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Free Resources to Support Your Makerspace

A Principal's Reflections

Be sure to check out these f ree lesson plans Arduino This is an open-source prototyping platform based on easy-to-use hardware and software. In schools it is being used to teach all kinds of skills and subjects from math to foreign languages to social justice to fair trade.

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How Mentorship Has Kept Me in the Classroom

ED Surge

Our shared values and commitment to social justice fueled us during some of our toughest moments. I saw myself in their struggles with classroom management and lesson planning, and I was eager to share the strategies that had helped me. Without the support of Ms. Hoover and Ms.

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How Schools Can Use Cultural Performing Arts to Reimagine Community-Engaged Learning

ED Surge

What Schools and Educators Can Do About This When I became a teacher, I believed culturally responsive teaching and community-engaged learning could only live in lesson plans. During one of my social justice blocks, we dedicate a week to the Day of the Dead and its traditions.

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EdSurge’s Year in Review: The Top 10 K-12 Stories of 2021

ED Surge

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users.

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Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

ED Surge

His ambitions to learn were thwarted because his teacher had assigned handouts and a three-week-long lesson plan that relied on a website that wasn’t easy for him to navigate. When Jacob, a 10th grader with vision impairment, signed up for an AP class, it made him feel like a castaway.

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COLUMN: Should schools teach climate activism?

The Hechinger Report

Social justice is a core value of Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School, and the school also belongs to a special assessment cons ortium , giving it more freedom in what is taught than a typical New York City public high school. Sanes gets a lot of support for this approach from his administration.

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If I was teaching Social Studies today…

Dangerously Irrelevant

And, if I was stuck for an idea for class, I could access the Social Studies lesson plans at Educade or the 400+ lesson plans at the EDSITEment! We could create our own social justice project like Bill Ferriter’s middle schoolers. Washington University in St. We could play Fantasy Geography.