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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. A first grader works on a math exercise during a summer program aimed at improving math and reading outcomes. Elementary teachers report more anxiety when it comes to teaching math, which can make it harder to teach struggling learners.

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Why we could soon lose even more Black Teachers

The Hechinger Report

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. “A Yet she never contemplated leaving the classroom until the summer of 2020.

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Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

The Hechinger Report

It was the final day of first-year orientation at Grinnell College, with classes scheduled to start the next morning, and these new students were still finding their way around the campus, meeting neighbors in the dorms and waiting to hear whether they got into the courses they wanted. I’m thinking about classes.

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Kidcasts: Podcasts for kiddos

NeverEndingSearch

Kitty and Lindsay are among the eight founding members of the recently launched kidcasting advocacy platform, Kids Listen , a new grassroots organization of advocates for high-quality audio content for children. Listening exercises another part of the brain. We need to know how we can better serve you. The Show About Science.

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The Mental Health Crisis Causing Teachers to Quit

Edsurge

I didn’t have time to exercise. I didn’t have time to exercise. Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. At my company now, they say, ‘That’s very unhealthy.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

This turned out to be a rewarding exercise with surprises, twists, and turns. To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.

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