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82 results for "Teachers"

82 results for "Teachers"

Promotion vs. Retention: Assessing Student Performance

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Snapshot: When holding a student back a year may mean she drops out of school, should her teachers promote her to the next grade level - even if they don't believe she's mastered the skills she'll need to succeed? Justice in Schools has prodcued a new...

The Job Search

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Snapshot: Towards the end of her Masters in Teaching, a preservice teacher grapples with whether or not to accept a job offer to teach at an urban charter school and discusses what it means to teach for social justice with a group of her colleagues.

What Would You Do?: Seeing Green

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Snapshot: This second episode of a video podcast series, produced in partnership with the Ethical Schools podcast, includes a dramatized version of our case "Seeing Green" along with a discussion of the case led by Professor Meira Levinson. Should science...

Complete List of Case Studies

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Challenges of Mandated Reporting A teacher grapples with when corporal punishment crosses the line into child abuse and whether or not reporting her suspicions is the right decision in either case. Gender Identity and Student Support A student in a...

Polarization Micro-Dilemmas

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In order to foster productive and respectful dialogue related to the upcoming US election, the EdEthics team has created brand-new bespoke resources and has curated additional open-access resources. One of the key new resources that you will find are...

Remote Control: Blurred Boundaries in the Zoom Classroom

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Snapshot: As schools across the United States rely on virtual instruction for some—or even all—instructional time, they continue to grapple with dilemmas initially raised during the Covid-19 pandemic. In this fictional case, members of a fourth-grade...

"Ethical Educator"

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Meira Levinson discusses partisanship in the classroom in this month's "Ethical Educator" column in AASA. "Scenario: In the days after the 2016 presidential election, a high school teacher considered well-respected and highly effective feels desperate...

Punishing Choices

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Snapshot: A teacher in a new community struggles with whether or not a family's disciplinary choices constitute abuse. And - if she does indeed think that one of her students is being abused - is calling a dysfunctional DCS going to make things better for...

Past Members

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Allison Stevens Prior to joining the PhD program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, Allison Stevens taught social studies in Mustang, Oklahoma. As a teacher, her work centered on creating humanizing curricula for students in America’s heartland...