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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Then, we’ll provide a few strategies for improving your cultural competency and even a starter list of diverse books to include in your classroom library or curriculum. For students from underrepresented backgrounds, culturally responsive teaching strategies can help them feel more comfortable in the classroom and improve school success.

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The First Days of the School Year: It’s About the Learners Not the Content

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I want to learn about my individual students so my instructional strategies can be more personalized and tailored to their needs and interests. Knowing our students is fundamental to real differentiation ( 6 Strategies For Getting To Know Your Students ). I want students to learn about one another in a personal way.

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The Simple View of Reading: What You Need to Know

Waterford

Developed by Hollis Scarborough in 2001, it extends the Simple View by identifying subskills in both language comprehension and word recognition. Then you can use Scarborough’s Reading Rope model to pinpoint specific strategies for teaching students to read and for tracking their progress more effectively. Scarborough’s Reading Rope.

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Who Does School Reform Serve?

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Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education. And she argues that efforts at using school desegregation as a strategy to improve education for Black children have not historically served them well.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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The strategies needed to transform school districts, along with the ongoing implementation of these strategies in one Connecticut district, were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The School Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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Conflict Resolution Techniques You Can Use in Your Classroom

Waterford

This article discusses strategies for dealing with conflict between students, as well as with an angry, disruptive student. But understanding basic strategies can help most situations. No two situations are the same, but generally these strategies can help create a peaceful and constructive classroom. March 2001.

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Achieving Equity Through Systems, Strategies, and Educational Justice

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Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Within the teaching and learning domain, educators have developed action plans focused on closing opportunity gaps through the implementation of strategies that are grounded in high-level practices and aligned across schools, but which can also be responsive to individual teachers and students.

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