A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
These days, it seems that everyone says they want change. However, the fact is that those asking for it might not be as open to the idea as they want others to think. The number dwindles even more when considering who wants to lead the process. No matter how you slice and dice it, improving outcomes aligned with change relies on the dreaded “A” word – accountability.
NCHE
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Shauna Liverotti, an education coordinator at NCHE, sat down with me to discuss her views on the current history education landscape. She has over 20 years of experience in the field and has seen the reality of this space change time and again. I wanted to know how the landscape has shifted during her career, particularly since she first collaborated with NCHE as a spotlight educator in 2017.
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ED Surge
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
In the United States, young children attend programs that most refer to as “daycares” or “child cares,” staffed by people that many think of as “workers.” That has to change, argues author Dan Wuori in his new book, “ The Daycare Myth: What We Get Wrong About Early Care and Education (and What We Should Do About It). ” We ought to eliminate those terms from our lexicon and, instead, think of those programs as schools and the adults employed there as teachers, Wuori writes.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
In the fall of 2019, four high schools in a San Francisco Bay Area district shook up many of their ninth grade math classes. Students had traditionally been separated into more than five math courses by achievement level, from remedial to very advanced, and the district wanted to test what would happen if they combined their bottom three levels into one.
Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
In collaboration with USA TODAY, "America’s Veterans: Honor, Service, and Sacrifice" is a tribute to veterans—covering Veterans Day history, personal stories, military branches and awards, and intergenerational activities to honor the legacy of the country's veterans.
Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The post Advancing Digital Equity: Key Insights from the League of Innovative Schools Convening appeared first on Digital Promise.
Teaching American History
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Every presidential election year revives questions about our system of voting through the Electoral College. Teachers tell us that students find this the most perplexing feature of our constitutional system. Below, we offer an explanation of why the Electoral College exists, how it works, and what happens when the electoral count in any state is contested.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Caring for children during their first few years is a complex and critical job: A child’s brain develops more in the first five years than at any other point in life. Yet in America, individuals engaged in this crucial role are paid less than animal caretakers and dressing room attendants. That’s a major finding of one of two new reports on the dismal treatment of child care workers.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
Through extensive DNA analysis, scientists from Trinity College Dublin, in collaboration with an international research team, have unlocked the complex genetic history of the aurochs—a prehistoric species that has been central to human culture, depicted in ancient art and later domesticated into what we know today as modern cattle. The study, analyzing 38 ancient genomes spanning 50,000 years and multiple regions from Siberia to Britain, offers new insights into the evolutionary journey of
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The post Full Steam Ahead with Badge Engine: Introducing Our New Open-Source Badging Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.
Moler's Musing
NOVEMBER 2, 2024
This week was all about keeping engagement high and adapting to student needs with a strong lineup of EduProtocols. We started by wrapping up our government voice inquiry with a Thick Slide summary and fast Gimkit reviews, then dived into Sketch and Tell-o on Loyalist perspectives and Enlightenment ideas with Parafly paraphrasing exercises. Thursday’s Halloween twist saw students using Number Mania for the Declaration of Independence, while Friday’s low attendance turned into a lively Gimkit Dra
Sapiens
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Researchers refute a popular idea that black-furred squirrels behave more aggressively than gray ones—and suggest the myth stems from some people’s racist attitudes. SQUIRREL CHATTER A few years back, one of us was chatting with neighbors when the subject of squirrels came up. While most squirrels in the small New Jersey town were gray, everyone had noticed quite a few with black fur as well.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
How often have you heard someone say: “I’m just not a math person?” People are reluctant to say they are illiterate but proud to share their low math identity. We tend to think of math as a subject that’s accessible only to certain types of people. But that’s a false assumption, and it’s holding back achievement for far too many students. With the right instructional approach, everyone can learn and do math.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
The Origins of Burial Practices in Human Evolution Around 120,000 years ago, both Homo sapiens and Neanderthals began practicing intentional burial in the Levant region, shaping a complex cultural narrative in human evolution. This early practice of burying the dead suggests that burial may have emerged from intertwined cultural needs shared between the two species, indicating a surprisingly developed level of ritual and perhaps a response to intensified competition.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 31, 2024
The post Bridging the Digital Divide: A Path to Empowerment for Underserved Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
A letter from Steve Brace is on the Guardian's web page today. It is a reminder of the strong connections between geography and the teaching of climate change issues.
Perspectives in Anthropology
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Written by Keith Hart [Summary: The two centuries since the industrial revolution are a blink of the eye of world history, yet we are trapped in a perspective shaped by the daily news in one of its national fragments.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
Those of us who worked with high school students in the wake of the Supreme Court’s historic decision overturning race-conscious admissions can’t profess shock over news showing decreases in enrollment among Black and Latinx students across many college campuses, especially those considered competitive for enrollment. We saw this coming. Last year we saw too many highly qualified students shy away from applying to schools because they were sent a message that they wouldn’t get in without affirma
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology. A recent study published in Science 1 examines how Aboriginal communities increased land management activities in southeastern Australia about 6,000 years ago, reducing forest shrub cover dramatically.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
When I came out to my family during my first year of college in the early 2000s, my mom’s immediate concern extended beyond my safety and happiness to my future as an educator. She asked, “But what about your career?” as though living authentically meant I’d have to hide my queerness to succeed in teaching. In that moment, even before I entered my teacher preparation program, I confronted a troubling reality: in education, there would always be scripts I’d be expected to follow.
Anthropology News
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
This entry marks our departure as Contributing Editors for the Association for Feminist Anthropology’s (AFA) column in Anthropology News ( AN ). We write these words as a ritual of closure serving as appointed members of the AFA Executive Board. We also write to reflect on the works we patiently, lovingly, and laboriously shepherded into publication over the past four years and what they reveal about feminist anthropology.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
The first session I went to at Practical Pedagogies Day 2 was presented by Richard Allaway. You can see his resources on this link. They really are rather good. He talked about how no school can afford to ignore AI and hope it will go away. He has worked to train teachers and students and also create some policy documents which he shared on a link. My friend Richard Allaway works at the International School of Geneva on one of their campuses.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 31, 2024
There’s a lot to consider when deciding where to apply to college. Tuition costs, financial aid offerings and student loans are high on the list, but so are questions about campus culture and free speech policies. We’ve created a whole suite of tools with brand new data that can answer your questions and help you research what life might be like at thousands of colleges and universities across the country.
Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 1, 2024
Approximately 5,300 years ago, the populations of Scandinavia and northwestern Europe faced a significant collapse. Settlements were abandoned, and farming communities disappeared. The cause of this demographic shift has puzzled scholars, with theories ranging from agricultural crises to conflicts. However, recent genetic research published in Nature 1 offers another possibility: the ancient plague bacterium Yersinia pestis.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
With all the talk of the downsides of smartphones for teenagers, parents have looked to smartwatches as a way to stay in contact with their young children while avoiding the full internet and social media access of a phone. At least that was the narrative a couple of years ago. But more recently, more companies have been marketing smartwatches to kids as young as 4 and 5 years old.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 30, 2024
At Bears Ears National Monument in Utah, a new co-management plan brings together federal agencies and a consortium of Native American tribes—revealing deep tensions over land rights and demands for environmental justice. ✽ As our team of researchers drove southeast through Utah toward Bears Ears National Monument , changes in the landscape unfolded around us.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
A cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Discover the World has made available a new resource. Iceland's Reykjanes Peninsula has awakened after more than 800 years. Since the first eruption in March 2021, numerous fissures have opened across five locations, heavily affecting the town of Grindavík. This FREE image bank can be used as a springboard to teach students how fissure eruptions develop, the hazards associated with these eruptions and the steps taken to mitigate these threats
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Over the past few years, it’s become clear that states need more money to support kids. Pandemic-related aid is long gone, but effects from that era still linger, evident in persistent child care shortages and ongoing child behavioral and mental health concerns. Now, states are increasingly trying to generate new sources of money to support young children, although in at least one state, a ballot measure was designed to pull back on just these kinds of efforts.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 31, 2024
Tracing Urban Beginnings Urbanization, a hallmark of ancient civilizations, is often linked to complex societies in regions such as Mesopotamia and the Levant. However, findings in northern Arabia indicate that urban development here took on a slower, more gradual trajectory during the Bronze Age. New research, led by Guillaume Charloux and published in PLOS ONE 1 , focuses on the third-to-second-millennium BCE town of al-Natah, shedding light on Arabia's unique urbanization process during this
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Evaluating and validating tech tools takes time and energy — resources that are always in short supply. An overwhelming variety of tools are available, each claiming to improve student outcomes in different ways, making it difficult to discern which will have the most meaningful impact. Added layers of complexity about compatibility, security and cost can lead to decision fatigue.
ShortCutsTV
NOVEMBER 5, 2024
Not to be confused with the much older (but still useful) Psychology Teachers Toolkit, this particular Teachers’ Toolkit has more-official origins in the sense it’s a co-production between the British Psychological Society and the Association for the Teaching of Psychology.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Well, maybe. Exciting news a while back when I was contacted by the publisher of one of my books: the excellent ' Why Study Geography?'. This book was described in one American review by Thomas Larsen as providing a "centrality of reassurance. The text extends a refreshing guarantee to young people that they are making the right choice by dedicating their lives to the study of geography.
TCI
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Engaging students is about more than just presenting content. It’s about creating an environment where they actively participate in their learning. This involves encouraging students to talk, debate, and collaborate with their peers, turning passive listening into dynamic interaction. By integrating classroom discussion strategies that promote movement, speaking, and listening, educators can foster critical thinking and deeper engagement with the material.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 30, 2024
In a fascinating study, modern biomechanics technology has provided the first scientific evaluation of the lethality of two iconic Aboriginal weapons. The study, published in Scientific Reports 1 , focuses on the kodj—a combination axe, hammer, and poker—and the paired leangle and parrying shield, long used by Indigenous Australian warriors.
O-Level Geography
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Why is there a need to build up community resilience against climate change in Singapore? How can actions be taken against climate change in Singapore?
Women's History Network
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Scanning Auntie Emmie’s attic with torchlight, a time-worn leather suitcase caught Susan’s eye. Emmie would regularly retrieve the suitcase from the attic, but its contents were never shared. Opening it up carefully, Susan was presented with material traces of a personal story her great-aunt Emmie Chester had only vaguely and fragmentally revealed.
Living Geography
NOVEMBER 6, 2024
Encountering cultural differences is one of the benefits of attending overseas events. When in Rome (or Palermo or Helsinki) and all that. I've been fortunate to have that opportunity due to ERASMUS+ - I sincerely hope that the UK will reconsider the decision to One of the aspects of visiting cities is to explore them culturally These markings are important in German beer cellars.
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