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Innovative Schools Find Lessons — and Opportunities — in Remote Learning

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I am an edtech consultant and student of experience design at the University of the Arts, London. Two weeks ago I was due to visit a handful of innovative schools in New York City and the Bay area as part of my research. Needless to say, the trips didn’t take place.

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The Fight to Preserve—and Teach—African-American History

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“It is an emotional time because it is the culmination, at least for me, of many years of trying to bring attention to this through the realm of scholarship, [and] encouraging scholars to start having conversations,” said Cassandra Newby-Alexander, a history professor and dean of the college of liberal arts at Norfolk State University in Virginia.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

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As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. Plot really is everything. Not just in story writing but in all writing and most thinking.

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Teaching Logic and Sequencing through Narrative

Faculty Focus

As a writing teacher, I’ve discovered that counseling writers to sequence details logically does more for their writing, their readers, and their intellectual development than encouraging them to take risks or to make art. Plot really is everything. Not just in story writing but in all writing and most thinking.