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With hiring season underway for the 2024-2025 school year, it is time for public schools around the country to become intentional in hiring AND keeping Black Male teachers within their school districts. This short video provides some research about the benefits of schools and school districts hiring and supporting Black Male teachers and the impact it has on academic achievement for ALL students. #CultivatingChangemakers #GlorytoGod https://lnkd.in/eezBPSpJ

Learning honest history helps students to understand the forces that shape our world and to make connections between the past and the present. Check out Learning for Justice's article on how educators can extend honest history to students-- https://lnkd.in/g4pjV5SB #education #history

Gaining valuable insights into history education! As a history education student, I had the opportunity to observe a high school history class in action. Watching experienced teachers engage students with historical content was inspiring and enlightening. This hands-on experience is shaping my understanding of effective pedagogical approaches in bringing the past to life for young learners. Excited to apply these observations to my future teaching career! #HistoryEducation #StudentTeacher #ClassroomObservation #ProfessionalDevelopment

So many important ideas for education in this wonderful short piece.

Peace Education is humanizing the Process of teaching and learning and a revolution against indifference.let us create learners that promote human rights and endorse social justice.Developing a supportive environment based on respect,empathy,inquiry and differentiation in every classroom is essential in promoting leadership and an enriched emotional intelligence for each student.The time to act is now.Remember the present is the present.🎁

Are you concerned about the politicization of history teaching in this country, especially when it comes to issues of race? If so, here's a small thing you can do — vote for the session I proposed for the next SXSW EDU conference on "Teaching Difficult Histories: Private Colleges & Public K-12." Please take a look before August 18 (you need to create a free account to vote): https://lnkd.in/eukVivgi. Here is the short description: "In many states, honest teaching about difficult topics in public schools is under assault. Many teachers feel constrained by local school boards, state officials, and national opinion-makers when it comes to addressing the complex histories of slavery, racial violence, and race relations. Many public universities are facing the same pressures. Fortunately, private colleges and universities are stepping up to offer resources and support for K-12 teachers (and even public universities). This session will discuss political headwinds and the practical work of public-private collaborations." We have a wonderful panel of experts from two CIC member institutions —Austin College (TX) and Flagler College (FL) — and Yale's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

"Reading: A historical civil right, when we get it right," (Muhammad, 2024). Sharing a research-aligned resource, that includes information and questions for policy-makers, educators, and caregivers. In collaboration with the NAACP, Right to Read released the NAACP Discussion Guide, which focuses on solutions for students’ equitable access to structural literacy in the US. This Discussion Guide is intended for audiences who seek to dig deeper on the connection between literacy and civil rights and to learn about the historical context and persistent inequities Black students face in the school system. #teachereducation #reading #righttoread #literacy

We Want to Do More Than Survive Winner of the 2020 Society of Professors of Education Outstanding Book Award Drawing on personal stories, research, and historical events, an esteemed educator offers a vision of educational justice inspired by the rebellious spirit and methods of abolitionists. Drawing on her life’s work of teaching and researching in urban schools, Bettina Love persuasively argues that educators must teach students about racial violence, oppression, and how to make sustainable change in their communities through radical civic initiatives and movements. She argues that the US educational system is maintained by and profits from the suffering of children of color. Instead of trying to repair a flawed system, educational reformers offer survival tactics in the forms of test-taking skills, acronyms, grit labs, and character education, which Love calls the educational survival complex. To dismantle the educational survival complex and to achieve educational freedom—not merely reform—teachers, parents, and community leaders must approach education with the imagination, determination, boldness, and urgency of an abolitionist. Following in the tradition of activists like Ella Baker, Bayard Rustin, and Fannie Lou Hamer, We Want to Do More Than Survive introduces an alternative to traditional modes of educational reform and expands our ideas of civic engagement and intersectional justice. https://lnkd.in/g2Rgexee

OPINION: We can teach students to become active citizens - The Hechinger Report

I agree with this sentiment more than I once did, I think... Certainly, I'd teach a few of my classes differently today, moving more slowly through certain texts and trying to make clear the reasons they've endured. Applying your precious and limited attention to things that matter but that you don't immediately *like* is an indispensable skill that's becoming harder and harder to learn. But even so, I imagine we refuse students' "tastes" at our peril. I don't mean filling syllabi with things we think students will like and thus keep their attention; I mean taking it very seriously when something in the material we've presented appeals to their tastes—or, better yet, awakens a sense of taste that they weren't previously aware of. It's worth slowing down to ask, "Are you falling in love, and how, and why?" When's the last time someone asked *you* that question? How do you think it would've changed your learning if they did? Bernard Lonergan, *Method in Theology*, 32: "Feelings are enriched and refined by attentive study of the wealth and variety of the objects that arouse them, and no small part of education lies in fostering and developing a climate of discernment and taste...that will conspire with the students' own capacities and tendencies, enlarge and deepen their apprehension of values, and help them towards self-transcendence." #teachingandlearning #teachingenglish #education #humanities