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By Tesha Fritzgerald and Dr. Katie Novak Who Tells Our Story? Imagine you attended a professional development session on race and equity. Before the keynote took the stage, the event organizer was thrilled to have a district share the work that they were doing. The school district kicked off their presentation with a short video that highlighted their work around equity. Their reel dazzled the audience as they boasted about their inclusivity, policies, changes, and data mines – but there was o

Coming from a neurodiversity approach stressing ADHD as a cognitive difference rather than a cognitive deficit, the article aims to restory hyperactivity and at

Many White people deny the existence of racism against people of color because they assume that racism is defined by deliberate actions motivated by malice and hatred. However, racism can occur without conscious awareness or intent. When defined simply as differential evaluation or treatment based solely on race, regardless of intent, racism occurs far more frequently than most White people suspect. As intractable as it seems, racism in the workplace can be effectively addressed. Because organizations are small, autonomous entities that afford leaders a high level of control over norms and policies, they are ideal sites for promoting racial equity. Companies should move through the five stages of a process called PRESS: (1) Problem awareness, (2) Root-cause analysis, (3) Empathy, or level of concern about the problem and the people it afflicts, (4) Strategies for addressing the problem, and (5) Sacrifice, or willingness to invest the time, energy, and resources necessary for strategy implementation.

Creating culturally responsive and empowering classrooms distributes the teacher's traditionally held power and releases students' power to shine.

Students explore the ethical considerations of AI-generated art and the stereotypes and biases they can produce. | A free resource hosted at Human Restoration Project on progressive education.

EduColor mobilizes advocates nationwide around issues of educational equity, agency, and justice. Tomorrow, there'll be more of us!

Lessons for Centering the Voices and Experiences of Bilingual Latinx Students

Autism is often conceptualised as a neurocognitive style that leaves a person entirely more concerned with their needs than the needs of others. Autistic people, in particular (when compared to attitudes around non-Autistic people), are often positioned as lacking emotional and cognitive empathy. However, for some Autistic people, their experience of empathy can be so

Can you really have hyper empathy and feel too much? And why would you have hyper empathy in the first place? How to get help for hyper empathy

With the rise of place-based models of education, credence needs to be given to epistemological traditions that curate individual understandings of and relations to the social world (i.e., places)....

An illustrated, essential guide to engaging children and youth in the process of urban designFrom a history of children’s rights to case studies discussing...

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In this manuscript, I argue that narratives of self-care for educators in the midst of pandemic teaching are a form of gaslighting, supported and exacerbated by...

A veteran human rights educator explains the value of teaching students to call each other in rather than out.

Play evolved with mammals. The instinct runs as deep as our need for food and sleep. Learn about our biological drive to play.

A new study introduces the "Monotropism Questionnaire" as a potential diagnostic tool for autism, sparking widespread debate and interest.

Excessive pressures to excel, generally in affluent contexts, are now listed among the top 4 "high risk" factors for adolescents' mental health, along with exposure to poverty, trauma, and discrimination. Multiple studies of high-achieving school (HAS) cohorts have shown elevated rates of serious sy …

One of the strengths of the pandemic has been its ability to put a spotlight on everything that is wrong with education. We’ve long known that our education system was created in another century for another way of life. Our factory model of education was conceived during the industrial revolution; however, our workforce and our

In Nourishing Caregiver Collaborations: Elevating Home Experiences and Classroom Practices for Collective Care, Nawal Qarooni invites us to step beyond school-centric, one-off events and practices to create more authentic, engaging collaborations with caregivers. Instead of asking what families can do to support school

At EF, we work every day to help people better understand one another, which is why we recently spoke with Dr. Deborah Plummer about racism and allyship.

The Teaching Tolerance Advisory Board shares what they’ve learned as they’ve worked for justice in schools.