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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. The goal was to develop a proposed site for a healthy grocery store or alternative option for fresh, wholesome food.

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

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When Schools Don't Invest in the Arts, It Harms Students Evidence shows that arts education builds empathy, promotes healthy social development and helps students engage with others, but unfortunately, not all students have access. We discuss loss, healing and grief as healthy ways to process social and emotional learning experiences.

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How to Teach Digital Citizenship in Kindergarten and 1st Grade

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Overview/Big Ideas Students learn how to live in the digital world of internet websites, copy-righted images, and virtual friends who may be something different. How is this the same/different from being a citizen of the town they live in? Essential Questions What is a ‘digital citizen’? Where is this ‘digital town’?

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How New Orleans Food Culture Shaped My View of School Lunches

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Between the grease, carcinogenic packaging of fast food options nearby, and the tasteless and culturally irrelevant food options shipped into our cafeteria by a national corporation, our students don’t seem to have any good or healthy food options.

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'As Educators, We Must Tell the Truth'

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Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths through a collection of powerful personal essays as part of the EdSurge Voices of Change writing fellowship.

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15+ Websites to Teach Financial Literacy

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Financial Literacy Month is recognized annually in Canada in November, [1] and National Financial Literacy Month was recognized in the United States in April 2004, [2] in an effort to highlight the importance of financial literacy and teach citizens how to establish and maintain healthy financial habits. Gen I Revolution.

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Creative Options for Remote Learning

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Live-in Nanny Teacher. A live-in nanny is similar to a babysitter, except they will care for your children full-time. Nannies are responsible for creating daily schedules and engaging your children in activities that promote their healthy mental, physical and emotional growth. Exchange Program Au Pair. In-Home Tutor.