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Creating Safe Spaces: Future Teachers of Color Summit

The Scholarly Teacher

Research shows that having BIPOC teachers benefits BIPOC students, providing numerous positive protective factors (Burciaga & Kohli, 2018; Easton-Brooks, 2019; Morales et al., In January 2020, we secured $3,000 to fund the FToC Summit; however, the pandemic caused the event to go virtual. 2022; Wright et al.,

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions (Assemblages Symposium)

SRHE

Here, two of our presenters Dr Karen Gravett and Tim Fawns , reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the third symposium on ‘Assemblages’. I think we are then less likely to develop practices that attune to wider contexts and possibilities. Her latest books are: Gravett, K. Her latest books are: Gravett, K.

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Landscapes of learning for unknown futures: presenter responses to audience questions

SRHE

Here the three presenters reflect on some of the ideas and issues raised during the first symposium on ‘Networks’. At present, these are often created for specific projects (for example, where a new building is being designed) and then wound up afterwards. The idea of boundaries comes in again with this question.

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Rehumanizing the Research University

Confessions of a Community College Dean

Blog: Higher Ed Gamma Can a research-intensive university also be learning- and learner-centered, as dedicated to the quality of students’ educational experience as it is to scholarship, publication and invention? This reminds me every day why teaching, mentorship and service matter just as much as research. Why is that?

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10 Quality Nutrition and Health Project Ideas for High School Students

Experiential Learning Depot

You don't want your students slapping together a poster board, presenting that board to the class, and tossing it in the trash. You want the experience to mean something to the community, to make an impact, and to sincerely raise awareness about nutrition this National Nutrition Awareness Month. Or is that just me?

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Responsibilities and gatekeeping in using language certificates for HE admission

SRHE

This insecurity between institutional quality conventions and formal access criteria raises problems for the perceived responsibility to ensure a maximum chance of success for students. Dr Jana Berg is a postdoctoral researcher at the German Center for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW).

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"We Know More Than What Those Damn Tests Claim to Measure”: How Tests are Inequitable for Black and Other Minoritized Students

Diverse: Issues in Higher Education

As a result, I made it my purpose through my experiences in working with Black students, as well as through my research, to ensure that all educators and all stakeholders understand how to prepare students for academic success and postsecondary readiness. A discussion on the nature-nurture debate was presented briefly. Dr. Edward C.