J.D. Candidate at Washington University in St. Louis
I'm happy to share that I have officially completed my Year of Service with AmeriCorps & GO Foundation at Digital Pioneers Academy! A huge thank you is owed to Divinda Willis and Niles Jones for coaching and supporting me in my first year as an educator. Also, I'm so grateful to have worked alongside STEM teachers and leaders like Rodney Brownell, MAT,MPH, Olivia Martino, MBA, and Ms. Tamare Brown!
Initially, I did not believe I could excel as a math tutor. I left undergrad with a degree in Sociology and Spanish, two humanities majors. When I was the age of my students, I struggled to grasp the same concepts in math that I tutored them in. Yet, with consistent on-site support and guidance, many of my students' test scores and GPAs grew. Most ended the year by telling me their math confidence also grew!
I'm glad I was led to serve the Southeast DC and DPA community. I sincerely look forward to continuing my public service career in the roles to come!
Our RISE Summer Learning Program didn't just succeed in 2023; it soared. Students saw a 24-point increase in Math, a 120% improvement, and a 25-point increase or 189% growth in Literacy!
What's the secret behind unlocking such extraordinary results? Explore the RISE Summer Learning Program approach to learn the secret.
https://hubs.li/Q02rYk020#EducationInnovation#SummerLearningSuccess
So many many problems with this article! I hesitate to re-post it because I don't want to amplify its myths, but my hope is that doing so with some critique will help those of us in and around public education to practice resisting the eugenic logics and segregationist seductions of "gifted and talented" programs.
I appreciate how gifted ed benefitted this individual author — I do — but the fact remains that gifted ed functions systemically as educational redlining, opportunity hoarding, intellectual apartheid, and applied eugenics. In this way, gifted ed is a tool of White supremacy. I'm a former GATE teacher so I know the system from the inside, and I've been studying it as a scholar and activist for decades.
Gotta say, it's pretty disappointing the EdTrust chose to perpetuate so many myths here. (And it's even more disappointing that EdTrust deleted my comment containing these observations. Maybe they're not much interested in research, dialogue, or critique? Hmmm.)
Unfortunately, this article will be used by folks with abundant unearned privileges to secure even more advantage by resisting longstanding and research-based calls to dismantle gifted ed, and instead just tinker with it a bit by admitting a few more tokenized BIPOC kids to make it look equitable (see part 5 of my article series where I address this directly). This is not a justice strategy; this is dominance dressed up as charity.
So if you're reading this and you still think a racist ranking and sorting regime in our schools will get us anywhere near equity and justice (it won't!), I encourage you to read this series: https://lnkd.in/g3Z3qSaJ
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“Every student has a teacher they remember for making a difference in their academic journey — mine was my first-grade teacher, Ms. Vinning.”
On our blog, Alexandra Trahan, EdTrust’s government affairs intern, shares how one teacher’s influence positively impacted her academic trajectory through the gifted program.
https://edtru.st/44huVhe#AdvancedCoursework
“Far too often folks have not considered [summer school] or not considered it in a comprehensive way. Summer school has been thought of as a punitive thing, and all about remediation.” - Sunny Larson, Bloomberg Philanthropies
Recipe for change:
✅ Offer enrichment to make kids want to attend
✅ Program the day practically to accommodate parents
✅ Provide essential resources like food and rides for families
✅ Employ school year teachers
✅ Align the curriculum with the regular school year
Sarah D. Sparks sheds light on and makes totally accessible the important data in this study, seamlessly linking it to broader, real-world issues.
Read more about how to make summer school impactful beyond academics: https://lnkd.in/eReDHkVr
Are you or is someone you know thinking about applying to a space-related graduate program this upcoming year, in any field, from engineering to space anthropology? Register here https://lnkd.in/ekFDSRg5 to join the summer-long SEDS graduate school application bootcamp from 6/24-8/19, and finish your applications before Fall semester! The bootcamp features weekly assignments and webinars that will cover: selecting a graduate school, GRE prep, professional development to improve your graduate school application, essay and resume-writing, video chats with current graduate students and young professionals in the field, and more. Active participation is necessary to ensure all students registered are supported, and we will cap participation in this program at 100 students. Please see this outline of subjects to be covered. https://lnkd.in/eYatjGJR
Note: The program is focused on applying to US grad schools as the organizers are US-based, though we do have a webinar on international programs.
🔎⚙️ How do you measure STEM practice skills in an equitable way? 📏🥽
Since March 2023, 31 pre-college STEM programs have tested new ideas to more equitably measure what their students are learning.
Find out what we know so far:
https://lnkd.in/efSrG5Sq#STEM#equity#CollegeAccess#Measurement
Exciting news alert! 🎉 Syncing Syllabi is heading to the spotlight at the Black Doctoral Network Conference this October! 🚀 Get ready for our talk on boosting college enrollment and retention through innovative tech apps. Our scholarly research and game-changing beta testing results paved the way for this incredible opportunity. Can't wait to connect with university reps and expand our services, all in the mission to empower students across the nation in task management! 💪📚 #SyncingSuccess#BiggerBetterBrighter#EmpoweringEducation
Empowering the Next Wave of Scholars: Sharing insights and experiences with a brilliant cohort of first-generation grad students at American University. Here's to breaking barriers and embracing knowledge together! 🎓📚 #FirstGenScholars#KnowledgeUnbound#AUGradLife"