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A Conversation About School Choice

…helping students? Because if we’re investing money into an educational option, we want students to do well. And so there’s this question of, well, how are they doing? Some of them have a lot of accountability built in, where you can start to answer that question. Maybe students using a voucher, for instance, take the same standardized test as the kids in the public schools. But there’s programs where there’s very little accountability, and it’s kind of left up to the parents to decide if their children are being well served, and it’s very hard for the public to decide, you…

Episode 151: Historically Responsive Literacy

The Cult of Pedagogy Podcast, Episode 151 Transcript Jennifer Gonzalez, Host For years teachers have been looking for ways to improve the academic performance of all students, especially students of color and those from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. While some of these efforts have been successful, many more have had lackluster results. In previous episodes, we’ve talked about different approaches teachers can take to do a better job of reaching all students: the interview with Dena Simmons in episode 64, with Zaretta Hammond in episode 78, with Pedro Noguera in episode 110, and with Hedreich Nichols in episode 140….

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…thing that they do in other classes. The end result is if it increases student engagement, then Boom! Use it. Thanks for the great article and sharing this. Andrea Castellano Hi Laura, I noticed Sue Kelly says in another comment, “You could just hand out laminated cards to students as they walk in.” I’m also thinking students could place them on their desks or somewhere visible so teachers can see which one they have. Kris Damon I was thinking you could have a variety of icons on a paper exit slip. They get the exit slip prompt at the beginning…

Historically Responsive Literacy: A More Complete Education for All Students

…teachers can take to do a better job of reaching all students: interviews with Dena Simmons, Zaretta Hammond, Pedro Noguera, and Hedreich Nichols, to name a few. In these conversations, we looked at more effective ways of relating to students, strategies for working toward equity outside the classroom, and instructional methods that are more culturally responsive. This post continues that work with a fresh response to the question of how to better serve diverse students. It’s a framework that deals directly with the curriculum side of things, the standards, the actual content we teach in our classrooms. The framework is…