A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. Commission for America’s Heritage Abroad, the group was able to dedicate a second memorial to the Wolf family, which honors the rescuers of this community.

Heritage 325

Heritage Artifacts High School History 325

ED Surge

JULY 19, 2023

EdSurge recently posed a question to a panel of Latino educators and an edtech leader: Is educational technology serving the Latino community, particularly its students? For Vigil, to get to the root of how technology falls short for Latino students, you have to go way back in time. That is just and humanizing.

Educational Technology 98

Educational Technology EdTech Education Heritage 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 8, 2025

Dignity: How is my/our human value celebrated? During Hispanic Heritage Month, our colleagues came together to support two of our affinity groups. Visibility: How am I/are we seen as valuable community members? As an affinity group lead facilitator, I run my group every week with two of my other brilliant colleagues.

Heritage 118

Heritage Critical Thinking High School Humanities 118

ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2024

As the number of Latine students increases in my school, it’s important that we humanize the migrant experience so that we can redefine the American Dream for students today. I can’t help but believe that the courage of these students to speak their truths is steeped in the humanity of the American Dream we set out to define in Spanish class.

Heritage 122

Heritage Humanities Economics Cultures 122

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me.

History 106

History Teaching Sociology Oral History 106

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

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. A question Black womxn educators must ask themselves when centering their healing is who you are and where you come from?

Education 129

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 129

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For Native American Heritage Month, Yarborough decided to introduce her sixth graders to stories, poems and songs that fit the theme, despite them not being approved for use. .' — Melissa Yarborough “By November I was like, ‘I'm done with this,’” Yarborough recalls. They're not learning. I know they can. I was like, ‘This is horrible.

Library 145

Library Heritage High School Elementary School 145