We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History

We Will Not Shy Away From Teaching Our History

During their senior year, all scholars at all of Democracy Prep’s schools take a rigorous year-long course called Sociology of Change. For the first half o

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Education Needs a Bigger Tent, Not a Bigot Tent

Education Needs a Bigger Tent, Not a Bigot Tent

In the past several years, right-leaning education reformers have been contemptuous of—and frustrated by—progressives who brought a justice orientation int

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Here's How Noggin Is Helping Little Kids Build Emotional Intelligence and Helping Their Parents Stay Sane, Too

Here’s How Noggin Is Helping Little Kids Build Emotional Intelligence and Helping Their Parents Stay Sane, Too

It’s no secret that pandemic isolation has hit hard—maybe even hardest—on young children and their caregivers. Young children are wired to be with people:

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Special and General Education Students Can Coexist and Benefit From Each Other in a Safe Learning Environment

With the help of ARP, the Department of Education will now be able to offer states more flexibility, allowing schools to spend more of the federal dollars on technology for distance learning.

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9 Tips for Helping Your Students Become Activists

9 Tips for Helping Your Students Become Activists

A critical part of education includes responding to the problems around us. We can do that in many ways in our schools and our classrooms. One way is by he

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Meet Two Teachers Learning to Center Their Students' Identities Without Losing Sight of Their Own

Meet Two Teachers Learning to Center Their Students’ Identities Without Losing Sight of Their Own

Lindsay Singer and Ashley McCall are both third grade teachers at Cesar Chavez Multicultural Academic Center in Chicago. Lindsay teaches mathematics and in

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7 Steps to Help You Implement Trauma-Informed Practices at Your School

7 Steps to Help You Implement Trauma-Informed Practices at Your School

The only way to implement something well is through trial and error. In 2017, I proposed to my principal that teachers should adapt to trauma-informed educ

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Don’t Buy Into the Hype Around Learning Loss

Don’t Buy Into the Hype Around Learning Loss

I get it: “learning loss” is scary. Considering the unprecedented overuse of the word “unprecedented” to describe what our nation’s K-12 education system h

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The FCC Can Help End Digital Segregation Now by Expanding E-Rate

The FCC Can Help End Digital Segregation Now by Expanding E-Rate

Exactly 60 years ago, James Baldwin wrote in Esquire magazine that “Anyone who has ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be po

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