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How I Helped Students Reclaim Pride for Their Black Hair With My Curriculum

ED Surge

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

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Schools Are Seeing More Hate and Bias Incidents. But Educators Are Not Helpless to Address Them.

ED Surge

They’ve followed news stories and seen video clips of an insurrection at the nation’s capital. A bias incident is defined as any hostile expression that may be motivated by another person’s race, color, disability, religion, national origin, sexual orientation or gender identity. That requires thoughtful planning in advance.

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SEL Games: Learning Life Skills Through Games

Cool Cat Teacher

As we seek to reengage students, games are a great way to not only teach but help students develop socially and emotionally. Today’s topic brings these two together. “A Understandably, this research is good news for those who believe in SEL. First, games are an excellent tool in the hands of a trained educator.

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Tennessee network focused on “kindergarten to jobs” pipeline

STEMx

has worked to develop high-quality STEM programming for the state’s students in support of the focus of “kindergarten to jobs.” Our team has developed targeted at home learning resources for teachers and students that keep kids engaged and excited about exploring the world around them. Since its creation in 2010, the.

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Discovery Education Leadership Symposium

STEM Discovery Education

Speakers like Cody Keenan and Dr. Robert Marzano , engaging sessions on topics like equity, federal funding, and competency-bases systems, and a tour of the St. Vrain Valley Schools Innovation Center were all inspired by this year’s theme: The Great Emergence: Innovations Supporting the New Era of Education.

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What Image Comes to Your Mind When You Think of a “Doctor”?

National Science Foundation

Implicit bias develops over a lifetime and is described as attitudes or stereotypes that affect our judgements or assessments of others (NEA Center for Social Justice, 2021). Raising Awareness: The Heart Surgeon Activity To initiate PSTs’ professional development on implicit bias and inclusive teaching, I created The Heart Surgeon activity.

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How Learning a New Language Is Helping Me Connect With My Students

ED Surge

My colleagues and I hoped to improve communication with our students and support their academic development by better understanding a language they are expert in. In addition to building my vocabulary and learning more phrases in Spanish, my vulnerability in learning a new language is creating common ground with my students.

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