4 Ways We Can Support Muslim Students During Ramadan and Year-Round

With the start of the holy Islamic month of Ramadhan, schools may need additional resources and a better understanding of how to support their Muslim youth, now and in the future. 

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S1E7: They Carried Us: Black Women Who Built the Black Teacher Pipeline

Celebrating Black Women leaders who built and continue to build the Black Teacher Pipeline.

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My Students Overturned a Book Ban, You Can Too

All students in schools deserve to see themselves in their curriculum and the books they read.

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E12: Post Pandemic Reading Recovery For Young Learners (Ft. Susan Lambert)

The youngest learners have yet to regain the grounds they lost during pandemic school closures.

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Who Gets to Decide What Students Read?

Public sentiment is against book bans, against censoring history and diverse voices in literature, and against culture wars playing out in schools.

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The Case for a New School Finance Reform Agenda

Rooting the school finance system in local property taxes creates a situation in which school funding is tied to community wealth rather than student need.

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Charter Schools Helping to Close Harlem’s Achievement Gap

According to a white paper produced by New York’s City’s Success Academy, charters schools in Harlem have narrowed the achievement gap.

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This Pi Day, Let’s Look at Geometry from All Angles

Appreciation for Pi Day, and for the subject geometry in general, could go much deeper than sampling pie flavors and memorizing numbers.

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Place-Based Learning Reveals Our Connections to Native History

By highlighting the unique history, culture and ecology of an area in which students live, place-based education can promote a lifelong love of learning

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