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Post-Pandemic Vigilance

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How Classroom Teachers Can Know when Students are Harming Themselves . . . and What Teachers Should Do If They Are

How are students adjusting as they return to live classrooms? The answer is, they are adjusting in different ways, depending on thousands of variables that include life at home and their emotional and social maturity. Some students are simply happy to be back at their desks. Still, others are finding the transition moderately difficult. And then there are other students who are having an extremely difficult time making the transition. Read more

High School Teacher Esther Brunat Talks about Career Planning for the Student Research Foundation

High School Teacher Esther Brunat on How Math Equips Students for the Future

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Video to Watch . . .

We recently spoke with high school math teacher Esther Brunat about the critical role that math can play in preparing students for success.

Ms. Brunat, who teaches high school math, algebra II, and trigonometry in Texas, is impassioned about the role that math studies play in equipping her students for a variety of critically important careers that will help the world.

You’ll want to watch this video. Here are some edited portions of what Ms. Brunat told the Student Research Foundation. Read more

English Teacher Daina Petronis talks about the Student Research Foundation

Toronto English Teacher Daina Petronis Explains How Student Attitudes Can Increase their Career Options

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Daina Petronis, who teaches high school English in Toronto, recently offered some insightful observations on how student attitudes can affect their readiness to make good career decisions and lead better lives.

She shared her views in a new Student Research Foundation video we know you will want to watch. Read more

High School Teacher Trevor Muir talking about Student Research Foundation

Teacher Trevor Muir on Why Soft Skills Are the Most Important Career Skills of All

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High school teacher Trevor Muir believes that soft skills that are developed in project-based learning could be even more vital to success in technology-intensive fields than hard skills like chemistry or mathematics.

Trevor explained why in a recent video he shared with the Student Research Foundation. Read more

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Helping Your Students Discuss the Ethical Issues of Applying to College

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As you know, a major scandal involving college admissions has been making headlines since 2019. A number of very wealthy parents – some of whom are celebrities – paid vast sums of money to a college admissions counselor of sorts, who then pulled all kinds of strings to get their kids into elite institutions that included USC, Stanford, Yale, and others.

How did that counselor help those students get into top colleges? In some cases, he found ways to assure that they would earn top scores on standardized tests. (In one case, he allegedly stated that one student required special accommodations on a test, then he had that student take the test in a private location where he could answer questions for her.) Read more

Hispanic Heritage Month

Facts and Figures to Keep in Mind During Hispanic Heritage Month

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National Hispanic Heritage Month will be observed this year from September 15th through October 15th. Events will be held at the Library of Congress, the National Gallery of Art, in National Parks, at the Smithsonian Institution and elsewhere.

If you are a Hispanic American, a Hispanic-American educator, a student, or a teacher whose classroom is home to Hispanic-American students, you will want to follow these events this month. Read more

Social Justice Rally

The Challenges of Teaching Social Justice in Your Classroom

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The trial of Derek Chauvin in Minneapolis has focused our nation’s attention on issues of social justice and racial equality. These questions can form the basis for classroom discussions and assignments in our classrooms yet making those assignments and leading discussions can pose a challenge for teachers. Students could offer opinions that will trigger other students, and even reflect badly on the teacher who was in charge when those opinions were expressed. Read more

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Has Covid-19 Driven a Permanent Wedge Between America’s Public and Private Schools?

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If you live in many towns and cities across the United States, you are familiar with the great divide between the public and private schools near you. Read more

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Returning to the Classroom

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The CDC’s Checklists Are a Helpful Resource

Returning to live instruction in the classroom, whether it happens in stages or all at once, is sure to be challenging to teachers, parents, and school administrators. But let’s not forget that . . . Read more

First Lady Jill Biden

Why Having a Teacher as First Lady Is Bound to Help Education in America

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Welcome, Jill Biden . . .

First Lady Jill Biden is clearly smart, resourceful, warm, courageous, and highly supportive of her husband. But she has something else going for her . . .

Jill Biden is a teacher Read more