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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. Located in Mississippi, Columbus Municipal School District is committed to advancing advocacy of learners’ parents. And the exemplars continue.

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Want a stronger workforce? Make reading initiatives multigenerational

eSchool News

NAEP long-term trends data also show that average scores for 13-year-old students in 2022 declined 4 points in reading from the previous assessment report in 2020. These workers will need stronger literacy skills to train for more advanced positions and to read instructions and guides for the technology they will manage.

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Smoothing the path for immigrants to finish their college degrees

The Hechinger Report

He hopes it will help many highly trained or qualified people who are underemployed because they believe their English isn’t good enough to earn a college degree. Sanchez is now the executive director of Casa Latina, a new bilingual college program at Davenport that will cater to students exactly like the one he was 25 years ago.

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What Does It Take to Put Inclusive Curriculum Legislation Into Practice?

Edsurge

In the wake of the Atlanta Spa shootings and a surge in violence against Asian Americans throughout the pandemic, Illinois made history by becoming the first state to mandate that Asian American history be taught in public K-12 schools beginning in the 2022-23 school year. We hope the reach spreads more organically.

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Aspen Institute’s Newest Ascend Fellows Represent a Tightening Focus on Early Childhood

Edsurge

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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OPINION: It’s time. Let’s use different ways of teaching children to read

The Hechinger Report

This is likely due to several factors: increasing involvement from parents as schools moved online; advocacy from groups like Decoding Dyslexia; social media conversations and coverage in the popular press; and a push by state legislatures toward improving our nation’s stagnant and dismal reading scores.

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Online PD helps teachers respond to bullying

eSchool News

The trainings are broken up into different modules, covering how to recognize and respond to bullying, as well as overall strategies to improve classroom climates in a way that reduce or prevent bullying in the first place. That sets them up for success regardless of what they go on to do in their lives.”

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