A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The revamped event, appropriately named " Ignite ", is a great example of a national organization breaking away from traditional conference constructs to create a relevant and meaningful learning experience for it''s membership Content selection. While attendees are at Ignite 2013, they will get to reclaim that time and make the most of it.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

This sentiment reflected an expectation to adhere to the traditional script of teaching English Language Arts. Seeing is Believing When I first joined the district in 2013, I believed it was the right place to foster my growth as a teacher. I still remember a parent emailing and asking me, “Why can’t you just teach English?”

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Opportunities Driving Growth and Innovation The findings challenge traditional narratives attributing the rise of mega-settlements to external pressures like climate change or resource scarcity. Cambridge: Polity Press. Renfrew, C., & Bahn, P. Archaeology: The key concepts. Kristiansen, K., & Rowlands, M. van der Leeuw, S.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). Of the 151 rock art sites identified, 22 preserved animal depictions that broke stylistically with the earlier IIAP tradition. J., & Watchman, A. link] Ross, J.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013. The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. DOI : 10.1111/j.1540-6245.2011.01496.x

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Picture 2: A group of SWP field school students enjoy a well-deserved break to pat a local cat fascinated with their survey work in the UTM forest (Photo Credit: Susannah Clinker) Since 2013, the field school has evolved with Dr. Brand and Dr. Orchard at its core.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 25, 2025

These tools, characterized by a prepared-core technique that allowed for precise flake removal, have long been studied using traditional measurements. This new study offers a different lens: analyzing the entire three-dimensional structure of the core to assess how shape is controlled across different regions and tradition.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

The study found that students who used standing desks, more formally known as stand-biased desks, exhibited higher rates of engagement in the classroom than did their counterparts seated in traditional desks. Standing desks are raised desks that have stools nearby, enabling students to choose whether to sit or stand during class. Barrett, P.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Credit: Flaviane Malaquias Costa Elizabeth Ann Veasey, a professor at USP and co-author of the study, explained: “We traveled from the remote past to the present, tracing a lineage from archaeological remains to extant maize varieties still being cultivated by traditional peoples.” Bonavia, D., & Grobman, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Reading comprehension scores for middle schoolers had been declining for a decade since 2013. Certainly the most striking thing in the results is the increase in inequality, said Martin West, a professor of education at Harvard University and vice chair of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the NAEP test.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

This strategy allowed Townsend, and those who followed his footsteps, to gain access to places and languages that would have been impenetrable to traditional Christian missionaries. Spreading the Bible emphasizes reading over the Oral Traditions that are essential to some communities.

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APRIL 23, 2025

The book draws on anthropologys four-field tradition to show how our ways of knowingwhether biological, linguistic, archaeological, or culturalare always shaped by politics, language, funding, and history. He was asking anthropologists to stop pretending that science speaks for itself. Thats hard to picture.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

A teacher’s cognitive engagement is the degree of attention to and investment in their work (Klassen, Yerdelen & Durksen, 2013). I tackle traditional grading practices and ways to reimagine our approach in my book Balance with Blended Learning for anyone who wants to explore that further.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Drawing on ACT data from the eight Southern states that require or pay for high schoolers to take the test, Smith and his colleagues found that, between 2013 and 2022, interest steadily dwindled. There’s much more of a tradition of being on your own in your class with your door closed.” Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Between 1999 and 2013, the share of students in the bottom 40 percent of income at the University of Iowa dropped while those in the top 20 percent increased. Since the late 1990s, nearly two-thirds of selective public universities reduced the share of traditional-aged students they enrolled from the bottom 40 percent of the income scale.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2016

Then in 2013, Stanford University released research that “found that students in high-achieving communities who spend too much time on homework experience more stress, physical health problems, a lack of balance in their lives, and alienation from society.” ” As I read this, I felt guilty.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Picture 2: A group of SWP field school students enjoy a well-deserved break to pat a local cat fascinated with their survey work in the UTM forest (Photo Credit: Susannah Clinker) Since 2013, the field school has evolved with Dr. Brand and Dr. Orchard at its core.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. We see that existing schools are getting better over time and that’s a hugely positive story.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Of 1,000 evaluated traditional elementary teacher preparation programs across the country in 2020, 51 percent earned an A or B grade for their coverage of the key components of the science of reading — up from 35 percent just seven years earlier.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

But UCLA professors felt that the traditional math curriculum was uninspiring to students and that the classes offered few useful examples from actual biology, according to a presentation prepared by members of the university that EdSurge reviewed. The traditional calculus coursework, to people like Garfinkel, is totally outdated.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Information was based on surveys of 12th graders in 2012 in North Carolina and 2013 in Texas. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 21, 2025

His I Have a Dream Speech does not answer this question, but does make its appeal on the basis of traditional American principles of equality, fairness, and brotherhood. I Have a Dream speech, which ranks among the most famous speeches of the 20 th century.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Her newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), was written to replace 2013’s The Art of Coaching , which is being taken out of circulation now that the new book is published. Elena Aguilar While the new book contains some elements of the original, this one takes a much more humanistic approach.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2018

Fryer convinced the Houston school district to randomly assign 23 elementary schools to adopt specialized teaching for two years, from the fall of 2013 to the spring of 2015. Harvard University’s Roland Fryer set out to test just that in an experiment , published in the June 2018 issue of the American Economic Review.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019. Public attitudes are also changing. Colleges and universities no longer have a monopoly on credentials.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. But these are by far the exception.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

The first of those, math for welders, rolled out in 2013. Students in the study who were taught math through an applied approach performed significantly better on two of three standardized tests than those taught math in a more traditional way. Any move over 2 percent, we call that a win,” he said. Applied algebra is her last chance.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. For every overlap, teachers have a concrete opportunity to introduce computer science in more traditional subjects. schools and increase participation among girls and underrepresented minorities in particular.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2018

Between 2006 and 2013, 52 percent of CPI participants earned a certificate or a degree, compared with 24 percent of community college students who weren’t in the program, the foundation-funded independent study found. Why It Matters: With degrees or certificates, low-income parents get better jobs. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. The results are, as one researcher puts it, “blockbuster.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

It was targeted at 3,000 low-income children in five cities in 2013. In addition to tinkering with traditional summer school models, Kim suggests that school systems consider adapting aspects of home-based educational models , in which some form of teacher instruction or feedback can be combined with reading materials at home.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

And it’s occupying a wonderful design space between more traditional practice and full blown, ‘gold standard,’ multiple-week PBL projects. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. It’s a great complement to SAMR because it’s an instructional discussion tool, not just a technology usage continuum. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.” Between 2002 and 2013, New York City shut many of its large high schools, replacing them with small, personalized schools. Indeed, communities across the country are talking about how to reimagine high schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In 2013, the Alabama School Readiness Alliance created a 10-year plan to boost enrollment to more than 40,000 students—the amount of 4-year-olds the state’s Department of Education says would enroll in a pre-K program if families had access— by 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 22, 2019

When he moved from principal of the high school to superintendent in 2013, he initiated a conversation about priorities with school board members, educators and the community. Effectively, a traditional “D” still allows a student to move on. “I wandered through blindly – excitedly, but blindly,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

Vermont’s experiment in experiential learning goes back a number of years, but it took off in 2013, when the legislature passed a law that lets students meet state graduation standards through work-based experiences. In Vermont in 2013 18 percent of economically disadvantaged students dropped out of high school compared to only 3.5

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