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Rural Innovation: Community Problem-Solving Through Heritage Storytelling

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How Belonging and Productive Struggle Can Motivate Students in Math

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Jamaal Matthews, a former math teacher turned researcher and professor at Montclair State University, recommends that teachers elicit information from their students on the “4 Hs” to build student-centered instruction: home, hobbies, hopes, and heritage.

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

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Wilson wants to learn science-specific vocabulary and have Spanish skills “to communicate across barriers.” At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room.