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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. to asking “Will it work for whom?”

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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. Over 65 percent white.

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Educators Speak Out About Leadership, Identity and Systemic Change

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Edgar Miguel Grajeda, an elementary art teacher in Washington, D.C., 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.

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When ZIP Codes Teach: How Geographic Inequity Shows Up in Our Classrooms

Faculty Focus

I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. But due to a granted academic transfer, I ended up attending a top-performing public school just three miles away. These weren’t just different schools—they were different worlds.

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When ZIP Codes Teach: How Geographic Inequity Shows Up in Our Classrooms

Faculty Focus

I grew up in a historically underserved neighborhood in Houston, Texas, zoned to one of the lowest-performing elementary schools in the city. But due to a granted academic transfer, I ended up attending a top-performing public school just three miles away. These weren’t just different schools—they were different worlds.

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STEM-oriented problem-based learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

Liz Garden and I had the pleasure of hosting Amie McElroy, elementary school director at STEM School in Highlands Ranch, Colorado on the National Association of Elementary School Principals (NAESP) podcast in May. [ I realized that I am way behind on posting recent podcast episodes, so I am catching up! ]