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How to Unleash the Potential of Every Child

The CoolCatTeacher

Look at the Motive behind our Motivation Vicki: But Tom, as we finish up, give us a 30-second pep talk about how to stay motivated this week in our classrooms. We teach people how to live lives. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford Biography as Submitted Tom Loud is a first-grade teacher at Middlesettlements Elementary in Tennessee.

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Teaching social studies in a polarized world

The Hechinger Report

The group also chose to set out guidance for elementary and secondary school social studies instruction, to emphasize that education in the topic must begin in the early grades, Hedgepeth said. Sessions at the conference also focused on how to strengthen and improve social studies materials and instruction.

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Excellent Free STEM Strategies from TGR Foundation and Discovery

The CoolCatTeacher

Summer is a great time to learn how to do that as you prepare for fall and back to school. We’ll also learn how to keep up to date with what is happening with TGR Foundation and Discovery Education as they release excellent free STEM resources for educators. How can we ensure STEM is more than just a buzzword?

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One school district’s ‘playbook’ for undoing far-right education policies

The Hechinger Report

It would either create “the blueprint” for outside political interests to enact a complete takeover of local public schools, he said, or “the blueprint for how to stand up to it.” The district’s website was scrubbed of references to DEI, and a new, board-directed committee was created to review DEI initiatives. But it didn’t get far.

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A Teacher’s Guide to Toxic Stress in the Classroom

Waterford

2] This can refer to any stressful or traumatic event that occurs during childhood, such as health issues, loss of a loved one, community violence, and abuse or neglect.[4] 2] This can refer to any stressful or traumatic event that occurs during childhood, such as health issues, loss of a loved one, community violence, and abuse or neglect.[4]

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NAACP targets a new civil rights issue—reading

The Hechinger Report

The cause, as activists saw it, was partly “the absence of systematic, cumulative, phonics-based reading instruction in the early elementary classroom,” they later wrote in an open letter. I was not going to have a Black child going to school without knowing how to read,” she said. “I I’m a lawyer, and I’m educated,” Walker said.

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What Shouldn’t Return to ‘Normal’ When Schools Reopen

Edsurge

Kristi Wilson, Superintendent of Buckeye Elementary School District “Let’s not go back to the traditional way that we’ve ‘engaged’ with stakeholders in education,” says Marlon Styles, superintendent of Middletown City School District in Ohio. We’re in this together; it’s everybody’s first year.

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