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Professional Learning Resource Inquiry Teacher Leadership Your Story Matters: A Guide to Moving from Practice to PublicationThe public narrative about education often lacks teacher voices. Teachers face barriers in deciding what to write as well as where and how to make their stories public. This resource is intended to reduce those barriers by helping teachers decide systematically on a writing topic and venue.
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Blog Equity Teaching Strategies The Work is Theirs: Honoring Student Thinking Through Task DesignMany lessons look smooth and engaging—but beneath the surface, who’s really doing the thinking? This post explores how one teacher learned to shift from polished, teacher-driven lessons to tasks that invite students to grapple, make meaning, and do the real work of learning through productive struggle.
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Blog Teacher Leadership Teacher Leaders Need Coaches, TooHow can teacher leaders find support and professional learning as they step into a new role? The answer for me was finding a leadership coach.
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Classroom Resource Equity Inquiry CREED/Emergent strategy protocolThis protocol adapts two powerful frameworks to create a culturally responsive approach to data analysis and organizational reflection that centers the experiences of those whose voices may not always be heard. The protocol is meant to be adapted, rearranged or shortened depending on the facilitator’s goal and the community needs.
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Classroom Resource Equity Inquiry Plotting Your StatusThis resource helps educators reflect on how status shapes participation and belonging in math and science classrooms. By plotting their academic, social, and societal status as learners, teachers uncover how perceptions of competence and value influenced their own experiences, and how similar dynamics may be impacting the students they teach.
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