A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. Makerspaces have moved from fringe initiatives to vibrant components of school culture. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014. I would love your feedback after reading this post.

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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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FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Found in different parts of Europe, these two industries have often been grouped together as “transitional industries,” implying that they might share a common technological or cultural origin. Châtelperronian sites are compiled from Pelegrin and Soressi ( 2007 ) and Soressi and Roussel ( 2014 ) modified. But do they?

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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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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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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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FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. Modern consumer culture, Colombo suggests, is another expression of this primal drive. Religious institutions have often enforced authority through punitive doctrines.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. Our system generally is not accessible for people with disabilities to enter the workforce. It’s just dysfunctional.

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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

This suggests that light skin was never an evolutionary necessity but rather one of many possible adaptations shaped by cultural and environmental factors. Rather than a straightforward adaptation to UV exposure, it is a story of migration, gene flow, and cultural shifts. Related Research Jablonski, N.G., & Chaplin, G.

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JANUARY 8, 2025

Wallacea, the sprawling chain of islands in eastern Indonesia that includes Timor-Leste, has long been a crossroads of cultures, languages, and genetics. Dr. Gludhug Ariyo Purnomo from the University of Adelaide, who led the research, noted that the findings emphasize the importance of West Papua as a bio-cultural hub. Patterson, N.,

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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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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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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Related Studies These articles expand on themes of material culture, identity, and the anthropological interpretations of Iberian engraved plaques. Journal : PLoS ONE , 2014. For now, these engraved plaques stand as a testament to the ingenuity of ancient Iberian societies and their efforts to preserve and communicate their identities.

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MARCH 4, 2025

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

Whether through shared resources, companionship, or experimentation, the early relationships between humans and canids reveal a dynamic interplay of culture, survival, and adaptability. Journal : Science , 2014. The Role of Human Selection in Canid Domestication Authors : Larson, G., & Fuller, D. DOI : 10.1126/science.1256236

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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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OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report. “It shows that it works.”

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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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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2014

In a connected world, everyone can have access to meaningful experiences with global peers that challenge their assumptions and build their capacities to collaborate and learn effectively across cultural borders. One of the most powerful is exchange : relationships built among people from different cultures in a common environment.

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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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MARCH 17, 2025

The combination of ceramic petrography and spatial modeling could be applied to other prehistoric societies, from the Únětice culture of Central Europe to the palatial civilizations of Minoan Crete. Perhaps most significantly, this research provides a methodological blueprint for identifying ancient borders elsewhere. Micó, R.,

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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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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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FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Did this genetic divergence give modern humans a competitive advantage in terms of communication, social organization, and culture? 2014) – "Humanized Foxp2 accelerates learning by enhancing transitions from declarative to procedural performance" ( PNAS ). DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00397 2013.00397 Lai et al. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1414542111

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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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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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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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NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark. That’s huge.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

She finally toned down racial references in her cover letter — using the term “cultural communities” rather than “African-American communities,” for instance, to refer to one of her areas of study — and things took a turn for the better. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The administrator winners of our 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards are inspiring examples of change managers, showing what it means to both lead and learn at the same time. Share your thoughts about building a culture of innovation.'

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2. Peer teaching strategies give students the opportunity to learn from one another and contribute to a culture of collaboration. Situated Cognition and the Culture of Learning. 2014 Oct;42(7):1038-48. Palincsar, A.S. Educational Researcher, Vol.

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MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. However, the scientific evidence indicates that these preferences are shaped by cultural beliefs. Women remain underrepresented in science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM. Create an Environment that Promotes Science.

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