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When Spirits Dance: Exploring Identity Through Day of the Dead Traditions

A Mexican-American performing arts teacher creates a culturally responsive learning environment by teaching students how “Día de los Muertos” (Day of the Dead) traditions can help them foster community and find healing from loss.

A girl holds a portrait of her late grandmother

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‘Ohana and ‘Āina: Connecting Family, Farming, and Freedom

Join 16-year-old high school student Jade Onaka in this animated video as she explores her family’s history to learn about the farming practices and Indigenous food systems that sustained Hawaiians for generations.

Reimagining Education During The Pandemic

A series of pieces answering questions about how to return to in-person learning and how to do schooling differently—and better—post-pandemic. We spoke with dozens of educators, caregivers, and students. We are grateful for their curiosity and, despite all, their optimism.

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How to Help Students Socialize Again

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How to Harness the Power of Parent Connection

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How to Take Negative Feedback

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How to Rethink School Staffing in the Pandemic’s Wake

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How to Track Down a Missing Student

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How to Tackle Misinformation at School

Stories From One Day Magazine

Can a Software Company Help Schools Achieve Equity?

A team of epidemiologists and computer scientists believe the same kind of computational forecasting that predicts the spread of a virus can also help guide the spread of equity and social health.

Susan Brenna

A Poet Misses Those Moments Between Classes

Sometimes, teachers’ most meaningful lessons are taught before or after the school bell rings. How can those be replaced when classes are all online?

Alan Chazaro

A fanciful illustration of an adult leaning out of a window to read a book to two children on a balcony beside them

Three Schools Re-Imagining What A School Building Can Be

When design decisions are based on students, community, and history schools begin to look and feel very different.

Joel Serin-Christ

Kyle Grillot

A gazebo in the yard of a school with a students running towards it.

How the Class of 2020 is Persevering Through the Pandemic

Last year’s graduating seniors are doing more than taking 2020 in stride.. They are converting disappointments, surprises, and tragedies into life lessons for the rest of us.

Faviola Leyva

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Susan Brenna

A young man leans on a tree with his dog standing next to him. The Houston skyline is seen in the background.

A Just Future Might Require a Radical Redesign of Where Students Learn

'For literally every injustice, there is an architecture planned and built to sustain and perpetuate that injustice,' says one architect who believes buildings can facilitate liberation.

Joel Serin-Christ

Jose Cotto

Bryan C. Lee Jr. stands in front of a portion of a mural in which a newspaper is painted announcing the end of segregation in schools

One Student's Perspective on the Pandemic

This Harvard freshman moved from Texas to Massachusetts, knowing she wouldn’t step into the classroom. She has no regrets.

Nia Burch

Lex Weaver

Harvard Student Nia Burch stands on campus looking over her shoulder wearing a black mask.

Diary of a Social Worker: Making Mental Health for Students a Priority During a Pandemic

Mobile mental health specialist Esther Kwak is adjusting to working from home while delivering urgent mental health services to Houston area students.

Paula Ann Solis

An illustration of a woman in business dress standing with one hand on her hip

Love Story: From an Unrequited Love to an Unbreakable Bond

She liked him from afar for three years. Then he fell in love on date three.

Paula Ann Solis

A couple kisses one another with beers in hand after their wedding ceremony.

Bringing Diversity and Student Stories to Bookshelves

Jennifer De Leon (Bay Area ’02) says not every reader will get the references in her novel featuring a Latinx heroine—and that's fine by her. She's decentering whiteness and decolonizing shelves.

Paula Ann Solis

Illustrations of a Latinx Woman in the wilderness and typing on a computer

Keeping Hope Alive Through Dance

When a pandemic interrupted this Kentucky senior's plans to compete and dance around the country, she brought the rhythm to her hometown instead.

Paula Ann Solis

A woman mid air with legs tucked back performing a dance move with students

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