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Anne: The Hardest Child to Love

For twenty-seven years, I stood at the front of a classroom believing two things could change a child’s life: love and expectations. My classroom was not easy. We worked hard…

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The Journey to the Ouibette: My New Promotion

If you have read me, or have been reading me, or if this is the first time you’re reading me, then you have/or now will see that I can be deeply cynical, sardonic, and throw jokes under the radar that you might not catch unless you’re listening. One thing that is not any of those…

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How Schools Can Rebuild Student Belonging: Strategies That Improve Engagement, Mental Health, and Academic Success

There is a crisis of student disengagement. Many students feel disconnected from peers, teachers, and their school community. Elevated rates of absenteeism, depression/anxiety, and loneliness among students worries teachers, administrators, and parents.  Students spend a large portion of their time in schools. Students learn best when they feel seen, valued, and connected. Teachers and administrators…

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He once considered leaving school after his father’s detention. This spring, he graduated from college.

This story was originally published by EdSource. Sign up for their daily newsletter. Top Takeaways Jair Solis graduated from UC Merced after years of navigating family detention, fears of deportation and immigration raids. Research shows immigration enforcement can harm students’ mental health, attendance and academic performance — challenges Solis said he experienced firsthand. The family’s…

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Jahque Bryan-Gooden: Redefining Education Through Justice, Culture, and Joy

Jahque Bryan-Gooden’s journey in education is as vivid and layered as the classrooms she envisions, a space where every child’s humanity is honored, their culture celebrated, and their potential nurtured. From her earliest memories at age nine, she recalls walking through the ruby-red doors of a school in Harlem, greeted by a rooftop garden, a…

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ICE Raids Caused Enrollment to Drop. Now Districts Are Paying the Price

As leaders ask lawmakers to help fill budget gaps, conservatives escalate the debate over serving undocumented students. By Linda Jacobson This story first appeared at The 74, a nonprofit news site covering education. Sign up for free newsletters from The 74 to get more like this in your inbox. Community members packed a high school…

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When Numbers Tell Stories: Connecting Math and English in the classroom

Some educators may balk at combining English and Math under the heading of language arts, while some students might unhappily conclude that learning math is like learning a foreign language. There’s truth in the latter view considering, for example, that the basis of solving word problems algebraically is translating words into math expressions. Math is…

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Recently, I took an informal survey of fellow instructors regarding their most memorable moments as a “student” in education. This would have been long before many considered a…