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How Colonialism Invented Food Insecurity in West Africa

Sapiens

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. This world and character , inspired by the Afrofuturism movement , was dreamed up by archaeologists Amanda Logan and Katherine Grillo.

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Caring for and through Language: Tibetan Refugees and Heritage Language Education in Canada

Anthropology News

As requested by the local Tibetan community, a linguistic anthropologist (Ward) and graduate student (Moli) adapted the Buddhist-inspired framework of SEE Learning to facilitate reflections on best practices in Tibetan heritage language education.

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Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month

Studies Weekly

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. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Today, it enrolls roughly 500 students from 60 different tribes in grades K-12, bolstering their Indigenous heritage with land-based lessons and language courses built into a college preparatory model. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006. School officials said the decline is due to incomplete data.)

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Native American students have the least access to computer science

The Hechinger Report

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. Correction: This sentence has been updated with the correct version of Sealaska Heritage Institute’s name.

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Voices at the Center: Asian American Educators Rising

ED Surge

In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting. and marched to Chinatown on March 12, 2021. When they look back on that day, many remember feeling very alone. schools in recent years.

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Native communities want schools to teach Native languages. Now the White House is voicing support

The Hechinger Report

The plan will cover early childhood, K-12 and higher education, but also extend to “academic settings throughout adulthood and a person’s entire lifetime.” And for nearly 40 years, the state of Hawaii has offered K-12 immersion programs in Hawaiian language that now enroll students on six of the eight major Hawaiian islands.

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