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From Reflection to Transformation: Embedding Antiracism into Everyday Practice

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School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases. Who is left out? Are we reinforcing or disrupting inequity?

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From Reflection to Transformation: Embedding Antiracism into Everyday Practice

k12 Digest

School leaders can support this safety by co-creating group agreements that promote active listening, confidentiality, and respectful participation. When staff feel secure in their learning community, they are more likely to reflect honestly on their beliefs and biases. Who is left out? Are we reinforcing or disrupting inequity?

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How today’s tech departments are moving into the future

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We’ve pushed back on that because it puts districts in a interesting spot because that’s what we use even though it’s confidential data. Teachers would ask us questions we don’t know how to answer. They did phase out the ability for families to use free and reduced lunch as a qualifier. Another support I would offer is EveryoneOn.org.

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BIOZONE’s High School Biology for Texas achieves Top Marks

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English Language Proficiency Standards ( ELPS ) are integrated throughout in a way that requires students to think critically, understand and learn new concepts, process complex academic material, and interact and communicate in English within the science classroom. Chapter introductions provide students with clear learning outcomes.

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Pushback Is Growing Against Automated Proctoring Services. But So Is Their Use

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It may be the biggest question in college edtech during the pandemic: Should tests be allowed to robotically watch students? You don’t get to build a tool and then get to say, ‘I didn’t intend it to be used that way,’” says David Parry, an associate professor of communication and media studies at Saint Joseph’s University. “He

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When Colleges Sign ‘Inclusive Access’ Textbook Deals, Can Students and Professors Opt Out?

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Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. They also must allow students to opt out of buying bundled books so they can find resources on their own if they prefer.

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From High School to Harvard, Students Urge for Clarity on Privacy Rights

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That’s one of the underpinning questions behind a campaign launched in March by Providence, Rhode Island’s student union which called for a “ Student Bill of Rights ” that included (amongst other demands) the right to data privacy. The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status.