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National Day for Truth and Reconciliation: Here’s How You Can Spend It
[ad_1] Photography by Cole Burston/AFP via Getty ImagesHow to spend September 30 — and where to buy an orange shirt. By Natalie Michie Date September 29, 2023 Content warning: This story discusses residential schools and violence against Indigenous people. Canada’s Residential School Survivors and Family Crisis Line is available 24 hours a day at 1-866-925-4419. ... -
Students Need a Holistic Approach to Pandemic Recovery
[ad_1] Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. These efforts can be important and life-changing, yet research finds that increased learning time alone will not be enough to recover from ... -
Step Up Your Shoe Game: Exploring Girotti Women’s Footwear
Thrilling adventures in women’s footwear await you, ladies. Women’s shoes from GIROTTI come in an almost infinite variety of colours, materials, and styles that can be skillfully mixed to create a truly one-of-a-kind masterpiece. This is a dream come true for any woman who enjoys adorning her feet with exquisite footwear. Girotti presents an open ... -
Step into Style: Unveiling Bélier’s Latest Shoe Collection
Bélier Bélier is a fashion brand with a distinct and lofty mission statement, which is to design and manufacture items that are classic, non-seasonal, and adaptable. Bélier’s mission is to reimagine the concept of essential wardrobe pieces that are meant to last for more than just one season by placing an emphasis on luxury fabrics ... -
When a Tiny Fraction of Teachers File Most School Discipline Referrals
[ad_1] Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse ... -
We Don’t Have to Sacrifice Joy for Rigor in the Classroom
[ad_1] A joyful class is a rigorous class. A rigorous class is a joyful class. I wrote this mantra on a sticky note and placed it on my desk as a daily reminder that my students’ right to access joy is just as important as academic rigor. During my third year of teaching, I struggled ... -
Government shutdown would be ‘extremely disruptive’ to defense production, workforce, acquisition chief says
[ad_1] A government shutdown could halt munition production and the acceptance of equipment, and may stall efforts that support Ukraine, the Pentagon’s acquisition chief said Tuesday. “I have some testing work we want to do next week on an item for Ukraine, and unless we can get some type of a waiver—which we’re going to ... -
Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies
[ad_1] When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all in our heads. But what if those typical metaphors ...











