A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Effective leadership is not just about setting goals, improving pedagogy , and making decisions; it's also about managing relationships and resolving conflicts. Adaptability, inspiring trust, and leveraging an empathetic lens are crucial elements for a positive resolution (Kouzes & Posner, 2017; Goleman, 1988; Tannenbaum & Schmidt, 1973). As a leader, your ability to defuse the situation and restore calm can have a profound impact on the learning environment in your school or district.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Listen to the interview with Jocelyn Greene: Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom Picture this: A group of students stands in front of the class taking turns speaking confidently about the content they’ve been studying. But they’re not just kids anymore; they are news anchors, talk show hosts, or curators at an art gallery. They are playing “as if” they are inside the locations in their literature or science.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto and Susannah Clinker, PhD Student, University of Toronto The Schreiber Wood Project (SWP) field school, led by Professor Michael Brand with assistance from Dr. Trevor Orchard takes place on lands once owned by the Schreiber family, settlers from England who acquired the land in the mid-19th century. This land later became the northern end of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus in the Greater Toronto Area.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Information and Communication Overloading (ICO) and “Mindful Media” contributed by Dr. Domenico Meschino In today’s digital age, children are immersed in many online activities that shape their daily lives. Social media has become integral to their social landscape, with platforms like YouTube capturing their attention. These platforms serve as virtual gathering places where children connect with friends, share photos and videos, and express themselves through posts and stories

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? I’m sure they are full of opinions and ready to discuss their thoughts with the class! This will definitely be an exciting election year. So, it is crucial to teach students about the voting process and its importance to our democracy. When teaching voting in the social studies classroom, students need to be civically engaged to understand how voting is essential to our democracy.

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Thrive in Grade Five

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Can anyone become President of the United States? When kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, you’ll hear at least a few say that they want to become President. That’s a great aspiration to have, but the founding fathers included guidelines in the Constitution detailing the requirements for presidential candidates. Before we dive in, I’d love to share the Election 2024 Map that I’m using with my students.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

A recent discovery 1 of Neanderthal remains in a cave in southern France has reignited debate about the reasons behind the extinction of Neanderthals approximately 40,000 years ago. While researchers have long speculated about various factors, a new study from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen provides significant evidence supporting the theory that Neanderthals may have vanished due to their isolated social structures and lack of genetic diversity.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Introduction This week in the classroom was packed with diverse activities and learning experiences. Here’s a quick overview of what we covered: Concluded our unit on Native Americans in Ohio Held a commemorative lesson on 9/11 Began a new unit on European exploration Utilized various EduProtocols and tech tools including Gimkit, Blooket, and Storyfile Each day brought its own set of challenges and opportunities as we worked through these topics and experimented with different teaching met

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Ben Newmark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

AI is stalking the world for problems it can present itself as the solution to – problems you did not even know you had. It will organise our calendars and write emails to our bosses and employees. AI will paint our pictures and script our film. It will write our poetry and letters to our lovers. For teachers it brings great news too. AI can plan your lessons – saving you time and easing your workload.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Ready or not, across the country, a new crop of kindergarteners has entered the K-12 school system. Their teachers will spend these early weeks determining where the 5- and 6-year-olds are developmentally, what academic, social and emotional skills they bring, and what support they need to set them up for a successful school year. That job has become more difficult in recent years, according to numerous surveys , research studies and EdSurge interviews, as the last few classes of kindergarteners

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The pandemic disrupted education in previously unimaginable ways. It limited testing and pushed schools toward remote learning and easier assignments, along with softer grading and a more relaxed attitude around attendance. These accommodations were supposed to be short-term, but most are still with us and are having a negative impact on students. This needs to change.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As children across the United States return to school, playground equipment like jungle gyms and monkey bars once again take center stage. While these fixtures have been playground staples since the 1920s, they have also become symbols of parental concern due to the potential for injuries. Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After a 60-year haitus, an Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna was seen in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. A poet-anthropologist reflects on the echidna’s message through the storied lens of the people of Yongsu Sapari. ✽ As a parent of a young child who loves animals, I find myself speaking with her about species extinction and conservation fairly often.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

What is the instructional leadership gap and how does it affect the learning outcomes of our students? I recently sat down with three district leaders, Sean Bulson, Superintendent, Hartford, (MD) Public Schools, Jerry Boyd, Superintendent of Washington County (TN) Schools, and Portia Slaughter, Chief Academic Officer at Harrisburg City (PA) School District to discuss these critical questions.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. She would help students gain political efficacy—the knowledge and confidence they need to make their voices count in our political system. Once she found her calling, colleagues helped her make her way.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With five children aged 11 to 24, Cyd Detiege has sent her kids to Palm Springs Unified School District in Southern California for nearly two decades. “It’s gotten hotter,” she said, noting record-breaking temperatures in the desert city, which hit an all-time high of 124 degrees this July. The first day of school in Palm Springs this year was August 7, when temperatures reached 109 degrees.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024. Organized by Sequoia Miller and Dame Odundo, the presentation was a transhistorical and transcultural journey through Odundo’s methodology and approach to makin

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. Just look on popular Facebook groups and Reddit threads for tips on getting into selective colleges, and you’ll likely find posts recommending that students participate in intensive research or compete in science competitions as a way to stand out on college applications.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In a very groundbreaking, surprising study 1 , researchers have revealed that European Neanderthals consisted of at least two distinct populations, evolving in isolation for tens of thousands of years. Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today? I ask myself this question in the mirror of my undergraduate dorm room. Not aloud, of course. That would defeat the whole point. The answer isn’t for me. I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The post Announcing the Launch of the HP AI Academy: Empowering Educators with Generative AI appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Meetings are where people come together in time and space. We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. People who have experienced state torture while in prison often use meetings to share their stories with those who have no such experiences. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Integrating technology into the classroom involves more than just adding gadgets and software; it’s about creating a dynamic learning environment where students are actively engaged and teachers can teach more effectively. This journey requires collaboration among technology teams, instructional coaches and educators. Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology t

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A recent study, published on September 3, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Complex Systems 1 , presents groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms driving social evolution. The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Content warning: this blog post includes discussions of eugenics and racism which some readers may find upsetting.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Yesterday, I saw a message on Threads (I've stepped away from Twitter as you know) about delays to the GCSE Natural History being reported on Schoolsweek. When I first saw the headline I thought it may be that the plug had been pulled on the project, but it was just confirming something that was already inevitable: that it would be 2026 at the earliest before schools would be able to start teaching the new GCSE option.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Recently, I took Google’s new AI-powered tool, NotebookLM, for a spin, and I have to say, it’s a powerful addition to the research and learning toolkit. Designed as a digital notebook, NotebookLM allows users to interact with their documents in a way that feels like a conversation. By integrating Google’s AI capabilities, it provides not only summaries and insights but also the ability to create an Recently, I took Google’s new AI-powered tool, NotebookLM, for a spin, and it’s

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Paul Carr was just one semester shy of finishing his degree at Morehouse College when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. So he decided to stop out, to get a job to support his budding family. He told himself he’d go back soon to finish. That was more than 25 years ago. Carr always intended to return. In fact, he made a promise to his father on his deathbed that he would finish his college degree.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For centuries, the narrative of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been steeped in stories of environmental collapse and societal downfall. The prevailing theory, widely believed by historians and ecologists alike, suggested that the ancient Rapa Nui people exhausted their natural resources to build massive stone statues, leading to a population crash. This view, largely based on reports from European explorers in the 18th century, painted a grim picture of ecological disaster as the island’s on

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The post 5 Research-Backed Strategies to Help Learners Build Spatial Skills appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

A new(ish) resource which can be accessed and used by members of the Geographical Association. I am considering adding a section of this to my teaching this year. Sycamore Gap is a significant landmark in Northumberland where three distinct features combined: a natural and dramatic dip in the physical landscape about halfway along the 80-mile run of Hadrian’s Wall, itself an ancient monument and reminder of the power of the Roman Empire, and until recently, a lone, 300-year-old Sycamore tree.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here. 109 on the first day of school? That was the case this year in Palm Springs, California, where parent Cyd Detiege has been campaigning to delay the start of the school year because of extreme heat. Palm Springs Unified District officials haven’t budged, but administrators elsewhere in the country are shifting school calendars to keep kids from commuting to school in high heat and learning in sweltering classrooms, a

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“When I present myself in front of students in a positive emotional state, I can increase student cognition, effort and long-term retention of information, Dr. Timothy Kanold excitedly shares. “The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In a dystopian short story, an anthropologist imagines an alternate world in which Kashmiris are forbidden to dream. Republished by permission from English Language Notes , 61(2): 15–18. Copyright 2023, Regents of the University of Colorado. All rights reserved. ✽ I SEE THE DEAD body of the young boy in my head. After the word got out that he had begun dreaming the military arrested and disappeared him.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Michael Dukakis could have been the first Greek-American president. But in November 1988, the then-governor of Massachusetts lost the election to George Bush Sr. Perhaps the U.S. wasn’t ready yet for a commander in chief with an exotic surname and non-European heritage (Dukakis’ father was born in a small town on the coast of Asia Minor, now part of Turkey).

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Via my At the Home of Geography blog. Doreen's unpublished archive is held at the Royal Geographical Society (with IBG) I saw this earlier via Threads (find me there @geo_blogs - I've stopped using Twitter). An exciting opportunity to move towards a PhD by exploring the Doreen Massey archive. Doreen Massey (1944-2016) changed geography. Her theoretical work on space, place and power helped enliven and transform debates across the discipline and well beyond, bringing many into the conversation ov

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