Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

Our first edtech peer learning cohort (2022-23) featured nine teams, ranging from a single-site charter school to a large urban district, as well as a regional team of smaller, rural districts. Each team worked on addressing a specific problem of practice in their school system.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

For the past five years (2017-2022), Digital Promise has worked with eight different school districts across eight different states designing their own K-12 Computational Thinking Pathways. To date, all 50 U.S. It wasn’t one more thing for teachers to do. It was another means to enact the Portrait itself.”

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

These hearths typically consist of circular arrangements of stones surrounding ash deposits, often accompanied by burned artifacts or plant remains. One of the key indicators of fire control in archaeological sites is the presence of combustion structures, such as hearths. link] 7 Zohar, I., Alperson-Afil, N., Goren-Inbar, N., Tütken, T.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

But artifacts from the building’s former life serving older kids remain. In late 2022, they welcomed a daughter, Hope. Across the country, shuttered schools like Cold Springs Elementary in Missoula, Montana, are being remodeled and repurposed as centers for early child care.

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Elementary School Artifacts Public School Education 128

Studies Weekly

JANUARY 10, 2024

Creating Connections Because Studies Weekly’s print publications are consumable, students can create artifacts to demonstrate their learning by cutting the primary sources and other information out of their publications. As students physically create artifacts, they visibly represent their thinking, understanding, and skills.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

Sue helped teach my students and me that public history goes beyond preserving an artifact behind glass and posting a caption about it. Sue is leading the museum through a meaningful time as they transition to a more community-hub vibe than a traditional museum.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. Deciphering the Plaques: A History of Theories Since the 1800s, scholars have speculated about the meaning of these artifacts, numbering around 1,626 recovered to date.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 6, 2025

Przedwojewska-Szymańska/PASI; Antiquity (2025) An Unexpected Discovery in the Highlands of El Salvador In 2022, archaeologists excavating the summit of a Preclassic structure in San Isidro unearthed an extraordinary tableau: five clay figurines carefully arranged in what appears to be a deliberate formation. Scale in centimetres.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

First, when the government office tasked with the Tuam excavation initiated an early DNA sampling campaign for elderly and sick presumed relatives of children in the grave, the genetic kinship analysis provisions of the 2022 Institutional Burials Act became an object of contention.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 14, 2024

Despite the abundance of artifacts unearthed from this civilization, human remains are notably scarce, leaving many aspects of their daily lives shrouded in mystery. Journal : Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2022. These “mega-sites” housed populations as large as 15,000. DOI : 10.1016/j.quaint.2014.12.016

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Archaeology K-12 Archiving Artifacts 98

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

At the Sanxingdui site, eight sacrificial pits have revealed layers of ash, burned artifacts, and fabric remnants. Among these artifacts, a unique bronze "grid-like ware" embedded with jade provided critical clues. Steppe weapons in ancient China and the role of hand-to-hand combat. The National Palace Museum Research Quarterly.

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Artifacts Archaeology Museum Cultures 97

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Discovered alongside an extraordinary assemblage of Clovis artifacts—bone tools, projectile points, and red ochre—this burial site has been a key to understanding the Clovis culture. Journal : American Antiquity , 2022. Mammoth Ivory Rods in Eastern Beringia: Earliest in North America Authors : Wygal, B. DOI : 10.1017/aaq.2022.45

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