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We Need to Make Schools Human Again. That Means Treating Teachers With Respect.

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Toxic positivity is the belief that no matter how bad a situation is, we should all have a positive mindset about it. In other words, the question is not “How do we get teachers to participate in professional development?” In fact, educational leadership experts say that culture is always at play in a school’s success or failure.

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Making Is Great Because It’s Chaotic. But Not Everyone Is Looking for Chaos.

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The consensus among the educators who participated in our focus groups was that making is a way for students to make order out of chaos and that this path is expectedly going to be messy. How does this look in practice? Devon Flamm, a K-2 instructional coach at a public school in Hardin, Mont.,

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Good online teaching is often just plain good teaching

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This belief is a myth. When both teachers and students participate the same way they would in a face-to-face setting, amazing things happen in the online world—just as often as they do in the traditional classroom. A couple of years ago, I taught a student in an online creative writing class.

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When Best Practices Fail Black and Brown Students, We Must Challenge Our Moral Contradictions

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I was participating in a DEI Cohort sponsored by The Education Equity Center of St. I spent days pinpointing various times that I contradicted my beliefs. We cannot in one breath condemn the prison-to-school pipeline and then create systems and structures that funnel to failure. What was I negotiating?

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Assume the Best: Trust-Based Strategies for Empowering College Students

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Active Learning: From Fear to Engagement Fear of failure can stifle creativity and learning. These activities encourage participation without the anxiety of high-stakes grading (Freeman et al., Active learning strategies help students take risks and engage deeply with material in a low-pressure environment. 2014; Agarwal, 2019).

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Summer Gigs For Students Are Scarce. Think Like an Entrepreneur and Build Your Own.

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It started last summer, when I participated in Adjacent Academies , a new experiential learning program for college students that combines technical skills training with liberal arts. One year ago, the changes we are seeing would have sent me, then a sophomore at Davidson College, into a panic. But this summer, I'm not worried.

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Teaching Excellence Through Mindful Reflection 

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Reflective teaching is examining one’s beliefs about teaching and learning and determining the alignment of those beliefs with what happens within your courses (Reflective Teaching, 2021). For example, a teacher leads an in-class discussion in which the majority of students are hesitant to participate.

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