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The Challenges Educators Face

A Principal's Reflections

Educators now have access anytime from anywhere to people, ideas, resources, strategies, and feedback. Even with all the positives associated with what I listed above, the truth of the matter is that much of it doesn’t matter when the realities educators face are not given the attention that they deserve. You can see the tweet below.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

The humanities field has not recovered from that free fall, recently published data from the National Center for Education Statistics show. That must change now that the field has been given a tremendous opportunity: training our next generation of social justice leaders. It is for this reason that the Andrew W.

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5 Keys for Successful Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Equity There have always been issues with equity when it comes to education. However, the current pandemic and social justice movements across the globe have brought a more unified focus on the work that needs to be done. Then think about strategies to inform and educate families as to what their kids can expect.

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Leading in Uncertain Times

A Principal's Reflections

Prior to COVID19, the vast amount of uncertainty in education lay in societal changes resulting from the 4th Industrial Revolution. A rapid evolution in artificial intelligence, automation, and advanced robotics should have served notice to anyone in the education space that things needed to change.

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Talking About Race and Social Justice In The Classroom

Edthena

Addressing these issues in classrooms requires a social and emotional approach for students. Social justice is about all people being able to benefit from something better. She is now Director for the Center for Excellence and Education at Morehouse College. How do we define social justice?

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 1

Dangerously Irrelevant

Thought I’d post a quick update on how my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice , is going. We are trying to approach the class through a very broad social justice lens, which means that we’re discussing a variety of different school leadership equity contexts. I’ve got six students in the class.

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Who wants to join me for a course on leadership during a crisis or leadership for social justice?

Dangerously Irrelevant

I have a little room in my teaching schedule so I am offering two online Master’s-level courses this summer: EDUC 5001 E50. This course will be applicable to both schools and non-education organizations!]. — EDUC 5652 E50. Leadership for Social Justice (3 credits, online) [Class # 20596].