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These Youth Are Transforming the Trauma of Poverty With Raw, Original Storytelling

Edsurge

A campaign called Pick the City UP includes music, poetry and live performances presented in both cultural venues and in parks and community centers in neighborhoods where the youth live. Story Stitchers generate and present all original, all St. Louis creative work.

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Feelings During FLOW-Related Learning

User Generated Education

Timeliness – thoroughly focused on present, don’t notice time passing. Further, engagement has also been associated with positive student outcomes, including higher grades and decreased dropouts (Connell, Spencer, & Aber, 1994). Great inner clarity – knowing what needs to be done and how well it is going. Sense of serenity.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. Feature chat sessions combined with some basic social media training.

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Higher Ed Needs to Bridge the ‘App Gap’ to Reach Students

Edsurge

A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. Building a Brand, User Testing Apps, Social Media Marketing Yes, startups and grant-funded programs for youth have built websites, and even apps. Today, this is not happening. Can We Bridge the 'App Gap'?

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Supporting Educational Recovery with Community and Family Engagement

edWeb.net

During the edLeader Panel, “ Bridging Family and Community Partners to Propel Student Achievement ,” the presenters discussed ways to implement and continue improving these types of educationally supportive programs. There are also discussions about the topic via social media, as well as at family round-tables held in schools.

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OPINION: Lonely, left out and isolated post-pandemic, our college students need personal attention

The Hechinger Report

But we must also find ways to be present and support our students in daily moments, human moments. Surgeon General issued an advisory about the perils of social media for young people, we knew about its negative effect on the mental well-being of young women. Long before the U.S.

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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

Edsurge

“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. These kids came alive intellectually.

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