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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

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culturally relevant textbooks? Six Massachusetts colleges and universities, alongside the state’s Department of Higher Education, are testing their hypothesis that free, culturally relevant textbooks can improve student performance. Her experiences couldn’t be further away from the examples her elementary school books centered on?farming.

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How Do You Factor Social-emotional Wellbeing Into Your Personalized Learning Plans?

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It is for this very reason that SEL hasn’t traditionally played a prominent role in curriculum design. And its near-absence in the school models of yesterday underscores its importance in the effective implementation of personalized learning plans in tomorrow’s schools.

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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Who They Work With Transcend’s sweet spot is working with schools, networks or districts that are led by visionary leaders who are looking to transform their existing model. The organization’s ideal partners have a strong vision, a culture of collaboration, and the necessary time and the resources to dedicate to the school model redesign.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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Many years before formally learning about how gears work, playing with gears “did more mathematical development than anything I was taught in elementary school,” he wrote, noting that he later created mental gear-driven multiplication tables and equations with variables. Did you ever hear about a game advertised as being easy?

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The Mental Health Crisis Causing Teachers to Quit

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In the past year, they’ve endured culture war attacks, worsening student behavior, and endless health and safety regulation changes. She watched her school climate turn increasingly anti-teacher, as workloads surged and parents accused them of indoctrinating students, taking cues from right-wing talking points like critical race theory.

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