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Why the Boldest Ideas in Education Come From Underrepresented Entrepreneurs

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“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” Literator. Minority groups make up only 5.5

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Magic of the Everyday: Southern CA Educators Share 10 Best Teaching, Technology Practices

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Start with the Standards, then get Creative When Edna Tristan became principal of the brand new STEAM Academy in El Rancho Unified School District, her mission was to tie STEAM into the regular classroom through cross-curricular, project-based activities. Not a single classroom has a traditional model of desks in rows.