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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

If we don’t offer educators the opportunity to rethink their intellectual ideas — about climate change, science, inequality — it makes it really difficult to do this work.” Social science does not support that. Kids come in with, ‘Humans harm the earth and the earth is dying,’” she said.

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To Serve All of Our Students, 'We Have to Do Something Different'

ED Surge

Through my work as director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab , I’ve asked the question to teachers, school leaders, coaches, researchers and experts of all stripes (think: learning science, instruction, teacher education, culturally responsive teaching and so on), and it typically elicits more pauses and wonderings than answers.

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An Ode To STEM? What poets can teach academic scientists

The Hechinger Report

In many universities, humanities requirements exist in engineering schools and department, but are fairly modest. At Northwestern University, seven quarter-long courses in social science or humanities are required for engineers. “A well-crafted research paper wastes no words — like a poem.”. The post An Ode To STEM?