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How to Hold Effective Classroom Discussions

Waterford

To learn more about this technique, we recommend the book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: Promoting Authentic Engagement and Rigor Among Culturally and Linguistically Diverse Students by Zaretta Hammond. Preventing School Failure: Alternative Education for Children and Youth, 2003, 47, pp. December, 2013.

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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. 15 Children’s Books about Diversity to Promote a Multicultural Classroom. December 2003. Pewewardy, C.,

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What Your School Needs to Know About Trauma-Informed Practices

Waterford

Trauma-informed practices in the classroom can also include smaller measures, like providing books that reflect the experiences of trauma-exposed children. A few examples of children’s books on trauma include: Healing Days: A Guide for Kids Who Have Experienced Trauma by Susan Farber Straus (healing from trauma). Walkley, M.,

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Use Design Thinking to Develop Critical Skills for a Global Economy

EdTechTeacher

Since the 1960s, as computers have become cheaper, smaller, and faster, they have replaced many of the routine tasks that people had previously completed, fundamentally changing the task composition of the labor market (Autor, Levy, & Murnane, 2003). Our students need to be able to act to actually do something in the world around them.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Farenga’s books include The Beginner’s Guide to Homeschooling (Holt, 1998); Teach Your Own: The John Holt Book of Homeschooling (Perseus, 2003); The Legacy of John Holt: A Man Who Genuinely Understood, Trusted, and Respected Children (HoltGWS, 2013); and his latest publication, How to Report Unschooling to School Officials (HoltGWS, 2015).

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Women's History Month TV Show Scripts

The Daring Librarian

We celebrated Women's History Month at MHMS by creating a book display (naturally!) Women’s History Month Book Display - Pull List (much like me, this list is not perfect by any means) Non Fiction Women's suffrage : a primary source history of the women's rights movement in America - 305.42 Pretty simple. Pretty effective.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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He is the author, co-author, and editor of 13 books. His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015).