By Vincent Pham — CONTEXT As Karp (1997) explains “[effective classroom teaching is] inherently ‘political’ in the sense that it had to take the social context of schooling and of students’ lives as a primary point of departure” (Karp, 1997,…
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Developing Argumentation Skills and Citizenship through Contemporary Controversies
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Success with Competition
By Charles Jones III — For the past five years, Claremont International High School has hosted a math Olympiad for the International High Schools of New York City. In 2018 it was my third time personally hosting the event, and the…
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Science through Global Challenges: A Funds of Knowledge-Rooted Independent Study of Malaria Treatment and Prevention
By Mbaye Ndiaye; Jeremy B. Heyman, PhD; Stefania Macaluso, PhD; Fanta Bathily — Introduction By Stefania Macaluso, PhD A key to achieving academic success is providing students with meaningful experiences and skills to negotiate how these experiences affect them and the society…
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Teacher/Student
By ELA Teacher Brendan Gillett and student Grabiela — (photo montages by Cora Kobischka) This was not an assignment. One of my students, unusually perceptive, began asking me how I was feeling during class. On my face, she read the thoughts…
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