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Boycotting book fairs no more

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Key points: It’s critical for students to have access to reading opportunities 6 tips to help educators support young readers 3 keys to successful summer reading For more news on literacy, visit eSN’s Innovative Teaching hub When I was a kid, my dad never let me shop the Scholastic Book Fair.

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Rethinking Recess Leads to Results On and Off the Playground

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CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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My District Wanted to Build Trust, So We Started a Black Student Union

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I was raised in Round Rock, Texas, the only Black student in my elementary school. I remember how hard my parents fought to get me and my brother into accelerated math, how my mother was the only parent of color on the school’s steering committee, and yet I was brought up to believe that race didn’t matter.

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Want Your Students to Remember You in 20 Years? Start Holding Weekly Data Conferences

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Yet I can easily tell you the name of every one of my teachers dating back to elementary school. For our nearly 200 kindergarten to fourth-graders, we believe developing a positive school culture is equally—if not more—important to the impact we have on our students’ academic, social, and emotional growth.

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Mentorship, Equity, and Impact: Rethinking Leadership in Schools

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How do you ensure inclusivity and fairness in your schools policies and practices? To build truly equitable schools, we must acknowledge that our education system was never designed for all students. For example, Ruby Bridges, the first African American child to integrate an elementary school, is only 70 years old today.

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Why Research Says Adolescence Is the Right Time to Focus on Social Action

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Middle school often gets a bad rap. It’s a time when students begin questioning rules and the world around them, becoming increasingly focused on fairness, equity and forming closer, yet fewer relationships.

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Competition Can Motivate, Encourage and Inspire Students. But It Can Also Harm Them.

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Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called.