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Making School Better for Gender-Expansive Kids

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Dave Edwards ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and The Wired Classroom This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? According to recent studies , the number of people who identify as nonbinary or transgender has risen steadily over the last 10 years or so.

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Social Justice Movements to Health Policy: Lessons from a Pilot Cross-Course Collaborative Project

Faculty Focus

During the spring 2024 semester, we redesigned our courses to pilot a cross-course group project involving a social sciences course (SSC) titled, “Social Justice Movements in the U.S.”, an elective primarily for first and second year students, and a health sciences course (HSC) titled, “Capstone,” a program requirement for fourth year students. This project tasked cross-course groups to collaborate with each other to conduct research on a social justice movement and to develop community-based po

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Using Number Tiles to Build Number Sense, Understanding, and Metacognition

Shelley Gray Teaching

We know that flexibility is an essential part of fluency, but it can be hard to wrap our heads around how to teach it. Number tiles can help students actually SEE the computation. Students can manipulate the numbers in different ways to see relationships between operations and think flexibly. Math confidence increases because students see that they can break problems down into manageable parts, making it possible to solve any problem.

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Social Justice Movements to Health Policy: Lessons from a Pilot Cross-Course Collaborative Project

Faculty Focus

During the spring 2024 semester, we redesigned our courses to pilot a cross-course group project involving a social sciences course (SSC) titled, “Social Justice Movements in the U.S.”, an elective primarily for first and second year students, and a health sciences course (HSC) titled, “Capstone,” a program requirement for fourth year students. This project tasked cross-course groups to collaborate with each other to conduct research on a social justice movement and to develop community-based po

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10 Innovative Ways to Teach Sight Words in the Primary Grades

Comprehension Connection

Keeping students engaged and actively learning leads to increased motivation and makes lessons memorable. In this post, I share some of my favorite ways to teach sight words to beginning readers. Having strong sight word recognition leads to increased reading fluency which leads to improved reading comprehension, the ultimate goal of reading. Why Teachers Need […] The post 10 Innovative Ways to Teach Sight Words in the Primary Grades appeared first on Comprehension Connection.

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