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Educators Honored with YouScience® Innovative Educator Award

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Their teaching philosophy revolves around fostering communication, collaboration, critical thinking, and creativity, while elevating student choice and voice in the classroom. By integrating YouScience into their curriculum, they have helped students explore their aptitudes and envision future career pathways.

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How to Be an Antiracist Educator: An Interview With Ibram X. Kendi

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So let’s say for instance, if you’re a wealthier parent—and most people of wealth are disproportionately white—and let’s say in your city, a single test determines who gets into a prestigious public high school. Does the book reflect your own teaching style or teaching philosophy? Is that how you teach?

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Thinking Outside the Music Box: Using Digital Tools to Teach Music and More

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Students learn to think beyond the parameters of passing an exam. They open up their brains to deeper critical thinking. Engaging the ‘Other 80 Percent’ In high school, research shows that only 20 percent of students participate in band, orchestra and choral programs. But what about the other 80 percent?

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Transforming Adult Students into Scholars

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It teaches the basics of critical thinking, research and academic writing. At the all-girls boarding high school that Ruth Cady attended in a small Virginia town, she recalls being a middling student. By March 2000, during her senior year of high school, Ruth Cady was chatting with her assigned freshman roommate.

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Taking Grades (Stress) Out of Learning 

Faculty Focus

This fear intensified in high school, where frequent tests ranked students publicly. Instead, I assess my students learning through lesson plans, presentations, and projectsassignments that require logical reasoning, creativity, and critical thinking. Grades were everythingsymbols of success and a source of validation.

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