EDUCATION MUST...
amplify students’ voice, agency, conscience, and intellect to
create a more equitable, just, and sustainable world.
EDUCATION MUST... encourage the active
IN THIS ISSUE
participation of students in their
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learning, in their communities,
EDUCATION MUST...
respond to the developmental needs of students, and focus on their social, emotional,
intellectual, cognitive, cultural, and physical development. EDUCATION MUST...
honor and nurture students’ natural curiosity and innate
desire to learn, fostering internal motivation and the discovery of passion and purpose.
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Why Every 8th Grade Class Should
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ProgEdNet@Distance: NEW PEN
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Announcing the Next Cohort of NEW PEN
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Lessons the Pandemic Can Teach Us About Homework
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Student Teaching Experience
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“Oh, You’ll Learn”
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Our Zoom Clubhouse is Open!
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Caring in the Age of Coronavirus
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PEN 2022
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Support PEN
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Meet Your Journal Committee Members
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Submissions for Future Issues
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EDUCATION MUST...
emerge from the interests,
experiences, goals, and needs
of diverse constituents, fostering empathy, communication and
collaboration across difference. EDUCATION MUST...
foster respectfully collaborative
ON OUR COVER: Images from Prairie Creek Community School in Northfield, MN. Images on pages 3, 10, 19 and 20 are from Prairie Creek Community School. Images from page 11, 12 and 13 are from Wickliffe Progressive Elementary School in Columbus, OH.
and critical relationships
between students, educators, parents/guardians, and the community.
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PEN The Journal of the Progressive Education Network Summer 2022
