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A Call to Remake the Maker Faire

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Dougherty convened the first Maker Faire in 2006 in San Mateo, Calif., The faire became a way to foster a sense of community and to give people a place to celebrate and share what they made. Like a sports season or a date to perform a play, Maker Faires became a rallying moment for students. So Maker Faires bloomed.

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Maker Culture Has a ?Deeply Unsettling? Gender Problem

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But a lack of focus around culture and gender inclusiveness are stunting its true promise, according to a new report out of Drexel University. The report, appropriately titled “ Making Culture ,” is the result of about a year’s worth of interviews and site visits to around 30 different makerspaces across 12 urban regions.

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A New Student Made Me Rethink My Classroom Culture — and the Ways It Marginalizes Students

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There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

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Can a Test Ever Be Fair? How Today's Standardized Tests Get Made.

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Then there are the psychometricians—the math savants who design tests and create complex algorithms that attempt to make them fair to all students. Mark Moulton : Here that whole question is, what does fair mean? It makes the test more fair because it guarantees that everyone is being measured with the same degree of precision.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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So my first step toward empowering them to drive their learning was to include them in the process of figuring out how to rebuild the positive classroom culture we had lost.

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How Art and Science Are Making Computer Science Culturally Relevant

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This fall, my computer science class will follow the new AP Computer Science curriculum framework while also including culturally responsive instruction that makes use of students’ interests, community settings, and cultural and ethnic backgrounds. in effect transferring local knowledge into the realms of math and computing.

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Introducing a new State and District Data Validation Tool for SKYWARD® Users

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For districts to thrive, they need more than a way to clean up data, they need a cultural shift toward quality data,” Betts added. This allows every person in the district who enters data to understand the importance of what they are entering and give them a sense of pride that they are contributing to something much bigger than themselves.

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