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Through Comedy Classes, Students Take ‘Big Swings’ for Mental Health

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Nearly 6,500 students and educators across 26 different schools, districts, or youth organizations, have taken part in their workshops since Gethard co-founded the program with Marlon Morgan, CEO of parent nonprofit Wellness Together. “We We have clinical psychologists who go through all the improv exercises,” Gethard said.

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Why I Believe We Need to Redesign Schools Around Decision-Making

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It seems like luck that I eventually found my way to a lifelong profession as a K-8 educator, which has kept me eager to grow within it, unlike the spin-the-wheel decision-making I had during college. My practical immigrant parents talked me out of the first, and a terrible grade on a chemistry midterm out of the second.

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Want to Set Students Up for Success? Make Room for Vulnerability

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It’s a place where students are more or less in control: One Stone was designed as a student led and directed non-profit that offers an independent and tuition-free education with a mission to make students better leaders and the world a better place. Instead, we have a single open space, coaches and portfolios.

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What Can We Do About Chronic Absenteeism? Ask Detroit.

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Department of Education. Since 2012, the authors write, Detroits community leaders, educators and politicians, have tried citywide messaging campaigns and community pledges; phone calls, home visits, and parent contracts; church buses and afterschool programming; data-driven tiered support systems; and court-run diversion programs.

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How to Create a Classroom That’s a Safe Space for Failure

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Over the last five years, I have worked hard to teach my students that failure is a gift. This isn’t a new idea, but we still struggle with the idea that failure is a necessary component of success. Embracing failure can seem counterintuitive to students. They are loud, chaotic, and full of failure and growth.

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Building Education Technology for the Developing World

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Last July, however, Parida felt an itch to tackle educational needs in her native country, India. My move to India was driven by my desire to see the impact of technology in education in the Indian context,” Parida says. During her time there, the company tripled in size and she earned a promotion.

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Why the ‘Best’ Ideas in Education Technology and Reform Don’t Win

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Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win. Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Fix the Public First ” by David J.