cultural awareness
Equity & Access
To My Children: Letters From An Educator and Parent
By: Timothy Jones I’ve been blessed with many opportunities to speak as an educator and an innovator. I want to take this opportunity to speak as an educator but from the lens of a parent. As a parent of two young adult children I often find myself reflecting on their…
Career & Technical Ed
Libraries as Community Learning Hubs: Connecting Students to Degrees and Opportunity
Innovative partnerships have made high school more accessible asynchronously. Gale Presents: Excel Adult High School allows residents aged 24 and older to earn their high school diploma through a self-paced, accredited online program.
Equity & Access
Portrait of a Community to Empower Learning TransformationÂ
This community-centered approach enriches the Portrait of a Graduate, ensuring the educational ecosystem aligns with stakeholders' values and needs.
Difference Making
Learner-Centered Ecosystems: Nurturing Connections, Fostering Belonging, and Engaging in Place
Learner-centered ecosystems aren’t new, but they are offering a fresh take on education transformation. From creating more connection, belonging, and a sense of place, read more about communities across the country embracing this approach.
Equity & Access
What is Belonging, and Why Does it Matter in Schools?
Explore the importance of cultivating belonging in education. Discover the challenges and opportunities of demographic change in the United States.
Difference Making
The Power Of Peace Project: Healing Wounded Communities
The Power of Peace Project is an effective method of working with incarcerated communities to create and locate mentors and leaders.
Difference Making
Values-Driven Learning in Hawai’i Helps Learners Find What They Are SEEQing
The School for Examining Essential Questions of Sustainability in Hawai’i connects learners with real-world problems and purpose.
Project-Based Learning
How to Co-Design Curriculum: Fostering Inclusivity through Shared Family Narratives
Not sure how to begin a transformative educational journey with a co-designed curriculum with learners? Here is my experience doing just that, by partnering with learners to actively shape their experiences by celebrating diversity through family narratives and recipes.
Equity & Access
What is Culturally Responsive CTE?
Rather than responding to the culture around them, career and technical education courses should prepare students to proactively embrace the diverse perspectives they’re likely to encounter in the professional world.
Difference Making
The Decomposition of School and Regeneration of Learning
Decomposition happens everywhere there is life—in our bodies (digestion), in our soil (the living rhizosphere), in our food (meat that smells funky or bread that’s gone green), and in our systems.