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What Student Leaders Think About the Future of Education

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“Instead of viewing students as the problem, we should change our mindset and think about how we can build a learning environment that supports social, emotional and academic development for everyone,” wrote Jake Parrish, a 2017 fellow.

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Integrating SEL, Equity and Trauma Work for Multiplied Success

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Where to Start Aspen SEAD’s recently released “Pursuing Social Emotional Development Through an Equity Lens: A Call to Action” and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s June report, “Applying an Equity Lens to Social, Emotional, and Academic Development” both offer broad strategies for integration.

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Pecha Kucha is the Answer

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Research shows that when individuals’ needs are being met and they feel a sense of security and trust, their environment is more conducive to academic development (Zepeda, 2014). And for history? Storytelling is a powerful teaching tool promoting a sense of community and belonging.

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Pecha Kucha is the Answer

Faculty Focus

Research shows that when individuals’ needs are being met and they feel a sense of security and trust, their environment is more conducive to academic development (Zepeda, 2014). And for history? Storytelling is a powerful teaching tool promoting a sense of community and belonging.

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Navigating Online Schooling: The Best Guide for Expats

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Blending Academic Learning with Real-World Exploration For many globally mobile families, the world itself is the classroom. They can study world history while standing inside the Colosseum, or read classic literature while traveling through the landscapes that inspired it. Learning no longer happens just behind a desk.

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How Racial and Ethnic Identity Influence Your College Journey

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The two discuss Dr. Peterson’s work at Penn and what they’ve each learned through their respective research on ways race and ethnicity help shape everything about a student’s academic development. Affirmative action, diversity efforts are not about fixing history. And this is a part of just modern history. WL: Correct.

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