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The education of care-experienced children should be redefined to include a much broader range of activities to better support their development and success, a new study says.
Those who have been looked after perceive education in a much wider way than other young people, including their life experiences and social skills not just exams, the research shows.
Regardless of their performance in school, those who took part in the study portrayed themselves as achievers in the context of this broader concept of education, and described being as proud of qualities such as independence, agency and capacity…
“How To Be a Rational Patriot”
“How To Be a Victor & Not a Victim”
“How To Embrace Your Masculinity” / “How To Embrace Your Femininity”
These are some of the videos produced by PragerU Kids, a resource for schools approved by the Florida Department of Education, the company announced July 20.
PragerU Kids is a division of PragerU, a media company established in 2009 named after conservative pundit Dennis Prager. The company is best known for its 5-10-minute videos on news, history, and civics topics. In the coming school year, Florida grade school students could be assigned PragerU Kids…
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I’ve seen a lot of teachers on Twitter, or X, or whatever we’re supposed to call it, wondering what we are going to do now that Twitter’s demise seems inevitable. Twitter has been a wonderful place for educators to gather over the years. I’ve made so many friends through Twitter. I’ve also learned so much from teachers willing to share their expertise on Twitter. Believe me, no one is sadder than I am at the state of things. I don’t know the actual statistics, but I know I’m leeching followers weekly, and most have…
The end of the school year is finally here. We have a long summer ahead to enjoy and have fun. Some of you have asked me to write a post with some activities to help you improve your English while on holiday. I hope you like it.
LISTENING SKILLS
SHORT PODCASTS
You can use them to improve your reading and listening skills as some of them have listening comprehension activities.
LISTENING COMPREHENSIONS
Choose your level , listen and practise doing the comprehension activities.
THE FLATMATES
A BBC Learning English short video series. Very interactive and fun to watch.
LISTENING LESSONS…
Teaching Tommy Orange’s There There: Part One | huffenglish.com
Tommy Orange discusses Native writers, his process, and his book There There
Is it just me, or is February the busiest time of the year? I’ve been meaning to start this blog series on teaching Tommy Orange’s phenomenal novel There There for a long while, but trying to carve out the time to write the blog posts has been challenging.
I teach this novel as part of a unit on Native Voices—Native literature and history—in a cross-curricular elective for seniors at my school. This elective is technically titled What’s Goin’ On:…
Melinda Mangin stresses the importance of creating welcoming gender inclusive environments — regardless of whether anyone in your school identifies as transgender.
“If you imagine a quarter of your students somehow see themselves as gender nonconforming — they like something that’s not stereotypically appropriate for their assigned gender — then we’re talking about a lot of kids,” says Mangin, a professor at Rutgers University who is an expert in inclusive schools for transgender people. “I think it’s really incumbent upon us to move away from seeing gender as a problem, and waiting to fix a problem, and trying to reframe…
Paired Texts: Robert Frost’s “Mending Wall” and Ilya Kaminsky’s “We Lived Happily During the War” | huffenglish.com
Robert Frost (New York World-Telegram and the Sun Newspaper Photograph Collection/Library of Congress) and Ilya Kaminsky (Slowking)
I have to admit to a love/hate relationship with Robert Frost’s poetry stemming from the fact that I wrote a research paper on symbolism in his poetry as a senior in high school. That kind of thing will put anyone off, and it didn’t help that I had what I’d consider now to be an inarguable thesis (essentially it was, yes, he uses symbolism—not much of…
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Lawmakers in Virginia removed the term “homosexuality” from the state’s definition of “sexual conduct” that is used in a number of laws, including the law that requires schools to inform parents of sexually explicit materials used in classrooms.
Last summer, Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) enacted a measure requiring the Virginia Department of Education to publish guidance for how sexually explicit material should be handled and how parents should be informed about it — so they could opt their children out of learning it.
The guidelines referenced the state code’s definition of sexual conduct as “actual or…