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Ensure Your District is Data Ready with this Free Playbook

eSchool News

By sharpening their lens on holistic data, districts can ensure that data becomes an authentic and integrated part of district culture and decision making all year long. Below are some key considerations to keep in mind: Good data governance—which the U.S.

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Teaching With Technology in Higher Ed? Start With Relationship-Building.

Edsurge

Student reflection assignments have been shown to produce cathartic effects on academic performance and even health. When confidentiality is assured, students are often willing to deeply unpack the very unique ways in which they navigate their lives both generally, and in the context of the class that requested the assignment.

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Challenging Implicit Linguistic Biases in Teaching and Learning Across Disciplines Through Student-Faculty Partnerships

Scholarly Teacher

The program fosters student agency in learning through solidarity, creates a sense of belonging and self-efficacy for students and instructors, integrates teaching approaches responsive to students’ learning needs, and builds a culture of openness to student feedback (Cavazos, 2024; Cavazos & Chapa, 2023; Cavazos et al.,

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Quick Activities to Prepare and Maintain a Classroom of Care

Faculty Focus

Your Welcome Survey could include prompts like: name to be called in class (including phonetic pronunciation cues), pronouns, racialized identity, work status, caregiver responsibilities, cultural/religious holidays they observe, primary language they are most comfortable communicating in, and. major current events).As

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

Edsurge

during lessons, and offer students a variety of ways to complete assignments rather than requiring everyone to write a paper or take a timed exam. Consider setting expectations and establishing a new virtual classroom culture, suggests Wilkey Oh, an executive editor at Common Sense Media.

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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

And for gender-expansive students — whose gender expression or identity is different from what they were assigned at birth — creating that safety and acceptance isn’t just a simple matter of being nice to them. You know that if this doesn’t happen, they won’t be able to learn and grow.

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Quick Activities to Prepare and Maintain a Classroom of Care

Faculty Focus

Your Welcome Survey could include prompts like: name to be called in class (including phonetic pronunciation cues), pronouns, racialized identity, work status, caregiver responsibilities, cultural/religious holidays they observe, primary language they are most comfortable communicating in, and. major current events).As