A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 26, 2021

With 2020 in the rearview mirror, the consensus was that 2021 would be a much smoother ride. Most people would agree that this was not the case. During countless coaching visits, I saw and heard firsthand the myriad of challenges being faced in classrooms, schools, and districts.

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APRIL 12, 2020

Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger) April 4, 2020 Commitment is a gross understatement. To try to sum up what they are doing through this pandemic, I posted this on Twitter recently. Educators are flying the plane while building it. What we have learned is that a virus cannot stop their commitment to kids.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2022

The key is to remember pivotal lessons learned during the great remote and hybrid experiment of 2020 and parts of 2021 to power through what I hope is only a couple of weeks. Be realistic (substance over quantity, prioritize standards) There is nothing inherently new in the tips provided above.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 22, 2018

The opening two paragraphs sum up the point of the piece nicely: By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology, and genomics.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, no one could have foreseen the impact of the pandemic. Dwayne Reed (@TeachMrReed) June 1, 2020 Discomfort, as well as ignorance, are no excuses. In the face of a myriad of obstacles, educators have stepped up to implement remote learning to get through the remainder of the academic year.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Below is Sofia's story in her own words: When it was announced that our school district would begin the 2020-2021 school year fully remote, I knew it would be a challenge to engage my Pre-K students remotely while still adhering to developmentally appropriate practices and maintaining fidelity to our curriculum.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Zywicki (@ZywickiR) March 16, 2020 Suggest lots of independent reading. Your coaching first exposed @MountOliveTSD to #choiceboards which were instrumental in helping us develop our health-related closing plan: [link] @RigorRelevance @DrLRepollet [link] — Dr. Robert R. You really can’t go wrong here.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Journal : Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , 2020. Steinert Journal : Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , 2020. Wagner-Durand Journal : Homo Pictor: Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue , 2020. PDF Link : Academia.edu Sadness and Grief in Akkadian Texts Author : I.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2020

digilead pic.twitter.com/iJ8afKWb63 — Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger) February 16, 2020 When and if IWB’s are purchased, there should be a clear vision for how they will be used in the classroom consisting of a balance between teacher and student use. This represents a sound investment.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Our Teaching for Black Lives educator-led communities of study and reflection, launched in the fall of 2020, provide that grounding. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 13, 2025

On December 30, 2020, nine Tumandok leaders were killed and 17 more arrested on the grounds of ties to a rebel group. One of the places he visited was the province of Iloilo, where the Jalaur River megadam project is in the process of being built.

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NCHE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When a Pennsylvania school board in 2020 pulled over 300 books and materials from school bookshelves, a student group at the high school, the Panther Anti-Racist Union, took note. All the banned books were by or about people of color or of diverse genders (including even a student PowerPoint on helping minority students take the SAT).

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020. Source: Quaternary Science Reviews , 2020. Source: Antiquity , 2020. Bone and Antler Tool Use in Late Pleistocene North America Investigates bone and antler tools, including needles, highlighting manufacturing techniques and the implications for mobility and subsistence.

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JANUARY 29, 2025

Between 1990 and 2020 for example, one province in Sumatra lost 4.63 million hectares in 2020. For more than 20 years, Indonesia has been increasing its highly profitable monocultural farming practices, such as palm oil production, which requires mass deforestation. Meanwhile, palm oil fields grew sixfold, reaching 3.52

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2025

READ MORE More on child care subsidies In 2020, my former colleague Lillian Mongeau Hughes wrote about how child care programs funded mostly through subsidies struggle with staffing and quality because the subsidy amounts are so small. You can read the full story, which published in partnership with The 19th, by clicking below.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

During the spring of 2020, I connected with the Juab School District in Utah and began what would be two years of longitudinal work to help them take personalized learning to the next level. I love visiting classrooms around the country to not only support but to see educators in action.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Teacher shortages didn’t start with the pandemic, Boren explains, as her organization tracked a teacher turnover rate that hovered between 7 percent and 9 percent prior to 2020. But she says the pandemic did accelerate turnover, with some regions of the South now experiencing 18 percent turnover among teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Students who were in eighth grade in early 2024, when this exam was administered, were in fourth grade when the pandemic first shuttered schools in March 2020. These students were in kindergarten when the pandemic first hit in 2020 and missed basic instruction in counting and arithmetic.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Journal : World Archaeology , 2020. DOI : 10.1007/s10816-022-09591-5 Summary : Explores storytelling as a key mode of cultural and artistic knowledge transmission among Upper Paleolithic societies. DOI : 10.1017/ehs.2020.37 Kentridge, R., & Meyering, L. 1 Wisher, I., Matthews, J.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Source: Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 2020. Source: People and Nature, 2020. The IPBES Approach to Ecosystem Services Discusses methodologies and practices aligned with the IPBES framework for assessing ecosystem services across regions. Source: Environmental Policy and Governance, 2021. 1 Díaz, S., Demissew, S.,

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TeachThought

JANUARY 27, 2024

We’ve gathered 25 of the top math resources for 2020–a mix of established and all-new tools to support the building of math skills and the grasp of important mathematical concepts. The post 25 Of The Best Math Resources [Updated] appeared first on TeachThought.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2024

In 2020, Arizona’s Certificate of Ascertainment included information about court cases over the 2020 election that were decided or still pending. Candidates may go to state or federal court depending on whether they think the election process violated state or federal law or state or federal constitutional provisions.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Artificial intelligence in online higher education: A systematic review of empirical research from 2011 to 2020. Procedia CIRP , 119 , 84-90. Zheng, L., & Jiao, P. Education and Information Technologies , 27 (6), 7893-7925. The post The Emic Perspective of Generative AI first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

They include narratives such as the Earth being flat, the 2020 election being rigged or stolen, and COVID-19 vaccines being dangerous,” the News Literacy Project’s report found. While teens don’t believe every conspiracy theory they see, 81 percent who see such content online said they believe one or more.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Credit : Transparency International) In 2020, Pavlo R. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption. The 2023 Corruption Perceptions Index in map form.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

Our Teaching for Black Lives educator-led communities of study and reflection, launched in the fall of 2020, provide that grounding. As we fight the current wave of attacks on teaching and learning, it is critical that educators overcome isolation and ground ourselves in what we are fighting for.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 8, 2025

American Journal of Physical Anthropology , 28 (S6), 1–52. link] 4 Minasny, B., Fiantis, D., Mulyanto, B., Sulaeman, Y., & Widyatmanti, W. Global soil science research collaboration in the 21st century: Time to end helicopter research. Geoderma , 373 (114299), 114299. link] 5 Giller, K. Grounding the helicopters.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Meanwhile, more than a dozen private, nonprofit universities and colleges in rural areas or that serve large proportions of rural students have closed outright since 2020; some of the rural private institutions that remain are also axing majors. The proportion of rural high school graduates going to college at all is falling.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2025

She stored and preserved my grandfathers clothes from his passing in 1974 until 2020. After years of stagnant bureaucratic negotiations to find and excavate his remains, they were finally identified and his death was made official with a belated funeral in 2020. When he was found, his wedding ring was intact.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As Logan details in her 2020 book The Scarcity Slot , West African farmers often have preferred to cultivate crops with methods developed over centuries that reduce long-term risks, rather than generating high yields in the short term. But why not grow corn, which often provides more harvestable food per field?

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Heidi Given, early childhood instructional coach, Somerville, Massachusetts Ive been attending since 2020. The fact that we are continuing to repeat this history using the media to spread disinformation, lies, and distortions is so terrible. These classes run like a well-oiled machine. Jonathan Tallon, St.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

Related Research For those interested in further reading, similar studies have explored the evolution of irrigation and water management in ancient Mesopotamia: Wilkinson, T.J., Rayne, L., & Jotheri, J. Hydraulic landscapes in Mesopotamia: The role of human niche construction. Water History, 7 , 397–418. & Allen, M.B.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The inaugural Bezos Academy preschool site, launched in 2020, is co-located in a standalone building on the campus of Wesley Homes , a senior living community in Des Moines, Washington. Elder care facilities have emerged as a natural fit.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 18, 2025

If this discovery holds, it could reshape how we define what it means to be human—not as the product of a linear march of progress, but as the outcome of ancient migrations, genetic exchanges, and lost populations that shaped our species in ways we are only beginning to understand. Additional Related Research Skoglund, P., & Reich, D.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

A 2020 study of 80 young children , ages 2 to 5, found that the children who could subitize through the number four, and had been taught counting, could usually answer the question “How many?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

Needless to say, the 2020-2021 school year has been intense. The pandemic of 2020 will likely be something our students tell their children and grandchildren about. As this year winds down, I encourage teachers to take the final weeks of the school year to create closure, collect feedback, and help students look forward.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

DOI:10.1016/B978-0-12-821428-2.00014-7 Discusses Neanderthal fire usage, including combustion structures related to tar production. Leierer, L., Pérez, L., & Lagunilla, Á H. It's getting hot in here—Microcontextual study of a potential pit hearth at the Middle Paleolithic site of El Salt, Spain.

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