By Dr. Howie Knoff Another Heartbreaking Opportunity My cell phone rang at [3:49] PM Uvalde Central Time. Tuesday, May 24, 2022. It was a close colleague of mine, also a Past-President of the National Association of School Psychologists, who lives
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How the School-to-Deportation Pipeline Harms Immigrant Youth & Youth of Color
By Emma Tynan, Sarah Kim Pak, Ignacia Rodriguez Kmec & Mark R. Warren, originally published by The People’s Think Tank. In 2017, a high school sophomore named Alex doodled the name of his Honduran hometown and his high school mascot on
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3 Ways Wisconsin is Expanding Equitable Access to Books in Schools
By Sara Gold For educators, the pandemic has highlighted a few key issues that they’ll need to face head-on in the coming years: social-emotional learning, diversity and equity. The Center for Public Education defines equity in K-12 education as “when
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Q&A With NBA Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility Todd Jacobson
The ace-ed.org team recently sat down with Todd Jacobson – Senior Vice President of Social Responsibility for the National Basketball Association – to learn about his organization’s efforts to improve equity in K-12 schools and bring the lessons and values
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Inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards to Honor K-12 Changemakers
Awards program will recognize the companies, nonprofits, leaders, authors, and educators whose tremendous efforts are helping schools achieve equity everywhere The American Consortium for Equity in Education has announced the inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards, a recognition program designed to
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Educators, Have You Ever Told a Student to Leave Your Classroom?
Teachers face a lot of really tough decisions every day One of them is whether or not to remove a student from the classroom. In this five-minute audio clip, Amelia Leighton Gamel talks about the first (and only) time she
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Restorative Justice: Authentic Responses to the “Pandemic-to-Prison Pipeline”
By Mark R. Warren, Letha Muhammad and Emma Tynan, originally published on The People’s Think Tank. At Fishers Junior High School outside of Indianapolis, administrators have recently reported seeing an increase in physical aggression including fights within their school. They responded by
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Q&A With Melvin Hines, CEO & Founder of Upswing: Edtech Accessibility is a Reflexive Process
Melvin Hines, CEO and Founder at Upswing, pushes his team to appropriately empathize with their users, a tactic that spilled over to how they interact with institution partners. Accessibility is “reflexive,” meaning that only by stepping out of your established
Managing Abbott Elementary
By Larry Jacobs Abbott Elementary is that delightful and insightful new sitcom on TV about an underfunded elementary school in Philadelphia and its caring and hardworking new and veteran teachers. Thank you, Quinta Brunson, for creating it and getting the
Equitable Practices as a Blueprint for Disruptive Change in K-12 Education
By Kellie Lauth & Melissa Risteff, originally published in the Decemer, 2021 issue of Equity & Access Since inception, MindSpark Learning (MSL) has been modeling disruptive practices to maximize human potential and unleash impact. Recently MSL launched the Disruption Certification
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