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NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

And not long ago, legislation passed in the Indiana House , prohibiting teaching or assessments that may “affect the student’s attitudes, habits, traits, opinions, beliefs, or feelings without parental consent.” When asked for my advice, I tell educators to avoid acronyms (they’re weaponized) and continue doing what’s right for kids.

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NOVEMBER 23, 2020

It is an online platform that focuses on providing a culturally-affirming identity development classes for African-American young people. The George Floyd murder really kicked off a completely different conversation where people have started to talk about what is culturally relevant, especially for kids who protested.

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AUGUST 21, 2017

He was motivated, in part, by the September opening of the National Museum of African American History and Culture on the Washington Mall, just 30 minutes away from Dominion High. But if you search for designs related to identity, history, or culture,” he says, you find nothing. Autodesk’s comprehensive guide Smithsonian Education.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: Why China Has the Best (and Worst) Education System in the World.” “In Parents push for intense studying out of the belief that even a single point on these exams can make a difference in their child’s fortures, Hu says.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

Equipping teachers with effective strategies for facilitating student learning, particularly providing flexible access, ensures that educators leverage their years of experience in the classroom, along with evidence-based strategies in educational technology. Prioritizing Academic Acceleration and Achievement.

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AUGUST 2, 2020

You have so much culture and tradition. The speaker asked participants to partner up and share stories about our personal experience of our race, within a cultural context. That means that an understanding of context is key—whether it is one’s family, community or the broader cultural and sociopolitical environment.

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JULY 26, 2016

This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. in effect transferring local knowledge into the realms of math and computing.

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APRIL 10, 2025

Mike has been a tireless volunteer and an invaluable leader in Ohios educational technology community. Our students navigate a variety of complex challenges, and we are committed to a culture that leverages emerging technologies that elevate learning and personal growth.

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DECEMBER 16, 2024

“When students listen to audiobooks or watch audio media, they are able to become experienced with different cultures, dialects, and beliefs (Parmeter, p.24). Finding the Education in Educational Technology with Early Learners. Technology and Young Children. & Eastern Washington University.

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MARCH 15, 2021

However, as books like “ Brotopia ” by Emily Chang and “ Race after Technology ” by Ruha Benjamin indicate, the culture of tech companies can be misogynistic and racist and therefore unwelcoming to many people. I am actively learning about people across the globe who have different religious and cultural ways of life than I do.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Adaptive Educators By constantly adapting our curriculum, we have the ability to critically examine the culture we’re sharing and work to change the beliefs and messages schools transmit. Teachers are on the front lines of helping students navigate new technologies and the messages that bombard them.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

The question is: How do I empower our white teachers to be their most authentic selves while creating culturally responsive experiences for our students of color? What beliefs or values do you hold that may show up in unproductive ways during instruction? What came up for you as you read about the character’s experience or feelings?

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OCTOBER 25, 2016

Luckily, these six educators have recommendations that anyone can start implementing immediately. Let Data Inform (Not Drive) Many educators urge their fellow professionals to move away from the concept of “data-driven,” and instead towards a culture of “data-informed.”

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AUGUST 15, 2017

We should learn from experiences, particularly if those experiences show our previous beliefs to be untrue. So why are people so easy to fool when it comes to beliefs about learning? But those beliefs persist. Beliefs about science can become entangled with our self-identities, even if they didn’t start out that way.”.

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DECEMBER 19, 2018

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Do we take student cultures, backgrounds, and experiences into account when defining what respect looks like?

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The Robotics Education & Competition (REC) Foundation , organizer of the world’s largest robotics competition and leader in STEM education, is doing a careful examination of gender diversity. As education, technology and nonprofit leaders, we must adopt successful strategies, prioritize and move forward.

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AUGUST 18, 2021

Despite strong beliefs among some parents and advocates, there’s only limited research about whether recreational screen time is itself bad for kids, according to Hartshorne. The assumption is this is a cultural problem with cultural solutions as opposed to a resource problem with resource solutions,” Hartshorne says.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2022

Espoused Values and Beliefs The first source of information ought to come from your espoused values and beliefs. When you go back and revisit your writing on the subject, how well does it align with your beliefs now? Ultimately, we want to determine how effectively we articulate our beliefs and in what contexts.

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JANUARY 11, 2023

Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system. Conversely, I also have settler students who push back and say “it is not their culture.”

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FEBRUARY 4, 2022

The truth is, when it comes to navigating the interpersonal conflicts that tend to arise in schools—shaped by trauma, cultural and racial tensions, and broken trust—there is no quick fix or 1-2-3 protocol to follow. These beliefs determine the mindsets that prepare us for the critical moments of conflict that teach us the most.

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MARCH 2, 2019

One can see school reform, and actual schools, continue to reflect society’s dominant cultural tropes regarding modernity. Even popular culture, where robot teachers and wired students have been a staple of science fiction for decades, demonstrates our tendency to project current beliefs that schools should “leverage” (i.e.,

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DECEMBER 20, 2021

In a particularly jarring study by Sian Beilock, girls in first and second grade classrooms with female teachers high in math anxiety had lower achievement in math and held more stereotyped beliefs about girls' abilities. More than 90 percent of elementary school teachers are female. Math anxiety hurts those who have the most to lose.

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JANUARY 3, 2019

This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. Thus, ‘global education’ is shaped mainly by a handful of universities in a few countries.

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APRIL 12, 2021

When Dr. Jo Boaler started her teaching career in inner-city London—in a culturally diverse school population with roughly 250 different languages spoken—she was tasked with teaching math to students assigned to the bottom track. Education is a complicated system, and there are many things that contribute to the achievement gap.

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JANUARY 10, 2024

More recently, in 2020, Bettina Love published a framework and guiding questions for creating classrooms that affirm Black, Latino and Indigenous children, which I’ve used to broaden my own understanding of how to create the conditions where love and acceptance flourish within our school’s culture.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Johnston County educators are confident they will continue to see growth, and they credit Savvas for being part of the “right mix of expertise, resources, and support” that is delivering real results for the district’s students. These are exactly the goals that Adam has tried to achieve through edtech during his 24-year teaching career.

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Providing our children, especially our most marginalized, with a strong math education can be empowering, and I’ve made it my mission to change students' mindsets from a deficit to an asset that can change their future. Her journey is a testament to the power of support, resilience and belief in one’s potential.

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MARCH 17, 2022

I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. Ultimately, I realized I was complicit in supporting educational mandates that were not beneficial to all students. Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. What was I negotiating?

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JULY 13, 2022

The creators of both systems also share the belief that acting out a scene from a play is a natural form of active learning. They cite projects that their collaborators have worked on that teach about the Holocaust and about a community of women in South Korea trying to preserve their culture. Shakespeare was meant to be performed.

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JULY 27, 2020

Rather, what helps is a culture of academic integrity and consistent reminders to students on when assistance is allowed for exams and assignments, and what specific types of assistance are allowed—be it notes, textbooks or internet searches. Online tools and honor codes alone don’t prevent cheating either.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Within my own culture, circles are often used symbolically and literally for their ability to promote equity, interconnection and holism. A central belief of Lakota people, and many other Indigenous communities, is the idea that we are all related. I also recognize that is not the case for the majority of educators in classrooms.

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DECEMBER 17, 2020

Being able to practice their skills in a supportive environment while engaging in reflection gives them the opportunity to increase their belief that they can accomplish professional and career related tasks and mindsets. High quality experiential learning requires a cultural commitment and strategy, structure and resources.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

With thoughtfully developed tools, we can make great teaching more effective and empower teachers to create educational experiences that inspire students. At GoGuardian , our philosophical belief is that students are inherently curious, and it’s a matter of supporting teachers and schools to enable the right set of educational experiences.

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MARCH 21, 2022

A teacher that does not have a firm belief in every student’s ability to achieve success cultivates a classroom culture that actively prevents learning—whether that is their conscious intention or not. It means taking the standards-aligned curriculum and shaping it to be culturally relevant for each of your students.

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MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. This is the third episode of a podcast series we’re calling Doubting College , where we’re exploring: What happened to the public belief in college?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Tamiko Hatcher, a dedicated educator and the director of Special Programs at Akron Public Schools in Ohio, displays visionary leadership and steadfast commitment to implementing innovative education technologies to transform the educational experience for the students in his district.

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