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In celebration of Indigenous Peoples Day, the National Museum of the American Indian on Oct. 10 will present an online program highlighting native youth who incorporate indigenous voices into K-12 education and promote inclusive conversations in U.S. classrooms.

The “Indigenous Peoples Day: Transformative Teaching” program is part of the NMAI’s Youth in Action: Conversations About Our Future series.…

Nonfungible tokens are starting to find a place in K-12 environments, and in a story for EdTech, Erin Brereton takes a look and current and developing NFT applications for classroom use.

Read more here.

The National Society of High School Scholars is accepting applications through Oct. 1 for its Educator of the Year Awards.

Candidates must be educators currently working within a public or private U.S. high school. The top recipient will receive $5,000, and nine finalists will get $1,000 each.

For information about application requirements, click here.

Veteran elementary school teacher Tara Olagaray uses surveys to learn more about her students, then subsequently makes adjustments “in the way information is shared in my classroom to become a more culturally responsive teacher.”

“As I administer the survey, I assure students that their answers are confidential,” she writes for Edutopia. “I let my students know that I heard them without singling out any one particular response.…

National Hispanic Heritage Month is underway, and Edutopia’s Hedreich Nichols shares ways in which educators can celebrate in the classroom with music, arts and more.

Read her column here.