Long after the Hayward Unified School District entered into a $250,000 contract with a for-profit, anti-racist teacher training program called Woke Kindergarten, a school board member and a teacher at the school raised objections to it, and the story launched into the national conservative media morass.
It’s been two years since Hayward’s Glassbrook Elementary School began a contract for teacher training sessions with Woke Kindergarten — a Brooklyn-based for-profit company specializing in anti-racist and “abolitionist” trainings and classes for students, educators, and organizations. Teachers at the school lauded the move, saying that the student body — which is largely non-white,… Read More
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. — Students at Good Shepherd Catholic School were the special guests of honor at a surprise event late last week: their teacher’s wedding.
Catie Zwier, who teaches kindergarten, married her husband Kevin during school Mass last Thursday, the day before the couple would have a ceremony with family and friends. Zwier said the plan was in the works for months and she kept it a secret from most of the students except for the scripture readers and designated flower girls.
“I had a teacher growing up. I wasn’t in her class at the time, but she had… Read More
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*Update: On January 4, 2023, New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy signed NJ Bill S588, more commonly known as the information and media literacy education bill, into law. The legislation will require information and media literacy to be taught across K-12, making it the most comprehensive media literacy bill in the nation.
New Jersey is set to become the first state in the nation to mandate teaching media literacy… Read More
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Every morning, students in the Early Excellence Program in north Denver start their day with a song in Spanish and English. Story time and reading circles also happen in the two languages. Kids are encouraged, but never forced, to speak both.
These are some of the ways teachers at this highly-rated preschool try to give students a strong foundation in their home language as they prepare for school — something researchers agree is helpful for young bilingual learners.
As the state prepares to roll… Read More
