A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

Technology, the pursuit of innovation, and advancements in research have fundamentally changed the learning culture in many schools for the better. In his meta-analysis of over 300 research studies, John Hattie found that direct instruction has above average gains when it comes to student results, specifically an effect size of 0.59.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 18, 2025

In the 8th century CE, the Avars—an enigmatic group with roots in the East Asian steppes—settled in Central Europe, weaving a tapestry of cultural cohesion amid genetic diversity. Their findings reveal an intriguing story of cultural integration despite distinct genetic divides.

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Anthropology.net

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. DOI: 10.1038/nature13810 Olalde, I.,

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NCHE

APRIL 1, 2025

Eligible applicants can include educational institutions, cultural organizations, historical societies or museums, community or civic groups, libraries, and literacy organizations. These regional grants will help fund projects that expand and explore innovative methods of teaching and learning with Library of Congress materials.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

According to co-author Raven Garvey, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, modern humans likely used a suite of cultural technologies to mitigate UV exposure. It is plausible, Garvey noted, that some caves were used not just for their cultural or symbolic significance but as literal refuges from a more dangerous atmosphere.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

These stories speak of migration, of belonging, of origins tied to Chaco Canyon, one of the great ceremonial and cultural centers of the ancient Puebloan world. People cast shadows on the ancient Anasazi ruins of Chaco Culture National Historical Park in New Mexico on Nov. The interpretation was shaped by cultural context.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 16, 2025

The Stones of Bornholm Between 2013 and 2018, archaeologists excavated over 600 intricately carved stones from ritual sites on Bornholm. These sites, associated with the Funnel Beaker culture, were active around 2900 BCE.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Instead, it suggests that the brain's ability to process language may have developed first as an internal cognitive tool, later spilling into outward communication and cultural expression. Language is not just a communication system; it is the foundation of human thought, culture, and innovation," Tattersall emphasizes.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cultural and Geopolitical Implications of the Findings Rock Paintings and Ritual Significance The caves of Peruaçu Valley offer more than archaeological specimens—they also contain rare rock paintings depicting crops, including maize. Maize: Origin, domestication, and its role in the development of culture. Kistler, L.,

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Anthropology.net

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. This has implications for how we view the spread of modern human culture. But do they? 1) Core exploited by orthogonal planes. (2,

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

The results hint at a Europe in flux: a continent repeatedly reshaped not just by migration but by the slow churn of diet, disease, and cultural transformation. BC, without cultural affiliation, Věstonice cluster). BC, Gravettian culture). BC, Gravettian culture). BC, Magdalenian culture).

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

Credit: Gre Fılla Excavation / Özlem Ekinbaş Can The Gre Fılla Site: A Window into Prehistoric Innovation Nestled in the upper Tigris Valley, Gre Fılla has been under excavation since 2018. ​ Furthermore, these findings underscore the importance of localized developments in technological advancement.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

We hope to share some of these examples at the SXSW and SXSW EDU conferences in March 2018 – but first, we need your help. The post Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas appeared first on Digital Promise. This year, Digital Promise has proposed a record 15 (!) Participants will walk away with new ideas!

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 12, 2025

The Site: Medzhibozh A First identified in 2011 and excavated over several field seasons through 2018, the site known as Medzhibozh A lies within a deeply stratified Pleistocene terrace. “That would place culture, in its earliest form, hundreds of thousands of years deeper into our past.”

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 2, 2018

Roberts (@DoctorDRoberts) July 17, 2018. — Frank Bonsal III (@FrankBonsal) July 17, 2018. — The ExCITe Center (@excitecenter) July 17, 2018. — Carly Croman (@carly_croman) July 17, 2018. — Sunanna T Chand (@SunannaC) July 17, 2018. This is the path to true change and growth!

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools. The work is guided by cultural success coaches — school employees who help families address the kind of challenges that keep students from coming to school. AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin Credit: Ross D.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. Patterned Metalwork Before Damascus Steel? DOI: 10.1111/j.1475-4754.2008.00385.x

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

This ancient group shares ancestry with the 15,000-year-old foragers of Taforalt Cave in Morocco, associated with the Iberomaurusian culture. © Archaeological Mission in the Sahara, Sapienza University of Rome The Spread of Pastoralism: Migration or Cultural Diffusion? View of the Takarkori rock shelter in Southern Libya. ©

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

Future research may extend this model to other regions, such as Southeast Asia and Oceania, or test whether similar gradients exist in cultural practices like myth, kinship, or cosmology. Historical linguistics in Australia: Trees, networks and their implications. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B , 365(1559), 3845–3854.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents. Presenters also highlighted stark differences between how preschool classrooms in different countries are using technology and the cultural gaps in attitudes about technology post-pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018. “It shows that it works.”

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

2 ) takes different cultural components and specific lithic traditions/categories into account. This suggests that early settlers may have developed cultural adaptations that allowed them to survive in colder conditions. The cultural timeline does not indicate that cold conditions were a barrier to human expansion," the study notes.

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Anthropology.net

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. Thesis : University of Calgary , 2018. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Now that the firestorm has passed, some say the initial judgments were too harsh: The percentage of students enrolled in math classes in San Francisco beyond Algebra II increased from 2018 to 2021, according to data recently highlighted by detracking advocate Kentaro Iwasaki, founder of Concentric Math.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The results paint a complex picture of migration, cultural blending, and long-distance connections. Instead, the majority of individuals were of predominantly European origin, maintaining local genetic and cultural traditions. These individuals stood out as genetic outliers in the region, hinting at direct steppe connections.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2022

An Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) study across approximately 30 countries found that teens who said they most often read paper books scored considerably higher on a 2018 reading test taken by 15-year-olds compared to teens who said they rarely or never read books. As one gap closes, another one opens.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

That year, 2019, the district changed its policies to allow Indigenous students to wear cultural items along with their caps and gowns. They argue that the practice of policing Indigenous students’ graduation attire is symptomatic of an education system woefully ignorant of, and insensitive to, Native culture.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

Between 2008 and 2018, the University of Minnesota Twin Cities’ six-year graduation rate for American Indian and Alaska Native students more than doubled, from 27 percent to 69 percent. The six-year graduation rate for all students at public universities in 2018 was around 47 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2022

I recently picked up “ Fact vs. Fiction: Teaching Critical Thinking Skills in the Age of Fake News ” by Jennifer LaGarde and Darren Hudgins (2018). Toward the end of the first chapter, the authors describe a scene from Star Wars where C-3PO turns to R2-D2 as they’re under siege by a corridor full of stormtroopers and says, “We’re doomed.”

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. The radiocarbon dating places these tools firmly within the Early Epigravettian, aligning with known sites across Italy.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. If Denisovans were responsible, this would provide the first material culture directly linked to them. Independent Invention or Cultural Transmission?

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Answering a question in front of the class activates the same fight or flight response as if a “tiger was in a classroom” (Posey, 2018). Nate combats this by consciously working to build — and maintain — a culture of respect in his classroom. References CAST (2018). Problem-solving and reasoning are important beyond math!

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2020

Lourdes Torrey was only a few weeks into her first year at the University of Missouri in 2018 when she heard a white student in the dorm room next to hers use the N-word. She said she was told that was “just physics culture,” and no action was taken to discipline the student. “It Credit: Lourdes Torrey. I changed majors.”. “I

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