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How Trauma Impacts the Well-Being of Black Women Educators

ED Surge

Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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New Research Looks for Better Ways for Schools to Recruit Teachers of Color

ED Surge

What are some of the solutions you found that schools are trying to address the challenge of diversifying the teacher workforce? Bringing teachers of color into that space, working with administrators, bringing in students of color to co-design the culture was one of the pieces that they raised. [We We had a lot of ideas that emerged.

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Our Nation’s Public Schools are Failing Neurodivergent Learners. That Needs to Change.

ED Surge

And why was the seemingly boundless nourishment of the sun limited to what the tree could glean from the space it occupied between its peers? What if instead of having to compete with peers for the sun’s attention, it had room to grow in its own way, at its own pace? Our daughter was one of 3.7 In 2023, the federal government invested $15.5

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9 Ways to Enable Equitable Education in Your School

ED Surge

Technology can play a key role in giving students an opportunity to leverage their interests through authentic projects and providing them a space to showcase their talents. The rush to return to normal has seen us abandon some of the best methods for diversifying instructional delivery.

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Edtech Entrepreneurs Must Find New Ways to Build Community

ED Surge

But as someone who has long helped entrepreneurs enter and grow within the edtech space, I can say that turning a good idea into a working innovation that helps educators and students remains a challenge. These shifts have left others with a renewed focus on self, and freed them to increase their capacity to produce—the “startup of one” (i.e.

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Leading Through Innovation: Celebrating Black STEM Leaders

STEM Education Guide

schools today strive to diversify their curricula year-round, the month of February provides a targeted opportunity to look more deeply at Black heroes, past and present. Mae Jemison In 1992, almost 100 years after Carver earned his landmark Bachelor’s degree, Mae Jemison became the first Black woman to travel to space. While most U.S.

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What Preservice Teachers and Teacher Educators Can Learn from Trajectories

National Science Foundation

Few would discount the power and promise of diversifying the teaching force, especially in STEM fields; however, our research offers the field of STEM education new insight into the conversation. The desire to diversify the STEM teaching force is rife with “good” intentions. The Diversity Imperative.