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Why I Left the Classroom to Build a School Black Children Deserve

Edsurge

In those environments, creativity was often seen as defiance, and culturally relevant teaching was just as perilous. Where Black history wasn’t a side note but a central narrative. Because contrary to popular belief, not every Black child is navigating poverty, violence or a broken home. My students were growing.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

Faculty Focus

Key learning outcomes from a Liberal Arts Curriculum include: A liberal arts curriculum fosters a comprehensive understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world through diverse fields such as sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

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Integrating Systems Thinking to Enhance Liberal Arts Curriculum through Learner-Centered Teaching 

Faculty Focus

Key learning outcomes from a Liberal Arts Curriculum include: A liberal arts curriculum fosters a comprehensive understanding of human cultures and the physical and natural world through diverse fields such as sciences, mathematics, social sciences, humanities, histories, languages, and the arts.

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Antisemitism hearings put Cal Poly, UC Berkeley under congressional spotlight

Cal Matters

The task force will use data from a Jewish climate survey to draft a plan supporting Jewish life, antisemitism education and cultural awareness, according to the email. In a campuswide email on April 2, Armstrong announced the formation of an antisemitism task force, which will have its first meeting this fall.

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Large Public Libraries Give Young Adults Across U.S. Access to Banned Books

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The Supreme Court’s recent ruling to allow parents to pull their children out of classroom discussions around books covering LGBTQ+ and other themes that may conflict with their religious beliefs could embolden efforts to restrict more titles. And it also doesn’t necessarily go away if our culture changes in three to four years.”

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Navigating cultural diversity in American education

eSchool News

In many ways, the history of multicultural education runs parallel with the history of the United States, because we have been an ostensibly multicultural nation from the very beginning. CRT helps bridge the gap between teachers and students, thereby leveraging cultural backgrounds as assets in the learning process.

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4 ways to ensure a successful school culture initiative

eSchool News

A growing body of research confirms that school culture significantly influences student learning. Indeed, it’s in the culture that classrooms build their success. Culture is the collective beliefs and commitments that enable individuals, who might otherwise only be loosely connected, to rally around an effort.

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