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"Injustice is telling them education is the key while you continue to change the locks."
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Introducing the Black Teacher Archive, an open-access digital portal that opens a new lens on the history of education, on Black history, and on American history.
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"Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction. The function of education, therefore, is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically."—Martin Luther King Jr.
#MLKDay
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Special guest! 👑
The Princess of Wales stopped by campus this morning to visit the
@HarvardCenter
.
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Our brains are hard-wired to focus on the negative. But, when we practice
#mindfulness
, we can predispose our thoughts to be more affirmative. Read for ways you can incorporate positive thinking in your day👇🏻[via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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"When students engage in protests, civil disobedience, or any other form of activism, it’s important for school leaders to listen to their concerns and to support their right to protest."
@meiralevinson
@UKnowHGSE
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"I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women." -Ruth Bader Ginsburg
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Children that are
#bilingual
often have an easier time with attention control, reasoning, and flexible problem-solving. Read more on the lasting cognitive effects of speaking two languages. [via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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“The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character - that is the goal of true education.” - Martin Luther King, Jr.
#MLK50Forward
#MLK50
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Teachers: “The first thing you have to do is
#love
your students," says activist and philosopher
@CornelWest
. "Have confidence in their capacity, and their abilities, and their possibilities." Hear more from West in this episode of the EdCast 👇🏻
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Teachers: “The first thing you have to do is
#love
your students," says activist and philosopher
@CornelWest
. "Have confidence in their capacity, and their abilities, and their possibilities." Hear more from West on the
@Harvard
EdCast.
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BREAKING: HGSE's Bridget Terry Long (
@bterrylong
) will become the next dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education.
Please join us in congratulating our new dean!
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"I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits." -Martin Luther King, Jr., 1964
#MLKDay
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“Replacing music programs with reading or math instruction in our nation’s school curricula in order to boost standardized test scores may actually lead to deficient skills in other cognitive areas.”
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"The first thing you have to do is
#love
your students," says activist and philosopher
@CornelWest
. "Have confidence in their capacity, and their abilities, and their possibilities." Listen to West on the
@Harvard
EdCast.
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"Experts agree that anxiety is reaching near-epidemic levels among young people, with as many as one in eight children contending with diagnosable anxiety disorders." Coping strategies on
@UKnowHGSE
can help teens build resilience.
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Bedtime reading to children isn't just for young kids. Reading with middle schoolers before they go to sleep can help them feel safe and loved, too — and can continue your shared bond over favorite books.
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"The pressure to raise test scores has become so strong that testing often degrades instruction..."
@UKnowHGSE
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Provide teachers with dedicated time to engage in
#mindfulness
practice. Research has also shown mindfulness to improve teachers' emotional well-being, freeing them up to be more effective in the classroom.
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Breaking myths and making poetry urgent -- hear how doctoral student
@ClintSmithIII
makes words matter.
@UKnowHGSE
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Dual-language learners constantly navigate between two languages and cultures, while learning the rules of both. How to support multilingual preschoolers 👉🏻
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Self-efficacy is the belief that we can achieve a desired goal through our actions. When we believe in our ability to perform a task — writing an essay, mastering a new technology, or motivating a group of disengaged students — we are prompted to act.
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Congratulations to
@jarvisrgivens
, who's been promoted to the rank of professor with tenure!
Learn more about his expertise on race and power in education.
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"Like many people who work in prisons, you quickly realize how much brilliance is being wasted and the enormous intellectual capacity of the people who are spending the rest of their lives in prison." -
@ClintSmithIII
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To recognize the critical role of school counselors,
@MichelleObama
kindly donated tickets to her upcoming
#IAmBecoming
book tour to school counseling students at
@hgse
. Check out some of their reactions in this awesome video! And kudos to
@MSavitzRomer
and team!
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What if, instead of asking, “How smart am I?” we encouraged kids to ask, “How am I smart?”
#PZ50th
@UKnowHGSE
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“Studies are resounding: robust family engagement in schools positively affects student growth, improves test scores, and enhances the overall vibrancy and success of a school.”
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Teachers, counselors, and administrators may recognize the cumulative stressors that they face, but they don't always realize that their symptoms are a common reaction to working with traumatized children — and that these symptoms have a name.
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A
#language
experience that begins in childhood and continues through adulthood may positively influence brain networks. Read for insight into the lasting cognitive effects of
#bilingualism
. [via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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"If you get in the habit of asking these questions, you have a very good chance of being both successful and happy.”
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Have your child tell you stories, and write down what she says. Then read the story you wrote together. This and more ways to encourage
#reading
(and
#writing
), from
@UKnowHGSE
👇🏻
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“Education is a human right.” (Take a moment, pause, as we invite you to reflect on this quote)
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“Teachers should connect history to students’ lives. Students need to understand how the makeup of their classroom, school, and town are a product of historical policies and events.”
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Educators: Be sure to respond to children when they speak to you in their home
#language
, even if you don’t understand their words. Read for more insight into linguistically
#diverse
classrooms, from
@UKnowHGSE
.
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Mr. Rogers’ fierce respect for children was the topic of an Askwith Forum at the Harvard Graduate School of Education on Wednesday. "He had one message: that each and every one of us is capable of loving and capable of being loved.”
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"It’s time to scrap the traditional school schedule of a breathless string of 50-minute blocks..."
@UKnowHGSE
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When you read stories from the newspaper aloud for your child, you’ll introduce them to new ideas and encourage them to read themselves. This and more ways to encourage
#reading
(and
#writing
)👇🏻[via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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“But we’ve always done it that way” is the comfortable, regular, and normal barrier to enacting change.
@domonicrollins
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"If the goal of our educational system includes high-functioning, healthy students, then educators have to prioritize something alongside academic mastery and social-emotional wellness. We have to prioritize sleep." Call to action from
@coach4kindness
.
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Educating for peace:
*Model kindness, empathy
*Repair, don't punish
*Create a democratic space
*Include the excluded
*Talk, serve
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When principals understand what constitutes positive school
#culture
, as something that can be pinpointed and designed, they can start to execute a cultural vision.
#education
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"Educators should focus not only on increasing critical thinking, efficiency, and collaboration, but also on developing empathy, self-care, and critical consciousness."
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“Our brains are hard-wired to focus on the negative, but by practicing mindfulness, we can reprogram them — teach our brains to accentuate positive experiences and maintain serenity.”
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If a student is developmentally ready to learn curriculum content, their lack of fluency in English should not keep them from doing so. What should you know about teaching English learners?
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Last night, we learned:
🎓
@Grover
is
@Harvard
faculty
🐤
@BigBird
is our official bird
✨ We'd love for
@AbbyCadabbySST
to be our first fairy alum
🧛♂️
@CountvonCount
likes math
🖍️
@Elmo
looks great in Crimson
🏫50 years of collaboration has made
@sesamestreet
and Harvard better.
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“Schools were designed during the industrial age by people who were ‘absolutely obsessed’ with averages because averages worked so well in managing factories. The goal wasn’t to nurture creativity and develop individuality.”
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Positive
#school
culture starts with connections — strong and overlapping interactions among all members of the school
#community
. Read for ways to define core beliefs and behaviors (and execute a cultural vision).
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A 'culture of feedback' demonstrates that the opinions of both
#students
and
#teachers
matter. Read more about healthy
#communication
in schools, from
@UKnowHGSE
.
#education
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An announcement from the Harvard Graduate School of Education
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When educators work with families to develop social-emotional skills in their students, those children become more resilient, mindful, and kind. How these strong relationships bring success in school and in life👇🏻 [via
@EdSurge
]
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"Justice is what love looks like in public. Tenderness is what love feels like in private." -
@CornelWest
, speaking at the
#Askwith
Forum
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To build awareness of emotions, encourage kids to talk about the complex feelings that can arise during the day, such as jealousy, frustration, anger, prejudice, and injustice. Via
@UKnowHGSE
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"You can't wait for crises to teach kids how to talk to each other and how to listen to each other."
#OneAllHGSE
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English learners tend to be diagnosed with learning disabilities two to three years later than native English-speaking peers — which can make it even more difficult to get them back on track and to learn to love reading.
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@KensingtonRoyal
and
@Earlychildhood
have worked with the Center for years, using science-based solutions to help improve the lives of children & families.
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"Conversation drives literacy skills and cognitive development across all socioeconomic levels, regardless parents' income or education. It's a powerful, actionable, and simple tool for all parents to use."
@UKNowHGSE
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The caring, stimulating interactions between children and caregivers are an active ingredient in development - even more influential than curriculum, facilities, and materials. [via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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"Compassion allows us to see our students as individuals who are struggling and sometimes suffering. Compassion allows us to see ourselves in the student, even the student who we find is hard to relate to."
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"The idea that there are 'math people' and 'not math people' is a social construct and not based on inherent characteristics"
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A thriving school needs three things, writes Principal
@kozlowskijames1
: High expectations, collaboration, and celebration of success at every opportunity. via
@UKnowHGSE
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Today is
#WorldTeachersDay
— a perfect time to share memories of your favorite teacher. Use
#HGSEWorldTeachersDay
to tweet your stories and appreciation for that teacher who made a difference!
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How is
#play
time beneficial? It builds executive function skills, content knowledge, and creative thinking. READ for ways you can encourage free play this
#summer
[via
@UKnowHGSE
]:
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What if every student had a success plan — their own personalized record of strengths, goals, and challenges — that followed them from year to year, just like their health records do? The
@EdRedesignLab
wants to make it happen:
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Social-emotional learning (SEL) is key to students' lifelong success, but the field lacks consensus on common vocabulary, on which
#SEL
skills are most important, and on how to build them. A new suite of interactive tools from HGSE seeks to bring clarity.
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Seven key critical thinking mindsets that can set us up to effectively learn & think via
@UKnowHGSE
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"When teachers and families partner, children excel: Attendance and grades go up, discipline challenges go down, and high school graduation rates improve. And these relationships are especially important for immigrant students." via
@UKnowHGSE
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Teachers are more open to student evaluations if they are first asked to evaluate principals. How you can build a ‘culture of
#feedback
’ and foster meaningful
#communication
in your school👇🏻[via
@UKnowHGSE
]
#education
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Early childhood
#education
plays an important role in supporting children’s cognitive ability in
#language
,
#literacy
, and
#math
, as well as social skill development and emotional growth. [via
@UKnowHGSE
]
#earlyed
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Happy 101st Birthday to Us!
The Harvard Graduate School of Education was established on this day in 1920.
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We were delighted to have HRH visit campus and meet our community in Harvard Square!
📸: Stephanie Mitchell
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"Allow students the time to think, to form ideas, and to push themselves." -
@jessica_lander
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Special thanks to
@JoshGroban
for visiting with
@HGSE
students this morning, discussing the power of
#music
in ed.
http://t.co/2EG2CSFM8b
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Today is brought to you by the Letter E for Education.
50 years ago, the first episode of
@sesamestreet
aired. Since 1969, HGSE has provided our research and evaluation expertise to
@SesameWorkshop
, a partnership that continues to this day.
#Sesame50
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What does being a '
#math
person' really mean? How teachers can help every student feel prepared (and excited) to tackle new math concepts👇🏻
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People who play an
#instrument
regularly have higher
#executivefunction
skills than non-musicians.
@UKnowHGSE
shares links between
#music
training and executive function.
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"As we spent more time in schools, we noticed that powerful learning was happening most often at the periphery — in electives, clubs and extracurriculars," write
@jal_mehta
and
@sarahmfine
. How can that same deep learning recur throughout the day?
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Schools should create a resource center — a physical space — for families. This shows parents they are welcome, and that their role in students’ development is valued. Read for more ways to involve families in social-emotional learning. [via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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Research has shown that preschool programs can have significant positive effects on children’s literacy, language, and mathematical skills, and in the most recent issue of Ed. Magazine, we look at the movement to transform pre-K education:
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“Most U.S. teachers are getting some results from classroom observations, usually conducted by their school principal. In this experiment, the feedback came from peers and had no formal stakes attached.”
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As we hope for a world filled with equity and kindness in schools and beyond, research offers some encouraging insights.
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When a child maintains a school garden,
#nutrition
lessons become a consistent part of their educational experience. How educators can plant the seeds of a gardening program at their schools👇🏻[via
@UKnowHGSE
]
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"We need to get away from thinking that the opposite of ‘bored’ is ‘entertained.’ It’s ‘engaged.’"
@ltoddrose
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Parents: "If you just praise effort, you're not getting across the idea that ability can be developed," says
@Stanford
's Carol Dweck, in an interview for the Harvard EdCast. Instead, count progress and seek out challenges for your children.
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Principals: What elements contribute to positive school culture? Parsing its components can be challenging, but Ebony Bridwell-Mitchell — an expert in
#education
leadership and management — shares insight with
@UKnowHGSE
.
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"The benefits of student feedback are deep and wide — but not always recognized."
@UKnowHGSE
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