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Free Online Academic Support For High School Students

Brought to you by JFYNetWorks and DESE JFYNetWorks offers schools and districts an opportunity to provide high school students with standards-aligned online math and ELA instruction through a special initiative with the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (announced in Commissioner Riley’s March 1 Weekly Update). The goal of this

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There Comes a Time We Must Come Together, WE Are The World
- Authored by: Greg Cunningham

There comes a time

by Greg Cunningham The world must come together “Check your egos at the door.” This sign, inscribed by Quincy Jones, greeted 46 world-famous singers who showed up  at the A&M Studios in Los Angeles the night of January 28, 1985, to record We Are the World for USA For Africa

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- Authored by: Joan Reissman

Spice Up Your Software

Giving students a voice leads to engagement. by Joan Reissman As teachers, we want our students to get the most out of learning time. In order to learn, they need to be engaged. Making online lessons dynamic and giving students a chance to interact and have a voice are key

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Pandemic politics and science denial: how to measure a year
- Authored by: Greg Cunningham

And yet it moves

by Greg Cunningham Pandemic politics and science denial: how to measure a year When the number came on the screen the song popped into my head: Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes Five hundred twenty-five thousand moments so dear Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes How do you

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William Monroe Trotter, The Boston Guardian
- Authored by: Paula Paris

The Guardian’s Guardian

by Paula Paris William Monroe Trotter 1872 – 1934 “For every right, with all the might” (Motto of the Boston Guardian) On Humboldt Avenue in Roxbury, Massachusetts, in the heart of what was once a thriving middle-class African-American residential and business neighborhood, sits the William Monroe Trotter K-8 School, one

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Black History Month: Celebrating Mathematicians
- Authored by: Cathie Maglio

Celebrating Black Mathematicians during Black History Month

by Cathie Maglio As a math teacher, I am always looking for role models for my students, especially role models of different backgrounds. I’m taking advantage of Black History month to write about some Black role models who have contributed to my favorite field, mathematics.

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The Healing Fountain, What poetry does
- Authored by: Gary Kaplan

The Healing Fountain

by Gary Kaplan What poetry does “Poetry is typically the touchstone that we go back to when we have to remind ourselves of the history that we stand on, and the future that we stand for.”  –Amanda Gorman “Poetry makes nothing happen,” wrote W.H. Auden in his tribute to W.B.

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