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Contextualizing instruction: Leveraging students’ prior knowledge and experiences to foster understanding of middle school science

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Traci resides in New Orleans and have a PhD in Special Education. In 2019, she formed The Educational Epistolary, a consultancy focused on navigating education through a spiritual lens.

Honoring the truth: The Dishonor in Spiritual Bypassing the State of Education

December 2, 2019

Overpositivity betrays the veracity of the challenges faced in high-poverty schools. The dismissal minimizes the reasons to institute broad changes to the school system.
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And the more we reinforce this narrative of learning loss, it invalidates everything you just said. Right? Everything that I know that I've learned doesn't matter. Because we're still looking at this year, people didn't measure up. We didn't learn the things we're supposed to learn so now you're behind. Right. So now you're behind, learning loss. And it's really invalidating.

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