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Change is a Mindset

A Principal's Reflections

Independent OpenCourseware Study (IOCS) implemented in 2012. Google Apps For Education (GAFE) implemented in 2012 empowering students and staff to learn collaboratively in the cloud. Flipped classroom and instructional model implemented in 2012. Grading reform implemented in 2012. Makerspace added to the library in 2013.

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Gen Z Is Growing Up in Education Upheaval. How Are Teens Doing?

ED Surge

The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). In 2011 and 2012, when the oldest Zoomers were 15, that rate peaked with 46 percent of them living in low-income households.

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Living With Parakeets and Other Migrants

Sapiens

When I came to Amsterdam as a graduate student in 2012, I was surprised to find the citys parks teeming with vibrant green feathers, red beaks, and bluish tails. rose-ringed or ring-necked parakeet) was included in The Naturalists Library , an illustrated natural history series popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era.

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PROOF POINTS: Paper books linked to stronger readers in an international study

The Hechinger Report

Digital books have become extremely popular among students in some regions of Asia, but students who read books on paper still outperformed even in cultures where digital reading is commonplace. Simultaneously, reading performance around the world, which had been slowly improving up until 2012, declined between 2012 and 2018.

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Native Americans turn to charter schools to reclaim their kids’ education

The Hechinger Report

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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We need more black and brown teachers but not for the reasons you think

The Hechinger Report

Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, Jean Blackwell Hutson Research and Reference Division, The New York Public Library. Photo: New York Public Library Digital Collections. White students absorb these same cultural cues. Cultural differences influence teaching efficacy, however.

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"What are we teaching? Powerful knowledge and a capabilities curriculum" - a review

Living Geography

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.