EDUCATION

How ‘Spotlight Reading’ Helps Students Learn to Trust Their Literary Instincts

Spotlight reading works best when done every week and for the entire school year. “The kids get into routines and…

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How Can the Community School Model Support Newcomer Education?

Students at OIHS drop out at nearly half the rate that newcomers students do at other Oakland high schools. The…

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How to Get Kids Thinking Instead of Mimicking in Math Class

“It’s a great way to enculture [students] into a new way of being,” Liljedahl said. “They might perceive that mathematics…

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Is Environmental Sustainability the New Liberal Arts?

 “The scale of the challenges we face demands that all people have baseline understanding” of climate, the plan says. “[H]igher…

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Debunking Myths About Graphic Novels and Comics to Unlock Learning

POW! SMACK! BAM! The sounds of a classic comic book fight scene have not always been associated with academic opportunities,…

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To Raise Empathetic Children, Parents Must Practice Empathy Themselves

How is empathy “passed down” in this way? When parents respond to children’s distress in a supportive, empathetic way, it…

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Why are kids still struggling in school four years after the pandemic?

Curriculum Associates did not detect as much deterioration as NWEA, but did find widespread stagnation in 2023-24, according to a…

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10 Ways to Calm Your Kid’s Back-to-School Jitters

🗓 To ease a child’s anxiety about going back to school, help them understand what to expect. As Daniel Tiger…

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5 Ways the Black Panthers Shaped U.S. Schools

The Oakland Community School is regarded as one of the nation’s first community schools – a model in which public…

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In the Face of Climate Change, Science Class Can Help Students Dream Up a Better Future

This conversation is part of a larger lesson about developing technologies that reduce planet-heating pollution. The lesson was created by…

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