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Culturally Responsive Teaching: Tips and Strategies for Educators

Waterford

Culturally responsive teaching encompasses little steps like adding diverse books in your classroom library , as well as larger ones like adjusting your curriculum to include voices from marginalized communities. December 2003. That’s where culturally responsive teaching comes in. What is Culturally Responsive Teaching? Pewewardy, C.,

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Undents, volvelles, and Didymus the Brazen-Gutted: notes on Ann M. Blair’s _Too Much to Know_

Bryan Alexander

Too Much To Know (Yale University Press, 2010) is about certain ways people in the early modern period coped with information overload, which seems at first glance to be a strange assertion, given the enormous amount of information we struggle with (or delight in) in our time. So how did people proceed? ” (186).

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The History of the Future of E-rate

Hack Education

E-rate is the name commonly used to describe the Schools and Libraries Program of the Universal Service Fund, established as part of the Telecommunications Act of 1996. million settlement paid by Hewlett Packard in 2010 over accusations of fraud. What can E-rate tell us about the relationship between politics and ed-tech?

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Rebecca Black, Justin Bieber, & Zombies

The Daring Librarian

Time to beg, cajole, tease, torture (audibly), and plead to get our Library Media materials back. Some of my kids might not return a book because they LOVE it and they can''t buy it to keep for their personal libraries. It was a nonfiction book on display in the library that was near their editing Macintosh. And, That''s OK!

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

For an absurd example, if dropouts tended to take classes on Thursdays in their first semester at college, but students who completed their degrees didn’t, then you might worry about current students who are currently taking classes on Thursdays. Since 2010, the school has tripled the number of student advisers, Renick said.

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The breaking point that led to my sabbatical (and what’s next)

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I remember as a teacher checking out stacks of professional development books from the library and reading them poolside in the summer over my break and creating new activities to do with my kids. . Leading by example is always my intention. Everything can’t be “do it for the children” all the time. You matter, too. I matter, too.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

They don’t charge tuition, but they’ve become exclusive enclaves through other means — for example, by not providing a free or subsidized lunch or bus transportation. ohnson, a Little Rock native, came to the Arkansas side of the Delta in 2003 with Teach For America. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs.

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