Faculty Focus

JUNE 22, 2025

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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Elevate k12

MAY 15, 2025

Thats especially true when youre supporting multilingual learners (MLs), who are navigating both academic content and a new language at the same time. It takes the right strategies, thoughtful planning, and a belief that every learner can grow and succeed. Make Language Visual with Graphic Organizers Graphic organizers arent just cute.

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k12 Digest

MAY 28, 2025

At the heart of AEFs teaching methods is the belief that learning should be engaging and accessible. Whether its reinforcing math concepts, improving reading comprehension, or learning a new language, these resources make learning more engaging and effective. But learning doesnt stop with formal training.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning. Here are five research-informed strategies school leaders can use to develop antiracist, inclusive cultures through professional learning.

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k12 Digest

MAY 21, 2025

Its a commitment to embedding equity into every layer of school culture, from classroom practices and curriculum to policies and professional learning. Here are five research-informed strategies school leaders can use to develop antiracist, inclusive cultures through professional learning.

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Teachers Pay Teachers

JUNE 11, 2025

Describe your family culture and explain how it shapes who you are. How do the characters’ beliefs and values come through in their actions or words? narrative prompts allow students to write using clear sequences, descriptive details, reflection, and figurative language. In what ways did you personally connect with the novel?

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Cal Matters

JULY 7, 2025

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. Katz acknowledged the emotional impact such language can have on Jewish communities.

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eSchool News

MAY 28, 2020

Culturally responsive teaching before COVID-19 and after should focus on keeping students’ cultural norms and beliefs in mind and putting time into relating to students who have different life experiences, languages, and values than your own. Tackling the overwhelm. Related content: How we turned around our ELL program.

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eSchool News

MARCH 18, 2024

As math educators, we can help those students by finding ways to relate their classroom learning to more recognizable cultural frames of reference that are authentic to the range of experiences in the room. But for multilingual students like me whose native language is not English, the math classroom can be a daunting place.

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eSchool News

APRIL 17, 2018

When educators think about diversity in the classroom, culture may be one of the characteristics that crosses their mind. But as they select their curriculum and develop their lessons, most teachers are not accounting for how culture will impact a student’s ability to participate and learn, says Almitra Berry-Jones, Ed.D.,

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2017

I recognized I was credentialed in teaching students English language arts, but didn’t have a credential in communicating effectively with adults. The faculty must work together to make this difference, and communication at the level of impact implies a sense of trust and belief in the competence of the others who work with you.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

In the initial “I used to think…” stage, students reflect on their beliefs or opinions about a specific topic, subject, or issue. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness. This helps students understand the impact of their learning better and how their ideas have developed over time.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2022

Our long-running partnership with Discovery Museum is due to our firm belief that engaging kids early with STEM can broaden their interests and open up a world of possibilities around science and engineering that they may not experience otherwise.”. “The And, [TSW] connects kids as they work together—even if they speak different languages.

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eSchool News

JUNE 6, 2024

A recent report found that this wanes somewhat throughout middle school, and, by the time students reach high school, many schools subscribe to the belief that the need for school-to-home communication diminishes. One crucial way to do this is to ensure that all communications can be shared in a family’s home language.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

With their advanced degrees and English-language skills, they represent a selective set of perspectives. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?: “You just do it secretly,” she says. Some parents pay the equivalent of tens of thousands of U.S. dollars a year for this instruction.

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Edsurge

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. zero things. Student created sticker and pendant.

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eSchool News

MAY 21, 2019

According to Jeff Goelitz, Director of Education at HeartMath Institute, during a recent edWebinar , SEL affects everything from systems and structure to climate, culture, and academics. SEL can be the underpinning of every action a principal or classroom teacher makes about their campus, classroom or environment for students.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. Last year, I had two students come back to visit me.

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though the number of international students and employees within US organizations is increasing (Rivas, Burke, and Hale, 2019), intercultural differences, language barriers, and a desire to avoid conflict and/or offensive language continue to be common communication struggles for both American and international individuals (Rivas et al.,

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Faculty Focus

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Even though the number of international students and employees within US organizations is increasing (Rivas, Burke, and Hale, 2019), intercultural differences, language barriers, and a desire to avoid conflict and/or offensive language continue to be common communication struggles for both American and international individuals (Rivas et al.,

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Edsurge

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

These activities help students develop their language skills, build vocabulary, enhance listening comprehension, and foster a love for stories. “When students listen to audiobooks or watch audio media, they are able to become experienced with different cultures, dialects, and beliefs (Parmeter, p.24).

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2024

Our student body is predominantly Black, but we are quite diverse and have many cultures represented among our students. Approximately 20 percent of our scholars speak English as a second language. I have been with the district for 20 years, though I didn’t become the superintendent until April 2020.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

As an English language teacher in an international primary school and a language learner myself, I often think about how many K-12 students in the United States are given the opportunity to study another language in school. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 24, 2019

One of our activities with Zac was using the Question Formulation Technique to unpack teachers’ and students’ beliefs about school culture and climate. Examples might be “How do we do this with English language learners?” As Zac said, “ [Your school] culture will tell you what it needs, but only if you ask it.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2019

Such a model assumes a deficit of knowledge in other parts of the world and a belief that non-Western parts of the world have less or even nothing to contribute to online learning. This excludes vast amounts of people, and the potential for a truly pluralistic global knowledge base vanishes to colonial and imperial languages and cultures.

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Edsurge

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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Edsurge

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. As far as the school system was concerned, this was the group destined for low-level achievement.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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.” But Firman expresses a firm belief that the scores from these types of testing are far from the only types of data schools and/or teachers should be collecting.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2023

No other subject comes close in terms of difficulty, with English ​​(16.8%), history (14.7%), science (12.3%) and world languages (11%) following way behind. Notably, the survey confirms what parents and teachers experience daily: Mathematics is the most challenging subject, with 45.2%

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

This is especially true when the conversation shifts to groups of students who have been marginalized by race, culture, language, family income, or disability. We often show students that we don’t see them as experts about their own lives and astute observers of their surroundings.

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Edsurge

MARCH 9, 2023

There has also been an outlash of criticism on curriculum , coursework and materials, with efforts to restrict what educators teach, that has put racial, cultural and historical identities under attack. This suggests that students are better able to engage socially when they have a foundation in their own emotions, attitudes and beliefs.

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eSchool News

JULY 11, 2016

This collaboration stems from a shared belief that technology has the power to transform learning, and can do so most effectively when it’s embedded in how a school or educator thinks about and drives new learning opportunities.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

The online program offers a solution to families seeking alternative ways to have students educated, while maintaining the core belief that traditional schooling is valuable and not easily replaced. His dedication to excellence and steady support have created a culture of achievement and growth at Clover High School.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

As an English language learner in southern New England, she navigated linguistic and cultural barriers to build a life that nurtured her family and sustained her Portuguese heritage. Her work was not just a job but a mission, and she was relentless in her belief that education should be equitable for all.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

She harnesses the power of many platforms, devices, and peripherals to offer her students personalized instruction, inclusivity, data-driven feedback, cross-cultural exchanges, and the support of other educators at their school. This dedication exemplifies his belief in the potential of every learner.

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