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5 Ways to Bring Financial Literacy into Any School

The CoolCatTeacher

Whether you want games, curriculum, or to know what’s next in financial literacy, this is a must-listen podcast for anyone working with financial literacy in their school. He has games that he’s developed. Jumpstart , of course. Brian Page has ideas to bring financial literacy to every school. He has a blog post.

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The (mostly) Republican Idaho moms fighting to reclaim their school district from hard-right conservatives  

The Hechinger Report

had been poll-watching at Edgemere Grange Hall, and she had her indicator for how voters were casting their ballots: “Anyone who said, ‘Hello, good morning’” was in their camp. Sitting beside her, Candy Turner , a retired elementary school teacher who had brought Ziploc bags of pear slices and dried cranberries for the hours ahead, agreed. “I

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Trying to improve remote learning? A refugee camp offers some surprising lessons

The Hechinger Report

While the pandemic and the sudden shutdown of schools provoked fear, the teachers at this remote refugee camp in northern Iraq weren’t worried about how students would cope: They were confident their students were prepared to take their learning fully online. Credit: Photo Courtesy of Charlie Grosso/Hello Future.

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The school counselor pipeline is broken. Can new federal money fix it?

The Hechinger Report

Sometimes, the kids arrive angry, outraged at how they’ve been treated by a classmate or teacher; other times they show up sad, or overwhelmed. This spring morning, a boy came in crying, complaining he’d been treated unfairly during a game in gym class. On this day, though, the boy wasn’t interested in toys or games. SODUS, N.Y.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

It’s in school libraries where students often discover and hone their love of coding and programming, create amazing projects via makerspaces, and where they develop important 21st-century skills. What are the new trends in libraries? A lesson on how to create a podcast. What does a modern library look like?

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

In 2004, as a new Ph.D., In 2004, as a new Ph.D., It pains Tim Odegard that four decades after a misguided approach to diagnosing dyslexia kept him from getting help in school, thousands of children across the U.S. are needlessly suffering for the same reason. The teacher dispatched him to a low-skill group. “It

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Social and Cultural Literacy Resources for Classrooms

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To do so, we need to build a set of social and cultural literacies via multicultural education, social justice education, and culturally responsive pedagogy that help us navigate difficult conversations, acknowledge and challenge bias and prejudice, create inclusive classroom spaces, and fight for social justice. Bias and Prejudice.