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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

Tyndall turned down a bevy of offers from colleges in other states to attend Rutgers’ Honors Living-Learning Community (HLLC), which brings together dozens of students each year for a residential program that combines rigorous academics with a social-justice focus. “I Eventually, he’d like to serve as either the U.S.

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Inside one school’s efforts to bridge the divide between white teachers and students of color

The Hechinger Report

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. Some people don’t think we have an issue with race at all,” said Deangello Eley, a 1999 graduate of Sussex Tech who now teaches criminal justice at the school.

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Leadership for social justice: Class update 2

Dangerously Irrelevant

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership for Social Justice. As I said in my last post about this class , my six students have been co-creating the class with me… We have continued to approach the class through a variety of social justice lenses. Related Posts.

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The importance of difficult conversations in U.S. classrooms: Teaching about the migrant crisis

The Hechinger Report

In schools, educators will inevitably teach students from a variety of backgrounds with different beliefs, ideas and opinions. They never discussed immigration when they were students, and they are unprepared to teach those who have recently come to the United States. There are ways to do better.

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OPINION: Can Zoom classes keep students excited and engaged? We have found some ways

The Hechinger Report

The switch to virtual teaching was especially jarring for us because our course was built completely around our spring-break trip – with all the excitement that travel entails. As we look forward to a fall semester teaching entirely online, we are translating those hard-fought lessons to the complex task ahead.

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TEACHER VOICE: ‘Which police officer will see me not as an educator or a scientist, but as a suspect?’

The Hechinger Report

“Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions.

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Practicing What We Preach: Using Inquiry to Design a Social Studies Methods Class

C3 Teachers

In my own work, inquiry has become much more than a way to deploy content and sharpen skills; the lexicon of inquiry has become the way I think about teaching and learning more broadly. Like all good teaching, I started planning backwards. For example, when I write a syllabus, I always start with questions.