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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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When I was a student, I struggled to see my people represented in curricula, so when I design Spanish and social studies classes, I work to decolonize my lessons and reclaim Indigenous history. However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees.

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The Future of Democracy Depends on a Quality Civics Education

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When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America.

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In Coastal Alaska, 2 Visions for the Future of Higher Education

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The new program operates out of the former campus of Sheldon Jackson, a religious boarding school and later a college, both now closed, that were founded to educate Alaska Native students as part of “a deeply assimilationist institution ,” says Yeidikook’áa Dionne Brady-Howard, who is Tlingit and grew up in Sitka.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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And it wasn't just happening in one class, but it was like happening in English, happening in social studies, happening in science. One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. And I was like, ‘Oh, this is pretty cool.’

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