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ISTELive, Abbott Elementary, and a push for Black educator representation

eSchool News

This advocacy is especially critical for Black teachers and Black male teachers in particular, he added. This advocacy is especially critical for Black teachers and Black male teachers in particular, he added. Key points: Black male teachers are desperately needed in U.S. We need Black teachers.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. What we have learned with our kids is we have to be incredibly explicit with everything we do.” Related: What parents need to know about the research on how kids learn to read. Cat,” a boy in a Lego shirt said.

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PROOF POINTS: A third of public school children were chronically absent after classrooms re-opened, advocacy group says

The Hechinger Report

If correct, this means that one out of every three public school children was chronically absent during the second full school year of the pandemic, when most children were learning in person and should have been catching up from the disrupted year of 2020 and the first half of 2021. Before the pandemic, only about 16 percent of U.S.

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Racial Injustice: Teaching Resources

Catlin Tucker

The Teaching Tolerance website has a collection of ready-to-use classroom lessons and resources that span a range of social justice topics and issues while prioritizing social-emotional learning. The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles.

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Racial Injustice: Teaching Complex Issues

Catlin Tucker

The Teaching Tolerance website has a collection of ready-to-use classroom lessons and resources that span a range of social justice topics and issues while prioritizing social-emotional learning. The resources are organized by: Early childhood/elementary Middle school/high school Black Lives Matter 13 Guiding Principles.

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Computer Science is Growing in K-12 Schools, But Access Doesn’t Equal Participation

Edsurge

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. Students learn problem solving, communication and how to bounce back from failure.

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Are You More Savvy Than a Third Grader?

The Jose Vilson

An elementary school on the Lower East Side of Manhattan had some student journalists who wanted to interview me about my life and work. Not only that, but I learned that Jossette Burgos – one of my Syracuse University mentors – had passed away due to health complications shortly after those Sunday interviews. No meetings.

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