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Future-Proofing Learning: Preparing Students for an Uncertain Tomorrow

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 2, 2025

Future-proofing learning requires a shift in pedagogy, focusing on higher-order thinking, authentic application, purposeful technology integration, personalization, and flexible learning environments. It should be a tool that empowers students to explore, create, and connect, not simply a replacement for traditional teaching methods.

Critical Thinking

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Intersectional Anthropology as an Avenue Toward Praxis, Pedagogy, and New Anthropological Horizons

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

According to the NSF-SCSES Survey of Earned Doctorates , of the 1,030 doctorates in archaeology awarded to US citizens and permanent residents from 2012-2022, only 53 (5.1%) were awarded to US-born Latinxs compared to 899 awarded to white individuals (86.3%). Bio)archaeology is no stranger to its colonial baggage. I received my Ph.D.

Anthropology

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Mathematics test scores in some countries have been dropping for years, even as the subject grows in importance

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

In Germany, where scores have dropped faster than those of many other PISA nations, researchers pointed to a collapsing interest in math as a subject that started around 2012, among other factors. And about 31 percent said they never or almost never asked questions when they didn’t understand the math they were being taught.

Government

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In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Over the past seven years, Krechevsky and her research team have been working on a project called the Pedagogy of Play , studying play-based learning at schools in Boston, Denmark, South Africa and Colombia. Related: Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds. Before becoming a teacher, Oklahoma state Rep.

Elementary School

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Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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What France can teach us about how to to educate the most vulnerable 2-year-olds

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

Teaching

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Activism in/as Scholarship

All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. We become a title, “stuck in institutions by being stuck to a category” (Ahmed, 2012, 4).

Advocacy

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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 30, 2021

The study shows that, though students felt as if they learned more through traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in classrooms that employed so-called active-learning strategies by scoring higher on tests. Hence the need for research-based pedagogies that don't prepare kids for something but anything!

Psychology

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OPINION: The difficult discussions about gun violence that we can’t afford not to have

The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2019

That’s why instead of pedagogy, we talked about the constant cycle of violence at religious sites and educational institutions in the United States. Teaching values like kindness, and understanding, and non-violence — all grounded in religious traditions — surely falls within the scope of schools.

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Montessori Manuals and Albums

Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

The manualized approach to professional education is not meant to replace the traditional approach. After all, this is a scientific pedagogy so we should question everything! The research shows that sticking with the authentic Montessori materials is more beneficial for learning (Lillard, 2012). Then, they use it. Lillard, A.S.

Psychology

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OPINION: As students return to campus, higher ed must build on what we learned during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

These methods are effective, as my own research on pandemic pedagogy shows. In addition to using technology to enhance classes and seminars, colleges can use it more broadly to address traditional problems like student preparation, degree completion and transition to jobs. At Occidental College in California, President Harry Elam Jr.

Pedagogy

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In Memoriam: Sharon James

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women. Moore (Ph.D. ’86)

Pedagogy

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As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

They range from projects that engage the literary cultures of local communities, to ones that collaborate with public historical archives, to others that model alternative community-based pedagogies for students working with off-campus partner organizations, he says.

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Mathematics test scores in some countries have been dropping for years, even as the subject grows in importance

In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning

Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Election

What France can teach us about how to to educate the most vulnerable 2-year-olds

Activism in/as Scholarship

How to Make Learning Stick

OPINION: The difficult discussions about gun violence that we can’t afford not to have

Montessori Manuals and Albums

OPINION: As students return to campus, higher ed must build on what we learned during the pandemic

In Memoriam: Sharon James

As Humanities Fight for Support, New Journal Aims to Celebrate Their Role in Public Life

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