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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

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As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. I refer to those epiphanies, when the metaphorical light bulb above a student’s head switches on, as “luminations.”

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

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School systems, such as rules, policies, and procedures, can cause trauma and harm, for example, harsh discipline policies that refer children to the criminal justice system for behavior in school. This declaration set forth a series of internal policies to protect undocumented students in the district.

Policies 149
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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. In our attempt to identify these youngsters, we hope to better serve them through our advocacy for a school-wide framework to support their learning needs.

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As Student Need Rises, More College Faculty Set Up Emergency Aid Funds

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Even as FAST Funds help to fill gaps in social services today, labor leaders think that in the future, the movement has the potential to organize faculty and staff around advocacy for campus policies that actually close those gaps for low-income students and educators. What if you were not just disseminating aid to students?”

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Personalized Learning Is the Answer. (I Forgot the Question.)

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Depending on whom you ask, the term refers to a model, a strategy, a plan, or just plain old good instruction. Personalized learning is something teachers do, something students do, something teachers do with students, or something students do with one another. The latest buzzword in U.S.

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Buncee is headed to FETC19

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Or, click and save the schedule below to your phone for a quick reference! Come see how Stacy Johnson uses Buncee in her first-grade classroom with her students and how she uses Buncee as a teacher. Kristin Harrington-Feedback+Collaboration=A+ Student Engagement-12PM. Leticia Citizen-Analyzing History Using Buncee-12PM.

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Framing the Personalized Learning Discussion from Tom Driscoll

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As he articulates, the current call to action by personalized learning advocates to shift from teacher to student-centered learning environments is the modern take on this viewpoint. . Despite the long history of advocacy for student-centered learning, PL has been one of the more elusive reform efforts to actually define.