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What We Can Learn from Finnish NGOS About Resilience

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The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. The group also paid attention to group energy and taking brief breaks.

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Why I Volunteered: Why I Volunteered for My Local CASA Organization

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The last round was a pretty intense and thorough interview where they asked questions about my life, my previous volunteer experience, my feelings on certain social and political factors affecting the justice system, and more. Navigating that while also applying those lessons to the work we’d be doing was a profound experience.

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Calbright College: Prioritizing Diversity & Inclusion in Recruitment & Admissions

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Students move ahead by mastering content, not by spending a prescribed number of hours in a classroom. 92% of Calbright’s students are 25 or older, compared to 42% across the California Community Colleges system. Additionally, more than a third are parents or caregivers, more than triple the systemwide rate. Representation matters.

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Top 2021 Fundraising Strategies: Mastering Relevant Content Marketing

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Music Lessons and Activities for Your Digital Classroom. How to Fight Racism and Transphobia in the Healthcare System. Top 10 Ways to Help Your Child Readjust to Classroom Learning. What to Do if You’re Being Bullied. 10 Ways to Keep Black People and Their Allies Out of Jail. Tips for Safely Bringing Home a Rescue Dog.

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Transform Your Communications & Collaboration With Slack

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Arizona State University (ASU), for instance, needed an easier way for its students, faculty, and staff to communicate, share lesson plans, and gather feedback. The university now uses the collaboration tool to host classroom discussions, develop new courses, and support students — both on campus and online.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Miller Foundation in Portland, Oregon, shared a cautionary tale explaining her hard-won lessons learned about the 990-PF. In support of the Teacher Development Initiatives, helping K-12 educators teach and adopt proficiency practices in the classroom. And once you write it, don’t keep it locked away in your grant management system.

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What Makes Social Learning so Interesting?

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Social learning, relied solely on what one could obtain in a classroom setting, working with direct peers, or what could be conveyed back in forth on a phone. In a classroom setting, this is most clearly present in projects in which group work is assigned. Those days are now extraordinarily a thing of the past.