Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce that 28 districts are joining the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2022-2023 school year. Please join us in welcoming the new 2022-2023 cohort of the League of Innovative Schools! million students served over time. Abington School District (Pennsylvania).

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort. PadgettLacey) October 20, 2022. — Lacey Padgett Ed.D.

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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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Archiving Archaeology Humanities Cultures 98

Anthropology.net

APRIL 16, 2025

According to co-author Raven Garvey, an anthropologist at the University of Michigan, modern humans likely used a suite of cultural technologies to mitigate UV exposure. It is plausible, Garvey noted, that some caves were used not just for their cultural or symbolic significance but as literal refuges from a more dangerous atmosphere.

Humanities 105

Humanities Archaeology Cultures History 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Across the San Carlos Unified School District, 76 percent of students were chronically absent during the 2022-2023 school year, meaning they missed 10 percent or more of the school year. government’s campaign to break up Native American culture, language and identity by forcing children into abusive boarding schools.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Educators need to engage with content like this because the fast pace of school culture often distracts us from what truly matters: empowering student learning. This mindset fosters authentic refinement and supports diverse learning styles.

Education 148

Education EdTech Humanities Critical Thinking 148

Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

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Archaeology Cultures Humanities History 87

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Of 34 states with data available for the 2022-2023 school year, Oklahoma was the only one where Native students missed school at lower rates than the state average, according to data collected by The Associated Press. The football team practices on a new field at Watonga High School, Wednesday, Oct.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2022

This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes how to say “yes” to a sustainable workload, best practices for family engagement, and creating a positive school culture. 2022 reads you shouldn’t miss. Positive school culture might mean flipping the script. Here are our top picks for the Mar.

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K-12 Cultures Research EdTech 98

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. 147–165.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology K-12 Cultures Humanities 98

Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Germn Tsamarenda, the president of the Etsa Shuar Association, poses in front of his truck in November 2022. Over time, Salesian intrusion, brutal at first, moved away from repressive evangelization to support land demarcation, Indigenous self-rule, and cultural revival.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

By Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, & Lara Watkins, Bridgewater State University Students can read about culture, but hearing peers narrate personal experiences in another country provides invaluable firsthand insights. Analysing these narratives allows for a deeper understanding of cultural differences.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Found in different parts of Europe, these two industries have often been grouped together as “transitional industries,” implying that they might share a common technological or cultural origin. This has implications for how we view the spread of modern human culture. But do they? 1) Core exploited by orthogonal planes. (2,

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Artifacts Tradition Humanities 98

Edthena

AUGUST 2, 2022

Missed the top resources for teachers and coaches from July 2022? Here are our top picks for the July 2022 reads to catch up on. ” Here are four ways to help student voices lead and shape the classroom culture. Catch up on our June 2022 top resources for teachers and coaches ! . We’ve got you covered!

EdTech 98

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

the 2022 teacher of the year in Kentucky who is gay and who quit the profession out of fear amid growing hostility toward LGBTQ educators and students at his school. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. One guest was Willie Carver Jr., So the podcast I created is a place to do that.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

2022 reads you shouldn’t miss. Check out what you need to know: Edthena’s new AI Coach has resources [for] teachers with a range of tasks including managing student behavior, facilitating group discussions, providing feedback for students and culturally responsive teaching. 2022 top resources for teachers and coaches ! .

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K-12 Professional Development EdTech Leadership 98

A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 17, 2023

So this year I took a new approach, trying to embed a culture of ongoing retrieval practice throughout year 13, with accountability built in (see also Mike Hobbiss’ excellent post on an alternative way to go about this here ). How, they ask, is anyone meant to revise all of that content for both exams?

Psychology 130

Psychology Cultures Teaching 130

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Credit: Stephanie Strasburg/PublicSource When Muzhda Ayubi arrived in Pittsburgh as a refugee in October 2022, she was the only person in her family who spoke English. Lebanon High School. It was new for them.

Cultures 110

Cultures Political Science K-12 High School 110

Anthropology.net

APRIL 14, 2025

Fire as Cultural Technology Fire is not merely a survival tool. It’s a cultural signature—a human technology that supports cooking, warmth, light, storytelling, and symbolism. ” These questions remain open, and they point to a deeper need to reassess what we expect fire-use to look like archaeologically.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Humanities Cultures Research 98

Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants. Moyer, who is from the U.S., sees herself reflected in the parakeets. They may be migrants to the city, she writes, but its quickly become their home.

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Museum Humanities Library History 128

ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school.

Education 92

Education Professional Development Charter School Lesson Plan 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2025

These include writing culturally relevant lesson plans, automating report cards and helping translate communication with parents. Presenters also highlighted stark differences between how preschool classrooms in different countries are using technology and the cultural gaps in attitudes about technology post-pandemic.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 . “Melka Wakena’s unique high-altitude setting offers valuable insights into how early humans adapted to challenging environments,” the researchers wrote. Future research may uncover even more about how these ancestors managed to flourish in varied and challenging terrains.

Archaeology 105

Archaeology Artifacts Humanities Tradition 105

ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

But that figure can be higher, such as in Los Angeles Unified School District, where 70 percent of homeless students were chronically absent in 2021-2022. As many as 37 percent of homeless students are chronically absent, according to a report from the National Center for Homeless Education.

Cultures 98

Cultures K-12 Library Teaching 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. That number dropped to 10 states in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available. The school-based employees have been the most successful, said Mary Jackson, Iowas transition services bureau chief for vocational rehabilitation services.

High School 134

High School Library Government Public School 134

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

In 2022, only 22 percent of eighth graders tested proficient or above in understanding how this countrys constitutional democracy is supposed to work and how to apply that knowledge.

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Civics K-12 Middle School High School 83

Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. The radiocarbon dating places these tools firmly within the Early Epigravettian, aligning with known sites across Italy.

Archaeology 95

Archaeology K-12 Artifacts Humanities 95

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

On the National Assessment of Educational Progress, a national test done every two years, Minnesota fell from second place among the 50 states in 2009 on eighth grade math scores to eighth place in 2022 , the latest year of available data. Related: Widen your perspective. Related: Eliminating middle school math tracks often sparks outrage.

Middle School 145

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The presence of this distinctive technology so far from its previously known origins raises new questions about ancient human migrations, cultural exchange, and independent innovation. If Denisovans were responsible, this would provide the first material culture directly linked to them. Independent Invention or Cultural Transmission?

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Artifacts Humanities Cultures 52

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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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. After decades documenting others migrations, I turned to my own familys food stories in 2022, when my uncle, Chandran, passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her care isnt about perfectly replicating tradition.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families. Embodied space (s) anthropological theories of body, space, and culture. Space and culture , 6(1), 9-18. References Keating, E. Nicolson, P.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Anthropology Teaching Pedagogy Cultures 130

Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

But was its use during the Upper Paleolithic purely practical, or did it hold deeper cultural significance? The research, published in Archaeological and Anthropological Sciences 1 , presents compelling micro-archaeological evidence that fire was not just a survival tool but a defining cultural trait of the Gravettian tradition.

Archaeology 52

Archaeology Anthropology Group Identity Cultures 52

ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

A 2022 UCLA-MIT Press study found that higher education struggles to capture and leverage data for impact. This digital disconnect isnt just a result of outdated systems; its about the complex web of cultural, organizational and infrastructural barriers that leave many institutions data-rich but insight-poor.

EdTech 64

EdTech K-12 Educational Technology Tutoring 64

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.

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Anthropology Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy 130

Edthena

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Finishing out 2022 strong in your classroom? Keep reading for our top picks for the November 2022 reads to catch up on. This can be tricky when students and teachers are culturally different from each other. Share your own cultural background and experience. You’ll need to key in on what your students need.

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