 participants and has hosted hundreds of events. SheLeadsEdu.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 17, 2025

In 2025, the ACLS Leading Edge Fellowship Program will offer 16 two-year fellowship opportunities with mission-driven social justice nonprofits for recent humanities and interpretive social sciences PhDs. The full roster of partnering organizations and positions is available here.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It seems easy to blame global events for these feelings. It’s not so much the actual events that cause us to feel panic, but the “what ifs” that swirl around them. It’s not so much the actual events that cause us to feel panic, but the “what ifs” that swirl around them. This seems especially true for young people.

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Psychology Social Justice Civics Research 135

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2022

Over the 17 years I have taught high school chemistry, the challenges in education have become more acute — even before the pandemic we were scrambling to provide our students with meaningful instruction online and to find ways to get all our students to actively engage in learning. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

Join APSAs Committee on the Status of Community Colleges in the Profession for the third event of their professional development workshop series! She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-one years.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 27, 2024

What could be more important for our students than to learn that progress toward greater justice in the world has occurred only when people have organized together and fought for it? The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Learn more.

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Zinn Education Project

AUGUST 1, 2024

The Zinn Education Project continues to offer free lessons on labor history and to campaign for teachers’ right to teach. Students Uncover “The Power in Our Hands” The Zinn Education Project offers a collection of free lessons on labor history from the teaching guide by Bill Bigelow and Norm Diamond, The Power in Our Hands.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

More than 90 percent of Code Next’s latest cohort of high school graduates advanced to higher education, the vast majority in STEM fields, according to a Code Next survey. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. In July, Ajith and three of her friends testified before the Texas State Board of Education, demanding changes to the way students are taught.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 25, 2024

Welcome to Writing as Healing, a Heinemann podcast series focused on writing as a tool to increase healing in students and educators. We know that academic learning doesn’t happen without social and emotional support, and writing, as a key literacy, is uniquely positioned in every classroom to do both.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Regardless of where your understanding of gender fluidity lies, what you probably have in common with your fellow educators is that you want all of your students to feel safe, accepted, and loved while they are under your care. Edwards added this piece based on his own experience working with educators. What should I have said?

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 4, 2020

Educators may be looking for resources they can lean on as they navigate these complex issues with their students who understandably have a variety of feelings about what is taking place in our country. The Center for Racial Justice in Education has a collection of resources to guide conversations about race, racism, and racialized violence.

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Teaching Social Justice Advocacy Middle School 88

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2017

Why are psychologists documenting back to school anxiety , showing increases in mental health events for children during the school year after a dramatic decline over the summer, including an extreme anxiety labeled school refusal , a disorder marked by a child refusing to go to school on a regular basis? Sign up for our newsletter.

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Social Justice Education High School Cultures 87

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

Riley Campbell isn’t one of those aspiring educators who always dreamed of leading her own classroom or who played school with her friends growing up. For a while, she actually thought she might go into the hospitality industry — and pursued a related career and technical education (CTE) pathway at her high school.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 12, 2021

There is only one side to these events that is fair, just, and equitable. Educators should help students understand how oppressors justified their actions in history without giving credit to their arguments. … Educators don’t take stock in conspiracy theories. We stand up for truth, justice, and decency.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

As teachers we are often nervous about discussing current events with elementary school students. I have learned, though, that to not talk about race and current events is negligent to our students, their families and our society. Current events happen. Educate yourself if you are unsure how to begin. Racism is real.

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Social Justice Elementary School Humanities Leadership 98

Mr and Mrs Social Studies

JANUARY 16, 2023

As educators, we must provide our students with the tools and resources they need to make informed decisions about their future careers. Job Skills for Students While middle school students are not yet ready to look into higher education and figure out their exact career path, the earlier they start thinking about it, the better.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., 6 percent — The number of colleges and universities led by a black president, according to a 2012 survey from the American Council on Education (13.3 percent of the U.S. population is black).

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 6, 2024

On June 4, the Zinn Education Project hosted a Press Call about the 4th Annual National Teach Truth Day of Action. The Day of Action is cosponsored by more than 65 prominent racial and social justice organizations. The Teach Truth Day of Action is part of a campaign to reclaim public education as a common good.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

For the past three summers, educators, students, parents, and allies have joined across the country to speak out against politicians attempting to restrict the freedoms of educators and students. Follow the conversation on Twitter: #TeachTruth The post Teach Truth Day of Action Press Call appeared first on Zinn Education Project.

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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. Two years ago this fall, Jose Vilson launched EduColor. Most of all, as he and the other organizers say, it’s ‘a movement, not a moment.’ ’ Many of us haven’t paid too much attention to EduColor.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Some folks know that I started my education career as a middle school Social Studies teacher in Charlotte, North Carolina. 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 play Fantasy Geography.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 1, 2024

Curricular innovations include utilizing new textbooks or workbooks, creating a new active learning experience, and utilizing APSA Educate resources to improve face-to-face or online learning environments. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-four years.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

It used to be limited to incidents that were objectively harmful and almost always severe, events that involved some kind of violence, like experiencing or directly witnessing a physical assault, or a tragedy of some sort — a natural disaster, vehicle collision, something that caused destruction or bodily harm.

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Teaching Pedagogy Classroom Management Social Justice 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Educators and others are experimenting with new ways to address students’ mental health needs — or reinvent old strategies. The numbers don’t reflect the impact the pandemic and social justice movements over police killings have had on Black youth. Read the series. READ MORE. “We

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

He shared with us how the fine arts are adapting during the pandemic and helped us understand some leadership lessons that would be useful for us in P-12 and higher education. Leadership for social justice: Class update 1. Our third guest was Jack Fishman, Executive Director of the Baltimore Choral Arts Society. Related Posts.

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Edthena

MAY 18, 2021

Fourth-grade teacher Meagan Pryor is a deeply committed and passionate educator. Meagan is truly a thoughtful educator. I hope I am making a difference for my students the way both of those educators did for me.” Alicia is also committed to equity and social justice. ” Desire Roberts. Jill Taylor.

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Social Justice Archiving Public School Project-Based Learning 52

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. All of these events are online.)

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Teaching K-12 Professional Development Library 52

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Apart from discussions that arise from current events, Kay says, “These aren’t conversations that pop out of nowhere. “There’s a lot of talk of martyrdom in education and I’ve always been against that, and if you’re in a place that’s killing your soul, I want you to leave. ” Any other advice?

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All Things Pedagogical

APRIL 16, 2023

And of course there isn't because academe and academic spaces is a state solution to a community need for spaces for education. There is not a lot of meeting each other's needs in academe. Some folk try to put that value and space for interdependence in their pedagogy, by co-creating rubrics, instruction assignments, discussion spaces.

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Pedagogy Social Justice Research Education 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2021

Instead it is often up to people like Bazemore, other PTA board members and school staff to donate their own money to cover membership fees, buy lunches during teacher appreciation week or help families afford tickets to attend special events. “We The real issue is Washington state just needs to fully fund education. Credit: Kam Yee.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For the past three years, I’ve participated in the Students for Equitable Education (SEE) Summit , a national social justice event that’s designed and led by students from across the country. Interested in hearing from Ray’Aunnah and other students about social justice topics that matter to them?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice. As I said in my last post about this class , my six students have been co-creating the class with me… We have continued to approach the class through a variety of social justice lenses. Related Posts.

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Social Justice Leadership Cultures Public School 63

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

by TeachThought Staff Paulo Freire’s “The Pedagogy of the Oppressed” is a foundational text in educational theory. Written in the 1960s, this influential work remains as relevant today as it was at the time of its publication, offering insights into the nature of oppression and the transformative potential of education.

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Zinn Education Project

MAY 30, 2024

The Zinn Education Project provides free resources to teach outside the textbook about the Tulsa Massacre and the continuing history of institutionalized racism and displacement. This is our issue: Educators need to respond in our classrooms, and also in our unions, where we can raise demands for reparations legislation. Donate now.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At the September 2016 Summit to Expand Research Use in Education , educators, technology developers, and researchers met to address an essential question: How can we work together to expand research use in the design, development, and improvement of education programs, products, and practices? Credit: Lane Change Consulting.

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