Tag: health education topics

JSI and World Education Announce Organizational MergerJSI and World Education Announce Organizational Merger

Effective July 1, 2023, World Education, Inc. will become World Education, a division of JSI. Since 1951, World Education, Inc. has worked to reduce disparities in education and strengthen safety net programs around the world. JSI, founded in 1978, is a global public health nonprofit organization that works to improve health outcomes for all. The merger is an acknowledgment of a more than 30-year relationship, during which JSI and World Education have been affiliated as organizations working on the intersecting issues of public health and education with a shared commitment to equity and innovation. Together, JSI and World Education will…

The Youth Boxing Club that is Changing Lives in ChicagoThe Youth Boxing Club that is Changing Lives in Chicago

Listen to the interview with Jamyle Cannon (transcript): Sponsored by EVERFI and Giant Steps I remember listening to a conversation once between two men I taught middle school with. Some of the details are fuzzy now, but here’s the gist of it: Both were classroom teachers and both were coaches of our school’s football team. Midterm grade reports had just come out, and they were talking about one kid, a player on the team, who failed one of his classes. According to the team’s policies, the student was supposed to face disciplinary action for this grade, something that amounted to…

The Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter LiljedahlThe Thinking Classroom: An Interview with Peter Liljedahl

Listen to my interview with Peter Liljedahl (transcript): Sponsored by Listenwise and Wipe book This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? This post was supposed to be just for math teachers. I was going to share an instructional approach that, as dramatic as this sounds, has taken the math world by storm. The methodology is called Thinking Classrooms, and now that I have gotten a closer look at…