A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

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. Another meta-analysis on over 400 studies indicated strong positive results (Stockard et al., Assessment & Evaluation in Higher Education, 35(5), 501-517.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 25, 2023

Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. Instructional monitoring: Monitored student progress and adjusted their teaching strategy as needed. This teacher makes lessons interesting.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 7, 2024

See also 25 Questions To Guide Teaching With Project-Based Learning PBL Culture-Building Strategies Those challenges can feel overwhelming. In 2018, she founded Experiential Learning Depot to train educators in PBL, which she still does today. Project-based learning requires dedicated, active, and self-directed work periods.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate teaches Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. When I teach unit rates, I transform my room into a grocery store. This teaches them that they can learn anything. This isn’t really about math. Tier 3: “My job.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 12, 2025

They were choosing, experimenting, maybe even teaching.” 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. ” Beyond Survival: Teaching and Learning?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As of 2018, membership was still only 9 percent female. Black researchers in STEM fields report high frequency of racial or ethnic discrimination; some 62 percent reported experiencing incidents, while 57 percent said their workplaces did not address these issues sufficiently, according to a 2018 study by the Pew Research Center.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

The ability to use complex language would have given early Homo sapiens a crucial advantage, enabling cooperation, teaching, and planning in ways that no other species could match," Miyagawa explains. The researchers propose that language might have played a key role. C., & Chomsky, N. Why Only Us: Language and Evolution.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

She learned about MAHG in 2018, at a one-day TAH seminar offered in Tulsa on the American Founding. A Learner Called to Teach People who love to learn often find joy in helping others learn, especially if they like “being around kids,” as Lenardson does. I enjoyed every minute of the program.” I watch them spread their wings.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 11, 2023

I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching. I knew I had a lot of good, productive years still in me, but that I couldn’t do it teaching,” says Sherlock, now 62. For a long time, I lived and breathed teaching. Julie Sherlock She meant it, too. I wanted to be good at it.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2021

More than two decades later, the teaching ranks of the Poplar School District , which serves about 900 students, 96 percent of whom are American Indian, look quite different than when Daniels was a student there. Sheryl Kohl, who is white, was ready to teach when she moved to Daniels’ hometown in 1983. Daniels went for it. “I

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. In 2018 and 2019, teachers in my state were ready to strike.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

Schools brag that they teach it on their websites and in open houses to impress parents. But a fascinating review of the scientific research on how to teach critical thinking concludes that teaching generic critical thinking skills, such as logical reasoning, might be a big waste of time.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. 2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 18, 2024

We first met Nakia, a student at Chilhowee Middle School in rural Benton, Tennessee, in 2018. Becoming a Verizon Innovative Learning School opened up a whole new world of teaching and learning for our schools,” said Danielle McClary, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools coach at Chilhowee, during their second year in the program. “It

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

According to the 2018 Uniform Crime Reporting (UCR) Program’s annual Hate Crime Statistics report , law enforcement agencies reported 7,175 hate crimes in 2017, up from 6,121 in 2016. 1, 2018 and May 31, 2019, an increase of 7 percent from the prior academic year. Incidents of hate are on the rise in the U.S.,

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Amid bans on teaching Black history and calculated attempts at falsifying history, we all need a recalibration in the importance of telling full stories about America’s past and present. 2021) Dillard’s “Spirit of Our Work” is transformative. King, Ph.D.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

When he was released in 2018, Maxis immediately applied for a masters program at Columbia Universitys Mailman School of Public Health. After completing a five-year stint in a federal prison, his first post-prison job was teaching math to adults who were preparing to take the GED exam. She’s now recovered.)

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Zulkifli & Idris, 2021). The National Teaching & Learning Forum 17(5), 1-4. References Martin, F. & & Bolliger, D.U. Zulkifli, C.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 14, 2024

The value of icebreakers in teaching is well-studied, with recent scholarship highlighting how they can ease anxiety in student interactions (e.g. Martin & Bolliger, 2018; Zulkifli & Idris, 2021). The National Teaching & Learning Forum 17(5), 1-4. References Martin, F. & & Bolliger, D.U. Zulkifli, C.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2020

With the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic closing schools across the country, districts are scrambling for ways to teach children who might be home until the end of summer. Moving instruction online and preparing teachers to use technology in their teaching is a massive undertaking. Edtech coaches know your district goals.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

All the classes are taught by black male teachers who teach units on black history and culture, such as “The African American Holocaust,” “The Struggle for Liberation and Dignity” and “The Black Male Image in American Media.”. Throughout the city, the black male graduation rate jumped from 46 percent in 2010 to 69 percent in 2018.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. 2018) Family trees, selfies and our search for identity. New York: Penguin Random House. Nicolson, P.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

rose is because academic performance in once higher ranking countries, such as Iceland and the Slovak Republic, fell by even more since the previous testing round in 2018. Neither India nor China, which topped the rankings in 2018 , participated in the 2022 PISA. Both its math and reading scores rose considerably between 2018 and 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

Earlier this month, California State University, Fullerton, asked its faculty to prepare for teaching all their fall classes online. And the California State University system as a whole is one of the biggest remote educators in the country; more than 150,000 students took online courses there in the 2018-19 academic year.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 17, 2024

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Edge•U Badges and EVERFI The day it happened to me was in my fourth year of teaching. Teaching is an incredibly overwhelming job, and it tests our emotional strength daily. It could very well be that teaching just isn’t for you.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Because they train teachers from within communities with the greatest shortages, these grow your own programs often improve the diversity of the teaching force, helping to balance out what has been a long-standing mismatch between a mostly white teaching force and an increasingly diverse student population. And their teaching?

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 9, 2018

Without a clear sense of purpose, it is easy for educators to become disillusioned and frustrated by the time and energy required to shift their teaching practices. As we begin a new year, I encourage every teacher to take a few minutes to think about why you teach and then complete your version of the golden circle pictured above.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2020

Then she got an email from a professor who said he’d rather cancel his last couple of classes than deal with the “dumpster-fire potential” of teaching remotely. The fact that we’re going to be essentially teaching ourselves is not great,” she said. This was not how Selby had imagined her last year of college. “I

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 21, 2021

Choice has been shown to improve retention, transfer performance, and motivation (Schneider, Nebel, Beege & Rey, 2018). That requires less time to prepare for, while still giving students a choice. It is worth our time to prioritize student choice, even if that choice is fairly simple. Would You Rather?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2020

A 2018 PwC survey reported that many U.S. Given the positive impact coaching can have on powerful teaching and learning, we hoped to better understand the role edtech coaches played during the transition to home-based instruction due to COVID-19.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

The lab was the second of its kind when it opened in October 2018, and it has been replicated in six other Verizon Innovative Learning Schools across the country over the last year. Changing the way teachers teach and students learn. Students are allowed to express what they have learned in a variety of ways,” he said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Topping the list are disciplines popular at colleges around the country — a large number of them in the teaching profession. In 2018 or so Elon Musk said there would be fleets of driverless Teslas everywhere by 2020. For instance, eight of the top 10 most exposed jobs are teachers in various fields. I’ve never seen a driverless Tesla.”

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Political Science Now

APRIL 22, 2025

She was granted tenure in 2010 and promoted to Senior II Tenured Faculty in 2018. She also helped to create, implement, and now teaches in the Bachelors of Applied Science in Sustainable Practices degree at Cascadia. She has been a Political Science educator for twenty-one years.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. It’s been difficult for the research community to prove that all of this student data actually improves teaching and helps students learn more. But that hadn’t been established.”.

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