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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. How to Improve Your Cultural Competency as a Teacher. That’s where culturally responsive teaching comes in.

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How School Districts Are Shaping the Edtech They Use

eSpark

Over 1,000 Mineola elementary school students are using eSpark in four buildings throughout the district, while a team of Mineola middle schoolers helped us build new product features to better engage and challenge students. Vision and Virtual Support with Piedmont City Schools. Piedmont, Alabama. Berwyn, Illinois.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Schools that foster trust among parents, teachers, and school leaders are more likely to see academic improvement than schools that do little or fail to foster trust ( Bryk and Schneider, 2003 ). Deeper knowledge of content and how to teach it : Training teachers solely in new techniques and behaviors will not work.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund follows the same formula as Title I, so it can be used to help bridge the digital divide for students from low-income families. There should also be outreach to new partners such as libraries and local city councils in an effort to obtain resources and other support.

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How Harry Potter Has Brought Magic To Classrooms For More Than 20 Years

MindShift

More than 1,000 educators, from elementary teachers to university professors, responded to NPR’s callout with stories about how they incorporate the Harry Potter series into their curriculum and classrooms. Changing how some classrooms look — and feel. And Hogwarts is no longer a place you can only dream of visiting.

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

The Hechinger Report

He wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, only not too far off the ground, because heights were scary. Johnson was opening outside the traditional public system not to create some kind of segregated fiefdom but because that’s where she knew how to run a great school. Photo: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Lucy Gray and I, the founders and co-chairs of this massive, worldwide, and free event, may have gotten ourselves a little behind this year on GlobalEdCon planning (with STEMxCon in September, then the Reform Symposium , Library 2.01 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!), Please join us!