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From DC Chancellor to Edtech Founder: Kaya Henderson on Her New Venture in Culturally-Relevant Education

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It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. I want teachers and tutors and curriculum designers to be free to do the things that we think are good and right for kids. and told their schools, “I don't see myself in the curriculum.”

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Automation Will Hit Young People Hardest. Can These Nonprofits Prepare Them for It?

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Can you discuss the design considerations that you made to ensure that the content in your curriculum is accessible to the diverse students that you’re trying to serve? Tanner: First we centered the students themselves in our design process. I’ve heard you say the curriculum is more like TikTok than Scholastic.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

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By fostering a culture of continuous improvement through pedagogical observation, educators engage in dialogue to share insights, plan for instructional improvement, self-reflect, adopt effective strategies, and refine teaching practices. Faculty members are mostly reluctant to voluntarily participate in peer observation.

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Beyond Evaluation: Using Peer Observation to Strengthen Teaching Practices

Faculty Focus

By fostering a culture of continuous improvement through pedagogical observation, educators engage in dialogue to share insights, plan for instructional improvement, self-reflect, adopt effective strategies, and refine teaching practices. Faculty members are mostly reluctant to voluntarily participate in peer observation.

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Do Virtual Schools Flatten Cultural Identity? Or Expand It?

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Rethinking Cultural Identity in the Era of K12 online education In a traditional classroom, culture is everywhere. But what happens to that rich cultural backdrop when school moves online? The Cultural Ecosystem of Traditional Schools Physical schools have always served dual purposes. Lessons are compressed.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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But they have to be the ‘right’ things, matched to the individual’s style and personality, background and ethnicity, and to the culture of the times. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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

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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., Cavazos, A.