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As we embrace the ‘science of reading,’ we can’t leave out older students

eSchool News

Lewis, Barack Obama, Maya Angelou, and dozens of other writers and thinkers. I hoped to inspire my students to fall in love with reading. I didn’t think to hope that all my students could do the very thing I was asking them to love. Hanging on cream-colored cardstock were the words of Malcolm X, Toni Morrison, C.S.

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Creative Writing and World-Building in Minecraft: Education Edition

Educator Innovator

I was seated on the Auraria Campus, the site of the Denver Writing Project’s Young Writers Camp, and the boys were climbing in the tree boughs above me while we all waited for their parents to collect them at the end of the day. Maya Robbins, students. Students are sure to have playful ideas for new ways to build worlds.

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TEACHER VOICE: This wasn’t a ‘lost year’

The Hechinger Report

After receiving my student’s email, I followed these protocols and waited to hear back, hoping that my student was OK. Then we read Dunbar’s and Maya Angelou’s writing about birds trapped in cages. Teachers have protocols to follow in situations like this. We document the signs of crisis. We alert counselors and administrators.

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Best Education-Related Videos of 2014

User Generated Education

Maya Angelou on George Stroumboulopoulos. It doesn’t matter if a student is a gifted artist, a loving caretaker, a poetic writer, or a talented musician. You can dream it, you can hope it, you can make it happen; I choose to make it happen. Everyone has to hear it. Always so very beautiful – RIP, beautiful woman!

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How to improve schooling during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to students

The Hechinger Report

Camille Fei, a junior at Philip Simmons High School in Charleston, South Carolina, hopes to start an equity club this year to address the lack of antiracism education at her school. It’s proven that that’s the only way to help, especially if you’re inside,” said Fei, who is a junior and hopes to become a nutritionist. It blows my mind.

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When to Call Someone Out or Call Them In Over Racist Behavior

MindShift

As American poet, singer, and activist Maya Angelou said, “When you know better, do better.”. What am I hoping to accomplish with this call-in or call-out? Tiffany Jewell is a biracial writer and Montessori educator. Thank them for their comment and acknowledge you listened. This is how we all learn and move forward.

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When embracing the ‘science of reading,’ we can’t leave out older students

eSchool News

Lewis, Barack Obama, Maya Angelou, and dozens of other writers and thinkers. I hoped to inspire my students to fall in love with reading. I didn’t think to hope that all my students could do the very thing I was asking them to love. Hanging on cream-colored cardstock were the words of Malcolm X, Toni Morrison, C.S.

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