ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me. Teaching has consumed me.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. And he records the conversations.

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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 ). First I got the school calendar and plotted all the teaching weeks from September to February.

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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. Here are our top picks for the Feb.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

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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!

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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.

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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. Like Indiana, states should recognize civic excellence by offering civic seals to high school graduates.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2022

As an Asian American, my lived experience and this research make me firmly believe that we must do a better job of teaching Asian American history and culture in the U.S. — not only to foster more understanding and tolerance, but also to show the beauty and complexity of cultures often neglected. There are signs of progress.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

That’s one of the primary concerns of those watching these populations of students, according to Lynette Guastaferro, CEO of Teaching Matters, a New York-based nonprofit that tries to expand access to quality instruction. For the kind of intervention Teaching Matters performs, the data is “non-negotiable,” he says.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

My first foray into using video in my teaching involved a TV cart wheeled into my classroom, replete with a connected VHS player—and no remote. Whether a feature film or an instructional video, the ‘80s and ‘90s were a ‘press-play’ culture that expected students to sit still, absorb and retain, while the educator sat in the back grading.

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Teaching Anthropology

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. The students used questions I developed and used in my research project. References Keating, E.

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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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ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

"BREAK MY SOUL", in particular, reflects my work as a public high school history teacher as I have had my own renaissance navigating the toxic landscape that further marginalizes educators struggling to hold on to their humanity while teaching. However, that would require us to recognize the art that goes into teaching in the first place.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. Im teaching her! 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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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate teaches Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders. When I teach unit rates, I transform my room into a grocery store. This teaches them that they can learn anything. This isn’t really about math. Tier 3: “My job.

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ED Surge

JUNE 1, 2022

Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year, at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History in April. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year So many times we hear that teachers are superheroes, and I really want to disagree with that, because I'm not a superhero. Autumn Rivera, 2022 Colorado Teacher of the Year.

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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.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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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 ASCD article notes that meaningful mathematical discourse is one of the eight effective mathematics teaching practices , as defined by the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

Adirondack Cultural Ecology. In a 2022 global survey , 60 percent of higher education institutions said that climate-related content is found in fewer than 10 percent of their courses. Environment and Sustainability in Enlightenment France. Modeling for Energy and Infrastructure Project Finance. Perspectives on the Amazon.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

Tonya Clarke, the coordinator of K-12 mathematics for Clayton County schools, and her colleagues shared the Cardi B lesson at a math convention earlier this fall as an example of a culturally relevant lesson that can lure students into thinking about math in a way that is engaging and exciting. The initial idea draws them in,” Clarke said.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2024

The vast majority of school districts used seniority as the sole criteria for determining which teachers were laid off, according to a 2022 policy brief published in the journal Education Finance and Policy. Oregon keeps LIFO in place, but in 2021 carved out an exception for teachers with “ cultural and linguistic expertise.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Edmonds’s study, “ Role Models Revisited: HBCUs, Same Race Teacher Effects and Black Student Achievement, ” hasn’t been peer reviewed or published in an academic journal, but an August 2022 draft was publicly posted. Edmonds doubts that math instructional approaches at HBCUs are dramatically different from those at other teaching programs.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They were exchanging stickers of sought-after players as they prepared for the 2022 World Cup, which was at least two full months away at that point. Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2024

Delving into the downward trend in math scores around the world : When the Program for International Student Assessment released its results from 2022, it showed that math scores had fallen steeply. Does it potentially cause more harm than good? Samuels explores possible causes, and how countries are responding.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2024

That said, the effort has come with challenges: Northgate spent many months getting buy-in from school staff and families at a time when school-based mental health had become a target of the culture wars elsewhere. Covid lit the house on fire,” said Jeff Evancho, Northgate’s director of partnerships and equity.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. Everett Collection/Shutterstock At the same time, I also recognize that my privileged experience in Hawaiʻi was forged by settler culture , the effects of which still persist in the state educational system.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

Related: An unnoticed result of the decline of men in college: It’s harder for women to get in While engineering is one college discipline in which men continue to outnumber women , Northeastern has since 2022 even been admitting slightly more female than male first-year engineering students. It had such a weed-out culture.

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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.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. Ensuring safe and supportive teaching and learning environments is also key. That is not easily replaced.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Related: PROOF POINTS: The lesson the arts teach Decades of research show that participating in music and arts education during and after school benefits young people. Nearly 4 million U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

The signatories to the letter proclaim that teaching phonics is a settled issue, yet their curriculums only have a smattering of phonics instruction while still promoting three-cueing. Re OPINION: “ A call for rejecting the newest reading war ” (Nov. 18 letter to the editor. They’ve had more than ample opportunity to prove their research.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 31, 2022

We’ve rounded up the top resources from October 2022 and included highlights here. Here are our top picks for the October 2022 reads to catch up on. Watch culturally responsive teaching expert Zaretta Hammond discuss how to combat learning loss by embracing productive struggle.

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