Our schools similarly need to light fires on the water and invite schools across the world in to share in learning starting from their own communities outward. These fires that burn on the water are a clarion call to see the local as global and to more deeply spark imagination, nourish learning, and build the innovation, action, and creativity young people need to face the problems they will one day inherit.
Rigor and Competency-Based Instruction, which focuses on students meeting specific competencies, is increasingly influential in education.
This generation doesn’t buy newspapers…
Before I wrote this article, I decided not to be some stuffy suit who decides she knows what’s good for others
What would it feel like to not have your culture acknowledged at all, or have it taught in an inaccurate or stereotyped fashion
Records show that teacher programs throughout the State University of New York system have experienced a 40% decline in enrollment over the past five years.
“I’m trying to paint a picture of empowerment, of power, of positive energy, of collaboration. It seems like it’s pie in the sky. But, I see it working under our umbrella right now.” – Digit Murphy
According to a study published by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), 15-year-old Spanish students spend an average of 6.5 hours a week on assigned homework.
By Dr. Craig T. Follins
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