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Jose Andres: Learning world languages promotes understanding, empathy for others
Chef and humanitarian Jose Andres addressed ACTFL members from Ukraine, sharing the importance of learning world languages.
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Coming together: ASCD, ISTE merger builds on each other’s strengths
Sandy Husk and Richard Culatta talk to SmartBrief about the nuances of blending ASCD’s professional development, leadership and whole-child focus with ISTE’s deep insights and expertise in education technology.
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Does a safe community start in the classroom?
Teaching students valuable interaction skills at school can have a ripple effect that leads to productive citizens and a safe community.
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NASSP finalist: Principal Hayward thrives on building connections
Building connections with students, staff, peers has been a person and professional management tool for Principal Donna Hayward.
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NASSP finalist: High standards help Principal Arencibia, school attain excellence
Principal David Arencibia, a finalist for the NASSP 2023 Principal of the Year, can't stress high standards enough.
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NASSP finalist: Principal Briquelet takes holistic approach
Principal John Briquelet is a finalist for the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ 2023 Principal of the Year. Read what matters most to him.
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Productive struggle: What it is and how to achieve it
Productive struggle is another term for developing grit. Two experts share why it's important and how to make it happen.
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Extra Credit: Education, reparations, teachers’ frustrations
Should we pay reparations through education? Can you count the reasons teachers are frustrated? Letter-writing pays positive dividends.
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Learning recovery: Helping students find their way back
Learning recovery can be challenging for students and teachers alike. Experts at a webinar offered insights, ideas.
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Nikole Hannah-Jones on history, book bans, CRT, disrespect for teachers
Nikole Hannah-Jones, author of “The 1619 Project" considers efforts to ban books as an assault on freedom.
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Extra Credit: Career counseling; tutoring insights; Library of Congress bonuses
Counseling before higher education can keep adults from bad career fits and wasted money. Also in Extra Credit: New studies on tutoring.
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Extra Credit: Parents’ rights, the rural divide and the economy-wrecking education decline
Is the parents’ rights movement harming students? Does your district do ability assessments? Read about these and more in Extra Credit.
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Extra Credit: Hula hoops and conversations about consent
Learn how hula hoops teach a sex-ed -- and life -- fundamental, the difference between slow and fast thinking, and whether “normal” is worth returning to.
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5 steps to cultural change and a better school experience
Does your school need a culture shift? Three educators share how to create a better education experience for academics, emotions and safety.
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Achievement teams approach can energize education PLCs
Turn education on its head with achievement teams that use student assessment data to improve teaching rather than judge students' abilities.
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Extra Credit: Should US education try a do-over?
Lots of problems in education haven’t changed at all in the past few years, but several sources offer different ideas.
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Extra Credit: Wasteful school, punitive paddles, gaining student trust
Are schools a waste of time? Can we build enough student-adult trust in schools? Read these and more quick takes in Education Extra Credit.
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Loan relief, trust in schools, standing up for yourself
The latest Education Extra Credit shares articles about college, trust in teachers, great ideas and other topics.
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SEL and student success, Part 3: Parent interactions
Coming back to school after time away can affect how parents view teachers. What can educators do to improve parent interventions?
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SEL and student success, Part 2: What teachers can do
Student behavior issues are increasing. Our SmartSummit explored what teachers can do to help students succeed -- now and in the future.
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SEL and student success, Part 1: Student red flags
Educators can look for red flags in student behavior to try to get ahead of social-emotional problems as school resumes.
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Classroom playbook for constructive dialogue
Institute's materials help teachers support students as they learn to talk across differences with constructive dialogue techniques.
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Extra Credit: Culture refuses to be canceled; COVID-19 inequities
Helping worn-out students and teachers. Broadening cultural education. Read about these and more in the latest Education Extra Credit.
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Extra Credit: Gender Support Plan; US teacher jailed in Russia
Will a Gender Support Plan help students limited by Florida's Parental Rights in Education law? Are sneaker giveaways a fix to chronic absenteeism?
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Extra credit: Teachers unions, death-defying students, performance-based college funding
Performance-based funding for colleges has frustrating results. A scrappy teachers’ union shows what teamwork is. Girls in Afghanistan go to secret schools against Taliban orders.
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Extra Credit: Views on Title IX; ideas for transforming education
Education Extra Credit features views on Title IX, ideas for transforming education and wishes for a whole lot of R-E-S-P-E-C-T.
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Extra credit: Great restorative justice; 1619 and 1776 in practice
What does restorative justice done right look like? How different are 1619 Project and 1776 Report curricula in actual classrooms? Learn more in Extra Credit.
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Extra Credit: Students on violence, voices on curriculum, spelling’s a sport!
Photo: These green shoes were the only way doctors could identify 10-year-old Uvalde, Texas, shooting victim Maite Yuleana Rodriguez. Extra Credit is a...
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Edtech 2022: SmartBrief Readers’ Choice Awards
The votes are in! From classroom management to security and safety to social-emotional learning, your favorite education technology platforms and solutions.
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Extra Credit: Success skills, civics assessments, prison dorms
Find out more about some intriguing, bonus education topics curated for SmartBrief readers.
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Extra Credit: Resilience in Ukraine, frustration in US
Teachers and students -- both refugees and those still in Ukraine -- show remarkable resilience and determination to stay in school. In the US, a mass shooting at a Texas schools prompts frustration at a problem that seems to be getting worse.
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Extra Credit: S-P-E-L-L-I-N-G, Supreme Court, sex ed in the 1920s?
SmartBrief's Extra Credit pays homage to academic/arts achievers, extolls the value of clubs and notes that sex ed wars will never end.
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Extra Credit: School resegregation, expelled principal, FAFSA data blunder
Extra Credit: Resegregation, FAFSA data blunder, expelled teacher
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Extra Credit: Why are teachers debilitated, students fined, schools sustainable?
Extra Credit: What's keeping 20% of teachers from working? Why are students being fined hundreds of dollars? Which schools are sustainable?
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Special education technology can allow inclusion, advances
Schools increasingly use innovative technology to help special-education students.
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Education Extra Credit: Adult inattention, naughty math, guns and schools
Adult inattention, naughty math, guns and schools
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Extra Credit: Teacher tip jars, state laws and a pandemic report card
Read Extra Credit to find out about teacher raises, possible jail time, state laws and a volunteer digital push for Ukraine.
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Cardona: “We are at the doorstep of a new chapter in American education”
Education in America is on the cusp of change, Secretary of Education Miguel Cardona said at ASCD’s recent annual conference. He urges educators to use this moment for a bold reset — or risk succumbing to complacency.
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Education Extra Credit: From AP and censoring to different wavelengths and a stellar program
Read about a social listening analysis, censoring and AP access, and some gifts for music, math/science and art teachers.
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Rebooting Title IX: The view of a plaintiff in Alexander v. Yale
Pioneering plaintiff Olivarius: How we should continue to improve Title IX
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Education Extra Credit: History minefield, antiquated assessments and billboard recruitment
Education Extra Credit this week looks at history lessons, assessments, STEM inequity and off-campus safety.
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Education Extra Credit: K-12 and higher ed striving to be better
This week's roundup of thought-provoking education extras asks us all to strive for something better.