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In Teachers We Trust presents a compelling vision, offering practical ideas for educators and school leaders wishing to develop teacher-powered education systems. It reveals why teachers in Finland hold high status, and shows what the country's trust-based school system looks like in action. Pasi Sahlberg and Timothy D. Walker suggest seven key principles for building a culture of trust in schools, from offering clinical training for future teachers to encouraging student agency to fostering a collaborative professionalism among educators.

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Et si l’entreprise pouvait devenir une force de contribution nette pour le monde ? Pas seulement « moins négative », pas simplement « responsable », mais véritablement positive pour la société, l’environnement et l’économie. Net Positive Business est le podcast de l’EDHEC Business School qui explore en profondeur ce changement de paradigme stratégique : passer d’une logique de réduction des impacts à une logique de création de valeur nette positive. À travers une série d’épisodes pédagogiques et concrets, ce podcast donne la parole aux chercheurs de l’EDHEC...

Whether you’re a law student, an undergraduate considering law school, or a lifelong learner, join me as we demystify the law — one concept at a time. We break down complex legal principles into plain English, making the law accessible for everyone.

Chenoweth draws on her decade-long journey into neighborhood schools where low-income students and students of color are learning at unexpectedly high levels to reveal a key ingredient to their success: in one way or another, their leaders have confronted the traditional ways that schools are organized and have adopted new systems, all focused on improvement. In profiles of once-embattled schools, Chenoweth shows how school leaders doggedly reorganized internal systems in order to prioritize teaching and learning, resulting in improved outcomes that in many cases exceeded statewide averages.

This is a local Cambridge, MA podcast. Like the title says, this podcast consists of half hour episodes that summarize School Committee meetings. The goal is to improve access to and encourage engagement with the work of the School Committee.The Cambridge School Committee meets on the first and third Tuesdays of the month; new episodes will come out on Fridays following regular meetings, beginning on January 23, 2025.

It's a new season of high school basketball, and here's a new podcast talking all things hoops. Boys and girls. Lancaster-Lebanon League. Commonwealth Christian Athletic Conference. District 3. And beyond. Jason Guarente and Jeff Reinhart are here to talk all things basketball, from now through the end of the season.

Our new podcast series, Research in Action, brings you the groundbreaking research shaping law, policy, and society from The Dickson Poon School of Law community. Hear conversations with leading experts from King’s and beyond as they reveal how their work impacts the world. Our academics aren’t just working to address today’s most pressing legal challenges - they’re driving the debate.

In Sanctuary School, Chandler Patton Miranda highlights the many ways that K–12 schools can provide safe educational spaces and relevant, responsive resources for immigrant students. Miranda prompts educators to think beyond the baseline definition of sanctuary schools as protective institutions that practice legally supported noncooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) activities. She envisions a whole-school approach to sanctuary that empowers marginalized students via radical welcoming and innovation.

Royel M. Johnson and Shaun R. Harper's book, The Big Lie About Race in America's Schools, delivers a collective response to the challenge of racially charged misinformation, disinformation, and censorship that increasingly permeates and weakens not only US education but also our democracy.

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In School Communities of Strength, Peter W. Cookson, Jr., lays out a blueprint for providing equitable educational opportunities for students from all socioeconomic strata, and particularly for the five million American children who live with the extreme material hardship known as deep poverty. This work issues an urgent call to action for K–12 schools to put in place the policies, practices, and programs that enable economically vulnerable students to thrive.

Exploring how government works—and how it could work better. In each episode, Professor Michael Sanders, Director of the School for Government at King’s College London, speaks with leading policy experts and practitioners from across the public sector, academia and industry. Together, they explore the inner workings of government, the biggest challenges it faces, and where the opportunities lie to make policy more effective, evidence-based, and citizen-focused.

Do you know what goes on in a typical classroom? Do you feel an irrational fear of authority and confidence in yourself? This book reveals the dark agenda of the modern schooling system and its toxic effects on both pupils and teachers alike.

Drawing on his twenty years as a teacher, hundreds of interviews and his experience on the UK Government's Social Mobility Commission, Sammy Wright shows that schools are - and should be - so much more than this. Filled with funny, tender encounters and an unflinching focus on the profound challenges of daily life for both teachers and pupils, his book argues that we need urgently to think of school differently: as something more like a home than a factory, a community hub rather than a boot-camp or testing ground.

“When I become mayor, we become mayor.” Ras Baraka’s famous words speak to exactly who he is as a leader - a fiercely loyal member of his community. In this innovative and ground-breaking Audible Original, hear how Baraka - the mayor of Newark, New Jersey - grew from spoken-word artist to school principal to successful politician.

The issues and arguments surrounding school choice are sometimes hijacked to make political points about government control, democratic ideals, the public good, and privatization. In this volume in the MIT Press Essential Knowledge series, David Garcia avoids partisan arguments to offer an accessible, objective, and comprehensive guide to school choice.

Broulee Public School is on the Far South Coast of NSW, Australia. This Podcast is hosted by our School Captains. Each week we will bring you news and updates of anything happening around the school and our community. We will also host special guests, get to know them a bit better and share their stories. Thanks for listening!

Every year, millions of public school students are suspended. This overused punishment removes students from the classroom, but it does not improve their behavior. Instead, suspension disrupts their education, harming the students, their families, and their schools. Black students suffer most within this broken system, experiencing a far greater risk of school punishment and the significant harms that accompany it. Many activists and scholars have considered how school punishment increases racial inequity, but few have thought to ask why.

With its signature "DARE to keep kids off drugs" slogan and iconic t-shirts, DARE (Drug Abuse Resistance Education) was the most popular drug education program of the 1980s and 1990s. But behind the cultural phenomenon is the story of how DARE and other antidrug education programs brought the War on Drugs into schools and ensured that the velvet glove of antidrug education would be backed by the iron fist of rigorous policing and harsh sentencing.