A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2019

leadered #edchat pic.twitter.com/SqffWhOgsc — Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger) February 2, 2019 It seemed to resonate with many educators. It is essential to understand that the role of any digital tool or experience is to empower learners to think in ways that represent a fundamental improvement over traditional practice.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that, following on such a rich tradition, writing multimodally is a tangible testament to the recognition and appreciation of the diverse cultures and perspectives that make up the global community while at the same time staying true to the fieldwork condition. Summer is just around the corner -enjoy! Apostolidou, A. Dattatreyan, E.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. According to the National Center for Education Statistics, the cost of college increased by 180 percent after inflation from 1980 to 2019-20. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly Higher Education newsletter.

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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. This buildup of vegetation created conditions primed for severe fires, as seen in the catastrophic 2019–20 Black Summer fires.

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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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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Other Problems with Traditional Approaches to Review and Retrieval Practice Review and practice are often focused on preparing for an exam instead of being treated as an integral part of every class. This is an unsustainable practice for teachers, especially if they must create review activities for multiple subjects or classes.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. Note: The presenter is not connected in any way to the company or marketing of Nearpod. Website: [link] Burton, R. Buttrey, K.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. Results from the fall 2020 assessment showed that students in grades 1-8 “lost” an extra 1 percent in reading compared to fall 2019, with high-poverty students “losing” more. In 2019, Mississippi was the only state in the nation to post significant gains on NAEP assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Some parents like Levy don’t see much value in traditional kindergarten. percent in the 2022-2023 school year compared with the 2019-2020 school year, according to an Associated Press analysis of state-level data. percent from the 2019-20 to 2021-22 school year. school system. school system. Wednesday, Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

But there are far more students regularly logging into their computers for their classes now than in 2019, according to the latest federal data. million more students were taking at least one course online — even as the total number of college students fell by more than a million between 2019 and 2022. percent versus 1.1

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Digital Promise

APRIL 25, 2023

This is up from an average of 703 edtech tools during the 2018-2019 school year, representing a more than 200% increase in just three years. Technology in schools can be a critical tool in advancing equity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Karolewics, who led the task force, cited research by the Community College Research Center at Columbia University that indicated traditional placement tests were doing a poor job of placing students in developmental course tracks. “It That is the traditional way that developmental education has worked. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Her research is on the tradition of Latinx and Latin American Political Thought, the thought of W. The book relies on the Black radical tradition to analyze the imperial roots of popular sovereignty and self-determination—i.e., Ines Valdez and Tony Carey were awarded for exemplary mentoring of junior faculty.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

The co-management plan recognizes the deep cultural legacies of Indigenous peoples and establishes a legal basis for ceremonial and traditional practices such as gathering medicines, food, and firewood. In many ways, ecologically driven traditional firewood harvest practices are inherently in keeping with this law.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

The transition to digital has been tough to crack for traditional textbook publishers. When it comes to development and delivery of digital content, [the business model used by traditional publishing] wasn't meant for us in this modern world,” Wiley says. Like other giant textbooks, HMH has strained to navigate the switch to digital.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

But each year since 2019, fewer sponsors have signed up to participate, going from 78 in 2019 to 45 in 2023, according to the South Carolina Department of Education. So the Summer EBT program really comes in to fill the gaps that are left by those traditional summer meals programs.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. A key reason that attacks on the value of college have resonated with so many people, the panelists noted, is that many parents of traditional-college-aged students had failed attempts with higher ed themselves. The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

It’s “flipped” because it’s the opposite of the traditional structure in which students first learn from a teacher’s in-class instruction. In other words, 64 percent of the students in a flipped classroom tend to surpass the average score in a traditional classroom. There’s less rigorous research in high schools and lower grades.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Traditional methods of calculus instruction may be knocking students off the path to these vital occupations, which is why advocates warn that getting diverse students into these careers may require instructional models more responsive to students. That the traditional lecture method of teaching calculus isn’t as effective as active models.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

A 2019 Gallup report found that educators who focus on creativity and use technology in transformative ways see significant gains — students are more engaged, demonstrate better critical thinking, retain more, make connections between subjects and achieve deeper learning. And AI opens up more opportunities for student creation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

states have recognized that their traditional approaches, including placement policies and limited math course options, often advantage an elite few while overlooking the needs of the broader student population. Related: Racial gaps in math have grown. Could detracking help? Unfortunately, my story is far too common.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

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. The courses have been gaining in popularity, particularly with high school math teachers. So do at least 99.8

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Today, they are even more common at two-year schools: In 2019, community colleges granted 852,504 associate degrees and 579,822 certificates. A 2019 Gallup poll reported that a decreasing proportion of Americans consider a college degree to be very important — from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent in 2019.

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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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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Meanwhile, critics allege that the school’s academic outcomes are actually “terrible” compared to homeless students who study at traditional public schools. A 2020 report for the U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 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 ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 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 ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

They are breaking out of traditional silos and disciplines, and ensuring that these courses are encountered by as many students as possible. Each of these diverse institutions has their own unique method and mission. They are all taking the strategy of integrating sustainability content as widely across the curriculum as is feasible.

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ED Surge

MARCH 23, 2023

In order to understand the significance of microcredentials, their ability to help meet workforce demands , and the dilemma these short-term credentials are causing to traditional higher education, we must first walk through the ways college has evolved during its nearly 400 years of history in our nation. Herein lies the dilemma.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

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. Allison Rank is an associate professor of American Politics at SUNY Oswego. Dr. Athena M.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

A majority of public schools have begun providing services that are far afield from traditional academics, including healthcare, housing assistance, childcare and food aid. Federal funding for community schools tripled during the pandemic to $75 million in 2021-22 from $25 million in 2019-20.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 21, 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 ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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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. Yet, after decades of work to improve representation in STEM careers, we’re still left with dismal results. percent of Latina women, 1.8 percent of Black women and 0.1

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

According to a preliminary October 2020 report from National Student Clearinghouse Research Center that tallied fall enrollment figures from just over half of the nation’s colleges and universities, the number of undergraduate students has fallen 4 percent since the fall of 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2024

Although the red line from 1990 to the present looks nearly flat, when you zoom in on it, you can see that Black-white segregation grew by 25 percent between 1991 and 2019. White-Black segregation in the largest 100 school districts increased by 64 percent from 1988 to 2019, Owens and Reardon calculated.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 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 ? As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning.

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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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