A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2016

In education, they connect people to stories of how schools and districts have improved school culture and the specific steps that were taken. 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.

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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

FEBRUARY 14, 2016

Create a Culture of Trust : Start with a conversation. 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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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

DECEMBER 1, 2024

The Bond Between Nature and Culture in Borneo The lush rainforests of Borneo are more than just biological treasure troves; they are cultural cornerstones for the island’s indigenous communities. Beyond its economic role, the tualang holds profound cultural and spiritual significance for many indigenous groups. Credit: T.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This framework has all manner of trouble—from narratives driven by assumptions of the straight-line rise and fall of societies, to an obsession with “lost” civilizations, to the belief that older cultures are harder (and therefore more prestigious) to “discover.” Instead, we advocate for “deep history.” Instead, we advocate for “deep history.”

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Activity, context, and culture are central to this learning theory, which emphasizes the practical over the abstract. ” When learning happens in context, it reflects a time, place, and culture. When people tackle everyday challenges, they learn. Learning in context makes that learning more relevant and applicable to life.

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Digital Promise

MAY 24, 2016

Over the past two years, we’ve witnessed how building a strong school community and culture of support is critical to success. Despite being on the same island, each school is strikingly different and has its own distinct culture. — Jacinto Noriega III (@haseentoe) May 16, 2016.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

700 attendees gathered at Ramapo College for Northern Ignite’s event, co-hosted with EdSurge, in 2016. The post Sparking a Culture of Innovation in Northern New Jersey appeared first on Digital Promise. Many districts have taken away learnings and implemented new programs as a result of being involved in Northen Ignite.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

Kedi , a 2016 documentary by Ceyda Torun, featured the everyday lives of several of these community cats who are owned by no one but cared for by many. As an anthropologist, this intimacy with cats fascinates me because they represent another instance of how “human culture” is in fact made up of our relationships with nonhumans.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 13, 2024

21, 2016, to protest police violence against Standing Rock Water Protectors. Instead of glorifying a person who enslaved and murdered people, destroyed cultures, and terrorized those who challenged his rule, we seek to honor these communities demanding sovereignty, recognition, and rights.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2020

It was two weeks before the university would be abruptly shut down by the coronavirus, and every corner of the campus seemed jampacked — except this quiet classroom, where a handful of students were studying the societies and cultures of the Caribbean. So the projects brought in teams from African studies programs who understood the culture.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Research in teaching anthropology suggests that students learn and understand the subject better by being involved (Copeland and Dengah, 2016) and applying the knowledge both in theoretical and in real-world situations. New York, NY: Springer. Copeland T., & Dengah, F. Involve me and I learn”: Teaching and applying anthropology.

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Digital Promise

MAY 10, 2017

In March 2016, Digital Promise and Maker Ed issued a call to action for school leaders around the country to commit to growing the next generation of American makers, by dedicating a space for making, designating a champion to lead the effort, and showcasing student work. For instance, Rep.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Nationally, Hispanic college enrollment grew from 8 to 19 percent of all students between 1996 and 2016, according to the U.S. By 2016-17, there were 492, ranging from well-known four-year schools such as the University of California, Irvine to regional two-year schools such as New Jersey’s Essex County College. Census Bureau.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Early on, Peterson noticed the demographic split in her classes: “We’re a very culturally rich district, and yet, my calculus classes were mostly white,” she said. Since 2016, the diversity of students enrolled in the district’s advanced math courses has increased. She decided to talk with her principal at the time, Lisa Witcher.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Some scholars who have been studying veterans have published their work in the Journal of Veterans Studies , which was established in 2016 by Mariana Grohowski, who is also the editor. We understand that a person has very many intersecting identities – race, culture, ethnicity, social class, education,” Grohowski said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

But I knew it would probably be a cultural adjustment.”. Now he was going to work at a university where, as of 2016, only four percent of professors were African American like him. “I was ecstatic,” he says. He had just finished his Ph.D.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

About forty years ago , criminal justice scholars and reformers in North America and Europe began exploring justice across cultures and studying the perspectives of perpetrators. Or as Evans points out: “We define restorative justice as a shift in culture. We don’t change culture quickly.”. Choose as many as you like.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

In many ways, I feel like we went from being a voice in the wilderness to an answer to a prayer, particularly after the 2016 election,” he adds. A number of major events in recent years, including the 2016 presidential election in the U.S., We want to change the culture, the way we’ve seen with smoking and drunk driving and littering.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

The number of Chinese students on F-1 visas in public K-12 rose from six students in 2006 to 1,008 students in 2016, according to the Student Exchange Visitor Program, a unit of the Department of Homeland Security. The number of Taiwanese students attending public K-12 schools on an F-1 visa rose from just four in 2006 to 29 in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2020

When Richmond Promise launched in 2016, 33 percent of students in the program experienced summer melt, said Jessie Stewart, the executive director. We still want to retain that element of community building because that’s been such a huge and pivotal foundation of the program, in terms of building cultural competency.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

I feel like school should be a place where I can learn about their culture and where they came from and for them learn about mine. But, also be, not necessarily a culture shock, but a place to broaden your mind. Student interviews were carried out during the 2015-2016, 2016-2017 and 2017-2018 school years.

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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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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. It’s also important for all students to feel represented, Laura Thomas said in her Edutopia article from August 2016. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

The proportion of bachelor’s degrees in science awarded to Black graduates remained flat at about 9 percent from 2001 to 2016 , according to the most recent available figures from the National Science Foundation; in engineering, it declined from 5 percent to 4 percent; and in math, it dropped from 7 percent to 4 percent. “The

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

8) for teaching controversial and sensitive histories (inspired by work from colleagues such as Mohamud & Whitburn, 2016; Mohamud & Whitburn, 2019; Elias & Spafford, 2021; Kerridge & Snelson, 2022) that provide a valuable tool for developing our approach to handling this challenge in the classroom. Grosvenor (2000, p.157),

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

Leary uses resources from Black Lives Matter at Schools, a national movement started by thousands of educators in Seattle in 2016 that has spread to other large school districts nationwide. Children also grow acclimated to favoring whiteness and privileged groups. Katie Cryan Leary, principal, Magnolia Elementary, Seattle.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

This might play out differently dependent on the level of experience and expertise of each individual teacher: More novice teachers may lack awareness because they literally don’t see things in their classrooms that more expert teachers do (Wolff et al, 2016) and/or because they lack the mental models to analyse and interpret what is happening.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. But not at the Muñiz Academy.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

1 best primary school system in the world, according to the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Report 2016-2017. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. Related: What do we invest in the country’s youngest? Little to nothing. ET) on The History Channel.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In some schools [student/teacher conflict] would come down to … ‘This white lady doesn’t like me,’ and a cultural disconnect, but in this school absolutely not.”. 4, 2016, 20-year-old Net graduate Glenquel Emerson, was killed by gunfire. “I 30, 2016.). Over and over and over,” Lee says. “In Photo: Jennifer Shaw.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. federal agencies existed, the Bears Ears area holds enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance to the tribes of the region. In 2016, the area was granted federal status as Bears Ears National Monument (BENM).

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2017

Education leaders seeking to improve learning outcomes for English Learners have started exploring ways to leverage edtech tools to meet students’ diverse cultural and linguistic needs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Over five academic years spanning 2016-17 to 2020-21, these districts recorded 5,800 transfers in a category for “specific discipline reasons.” As many as 3,700 of these could be expulsions. School districts are required to report expulsions to the state and to the public.

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