A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Zywicki (@ZywickiR) March 16, 2020 Suggest lots of independent reading. Think about what tools your community regularly uses, including students, and blend with traditional means. You really can’t go wrong here. Determine how feedback will be given once school reopens. Now more than ever, this is crucial in keeping everyone’s sanity.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A new biocultural database, developed by researchers at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU), reveals the profound connections between Borneo’s rich plant life and the survival, traditions, and identity of its people. Marks on this trunk reveal traces of wooden plugs used in traditional honey harvesting.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers planted grains to make traditional dishes such as starchy, mild fufu and thick, warm tuo zaafi , and households stored surplus tubers in their wattle-and-daub homes to nourish them throughout the year. Logan, now a professor at Northwestern University, started working at Banda as a graduate student in 2007.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Their inexperience can put strain on the more experienced teachers and administrators who support them, she explains, at a time when both administrators and traditional teacher prep graduates say even new fully certified teachers feel less prepared than those in years past.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

2020 ) and Douka et al. To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. Rather than representing a single “transitional” moment, these two industries reflect entirely separate traditions, developed in isolation from one another.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Journal : World Archaeology , 2020. 1 ” Rewriting Prehistory: Were Children Active Creators? DOI : 10.1017/ehs.2020.37 Kentridge, R., & Meyering, L. 1 Wisher, I., Matthews, J.,

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

While AI has simply not been in the hands of students long enough to have longitudinal data on its impacts, there is a growing slew of research that touts it as a learning tool for non-traditional students (such as Dai et al., Artificial intelligence in online higher education: A systematic review of empirical research from 2011 to 2020.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Credit : Transparency International) In 2020, Pavlo R. This may be a tradition particular to (if not necessarily limited to) the former Soviet space. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption.

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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. That’s a big deal.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In 2020, participants who met certain minimum requirements received an offer of a full-time job upon graduation. The giant financial services company, Citicorp, for example, is among hundreds of big firms that have opened opportunities for students and college graduates. The company’s internship program is one of the most diverse in industry.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The next census in 2020 will require counting a population of around 330 million people in more than 140 million housing units. Getting an accurate count in 2020 is a fundamental step in determining our educational and workforce needs on a national scale. The post Every Person Counts: How the 2020 U.S. Every 10 years, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2024

Though the concept of medical-legal partnerships has existed since the 1990s, the Yale partnership, launched in November 2020, is the first in the nation focused exclusively on children’s behavioral health. Last year, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services invested $1.6

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Opportunities Driving Growth and Innovation The findings challenge traditional narratives attributing the rise of mega-settlements to external pressures like climate change or resource scarcity. Time, process, and structured transformation in archaeology. Crellin, R. Change and archaeology. 1 Arponen, V. Ohlrau, R., & Kerig, T.

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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. Traditional stories rely on 2D technologies like paper or images. The post Vote for Digital Promise in the 2020 SXSW EDU PanelPicker appeared first on Digital Promise. Attendees will walk away with insight into how to help students care about others.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year. competitiveness, went the thinking.

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Digital Promise

MAY 28, 2021

When schools were forced to quickly shift to distance learning in March 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) team immediately sprung into action to provide professional learning and support to educators within the network—which grew to 264 middle and high schools across the country by late 2020.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Problematizing Gendered Binaries We began our time as AFA AN Contributing Editors in March 2020, coinciding with the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, and are ending our tenure in a (presumably) post-pandemic world. Put otherwise, what can these pieces convey about what is pressing for our feminist anthropological community?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Quarrying activity at Anyama between 2020 and 2021 irreversibly damaged much of the Bété I site, erasing priceless evidence of our past. "It But what if that story is incomplete? What if, in the dense, humid embrace of a rainforest, some of our earliest ancestors were not merely surviving, but thriving? Their conclusion?

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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. angu Lakota, San Carlos Apache and Quechan, holds a traditional Great Lakes lacrosse stick.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

On June 10, 2020, as the U.S. In June 2020, the Center on Reinventing Public Education, a think tank based at the University of Washington, posted a survey of summer school plans around the country. Those final results are expected to be published later in 2020 but I’m not anticipating a surprise turnaround.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Preliminary research from the nonprofit assessment group NWEA suggested that students would retain only 70 percent of last year’s gains in reading when they returned for the 2020-21 academic year compared with a typical school year.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity. This individualized approach has the potential to inform the traditional classroom setting and improve learning for all students.

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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. According to the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

When the coronavirus hit in the spring of 2020, student surveys indicated that four-year colleges would be hit the hardest this fall, with many students turning to cheaper two-year community colleges until the pandemic ended. Students are vanishing from community colleges during the pandemic fall of 2020.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions. Today, in the nontraditional sector, organizations and services have abandoned key elements of traditional higher education practice.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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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. Now at the end of 2020, I’d estimate that +95% of all K-12 students took some form of an online class, and most likely this trend will continue into 2021.

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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. Before 2020, Helene Gaddie had never really considered homeschooling. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. The Gaddies. You’re stronger minded.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. Yet, traditional ESOL teacher certification processes are often burdensome, inflexible and financially onerous. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Traditional math curriculum “is essentially focused on preparing students for STEM pathways in college,” Cook said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Some skeptics wonder if minutes spent writing takes precious class time away from learning topics the traditional way by, for instance, reading, listening, taking notes, and completing worksheets and projects. Many experiments have documented the power of writing outside of English classes but others haven’t found it to be so beneficial.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2020

Adapted and reprinted from Know Your Price: Valuing Black Lives and Property in America’s Black Cities by Andre Perry, with permission from Brookings Institution Press, © 2020 by Brookings Institution. School traditions often connect one generation to the next, providing a sense of community stability and cohesion.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

The starkest example is eighth grade students, who were in fourth grade when the pandemic first erupted in March of 2020. But the pace of learning, or rate of academic growth, has been rocky since 2020, with some students missing many months of instruction. This is a crisis moment with middle schoolers,” said Lewis.

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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

MAY 6, 2021

The civil unrest of spring 2020 laid bare racial inequities and accelerated the job market’s readiness to embrace young and diverse workers. And career and technical education, or CTE, schools, with their higher graduation and college-going rates than traditional comprehensive high schools, are producing strong candidates.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. McWilliams, of ETS, says she’s had a “mindset shift” in the past year about how she thinks about AI in testing.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The matter became international news in 2020 when a group of scientists reported several red and blue polyester strings more than five miles above sea level near Mount Everest’s peak. Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language.

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