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Why Our Trauma-Informed Teaching Must Be More Culturally Responsive

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In order to truly address trauma, we must also consider both the cultural experiences and socioeconomic inequities that impact our students. In my experience, teachers who have the most success with their Native students take into consideration these cultural strengths during their planning and instruction.

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For English Learners to Thrive, Community and Culture are Necessary

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Teachers refused to allow my peers and me to speak or communicate in Spanish and forced assimilation to English. I work intentionally to ensure students’ linguistic capital—an expression of community cultural wealth — is acknowledged through language supports via student pairings and vocabulary, sentence, and speaking scaffolds.

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Trimming the Edtech Fat: How Districts Are Streamlining Their Digital Ecosystems

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Cot, assistant director of educational technology for the Massachusetts education department. The process is part of a five-year plan to build an accountability culture around edtech use. To support the shift, Magley communicates with staff through newsletters and presentations.

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How We Can Honor Indigenous Values in Our Teaching Without Appropriating the Culture

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As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? Taking Up and Taking Back As an educator, I want to adopt a take-back mindset that honors the Indigenous educators and historians who came before me.

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Rise Vision Named “Student Safety Solution Provider of The Year” in 2023 EdTech Breakthrough Awards Program

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Rise Vision helps schools improve communication and safety, increase student involvement, celebrate student achievements, and create a positive school culture. Rise Vision provides easy to use technology, which educators are able to use to manage communications across districts.

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How a Culture of Caring Is Helping These Schools Improve Student Mental Health

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Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's. “Our

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How Schools Can Build a Culture of Support for Educator Mental Health

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As workplaces, schools can intentionally structure systems and provide resources that decrease some of these barriers, such as addressing the scarcity of dedicated services and supporting educators through convoluted insurance hurdles that make it even harder to seek professional help. Guys, I took email off my phone,” she told her staff.

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