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Let's Talk about Dyslexia with African Educators

Let's Talk about Dyslexia with African Educators

Zeinab Mzungu I am an instructional Designer at THENCE. We work across several different types of platforms to deliver interactive media and personalized content to learners that enhance professional ...

#AfricaDyslexiaSummit #CulturalResponsiveness #Dyslexia #DyslexiaAwareness #DyslexiaOrganizationKenya #DyslexiaSupport #EdTech #EducationalEquity #InclusiveEducation #InclusiveLearning #InternationalDyslexiaAssociation #ProfessionalDevelopment #SpecialEducation #THENCE

Oct 18, 2024

What to read and share with your classroom this Indigenous People's Day 2024

What to read and share with your classroom this Indigenous People's Day 2024

Photo credit: CC BY-SA 2.0 File:Day 286- Indigenous Peoples Day (8084917906).jpg Created: 13 October 2012 Uploaded: 10 October 2017 The news media website, ICT, is a great news source to read and shar...

#IndianAffairs #IndigenousCommunities #IndigenousNews #IndigenousPeoples'Day2024 #NativeAuthors #NativeCommunities #NativeOwnedMedia #ReadingDiscussionGroups

Oct 17, 2024

Roots and Wings: Embracing Global Diversity Awareness Month

THENCE, Katherine M. Schlatter

Roots and Wings: Embracing Global Diversity Awareness Month

As ed uc ators and administrators, we often find our plates overflowing with "to-do' lists" and attending to rules, mandates, and expectations from our schools and state governments. In this whirlwind...

#DiversityAwareness #DiversityEducation #DiversityMatters #DiversityandInclusion #Education #Educators #GlobalAwarenessDiversity #GlobalCommunity #GlobalDiversity #Inclusion #MontessoriEducation #Students #Teachers #strengthbasedapproaches

Sep 30, 2024

Write-a-thon continued: International Literacy Day

THENCE, Katherine M. Schlatter

Write-a-thon continued: International Literacy Day

Again, why literacy? From our write-a-thon on International Literacy Day, I ended up writing this: a personal memoir about undiagnosed dyslexia. This is just an excerpt; perhaps it resonates with you?...

#audiobooks #booklover #booksbooksbooks #internationalliteracyday #literacyactivities #literacycoach #literacyforall #literacymatters #professionaldevelopment #tinkerbell

Sep 23, 2024

THENCE, Andrea Patterson

Why is International Literacy Day Important?

Why literacy? On International Literacy Day, educators at THENCE participated in a mini write-a-thon sharing stories about why we believe International Literacy Day is important. What resulted was a g...

#internationalliteracyday

Sep 12, 2024

World Refugee Day 2024 and Book Launch, a Recap

Share Toward the end of June 2024, the team at THENCE turned our collective attention to World Refugee Day. We discussed the day's origin, meaning, and continuing role of informing the public about ...

#TIGERStool #asylumseeker #bookaddict #bookcommunity #booklover #bookreview #booksbooksbooks #displaced #displacement #goshwaysjourney #strengthbasedapproaches #traumainformedteaching #worldrefugeeday Culturally Relevant Teaching

Jul 10, 2024

Highlighting LIVING Her-story, amplifying our team, and two women-owned Partner companies

THENCE, Katherine M. Schlatter

Highlighting LIVING Her-story, amplifying our team, and two women-owned Partner companies

Welcome to March and with it I wish you a wonderful International Women's Day! So much is happening this month, and as our social media feeds are quickly filling up with Women's History month posts I ...

Her-story THENCE Partners Women's History Month

Mar 8, 2024

Identity Development Through the Lens of Representation in the Classroom

THENCE, Katherine M. Schlatter

Identity Development Through the Lens of Representation in the Classroom

“If [teachers] in the classroom don’t share the identity of their students, the st udents still need to be seen within the classroom.” -Ashley Causey-Golden At the beginning of the month of February o...

Black history month Culturally Relevant Teaching Culturally responsive teaching Women's History Month

Mar 6, 2024

The Lunar New Year: Increasing trend of official recognition by US states

THENCE, Katherine M. Schlatter

The Lunar New Year: Increasing trend of official recognition by US states

The Lunar New Year, also known as the Spring Festival is celebrated in many Asian countries including China, South Korea, Vietnam, and Singapore, to name only a few. However, increasingly many cities ...

Lunar New Year Spring Festival Year of the Dragon

Feb 10, 2024

Ashley Causey-Golden

What am I going to Teach about Black History?

Black history month is here and the question that comes into many of our minds is, “What am I going to teach about Black history?” Let’s pause right there and talk about that desire to teach about Bla...

Black history month February

Jan 31, 2024

Make a Box: a hands-on activity offers an opportunity for metacognition

THENCE, Katherine M. Schlatter

Make a Box: a hands-on activity offers an opportunity for metacognition

Classroom activities that engage children in craftsmanship and analytical skills can stretch and expand learning beyond cognition into the rehlm of reflective thinking, or metacognition. This is espec...

Jan 31, 2024

Ashley Causey-Golden

How are we teaching children about Dr. Martin Luther King?

How are we teaching and talking about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.? That is a question that is often met with silence, a printable activity or a single book. I want to start by saying those responses a...

Jan 15, 2024