A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Research reviewed by Elisabeth Trambley, Jacob Sattelmair & John Ratey (2009), and Kristy Ford (2016) all conclude how both recess and physical activity lead to improved learning outcomes. I have seen this firsthand in schools across the globe. Let’s look into this a little more closely.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 10, 2018

2016) found that video made the reflection experience more authentic and meaningful for both student and teacher. All of the videos are then easily accessible for review on a grid. Think about the value of having students see and hear from their peers about what they either learned or struggled with during the lesson.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Masters of the Planet: The Search for Our Human Origins. Palgrave Macmillan. Explores the cognitive evolution of early Homo sapiens and the role of language. Berwick, R. C., & Chomsky, N. Why Only Us: Language and Evolution. Argues that language is a unique cognitive leap in human evolution. Dediu, D., & Levinson, S.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.” But, as the data show, African farmers were knowledgeable and successful for thousands of years. Outside forces uprooted that security.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 20, 2015

InclusiveSpaces: Classroom Design for Every Learner is a grassroots campaign running throughout 2016 that encourages teachers to show how their classroom either a) meets the needs of all students or b) how their classroom could be more inclusive. Do you have a 1:1 iPad ratio for your classes?

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JANUARY 20, 2025

An Order for My Backpack For the Public Affairs Officer at Guantnamo Bay, Cuba; July 9, 2016 This is my watch, this is my phone, this is my application for this visit, approved & blameless in a clear folder. An Order for My Backpack and Three Stages of Nowhere are part of the collection Poets Resist, Refuse, and Find a Way Through.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Since 2016, the women-led Rolex Initiative has held an annual festival to celebrate the Ugandan Rolex and the street vendors who made it world famous. Said to have originated by an experimental chapati seller in the 1990s, the rolex first became popular with university students in Kampala before spreading across the country and beyond.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 114 (38), 9602–9604. Discusses the final years of Neanderthals and their interactions with Homo sapiens. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1715833114 1715833114 Stringer, C. The origin and evolution of Homo sapiens." Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B, 371 (1698), 20150237.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Source: Land Use Policy, 2016. Mainstreaming Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services into Decision-Making Analyzes how the IPBES framework can guide policy and decision-making processes in planning and governance.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Testing manganese dioxide as a fire-lighting aid in Neanderthal contexts. EXARC Journal. Link Explores experimental approaches to fire-making, highlighting Neanderthal use of natural materials. Anastasakis, K., & Van Hoesel, A. Selection and use of manganese dioxide by Neanderthals. Scientific Reports, 6 , 22159.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 17, 2016

The 2016 Model Schools Conference is the place for exploring ways to innovate out of the old model and construct a system that’s set up strategically to prepare our students with the skills they need to excel in a complex world. Let’s toss out the existing rules and write new ones.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Cornish, B., Pizzolato, C., & Saxby, D. Aboriginal Australian weapons and human efficiency. Scientific Reports , 14 (1). link] 2 Hiscock, P., O’Connor, S., Balme, J., & Maloney, T. World’s earliest ground-edge axe production coincides with human colonisation of Australia. Australian Archaeology , 82 (1), 2–11.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

"Adaptation strategies of Early Pleistocene hominins to high-altitude environments." Journal of Human Evolution, 133 , 45–58. DOI: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2018.12.005 2018.12.005 Texier, P. A closer look at Acheulian raw material selection." PLOS ONE, 11 (9), e0161322. DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161322 0161322 1 Paixão, E., Gneisinger, W.,

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2016

Image credit: https://www.dynbiz.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/case_study.jpg No two schools or districts take on the same initiative in the same way. Every school and district, just like every student, teacher, and administrator, learns and grows uniquely.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

A highlight of the 2016 Model Schools Conference will be welcoming the North Kansas City School District leadership and hearing more about their implementation of the Rigor/Relevance Framework. In the 2014-15 school year, we earned a 97.9% Be sure to check them out on Twitter.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2017

Even though this was gratifying work there was still something missing that I could not put my finger on until early in 2016. The work over those years put me into a position of authoring several books and sharing our successes across the United States and then the world.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 11, 2025

Journal of East Asian Archaeology, 23 (2), 89-112. Examines the strategic interactions between the Han and Xiongnu during their prolonged conflict. DOI: 10.1080/10929821.2021.1942932 Kim, H. The Huns, Rome and the Birth of Europe. Cambridge University Press.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

The 2016 Model Schools Conference is the place for exploring ways to innovate out of the old model and construct a system that’s set up strategically to prepare our students with the skills they need to excel in a complex world. Taking Bold Measures: Are You Ready?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2024

campuses fell from 45 percent in 1996 to 37 percent in 2016 , the Pew Research Center found using the most recent available federal data. The anxiety among middle-income families about costs is having an effect on universities and colleges, whose proportion of students from those families has been declining. Their presence on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

ACT’s researchers calculated that the number of test takers with an A average surpassed the number of B students after 2016. Something interesting is happening in 2016. Grade inflation was fairly modest during the first half of the 2010s and began to take off after 2016. As grades rose, achievement fell. for the entire decade.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., It’s critical to understand what teacher engagement is and what factors positively impact teacher engagement if we are going to attract and retain talented teachers.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 8, 2025

DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5689 Malaspinas, A.-S., Westaway, M. Bergström, A., Athanasiadis, G., Crawford, J. A genomic history of Aboriginal Australia." Nature , 538, 207–214. DOI: 10.1038/nature18299 Bellwood, P. The checkered prehistory of Indo-Malaysian Archipelagic seafaring."

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland University’s Masters Program in American History and Government. Sometimes, it dwells within the heart of a soldier who disobeys orders. Sometimes, it dwells in a people’s long struggle to survive and thrive.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 13, 2024

One of the more unexpected consequences of Brexit, the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union following a 2016 referendum, is that it has made EU membership more popular. Back in 2016, Scotland voted to remain in the EU. Most Ukrainians, however, do want to join the European Union.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Fifty-five percent enroll right after high school , down from 61 percent in 2016 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In 2016, the area was granted federal status as Bears Ears National Monument (BENM). Indigenous peoples hold ancestral ties to the formation known as “ Bears Ears ”—distinctive twin buttes visible from across a vast desert landscape in what is today southeastern Utah. The BENM encompasses 1.36

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Even if this decline doesn’t quite match the dire predictions of mass college closures that were popular in 2016, the recent history and near-term outlook for traditional higher ed is more negative than I imagined. This trend, too, has seen a jump forward due to the pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2025

In 2016, a group of researchers compiled all the best U.S-based For schools that have made a commitment to reducing or ending streaming, one useful tool has been to bring mathematics teachers in different schools together so they can work through challenges, such as lesson planning, and share successes. Could detracking help?

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In 2016, I moved to the U.S., However, despite their qualifications, many face significant barriers to entering the teaching profession due to complex certification processes and systemic hiring challenges. hoping to one day become an educator.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 27, 2018

The site eMarketer found that 41% of students ages 0-11 and 84% ages 12-17 owned a smartphone in 2016. Well, I did find some stats for kids in the United States and am willing to bet that other developing countries have similar numbers. These numbers are predicted to increase to 49.7% respectively by 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 25, 2021

In 2016, following requests from her group, the U.S. In 2016, the federal Department of Education, under Secretary Arne Duncan, released guidance that addressed the issue of shortened school days. Smith Howard has been advocating for years to have the federal government address shortened school days.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Students can academically bounce back after a natural disaster, but it’s not a guarantee.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

in political science from the University of California, Merced in 2016 and 2018, respectively, and a B.A. Prior to joining the University of Arizona, she was an assistant professor in the political science department at the University of Pittsburgh from 2018 to 2024. She received her M.A. in economics from Stanford University in 2013.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths. DUNEDIN, New Zealand When Principal Jen Rodgers took a 10-week sabbatical in 2021, she was on a mission to find a way to improve mathematics instruction at the primary school she leads here in one of the countrys oldest cities. Rodgers, who has led the 420-student St.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

Research has shown that the way furniture is arranged in a classroom can significantly impact student behavior and learning outcomes (Granito & Santana, 2016; Parks, Corno & Cozzone, 2017).

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