Digital Promise

JULY 31, 2019

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers in 100 middle schools across the country. The post Growing the Culture of Learning with Verizon Innovative Learning schools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Such tasks likely involved collaboration and the transmission of knowledge within the group, suggesting that these skills were culturally shared over generations. This discovery supports growing evidence that Neanderthals possessed the cognitive abilities and social structures necessary for cultural innovation. Quaternary, 6 (4), 52.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. After the partnership ended in 2014, standardized test scores in math continued to rise incrementally. New district leaders abruptly ended that work.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is my contribution to Leadership Day 2014. The more I learned in digital spaces the more I began to take risks to improve the culture at NMHS. 21st Century Leadership Change Digital Leadership Innovation Jared Wastler Laura Fleming Leadership Day 2014 legacy Spike Cook' Some are more meaningful than others.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. Allison Rank is an associate professor of American Politics at SUNY Oswego.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Fannin cites a 2014 study reporting that young chimpanzees spend significantly more time in the trees than their adult counterparts, a behavior that enhances their climbing abilities. Fannin points to hunter-gatherer cultures where individuals have been known to scale trees as tall as 150 feet to gather food.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The now annual Digital Learning Day was set for Wednesday February 5, 2014. For the past couple of years every day is treated as Digital Learning Day as we have moved to create a teaching and learning culture rich in authentic activities where students are engaged and take ownership of their learning. Why might you ask?

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Anthropology News

APRIL 30, 2024

Credit: Wikimedia Commons Barbuncho, the Dog behind the Story Back in 2014, my heart skipped a beat when I began to read a widely circulating article about a “stray” dog who “adopted a team of Swedish trekkers in the Amazon.”

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

As Lindberg said in 2014 , “[censorship] also obliterates the genuine purpose of any history curriculum: to expose students to diverse and often conflicting perspectives, situate complex viewpoints in time and place and identify silences in the historical record—the very silences created by the abuses of power and authority.” Lindberg, M.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

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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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

Each and every one of them has played a huge role in transforming the learning culture at NMHS. For it is they who made the choice to go down the road less traveled five years ago when we began transforming our learning culture. The community welcomed me with open arms and I inherited a staff eager to grow and learn.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Pillar #7 - Opportunity The interconnectedness of the Pillars of Digital Leadership leads to continuous improvements in school culture and professional practice. Currently there is a pre-publication discount of 15% for any orders before this date.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Pillar #5: Student Engagement and Learning Many of us firmly believe in technology’s potential to transform the teaching and learning cultures of schools. Currently there is a pre-publication discount of 15% for any orders before this date.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When a grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in 2014, my mom called me, defeated. They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture. I will never forget that moment.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools have been doing just that since 2014. Rollout should set the stage for a whole year of learning with technology, and when these three goals are achieved, you create a culture of learning with technology that promotes participation by all parties.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

By committing to systematic integration of the model, we transformed the culture, the conversation, as well as the results in our district. A Common Language = A Connected Culture An additional benefit of deep integration of the Framework into common language was the elevated levels of effectiveness of the PLTs (Professional Learning Teams).

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

We showed that embracing innovative practices aligned to a sound pedagogical foundation could create a learning culture rooted in meaningful learning and relationships. We scratched the surface in 2013 as I worked with her to include a chapter on branding in Digital Leadership, which later came out early in 2014. Order your copy TODAY!

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. Those feelings may have led to the murder of Silas Soule. It is a story of attack, retaliation, and revenge. Courage comes in many forms.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Why we have chosen to title this work Beyond Core Expectations is twofold. First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. & Cohan, A.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2023

In 2014, San Francisco schools, in an attempt to “de-track” math, started enrolling all students into Algebra I in ninth grade rather than eighth grade. The decision provoked lawsuits and cultural scraps over “woke” math. But recent attempts to change this have proven controversial.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said. He said he believes Missouri’s program, first offered in 2014, was among the first in the country. Grohowski, who has family connections to the military, has a Ph.D.

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TCI

OCTOBER 28, 2024

History and Civics scores for eighth-grade students sounded an alarm: scores have dropped by an average of five points since 2018 and nine points since 2014. It has enabled states to expand access to culturally relevant content, address equity concerns, and enhance students’ digital skills and civic readiness.

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Anthropology News

MAY 28, 2024

I observed various ways of asking for alms in different urban locations for four years (2010–2014) in Guangzhou and talked to people panhandling in the present or the past. In the following, I will show how panhandling adapts to a changing spatial culture and the local state’s attempts to “beautify” the commons.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2014

Image credit: [link] Fast forward to 2014 and my district, like many others, now uses an automated notification service. In turn, think about how our students then communicate information related to learning and school culture with each other as well as members of the community. I had a bit of a paper addiction that had to be overcome.

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ASHP CML

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

He is a noted scholar of visual culture in U.S. He is currently working on a study of Civil War visual culture for which he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Bogart is professor emeritus of art history and visual culture at Stony Brook University. Halls Professor of the History of Art (emerita) at Indiana University.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. The culture has evolved, We’re like a campus now.”

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Enrollment in preparation programs began to dip around 2010, but it hit new lows once the first members of Gen Z (colloquially referred to as Zoomers) entered higher education in 2014, researchers found.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.); Did You Know?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. With the UIA’s work, for example, we now understand what an idea looks like when applied in 11 different cultures, with 11 different student populations.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

Culture and learning are inextricably connected 3. Culturally responsive educators recognize the influence of students’ cultural diversity on learning. Cultural background influences the way students learn and communicate, which may be different from their teachers. Culturally responsive teaching (Document No.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2016

By 2014, they made up only 49 percent. And the proportion of teachers who attended college in the city, a rough measure of the number of teachers with local roots, also declined precipitously, falling from 60 percent in 2005 to 34 percent in 2014. By 2014, they made up only 49 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In interviews, dozens of students, parents, educators, lawyers and advocates for students with disabilities in Wicomico County said that a lack of resources and trained staff, combined with a punitive culture in some of the schools, are behind the misuse of emergency petitions. The Department of Justice declined to comment.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

The grads can also seek out new communities, learning about cultures they might not be familiar with. He has taught secondary science in Minneapolis Public Schools since 2014. These programs help young college graduates give back to the communities where they were raised. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. She advocated for change.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

As it turns out, many were not at first ; NPR reported that in the fall of 2014, some 21 percent of the grades P-TECH students earned in their college courses were Ds and Fs. P-TECH Newburgh first opened in 2014 (along with 16 other P-TECH schools that began in New York State that fall), helped by state grants and public-private partnerships.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 18, 2023

Launched last October, Home Flight not only works to recruit more Native students to the university but also provides funding, mentors, culturally specific programs and support to help Native students adjust to life on campus. But he said tuition assistance isn’t enough to attract and retain Native American students.

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