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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. some of the principles being stripped out of the curriculum are why we’re here,” she says. “The

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Prepared for tomorrow: Reimagining readiness in Indiana education

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The other, from the president and CEO of Project Lead The Way (PLTW), a national nonprofit organization that provides schools with innovative, hands-on, project-based STEM curriculum designed to develop critical skills and knowledge, while preparing students for careers beyond the classroom.

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4 Steps for Humanizing Personalized Learning

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Education has been defined in terms of quantitative test scores and career readiness, forgetting that learning is part of the human condition. When we shift from test scores to storytelling, we humanize not only the process of learning, but the process of assessment.

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Learnings From the Front Lines on Redefining Leadership for the Age of AI

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This simple act of showing our work invited others to do the same, fostering a culture of continuous learning and a place where feedback wasnt just collected, but acted upon. We invited diverse perspectives into curriculum design, which led to unexpected partnerships and richer learning experiences. What will we adjust?

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MIND Research Institute Debuts InsightMath, a Neuroscience-Based Elementary Curriculum

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These collaborators helped MIND’s team design a culturally relevant math curriculum that connects with all students. InsightMath expands this time-tested approach into a full-classroom curriculum experience that helps students—and teachers—become math-loving problem-solvers.”.

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How Transcend Education Partners with School Leaders to Build New Models

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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. Transcend is supporting the network with planning, design, implementation and iteration for the Greenfield Schools.

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A Glimpse Into the Playful World of Seymour Papert

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But they have to be the ‘right’ things, matched to the individual’s style and personality, background and ethnicity, and to the culture of the times. What is worst about school curriculum is the fragmentation of knowledge into little pieces. What is best about the best games is that they draw kids into some very hard learning.

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