A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 27, 2024
One of the best aspects of the work my team and I at Aspire Change EDU do is getting into leaders as part of the coaching process. During this time, we begin to collect qualitative evidence aligned with growth opportunities that they have set during initial meetings. No matter where our travels take us, one of the most common areas districts and schools want to improve is shifting from compliance to student engagement.
Active History Teacher
OCTOBER 28, 2024
If you’ve taught for any length of time, you know that r eviewing tough US History TEKS/topics is critical for student success on STAAR. You can teach the heck out of a tough topic in September, but by the test in April, the memory of those lessons are long gone. Reviewing the tough topics is critical. Here are my ideas for teaching the tough TEKS.
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TeachThought
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Help Students Think Critically About News With These 20 Questions This post was originally published in 2019 and updated in 2024 by Terrell Heick 1. In the article, headline, or social share, ‘who’ is saying ‘what’? That is, what specific author and publication are making what kind of claim about what topic or ideas? 2. Is what’s being stated or claimed fact or opinion?
Passion for Social Studies
OCTOBER 27, 2024
The United States has experienced so many dynamic changes throughout its rich history. One of the most transformative periods was the Progressive Era, from the 1890s to the 1920s. During this time, the United States had to respond to the challenges posed by rapid industrialization, urbanization, and social issues. Ultimately, teaching the Progressive Era must address these concerns while showing how people had to work hard to improve society.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2024
In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. The parents are often less excited than their children, however: They seem both apprehensive and determined to steer their children to more “practical” pursuits. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 23, 2024
A new report shares learnings from a cohort across K-12 education that tested ways to leverage AI toward equitable outcomes for students.
Social Studies Network brings together the best content for social studies educators from the widest variety of thought leaders.
Moler's Musing
OCTOBER 26, 2024
This week in Room 234 was packed with a mix of EduProtocols, hands-on activities, and a focus on understanding colonial tensions. From Sketch and Tell-O for visualizing British taxes on Monday to analyzing historic protests with 8 Parts and Cyber Sandwich later in the week, each day brought something new. We tackled the Boston Tea Party with Number Mania to dig into key details and wrapped up with an inquiry lesson on “having a voice in government.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding. During the 2022-23 school year, nearly 2.5 million high school students took college classes, simultaneously earning high school and college credits.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks. “They're pretty sneaky, so you wouldn't always know that that was the reason,” says Fleck.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Anthropologists and local activists in Indonesia and Peru uncover links between water scarcity and gendered violence, and work together to lessen the harms of gender inequality. ✽ In the northern desert of Peru, a tin roof shades women from the beating sun as they wait for rusty water tanker trucks that are often delayed. The trucks will dump water into algae-lined cement reservoirs, from which the women will fill their plastic jugs.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 25, 2024
The post Flipping the Status Quo: Outcomes Based Contracting May Ensure Edtech Reaches Its Full Potential appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 25, 2024
In the year 2000, archaeologists unearthed remarkable evidence of ancient human activity at a site in Pampore, Kashmir Valley, India. They found the remains of three straight-tusked elephants, from the extinct genus Palaeoloxodon , alongside 87 stone tools. Dating back 300,000 to 400,000 years, these findings offer new insights into early hominin behaviors in South Asia.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Almost every day at the public elementary school she attended in Montgomery County, Maryland, Stephanie heard comments about her weight. Kids in her fifth grade class called her “fatty” instead of her name, she recalled; others whispered, “Do you want a cupcake?” as she walked by. One classmate spread a rumor that she had diabetes. Stephanie was so incensed by his teasing that she hit him and got suspended, she said.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Do new AI tools like ChatGPT actually understand language the same way that humans do? It turns out that even the inventors of these new large language models are debating that very question — and the answer will have huge implications for education and for all aspects of society if this technology can get to a point where it achieves what is known as Artificial General Intelligence, or AGI.
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Blog: Medea and Ariadne Reimagined: Honoring Martha Graham’s Deep Engagement with Greek Myth Nina Papathana… Mon, 10/28/2024 - 09:43
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 28, 2024
The post How One District is Scaling Student Tech Teams to Support Sustainable Technology Systems appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Human evolution continues, driven by the pressure of extreme environments. Among the most compelling examples is the adaptation of populations living in high-altitude areas such as the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels are significantly lower than those at sea level. Over millennia, these communities have developed unique physiological traits that enable them to survive and thrive under conditions that would challenge the health of most people.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 24, 2024
WATERVILLE, Maine — For Emily Kayser, the prospect of covering her son’s college tuition on a teacher’s salary is “scary. It’s very stressful.” To pay for it, “I’m thinking, what can I sell?” Kayser, who was touring Colby College with her high school-age son, Matt, is among the many Americans in the middle who earn too much to qualify for need-based financial aid, but not enough to simply write a check to send their kids to college.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 29, 2024
As Jennifer Hill’s eldest child was heading into fifth grade, she began to wonder how she would communicate with him in the hour between his school bus drop-off and her arrival home from work in downtown Cleveland. This story also appeared in WIRED. “There’s no phone in this house if something goes wrong,” she remembers thinking. “It’s not safe.” When Hill was a kid, there were no cellphones, sure, but there were landlines.
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Blog: Pushing Back: Odysseys in Folkestone, U.K.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 29, 2024
The post How My Students Turned a Challenge into an Opportunity for Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.
Anthropology.net
OCTOBER 26, 2024
A recent groundbreaking study 1 in Nature reveals that two distinct types of Helicobacter pylori bacteria—called Hardy and Ubiquitous —have coexisted in the human stomach for over 200,000 years. This research shows that these bacteria not only survived but evolved alongside early humans as they migrated out of Africa, offering new insights into our species' diet and adaptation to different environments.
Women's History Network
OCTOBER 28, 2024
What’s in a letter? For a woman living in England in the nineteenth century with limited access to social freedoms and even paper—everything. Historians have given mixed reviews on the value of Jane Austen’s surviving personal letters.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 24, 2024
In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend. But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Call For Participants: Ancient Music Open Mic Night at the 2025 Annual Meeting kskordal Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:16 Image The Society for Classical Studies is happy to announce its second Ancient Music Open Mic Night, on Saturday, January 4th, 8:30-10:00, hosted by John Franklin (UVM). We seek performers of 'ancient music', broadly understood: songs and music inspired by ancient history, literature, mythology, or musical techniques originals and covers, modern instruments or ancient replicas-and of
Living Geography
OCTOBER 29, 2024
Years ago, when I first started teaching 'A' level there were some videos we used to watch on Cairo. They explored the City of the Dead, and the life in the city as it grew with new towns being built around the edge of the city. One aspect of life in the city that was focussed on was the role of the Zabbaleen. This article brings the story of this group up to date.
Anthropology News
OCTOBER 29, 2024
As a social media application feature, a hashtag (#) functions as an index that catalogs and retrieves content that has been tagged with a particular word or sequence of text. Over the last couple years, the use of #NoSaboKid has proliferated across social media platforms in the United States. In its dominant use, the term expressly names a figure of U.S Latinx youth who—having been born and/or raised in the Anglophone context of the U.S.
Sapiens
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A poet-anthropologist celebrates relatedness across difference in a poem that honors the festivals of Navratri, Durga Puja, Kali Puja, Day of the Dead, and Halloween—all of which draw on otherworldly connections and mysteries. ✽ “ I notice that autumn is more the season of the soul than of nature.” — Friedrich Nietzsche All our bloods in harvest Call out for celebration Goddesses, ghouls, ancestors All demand libation Anglos hang onto Halloween Going full-on pagan Day of the dead Nine nights div
ED Surge
OCTOBER 23, 2024
Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a primary focus in many school’s strategic plans. Fortunately, there is a long list of literature, articles and research that outline the importance of SEL and the positive impact that it can have on student development. Knowing this, teachers try to fit these lessons into their morning meetings, projects, special classes, birthday celebrations, snack times and lunch hours.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 24, 2024
The post Micro-credential Platform: Our 2024 Fall Updates appeared first on Digital Promise.
Living Geography
OCTOBER 28, 2024
A cross posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. Riversong is here, and free for anyone to use. Hello: this is 'Riversong', a "broadside ballad" which protests the slow death of rivers in the UK & around the world––& sings for their revival. 'Riversong' is free to print, share, set & sing, speak aloud on a riverbank, post on walls or windows, adapt, translate, perform,… pic.twitter.
TCI
OCTOBER 28, 2024
Social studies is more than just a subject—it provides the foundation for understanding and engaging with the world around us. According to the National Council for Social Studies (NCSS) , social studies is the integrated study of social sciences and humanities to promote civic competence. This broad field draws upon various disciplines, such as anthropology, archeology, economics, geography, history, law, and philosophy.
Life and Landscapes
OCTOBER 28, 2024
It was there before there was a road. When there was only a trail. The way to go from Louisville and reach Nashville. To enter the South and all of its potential commerce. So it was called the “Dixie Highway.” Long before the railroad was built down there. That was constructed just in time for the Civil War. Tens of thousands of Union Troops outflanked Confederate General Braxton Bragg in 1862 by hiking along the same road on which you are now moving.
History Havoc
OCTOBER 27, 2024
I have decided to take a break from my Ph.D. and there are several reasons why. First of all, I am tired. It has been a long haul, and after this semester I will take an extended break. At this point I do not know if I will go back and finish. Perhaps one day. I have just come to the realization that while it is a goal of mine, I am missing out on many other things that I’d rather be doing.
Zinn Education Project
OCTOBER 25, 2024
We love hearing how people found us and why they’ve signed up to access people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. Below are a few reasons people shared when they registered at our site recently. I love the resources! — San Lorenzo, California You have cool lessons. — Katy, Texas I believe in the mission of the Zinn Education Project. — Madison, Tennessee I need your amazing resources to teach about resistance and the power we all have in the face of oppression!
Living Geography
OCTOBER 28, 2024
I've been packing today for my next trip away. My wife is very understanding. Practical Pedagogies 3 is taking place in Cologne at St. George's International School. It runs from the 1st-2nd of November. It has been organised by Russel Tarr once again, and his overall organisation is phenomenal, with a vast range of sessions, a keynote from Hywel Roberts (what's not to like there.) and I'll be travelling before then to guarantee that I can get there due to various train related issues over the n
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