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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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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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. There was nothing like this.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. So what is happening here?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adirondack Cultural Ecology. They are breaking out of traditional silos and disciplines, and ensuring that these courses are encountered by as many students as possible. Environment and Sustainability in Enlightenment France. Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance. Perspectives on the Amazon.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The Jakarta Post reported that Sumba went 249 days without rain in 2019. The discrepancy between our study and known rates drew our attention to cultural barriers to reporting violence—and the need to consider how cultural norms impact women’s lives.

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ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

According to 2019 data from the National Science Foundation, women held one-third of STEM occupations in the United States. jobs in science and engineering in 2019. Young girls need culturally-relevant curricula and programs in their schools and communities that are accessible and affordable. percent of Latina women, 1.8

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? A culture of “Yes, try that!” permeated the buildings that we visited.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. In addition to teaching traditional political science courses, she serves as campaign manager for the campus-wide voter mobilization program Vote Oswego and coordinator of SUNY Oswego’s broader civic engagement efforts.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Academic disciplines continually evolve to reflect the latest culture and technology. They say the more relevant content offers a highly engaging entry point to STEM, especially for students who have been turned off by traditional math courses. Such a decision might preserve coverage of traditional math content.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 7, 2024

A horse herder chases a white horse in Inner Mongolia, China in 2019. Previous studies, particularly of the Yamnaya culture, suggested that horses were domesticated around 3300 to 3000 B.C., a full millennium later than traditionally believed. A new study finds that humans domesticated horses around 4,200 years ago.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Another program brings students and families to campus for a day to learn about university traditions and how to get involved on campus. In 2019, I probably would have heard from parents and students, ‘It's annoying,’ ‘It's hard to get here,’ ‘How could you possibly require this in-person orientation?”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 23, 2021

We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? And we’ve completely turned around the culture of our building.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. Raymond, the director of CREDO, recalls the moment in less than scientific terms. “It

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APRIL 24, 2023

Hirsch, who developed the curriculum used in these schools and whose 1987 book Cultural Literacy inspired the common core standards movement in American education. The lottery losers attended a variety of other schools, from traditional public schools to private schools to other charter schools.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Just 24 percent of 18- to 24-year-old American Indian and Alaska Native students were enrolled in college in 2019, the lowest of any group, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. It was a huge culture shock coming from … a close, tight-knit community, to a place where people aren’t as accepting,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2021

The New Civics threatens to replace traditional civics education with Neo-Marxist ‘social justice’ propaganda, vocational training for left-wing activism, and Alinsky-style community organizing techniques,” the head of the association, Peter Wood, wrote in a blog announcing the coalition. plastic bags) from accumulating in the first place.

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MARCH 30, 2022

The suicide rate among 13- to 30-year-olds is growing fastest in the Black community, rising over 50 percent between 2010 and 2019. Building a community of support within schools respects the traditions and cultures of Black students while benefiting all students. The recent losses of Ian Alexander, Jr.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

That said, the effort has come with challenges: Northgate spent many months getting buy-in from school staff and families at a time when school-based mental health had become a target of the culture wars elsewhere. The kids don’t feel weird about it, it’s just built into our school culture in a pretty authentic way.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

I think one challenge for the teaching profession is that with traditional salary schedules, no matter how great of a teacher you are, compared to the teacher in the next classroom over, you’ll earn the same base amount,” Holston says. “Or, There, a rubric looks at factors like student achievement and instructional culture.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 23, 2024

Scholars have long debated the cultural significance of these statues and the methods used by a Stone Age society to transport them, with some weighing as much as 92 tons. Arian Zwegers/CC BY 2.0 The Ecocide Theory Under Scrutiny Easter Island is renowned for its monumental statues, called moai, created approximately 800 years ago.

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JULY 5, 2022

In the fall of 2019, over 18 million students were enrolled in postsecondary institutions in the U.S. They must focus on creating classroom cultures of growth, and seek to discern what material students have not yet mastered so they can point them toward actionable steps for improvement. By June, many U.S. Not this year.

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MAY 9, 2023

Named Tūtū and Me after the Hawaiian word for “grandparent,” the program introduces children to early academic and social skills as well as native Hawaiian language and culture. At least 43 percent of young children in Hawaii were watched by friends or relatives in 2019.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

I am joining you from the traditional land of the Haudenosauneee and Anishinaabe peoples, but I grew up on the traditional land of the Abitibiwini Aki and lived for 30 years on the traditional land of the Mississaugas of the Credit. MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , (6). Duke University Press. Childress, H.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2019

In the last 20 years, there has been an increased focus on equitable evaluation , or evaluation that takes into account culture and context. These methods include: culturally responsive evaluation , participatory evaluation , collaborative evaluation , and empowerment evaluation. Why does equitable evaluation matter? .

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 2, 2023

Even before Covid, in 2019, enrollment in teacher preparation programs across the nation had dropped by more than a third from a decade earlier. Fortunately, mass teacher resignations and retirements largely haven’t come to pass, even as the pandemic nears the end of its third year. Yet there is a shrinking pool of new and returning teachers.

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ED Surge

MAY 6, 2022

According to the most recent National Survey of Early Care and Education , administered by the Administration for Children and Families in 2019, there are over 5 million caregivers and providers caring for about 6.8 million children ages 0-5 in a home setting.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 21, 2024

The fires of 2019 and 2020 were especially devastating, with NASA’s Earth Observatory showing plumes of smoke covering the region. Jesús belongs to Bolivia’s Criollo middle-class, and the land he bought up for Paradise Farm is located upon the traditional homelands of several Indigenous Guaraní, Ayoreo, and Chiquitanos communities.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

It was a total culture shock” after attending a racially diverse high school, she said. “I Average SAT scores for admitted students rose to 1,347 in fall 2019, from 1,252 four years earlier — an increase of almost 100 points. Their focus has been on creating a “culture of belongingness and connectedness.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2020

A 2019 American Council on Education survey found that student mental health had become a higher priority over the previous three years for 80 percent of college presidents. They will need to provide professional development to existing staff and break down silos between all student-facing functions, developing an “all-hands-on-deck” culture.

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NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. On April 30th, 2019, during the last day of the semester at UNC-Charlotte, students presented their projects in my Science and Technology Studies class.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

And even if there were standardized measures for traits like integrity and compassion, whose cultural norms should be used to judge the results? “I Daniel Escobar, a 2019 Capital City graduate who plans to attend Washington Adventist University in the fall. In my family, a lot of people don’t really graduate from high school.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

In northern Virginia, she watched her parents navigate language barriers, cultural differences and caregiving responsibilities as best they could, sometimes stepping up to serve as the translator herself. Kang joined NAEYC as chief strategy and innovation officer in 2019, a few months before the pandemic began.

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JANUARY 15, 2021

But at the end of 2019, an asthma-related hospital visit and the death of several extended family members sent Williams into a depression. Among first-time applicants to the Maricopa system, 27 percent fewer ended up enrolling than in fall of 2019. During high school, he took dual enrollment courses at the two-year College of Marin.

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