A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

The experience that someone called me a Nazi was very hard for me because I felt like people don''t understand me and the German culture. On January 23, 2012, I was fortunate to travel with Colleen and NMHS students to the United Nations in New York City to be a part of the official unveiling of iWitness. hours from Krakow.

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Strange Maps

MAY 28, 2024

But even without a government, a flag, and most other trappings of actual nationhood, Baltoscandia has a history, a raison d’être , and perhaps even a future. After centuries of foreign rule, first by Germans, then by Russians, the three Baltic states are masters in their own houses for the first time in their history.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If High school teacher Donell Harrell said he was almost fired for staging a Black History Month program. She liked the people and the culture and the history. You know how Ms. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Graeber also analyzes the “bullshitization” of “real jobs,” such as in education, where new cultures of neoliberal “managerialism” have seen teachers and academics doing increasing amounts of administrative work, taking up more and more of the time that, most agree, would be better spent doing actual teaching or research.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Schools hold the history and culture of a place through yearbooks, trophy cases, and photo archives. Closed in 2012, the building sat vacant until Community Forge purchased Johnston from the school district for $225,000 and reopened it in 2018. We use schools as polling stations and for neighborhood association meetings.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Inspired by artistic and cultural outputs by communities in Africa, Europe, East Asia, and North America, Odundo’s cascading and gravity-defying vessels found grounding in multiple art forms—with inspiration from a Ladi Kwali stoneware jar to Greek Attic vases. Altogether, Odundo’s transcultural practice manifests in her vessels.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

She credits a training program through the American Museum of Natural History in Manhattan for preparing her to do so. Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Since its launch in 2012, the city’s high school graduation rate has climbed 15 points, to 64 percent, according to New York State education department figures , the highest rate the city has achieved in more than a decade. It’s about shifting a culture. There was so much acrimony and such a history of distrust and malfunction.”.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. There are some excellent suggestions for readings in this important area contained in this section, including Mark Sheehan's work on a "culturally responsive" curriculum. All of these are referenced in the book.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 13, 2022

There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. As Williams and her classmates moved away in the summer of 2012, Marcovitz expected they’d all have “a happy ending with college.” psychology class.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

Students participate in morning workshops in advance of national May 1 “Day Without Immigrants” rallies, learning also about the labor rights history of May Day rallies worldwide. Nevertheless, the school’s record lends credence to a new districtwide focus on supporting students’ language and culture to foster academic achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2019

The reknitting of schools and histories gives a new depth to this year’s Carnival parades, as students from schools like Carver see proud alumni like Foxworth-Carter and feel a deeper connection to their schools’ rich histories. I had been taught that my role was to build school culture from the inside-out,” he said.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. This work entangles power structures with disciplinary histories that work to enforce and reinforce particular narratives about whose bodies are to be studied , whose bodies are to be cared for , and what care looks like for community members. I received my Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Liberal arts colleges are in crisis,” said Doug Sofer, professor of history at another of these schools, Maryville College in Tennessee. Doug Sofer, professor of history, Maryville College in Tennessee. They got small grants in 2012 of $50,000 each from the Appalachian College Association , or ACA, to work on the issue.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

universities that opened a spate of campuses abroad from 2000 to 2012 based partly on the promise of generous startup money from host countries in the Middle East and elsewhere have seen those schools struggle. Opening a new domestic campus may lack the complications of politics, currency exchanges and cultural divides, said Kinser.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

When he reentered school at Olympic College in Washington State in 2012, Jackson was elected class president and made the dean’s list. Some experts believe that student fathers’ graduation problems are cultural and connected to the reasons men are less likely than women to go to college in the first place.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Unlike algebra or world history, there is no bubble sheet by which to judge students’ soft skills, let alone evaluate their growth over time. And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I The results they cite are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

It was the first lesson in a school week that would take her kids through memoir writing, an introduction to division and research on Indigenous history, each activity carefully curated by Snyder. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2022

This particular small college has what it says is the country’s only four-year bachelor’s degree in automotive restoration, a major that combines engineering, history, business, communication, art and other disciplines. That’s an unusual ambition for a small college — which is exactly the point. Credit: Chase Castor for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

We talked about the shooting at a Sikh temple in Wisconsin in 2012, the murders at a historic black church in South Carolina in 2015, the mosque fires in California, and the synagogue shootings in Pittsburgh and Poway in the past six months. We need to teach about religions just as we teach about culture — boldly, and with sensitivity.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Onalaska, situated roughly halfway between Seattle and Portland, is proud of its history. In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. But that changed in in 2012, when the Onalaska Alliance purchased the 72-acre property. Census data. over that period. “I

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2022

in 2012 to 16.9% The 2012 CU Boulder graduate, now a teacher and historian, was preparing to bring 52 more students to CU Boulder campus last summer through Aquetza, a recruitment program he and other Latino students created and named after the Indigenous Nahuatl word meaning “to lift your chin up,” he said.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A Shuar warrior marched in 2012 during a protest organized by the Confederation of Indigenous Nationalities of Ecuador and the Shuar Federation. Shuar, like other peoples in the world, can learn from our history and past experiences,” a shaman told me when I asked what it meant to know the future.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 24, 2024

How do you study Blackness in a place that denies its local history of anti-Indigenous and anti-Black structural violence? How do you write about Blackness while trying to resist the insidious pull of cultural and racial assimilation? How do you write about Blackness in a place that tries to deny its existence?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

It’s part of our history, but as we bring kids in from other countries [we should offer] more popular ensembles in other countries.”. The district also offers courses like Digital Audio Production, History of American Pop and AP Music Theory. The data from the earlier survey is available in a detailed 2012 report by the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

Once the state introduced the Common Core-aligned tests in the spring of 2012, that percentage dropped 28 points in reading (to 48 percent) and 33 points in math (to 40 percent), according to the Kentucky Department of Education. Only by being proud of their history can students reach their highest levels of achievement.”.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. People of Asian and Pacific Islander descent have been a part of United States history since its earliest days.

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Strange Maps

MAY 31, 2023

The preponderance of male figures in our streets is not only evidence of a historical and cultural fact, but also a force, subliminal but constant, that contributes to perpetuating the marginalization of female contributions in history, art, culture, or the sciences.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

There’s been a real positive change in the culture.”. Explaining why requires some history. And a number of lease holders fell prey to economic realities —the company that had leased Albemarle County’s spectrum, for example, struggled in the great recession and had to back out of the deal in 2012. We can flip the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The Alumni Teach Project was launched in 2012, when two alumni finished college and followed up on their 2008 PUC graduation-day-letter job offers (PUC started including the letters with students’ diplomas in 2007). This prompted Rodriguez and the other co-founder of PUC Schools, Jacqueline Elliot, to formalize the program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

They’re adding more faculty who reflect the school’s increasing diversity, introducing cultural programming and establishing counseling and mentoring programs to help Latinx students overcome stubborn academic resource gaps. It closed its child care center in 2012, citing low demand.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2017

It’s all part of an awareness campaign called “15 to Finish,” pioneered at the University of Hawaii in 2012, that has taken hold in dozens of states. Let’s say you are a Florida State University student looking for a class to fulfill its history/social science requirement.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. So, in 2012, the district created an office of advanced and enriched instruction to keep more middle-class families in the system and simultaneously serve the learning needs of its high-performing, low-income students. Out of 29 students, 27 were boys.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Principal Faculty Joshua Brown is professor of history emeritus and former executive director of the American Social History Project and professor of history at the Graduate Center, CUNY. He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

When you’re in a new country, new friends, new culture, new everything — what a hit that takes to your confidence,” said Fabela, who teaches at Fort Worth’s International Newcomer Academy. When you’re in a new country, new friends, new culture, new everything — what a hit that takes to your confidence.”

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