Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 1, 2020

Books I finished reading (or rereading) in March 2020… Personal and Authentic: Designing Learning Experiences That Impact a Lifetime , Tom Murray [education]. Culturize , Jimmy Casas [education]. Books I read in January 2020. Books I read in February 2020. Smart Baseball , Keith Law [baseball]. Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Establishing a strong culture of coaching, however, requires structures to be in place in a school or district such as designated time for coaching, and ongoing professional development for coaches and administrators. The post Cultivating a Culture of Coaching to Support Powerful Use of Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The Pillars of Digital Leadership represents a framework for all educators to initiate and sustain innovative change that aligns with the core work that already serves as the foundation for every school or district learning culture. Here's to an amazing 2020 everyone. Thanks for all that you do for kids.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By reframing prehistoric creativity as an inter-generational endeavor, this study reveals that children were not just observers but active participants in shaping their cultural landscapes. Children, Metaphorical Thinking, and Upper Paleolithic Visual Cultures Author : Nowell, A. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020.

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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: Reports , 2020. Source: Quaternary Science Reviews , 2020.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Census data shows that rates of home-schooling doubled between the start of the pandemic in March 2020 and the fall of that year. Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The Gaddies.

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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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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

It may be August, but we’re already planning ahead for SXSW EDU in March 2020. A lively discussion about how students from multiple geographic locations and culturally diverse areas could work together to make a difference is their respective communities. 3D Digital Storytelling, Empathy, and Voice.

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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

JULY 6, 2020

The paradigm shift from racist to culturally affirming systems requires that you center the perspectives of leaders and teachers of color and support their efforts to achieve bold outcomes for Black and Brown students. To be a co-conspirator, you must continually be brave, not safe. Amplify their stories. Yes, you may receive less.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Now, the number of college students graduating with a humanities major has fallen for the eighth straight year to under 200,000 degrees in 2020, according to federal data from t he Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Fewer than one in 10 college graduates obtained humanities degrees in 2020, down 25 percent since 2012.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

NEW ORLEANS—Before the 2020-21 school year, Christa Talbott, a 20-year veteran of New Orleans schools, had never considered leaving the profession she loved this early. By the end of 2020, the 44-year-old was agonizing over whether the school year might be her last teaching there. This story also appeared in Time. Into a burning house.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It was one of her last moments with her grandfather, who died at the end of August 2020, just a week after she arrived on campus. At the beginning of August 2020, Nina Polk, who is Diné (Navajo), Si?angu in August 2020. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

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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. G., & Marrero-Guillamón, I. Josephson, J. Kelly & K.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 26, 2020

As Zaretta Hammond notes in Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , “The brain seeks to minimize social threat and maximize opportunities to connect with others in community.” In the 2019-20 school year, CARES Act funds were used to support professional learning last spring in the amount of $19.02

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When he and his colleagues began putting together the College Welcome Guide , which analyzed data from more than 4,000 colleges and universities to give prospective students insight into the culture and political atmosphere on campuses, the idea of making it an interactive tool seemed far-fetched.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Armando Montero, an advocate for mental health, began running for the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board in Arizona when he was still in high school and was elected in 2020. Hunter Holt was elected, at age 18, to the Marana Unified School District Governing Board in Arizona in 2020.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2024

Department of Education data from the 2020-21 school year provides a stark illustration: Black boys, who represented only 9 percent of preschool enrollment, accounted for 23 percent of those receiving one or more out-of-school suspensions. Cultural humility training offers a path forward.

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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

JANUARY 17, 2023

My journey as an immigrant from a small town in Africa’s smallest mainland country, The Gambia, to the biggest city in the United States, with its many diverse cultures, has given me a unique perspective. This experience gave me an opportunity to recognize my own cultural myopia. I’m a better teacher because of it. A Muslim lens.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Our team brought together public preschool teachers; families from culturally diverse, low-income communities; curriculum and media designers; and researchers. Check out this short video from the 2020 STEM for All Video Showcase. Co-design as an inclusive approach to innovation.

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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. Leierer, L.,

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

At Ohio State, the number of students reporting feelings of burnout leapt 31 percentage points during the last academic year — from 40 percent of students in August 2020 to 71 percent in April, according to a university study. That distress can take the form of burnout, which appears to be increasing.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

Institutions positioned for success in the next decade will seize this opportunity by prioritizing new approaches to working conditions and building better workplace cultures. We pivoted in March 2020, then again in fall 2020, then again in fall 2021. Intermittent flexibility” isn’t going to cut it.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Even when the instruction is available, courses often lack cultural relevance that would allow Native students to authentically engage with the material, the report says. In addition, many Native students attend schools that may lack the hardware, software and high-speed internet needed for these classes.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Back in the spring of 2020, before my tween daughters became obsessed with Minecraft YouTube, I thought I had pandemic parenting figured out. This refers to the private Minecraft server that Dream launched in April 2020 so he and a few gamer friends could explore a new update to the game. We made family dinners.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2020

December invites us to step back to reflect on the events, learnings, and open questions of 2020. We’ve been intentional about taking time as an organization this year to recognize how white supremacy cultural norms show up in our practices. A sense of urgency, a dimension of white supremacy culture, is pervasive in education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

A September 2020 study from the Thomas B. Early evidence that social studies might be used as a lever to boost reading achievement arrived in September 2020 with a quantitative analysis from the Thomas B. Credit: Jason Bachman/Flickr.

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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. McGuire, R.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

Dominican launched the Center for Cultural Liberation in 2020 to provide students of color with a place to gain a sense of belonging. In the classroom, faculty must be held accountable for creating a culture that views each student as the master of their education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2021

Now more than ever, schools and districts across the country are striving to focus on equity, with the challenging events of 2020 illuminating countless disparities across the country. addresses practices, systems or aspects of its culture that do not foster equity. The whole school community ?addresses Credit: Malden High School.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Cultivating a Culture One day during my English class, Khalil, one of my sixth grade students, created a live soundtrack to accompany my lesson on mentor sentences. The combination of our classroom culture and reading growth achievement earned our class the 2018 Southwest Ohio Teach For America Classroom of the Year Award.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities. We are a family. We are Liberty.”

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Fostering an active learning environment in undergraduate tutorials and small classes (Bierema, 2020) and giving guided instruction, allows learners to interact with each other to discover ideas and solve challenges. References Bastide, H. Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp. Bierema, L. Bierema (Eds.).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

Since March 2020, Black Americans have experienced a perfect storm of social and emotional stressors, including the unequal death toll from Covid-19 in the Black community, the ongoing resurgence of white supremacy and an onslaught of high-profile police killings of Black people. Related: Last week was tough, teachers say.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

The study, published in PLOS ONE 1 on December 11, 2024, uses bioarchaeological analyses to shed light on the diets, deaths, and cultural practices of this enigmatic population, linked to the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypilla culture. Cultural Context The rarity of cremated remains in Trypillian burials adds another layer of intrigue.

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