This post is by Brooke O’Neill, Director of Curriculum & Instruction at David Douglas School District (@daviddouglas_sd). Today’s post is the practitioner perspective on Monday’s post: Three ...

This week we are hearing from the Multnomah County Partnership for Education Research (MCPER). This post is by MCPER Co-Directors Nicole Ralston, Assistant Professor at the University of Portland ...

I had a student I will never forget, a young man who was destined to become the product of low expectations from educators who didn’t believe in his potential. He was told multiple times he didn’t ...

A recent article in EdWeek, which covers K-12 schools, draws on a nationally representative survey of district leaders, principals and teachers to identify “The Teaching Strategies Educators Say Will ...

It’s almost impossible to ignore that K-12 classrooms in the U.S. are filled with students from increasingly diverse cultural backgrounds: race, nationality, religion, economic, etc. Many teachers, ...

Years ago, before I became an educator, I took a contemporary Native American studies course as one of my first college classes. For the final research assignment, I choose to explore the ...

Cultural diversity in the classroom is on the rise. In 2014, U.S. public schools hit a minority majority milestone with Latino, African-American, and Asian students having surpassed the number of ...