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Seal of Excelencia 2024

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Our comprehensive strategy emphasizes culturally relevant curriculum, robust community connections and clear pathways to success—crucial for nurturing a sense of belonging and enhancing academic persistence. Outreach efforts include education on financial aid options, including grants, scholarships and aid for undocumented students.

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Championing Student Success

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Undergraduate LAs operate as part of an instructional team, supporting both students and faculty to create more inclusive, learner-centered classrooms that improve student and faculty success. For her part, Rahming, a native of The Bahamas, has not abandoned her scholarship. The concept is quite simple. I am still doing my research.

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Anti-Racist Teachers: Disrupting Resegregation [Overrepresentation] in Special Education

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Because they are receiving unnecessary services and may not have access to the general education curriculum and classroom. culturally relevant and sustaining teaching) and high-quality instruction (i.e., curriculum and instruction, and assessment). 7) Adopt multicultural education practices and principles (e.g.

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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

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Since then, I have focused my scholarship on college and career readiness, and STEM for Black males. 12. What curricular and instructional strategies, content, and materials promote critical thinking and problem solving while honoring the culture of Black students? Curriculum and instruction must be rigorous and relevant.

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Virginia Tech’s CEED Program Builds Pipelines to Engineering

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Connecting Black students with each other made them feel stronger and more determined to support each other through the curriculum. “It Students, she says, felt isolated in engineering because they were often the only Black students in some of their classes. It was a matter in many cases of asking the students, ‘What do you need?’”

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An Urgent Message to Teachers and School Psychologists Working with Black and Other Minoritized Students

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These stereotypes lead to teachers’ overgeneralization of all Black students, which impacts the instruction given, the school climate, and the supports that they receive or do not receive in schools. Ford School psychologists are seldom given the same attention as classroom teachers in research and other scholarship about preK-12 students.

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Leveraging Diversity to Fuel the Creative Arts

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So, in addition to delivering instruction that focuses on skills, technique and emerging technologies, we must also provide safe and inclusive space for students to explore visual storytelling in service to critical issues.” We practice theater as scholarship, as performance and as activism,” Akbar said.

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