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Student Agency is More Than Voice and Choice

A Principal's Reflections

A culture that embraces student agency promotes risk-taking while working to remove the fear of failure helps students develop a growth mindset, and has students applying what they have learned in real-world contexts as opposed to just in the classroom. How would you rate the level of learner advocacy in your school or district?

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Going Beyond the Hour of Code

Digital Promise

Read a book, blog, or magazine. Hello World magazine from the Raspberry Pi Foundation (a magazine on computing and digital making for educators by educators). Dabble in the classroom. See a sample letter to principal, advocacy slide deck , and additional resources. Strong options include: CS First (grades 4-9).

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5 Best Practices for STEM Education Spaces

EdTech Magazine

Makerspaces — a key element of STEM education — are popping up in classrooms and libraries across the U.S. It’s a creative space where students not only can build things, but also create things, such as a new advocacy program on a social issue. “In He is a regular contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines.

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10 Young People Who Changed the World to Add to Your Class Curriculum

Waterford

In 2019, Greta was named Person of the Year by Time Magazine in recognition of her work as a climate change activist. In an interview with the magazine, she said concerning the importance of environmentalism, “We can’t just continue living as if there was no tomorrow, because there is a tomorrow.”. Sophie Cruz. like her parents.

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School Counselors Helping More Women Go Into Computer Science: Tips and Advice to Find the Fit

The CoolCatTeacher

Sometimes it has to do with the environment that students are going into in terms of the classroom, the actual setting itself. It would be as simple as just having more representation in the classroom that shows women that there are people who are doing this job, and they’re in this industry, and they’re just like you. Angela: Right.

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Some colleges and universities are bringing the classroom to the workplace

The Hechinger Report

Among other subjects, the students here take courses in sociology, psychology, English composition, science and math — all at the site of the kind of business where the principles they learn in the classroom and from textbooks can be put into practice. “We That’s because academic faculty accompany the students to the job site.

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Amid Child Care Crisis, New Head of NAEYC Pledges to Prioritize Listening and Inclusion

Edsurge

The other is creating belonging at NAEYC, a professional and advocacy organization with nearly 60,000 members across its 52 affiliates. “I As a result, the field is currently staffed at about 89 percent of its pre-pandemic levels, and some classrooms—even entire programs—have been forced to close either temporarily or permanently.

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