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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. The stakes are high.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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But in high school, teachers more typically create their own curriculum, despite a lack of training how to design curriculum. The result: high school teachers often expend their time creating classroom resources instead of developing a rich classroom culture that pulls students in, he adds.

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How ZIP Codes Determine a Child’s Future — and What We Can Do to Fight Back

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In the late '90s, I would walk to my zoned elementary school, a big red building, where the faces reflected my own. Two decades later, as an educator living in Brooklyn, I returned to visit my old elementary school, hoping for a spark of nostalgia. Let me take you back to my Brooklyn. It was home. My stomach sank.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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Vulnerability and Mental Health in Educational Leadership These fellows reflected early and often on what it means to be vulnerable as an education leader and how challenges have impacted their mental health. Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C.,

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Not all students have reliable internet connections or devices, creating a digital divide that exacerbates existing inequalitiesespecially for younger learners in an online elementary school setting where consistent access is critical for foundational development.

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What Will Kids Lose If PBS Gets Cut?

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Most are accompanied with handwritten letters from students extolling the influence children’s television shows had on their journeys to donning the cap and gown — one fresh grad writes that she plans to become an elementary school teacher thanks to PBS.

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Teachers From Mexico Give English Learners a Boost in Small Texas School District

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Armed with just two suitcases and far away from her Mexican home, Lopez Elizondo came to Crain Elementary School in Victoria, Texas, to work in the districts bilingual program. The students light up when they realize that I understand their language and culture. It creates a real connection, she said.

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