A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2014

This year, students were to select a charity from a different part of the world—namely the country that is their own heritage and background. Barbara Collentine educational technology New Milford High School' Senior Raechel Sontag actually set up an interview with the CEO of the charity she selected in Scotland and held it via Skype!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10- to 15-minute check-ins with educators all over. Thank you, Shameka Gerald , for sharing how Heritage High School in Newport News, Virginia is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

They had an incredible opportunity to learn how they utilize this former synagogue as an education center. Our students were engaged in an innovative approach to Holocaust education by viewing these boxes, which included documentation of survivors from Lostice and the surrounding towns. In Trsice, through the support of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

This is why, as a Black early childhood educator and counselor, I find it necessary to provide these same safe spaces to young children. In early childhood education, it is up to the adults in a young childs life to provide this experience. The foundation of their development happens in the earliest years of their lives.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. She also championed the Early Childhood Education Act and the Women’s Educational Equity Act.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

As Black womxn educators, we have a connection with education that is ancestral. Creativity, learning and innovation flourished in African communities, and that heritage lives in African descendants, especially apparent in the way we teach and radically care for our students. The idea of healing circles is not new.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

New Milford High School joined thousands of other schools and educators across the country to showcase how digital learning is changing education. This past Wednesday (February 6) was the second annual Digital Learning Day. He also had students use Poll Everywhere to check for understanding in the beginning of the lesson.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2023

A garden cared for by children and their teachers sits in the playground at the Heritage Park Child Care Centre in British Columbia. Children read outside at Heritage Park Child Care Centre. In New Brunswick, the province upped early childhood educator wages.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Reagan Rock, 14, grew up celebrating her Italian heritage. But the high school freshman at the Old Rochester Regional High School in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, near Cape Cod, has recently leaned in to her little-explored Irish heritage. Higher Education. She didn’t know her family had mixed-race heritage. Weekly Update.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

A supportive and engaged group of educators. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Discussion of primary documents. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2025 Multi Day Seminars!

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2025

Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter. This story about mental health services at community colleges was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Related: Interested in more news about colleges and universities?

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Presenting students with a fuller, authentic account of U.S. history is no easy task. It is, however, a necessary one.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

A supportive and engaged group of educators. Discussion of primary documents. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Fall 2024 Multi Day seminars ! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics.

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ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. Equal Access Doesn’t Mean Equally Helpful Edward Gonzalez oversees open educational resources for the Kern County Superintendent of Schools in California.

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

Places and cultures are proud of what they see as their accomplishments that are foundational to their heritage. .’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 6, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2024

But no matter how the conversation starts, the students — nearly half of whom are Black, Asian, Hispanic or multiracial — often come back to complaints about the lack of diversity in our school’s textbooks and educational materials. Provide educators with the time and training to be culturally responsive teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Correction: This sentence has been updated with the correct version of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s name.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2019

The teacher used a curriculum from Facing History and Ourselves , an educational nonprofit that provides teachers with tools to engage their students in examining bigotry. I came to love learning about one of my classmates’ Jewish heritage and sharing my Muslim heritage with him. I decided to stand up for myself and for others.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

education levels by the second generation — the first generation of children to be born in this country. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities. years of education.).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 23, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. Episode 038 is below. Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 12, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of check-ins with educators all over. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 028 – Heritage High School. I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

The recent unrest, violence and protests for justice in the United States provide a whole new set of challenges for educators, both at home and abroad. Like my multiracial background, my background as an educator is diverse. These men, and many others, inspired me to be proud of my multiracial heritage. Credit: Collin Cherubim.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2019

One could say that a classroom of “heritage learners” is full of swans mistaken for ugly ducklings. The term “heritage learners” is defined as people whose proficiency or knowledge of a language (and culture) comes from their community or family. They understand what you say in Spanish from Day One!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. They appreciated seeing another Asian educator receive national recognition in a profession where only 2.1% of public school educators are of Asian descent. This experience was echoed by many of the educators I met over the past year.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting often defaces or even destroys archaeological and environmental heritage. This potential harm to tangible heritage raises the ire of conservationists across government agencies, museums, universities, and other non-profit organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2019

Education is. Teaching students about their heritage, and about other groups’ heritage, allows students to break free of stereotypes and appreciate their challenges and triumphs. It led me to ask questions about my own heritage and to further appreciate my family’s challenges and triumphs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture. And it immediately brought to mind what our peoples have endured at the hands of the education system,” Qassataq said. I felt completely violated.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2020

The 18-year-old senior at Heritage High School, in Menifee, California, had just been accepted to her dream school, University of California, San Diego, and wanted to visit that campus and a few others before deciding where to spend the next four years. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Photo: Gissel Cardenas.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. When a student can see themselves in their educational environment, when they see their own story … it’s very engaging.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I didn’t explore my Korean heritage until college and only learned about LGBTQ+ historical leaders in my late twenties. Researchers have found that culturally relevant education can increase grades, participation and critical thinking skills and can lead to higher graduation rates. Related: OPINION: What’s missing in music education?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

What would a decision in Espinoza’s favor really mean for school choice and public education? For the perspective of the Heritage Foundation’s Jonathan Butcher, click here. Bruce Baker is a professor in the Rutgers Graduate School of Education ‘s department of educational theory, policy and administration.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

New York City’s Department of Education is the latest public school system to require that U.S. To get a sense of how students in New York feel about these changes, The Hechinger Report spoke with six public school students, representing four of the city’s five boroughs, whose heritage is Asian American or Pacific Islander.

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