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ISTE+ASCD Reveals 2025 Honorees for Innovation and Excellence in Education

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Serving more than 5,500 students across 19 schools, Stokes County Schools is committed to delivering a 21st-century education in a safe and supportive environment.

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Engaging Strategies for Reluctant Learners in High School

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The key to engaging reluctant high schoolers is to get them more interested in their own learning. Use these classroom strategies for reluctant learners in high school to build relationships, stoke curiosity, and build a learning team that focuses on student success. Table of Contents 1. Begin with a fresh start 2.

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Beyond ‘feeling good’: A deeper approach to student mental health

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According to the CDC , 40 percent of high school students report persistent feelings of sadness or hopelessness, and 20 percent have seriously considered suicide. Psychologists call this deeper kind of fulfillment eudaimonia –a sense of meaning, purpose, and the belief that what you do truly matters.

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ISTE+ASCD Reveals 2025 Honorees for Innovation and Excellence in Education

eSchool News

Serving more than 5,500 students across 19 schools, Stokes County Schools is committed to delivering a 21st-century education in a safe and supportive environment.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

Edsurge

This lack of belief in Black students potential can lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. These biases manifest in various ways, such as underestimating Black students math abilities and providing less encouragement. In addition to their students, these fellows also stressed how important their own identities are as teachers in the classroom.

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Why Giving My Students More Choice Was the Most Punk Rock Thing I Could Do

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As much as the sentiment of students standing up to the powers that be warms my punk rock heart, it’s hard to balance my beliefs in authority with the need to always be the leader in control at the front of the classroom. I asked my students, “Do you understand why you learn what you learn in school?” But many, when pushed, said no.

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A Call to Action: We Must Do Better for Our Children, Our Students

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My youngest daughter, Josephine Grace Gay, was among the 26 children and educators whose lives were taken at Sandy Hook School that day. As I grieved, I co-founded an organization called Safe and Sound Schools. It was a way to rekindle hope, driven by the belief that we must do better. That was my call to action.