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Critical Minds - More Than a Number
In this video from 2013, Taylor Delhagen (Teach For America, 2006) reflects on the importance of empowering students to critically examine the world around them, rigorously explore values and exercise the perseverance needed to overcome failure.
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Lower-Primary Student Perceptions Survey
The Student Perception Survey (SPS) instrument consists of a battery of items in the form of observer-reported statements that the respondents affirm using a rating scale. These statements were formulated to map with the observable attributes of thei...
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Identifying Purpose
This thought exercise for teachers will help you consider how different motivations lead to very different actions in the classroom. You will reflect on how often your daily actions are driven by other pressures, and how your daily actions might be d...
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Art & Ideas: Teaching with Themes
Through this course by the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa), explore works of modern and contemporary art through a variety of accessible themes that relate to classroom content and student experiences, and learn how a thematic approach supports interdisc...
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Karega Bailey: Growing Roses in Concrete (Seeds of Hope)
In this video from 2016, Karega Bailey, former student mentor at Roses in Concrete school, talks about the importance of disrupting the pervasive narrative of hopelessness in low-income communities.