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3 weeks ago | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Ileana Najarro
In kindergarten through 5th grade classrooms at Allen Jay Elementary School, students learn subjects like reading, math, and science in English, and in Urdu. The school, in High Point, N.C., offers dual-language immersion programs in Urdu and Spanish, reflecting the two most commonly spoken world languages in the local community. The programs follow a 50/50 model: Half of the day’s lessons are taught in English, the other half in either Urdu or Spanish.
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2 months ago | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Sarah Schwartz
Email Facebook LinkedIn Twitter Copy URL Reading and writing are so intertwined that instruction in one is bound to benefit the other. Here, Dana Robertson, an associate professor of reading and literacy education at Virginia Tech, offers actionable tips for teachers on ways to intentionally incorporate both disciplines into their lessons.
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2 months ago | 
edweek.org | Caitlynn Peetz |Kaylee Domzalski
Clayton Hubert starts his day early. By 6:30 a.m., he’s on a school bus, shuttling kids to their one-building district. His day doesn’t end until well after 6 p.m.—three hours after classes dismiss for the day. In the intervening 12 hours, Hubert is Red Rock Central school district’s sole art teacher, yearbook adviser, student council adviser, and wrestling coach. He’s the quintessential small-town teacher, asked to step into many roles beyond teaching.
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Feb 13, 2025 | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Jaclyn Borowski
Paris Kent, the dance director at Bellaire High School in Houston, has sent her students into physics classes to help students learn about the rotation of an axis through the movement of their bodies, demonstrating how a person’s size impacts the speed of the rotation. It’s just one way Kent works to incorporate dance across the curriculum.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Jaclyn Borowski
For Mark Daniels, the theatre teacher at Weber High School in Pleasant View, Utah, some movement happens organically in his classes. But Daniels also teaches the school’s cinema class where, he says, students hope to sit and watch a movie. However, Daniels structures his classes so that students never sit for more than 20 minutes. Through games and different activities, he gets kids moving, and uses those same movement activities to build connections and create a positive classroom culture.
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Feb 6, 2025 | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski |Jaclyn Borowski
Lori Danz is a biology teacher turned school forest coordinator in Superior, Wisc., where every district has a school forest of its own. Danz works with teachers across the district to adapt their lessons into hands-on learning experiences for students in the outdoors. Here, she explains how that works, and how teachers without a school forest of their own might try something similar.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
edweek.org | Jaclyn Borowski |Kaylee Domzalski
Robyn Newton, Vermont’s 2023 state teacher of the year and Vergennes Union Elementary School’s longtime physical education teacher, places an emphasis not only on movement, but on combining movement with academics. Here, she explains how it works, and how other educators can incorporate something similar in their own classrooms.
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Dec 27, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Mark Lieberman |Kaylee Domzalski
President-elect Donald Trump is poised to push for a major overhaul of the federal government’s role in K-12 education when he takes office on Jan. 20. Trump, and conservative policymakers more broadly, say they want to shift much of the federal responsibility for K-12 school funding to state and local governments. That could mean slashing federal spending, expanding private school choice, and potentially even eliminating the federal Department of Education.
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Nov 19, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Kaylee Domzalski
“Everyone goes through something that we don’t know about. Let’s not make it worse when we have the choice to make it better.” That’s the lesson 4th grade teacher Tori King is working to instill in her students. Through writing letters and acts of service, she’s teaching them how to show kindness in different ways. Here, she explains what that looks like, and how other teachers can incorporate something similar into their classrooms
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Nov 6, 2024 | 
edweek.org | Ileana Najarro |Lauren Santucci |Kaylee Domzalski
It’s one thing to study the electoral process in class. It’s another experience entirely to witness the process live and in person with classmates over pizza. Students in Noah Lipman’s Advanced Placement U.S. Government and Politics class from Highlands High School in San Antonio, Texas, continued a tradition Tuesday night that Lipman started in 2016. They partook in an election night watch party at a local restaurant, watching returns come in live with classmates and alongside local residents.
