A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

Common vision, language, expectations, and look-fors go a long way to creating a vibrant learning culture. leadered #edchat pic.twitter.com/SqffWhOgsc — Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger) February 2, 2019 It seemed to resonate with many educators. Recently I posted the following tweet. Are kids thinking?

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Anthropology.net

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. Kozowyk, P. Poulis, J.

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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. However, Indigenous practices do not always fit neatly with U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

Since 2019 there’s been a growing number of attacks — both verbal and physical — against teachers, administrators, school board officials, librarians and even students, particularly those who are LGBTQ+, Black, Hispanic or Asian. Roy Cooper created a task force in 2019 to add more teachers of color across the state.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Tailored Garments and Human Expansion The production of tailored garments with closely stitched seams was a key cultural innovation that enabled early humans to survive harsh climates. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science , 2019. Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020. Source: Quaternary Science Reviews , 2020.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Discovering Emotion in Ancient Mesopotamia From the flutter of "butterflies in the stomach" to the weight of a "heavy heart," emotions are often tied to physical sensations in modern cultures. Towards a Universal Understanding of Emotions This study opens new doors to understanding whether emotions are universal or culturally specific.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Traditional Fire Management and Cultural Burning: A Sustainable Model Indigenous Australians have developed nuanced fire management techniques over tens of thousands of years. Evidence of controlled cultural burning in Australia dates back at least 11,000 years, and likely further, with practices that varied regionally.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Europe's First Mega-Settlements: A Case Study To address this, the researchers turned to the Cucuteni-Trypillia culture, a prehistoric society flourishing between 5050 and 2950 BCE in what is now Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine. PDF available Introduces a process-oriented approach to interpreting material culture. Teixeira, Í B.

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Anthropology.net

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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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. Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. Journal : Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2019. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081

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Strange Maps

MARCH 3, 2025

But 21st-century culture wars are no Shakespeare play. Ideological differences in the expanse of the moral circle – Nature, 29 Sept 2019) At first glance, the maps suggest that both ideological tribes inhabit moral universes that aren’t merely different theyre almost entirely opposite. Credit : A. Credit : A. Credit : A.

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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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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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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2018

With and without technology, it is crucial to create a thinking culture. Here’s to a fantastic 2019! By using the Rigor Relevance Framework as a guide, we can begin by asking learners better questions with the goal being that they start to formulate questions on their own.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 . “Melka Wakena’s unique high-altitude setting offers valuable insights into how early humans adapted to challenging environments,” the researchers wrote. Related Research **Lemorini, C., & Plummer, T. Functional insights into Acheulian tool use from wear pattern analysis."

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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. The first rigorous evaluation of one of the larger programs came out in October 2019 and found some promising results. “It shows that it works.”

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 6, 2025

The Italian Peninsula before the rise of Rome was a tapestry of diverse ethnic groups, each with unique languages, customs, and material cultures. A recent study, The Genomic Portrait of the Picene Culture 1 , published in Genome Biology , attempts to decode their past through ancient DNA analysis. Ravasini et al.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

The scores among 9- to 10-year-olds and 13- to 14-year-olds were relatively steady between 2019 and 2023, but New Zealand had one of the highest achievement gaps between affluent and disadvantaged students on the mathematics portion of the test. Asked what she liked about mathematics, one student replied, Everything.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

He has authored 50 scholarly publications including five books—the latest on the role of religion in IR, Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats and World Politics (2020) and another on the African American liberation struggle of the 1960’s-70’s, The Revolution Will not be Theorized (2019).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2025

This years NAEP scores revealed that in both reading and math, most fourth- and eighth-graders still performed below pre-pandemic 2019 levels. IQ scores, which had been steadily rising throughout the 20th century a phenomenon known as the Flynn effect are now declining across Western nations , including the U.S. , for adults and children.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This observation speaks to the idea that different modes of communication and expression are fundamental to understanding and interpreting different societies and cultures and, consequently, that the semiotic complexity of human experience cannot be contained in plain text. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

Among French Jews of Tunisian descent, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in their ancestors lifestyle before migration and with their cultural and linguistic heritage. Tunisian Arabic thus became a means to create commonality or even sometimes identity with Muslim Tunisian immigrants in France.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

“We are a friendly state when it comes to taking any sort of refugees, or anyone who enters our state, so we have Spanish-dominant [English learner] students who come at any age, from being little to being youth,” says Valtierrez, the department’s director of language and culture. Texas and Illinois did not provide information that year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

What is new is that we are calling them badges and microcredentials and using them primarily to certify specific skills, such as cross-cultural competency, welding and conversational Spanish. . Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

schools frequently marginalize these students’ languages and cultures, but they tend to host ineffective educational approaches. schools continue to fail to make their community communications multilingual and culturally responsive. Not only do U.S.

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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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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

With only five analyzed artifacts, it remains difficult to determine whether these engravings were widespread cultural phenomena or isolated, individual expressions. Symbolic evolution and the cultural explosion: A model for the emergence of symbolic thinking." First and foremost is sample size. DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1719990115.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. Since introducing the role, the district has seen increased attendance at school board meetings, contributing to a more welcoming and inclusive culture.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

Digital Promise is excited to announce 14 new districts will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2019-2020 school year. Please join us in welcoming the new 2019-2020 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! The League is a powerful network of forward-thinking school district leaders. Chesapeake Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Additionally, while teachers reported having less say into the educational technology they use now than in our fall 2019 survey, those who have this input are much more likely than those without it to see their online classes as effective. The knowledge of these tenets will then be infused into other core content areas as appropriate.

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Anthropology.net

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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

After the release of the latest 2018 rankings by the Programme for International Student Assessment, or PISA , earlier in December 2019, there was considerable hand wringing and consternation but the result wasn’t much different. Those results, released in October 2019, also found that U.S. Why the U.S.

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Edthena

MAY 30, 2019

Schools foster collaboration among teachers, between students and teachers, and with community members, emphasizing cultural and social ties with a clear focus on learning. The post Resources for Teachers & Instructional Coaches – May 2019 appeared first on the Edthena blog - video coaching and instructional coaching resources.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In spring 2019, we collected nearly 350 survey responses from stakeholders working in all levels across public schools. These top challenges all fall under the school culture, climate and safety theme. Overall, three challenges ranked as highest-priority by all respondents: Mental health and trauma (#1). Social-emotional learning (#2).

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Learners’ engagement, active participation, and reflection are situated at the core of active learning. Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al.,

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Students performed better in 2019, with 18 percent meeting state standards for ELA and just under 12 percent meeting standards for math. We are always constantly trying to build a stronger school culture," she said. "In She said in Mexican culture it's the mother's responsibility to take care of children.

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