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Equity & Access
What Families Need to Know About Critical Race Theory in Schools
Misconceptions about anti-racism in the classroom continue to shape teaching and learning for students. What are they and how can we move past these barriers to provide learners with deepened development in these areas?
Career & Technical Ed
What Happens when you Launch Students’ Interests into the World?
See what happens when you launch students' interests into the world. It results in powerful learning, a better planet and connected communities.
Future of Learning
Microlearning – Is Small the New Big Idea?
In a big world where platforms dominate, how can small, agile players shape the ecosystem? In education, how can microlearning - microschools and bite-sized learning - change the laying of the land?
Leadership
The Connection Between Learning Gaps and Teacher Burnout
Teacher burnout is real. Understanding the connection between learning gaps will help educators to teach and learn more effectively.
Personalized Learning
Five Do’s and Don’ts of Today’s SEL
Patrick Cook-Deegan explores best practices and common pitfalls of implementing transformative social and emotional learning in the classroom.
Difference Making
Equity and ESSER: How Schools Can Embrace a Participatory Approach to Amplify Family Voices in Budget Planning
Schools across the country have a welcome task this summer: deciding how to spend a windfall in federal stimulus funds. Brooklyn Lab is doing that by asking families for their insights.
Competency-Based Education
Developing Racial-Cultural Literacy through Fiction Reading and Literature Guides
The beauty of literature rests in the possibilities of counter, alter, and micro-narratives that can relay the importance of inclusion to its readers. Here's how literature guides can help learners develop racial-cultural literacy.
EdTech
DLAC 2021 – Digital Learning at an Inflection Point
Educator Carrie J. Pratt recaps her attendance at the 2021 Digital Learning Annual Conference.
Difference Making
Post-Pandemic Education: Public-Private Partnerships Are Critical in Developing Countries
Education stakeholders need to readdress the approach to education delivery, both in terms of access to schooling and teaching methods. Innovative public-private partnerships can help.
Difference Making
The Power of We
Dr. Marialice Curran believes change starts with the individual and all it takes is one person to stand up and be a part of the change. This post explores initiatives to change how we think about digital citizenship.