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Activist students go to summer camp to learn how to help institute a ‘green new deal’ on their campuses

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At the camp in Benton, Illinois, students will learn about the plan and how to advocate for it, along with participating in typical camp activities like swimming and using the ropes course. Students are making banners, stickers, signs and even a zine to help inspire action on climate change, she said.

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As states adopt science of reading, one group calls for better teacher training, curriculum

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Last year, NCTQ’s review of hundreds of teacher preparation programs found that thousands of educators graduate every year unprepared to teach children how to read, or trained using debunked literacy instruction strategies. Other advocacy groups have laid out different priorities for reading instruction.

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When Student Anxiety Gets in the Way of Attending School

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Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. Not all clinicians even know how to treat school avoidance.

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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

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If the only approach schools took to address this crisis was hiring more counselors, they would ignore what these Detroit youth organizers are highlighting: the underlying policies and practices in schools that exacerbate the fear and anxiety immigrant students experience in schools.

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53 back-to-school tips and insights for a great year

eSchool News

It’s back-to-school season across the country, and while this is met with mixed emotions, like it or not, classroom doors are open and welcoming students. We need to prioritize discussions on how to effectively support multilingual students.

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PRINCIPAL VOICE: How Zoom features and bureaucracy kneecap distance learning

The Hechinger Report

But I know how to make the joke turn stale — if only those in power would listen to me. As the principal of a multicultural, socioeconomically diverse public school in San Francisco, I’ve seen seventh and eighth grade classes where only one or two students had their cameras on. It was gallows humor. Then I heard from my district. “We

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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. The vehicle that drives this is student engagement, not ‘Learn or I’ll hurt you,’ ” he added. “Pre-pandemic, we saw a lot more interest in one-off pilot programs. The pandemic really changed the policy conversation to more systemic shifts.”