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Discovery Education and Social Impact Partners Offer Educators and Students No-Cost Resources Supporting Women’s History Month Celebrations

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Silver Spring, MD (Thursday, March 3, 2022) — Discovery Education and leading social impact partners are offering engaging, no-cost digital learning resources to students, teachers, and families to support Women’s History Month observances nationwide.

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His Teachers Showed Him Why History Matters. Now He Wants to Pay That Forward.

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Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. I did go into an elementary school and I learned that I did not want to be an elementary school teacher.

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How academic teaming put this school on track for success

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What does it take to turn around a chronically under-performing school? If you ask educators at Moseley Elementary School, it takes determined school leaders and teachers with the ability to give students a purpose each day–and a strategy called academic teaming. Moseley Elementary School has a history of struggle.

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School libraries are disappearing when students need them most

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In 2014, I got my first teaching job at a brand new high school in Detroit. The building had once been an elementary school with a fully functioning library. I remember fondly the book recommendations that my elementary and middle school librarians would give me. This story was originally published by Chalkbeat.

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Education’s Great Resignation

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For the first time in history, district officials say they’re seeing teachers who have been in the profession for 20 years consider jobs outside of education. . But even in his rural district, they are seeing 25 applicants for an elementary school job that used to garner 100 applicants. “I I have four kids.

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Mindfulness instruction makes a big impact on learning

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Growing up on Chicago’s South Side, a neighborhood whose history of gun violence earned it the moniker “Chiraq,” can be traumatic for students. Many students come to school having witnessed violence or abuse in their lives. These are the challenges Quinlan O’Grady faces each day as a teacher at Schmid Elementary School.

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Hackers don’t take a summer vacation–neither can school cybersecurity

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Key points: As we enjoy summer, we can’t forget school cybersecurity challenges It’s time to rethink cybersecurity in education Schools must bolster network continuity as they adopt more technology For more news on K-12 cybersecurity, visit eSN’s IT Leadership hub School’s out for summer but, for admins, there’s no final bell.