Where To Find Sensory Teaching Tools For Your Classroom
TeachThought
MAY 2, 2025
Where To Find Sensory Teaching Tools For Your Classroom In a world full of stimuli, sensory rooms are becoming an essential tool for schools looking to better s
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The Week That Was In 234
Moler's Musing
MAY 2, 2025
This week in 234, we stacked a lot of learning into five daysFast & Curious, Frayer Models, Mini Reports, Short Answer Battle Royales, and even a Netflix-themed summative. We used Thin Slides and AI tools like MagicSchool to keep thinking sharp and feedback immediate. Students worked through compromises, created empathy maps, asked hard questions, and wrapped it all up with creative final products.
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As ‘bot’ students continue to flood in, community colleges struggle to respond
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 28, 2025
This story was first published by Voice of San Diego and is reprinted with permission. Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern College faculty feel their leaders havent done enough to curb the crisis. When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good.
“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past
Anthropology.net
MAY 1, 2025
Science at the Request of the People The sweeping desert of north-central New Mexico carries centuries of memory in its sandstone, canyons, and wind. In this landscape stands Picuris Pueblo—a small, sovereign tribal nation whose history has long been narrated in stories passed down through generations. These stories speak of migration, of belonging, of origins tied to Chaco Canyon, one of the great ceremonial and cultural centers of the ancient Puebloan world.
Majority of Parents Rely on Friends and Family for Child Care, Report Finds
ED Surge
MAY 2, 2025
A new study shows trust is the most important factor for parents when choosing child care, with many leaning toward at-home programs or relying on their families, friends and neighbors. But researchers are concerned there is not adequate support in place for those systems to flourish, with the majority of legislation focused on bolstering child care centers.
50 (Mostly) Simple Ways To Encourage Creativity In The Classroom
TeachThought
MAY 4, 2025
Here are 30 ideas to promote creativity in learning, including tapping into multiple intelligences and using emotional connections.
Honoring the Life of Lincoln with His Last Speech
Teaching American History
APRIL 29, 2025
This blog was first posted on April 15, 2014. We rerun it today in honor of theanniversaryof Abraham Lincoln’s assassination onApril 15th, 1865. “The latest photograph of President Lincoln – taken on the balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865,” Henry F. Warren. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19192. Today, April 15th , is the anniversary of Lincolns assassination.
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Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas
Anthropology.net
APRIL 30, 2025
By the time Europeans arrived in the Americas, thousands of distinct Indigenous languages had already shaped the way people described landscapes, kinship, time, and the cosmos. These languages, many of which still survive today, are more than means of communication—they are archaeological strata encoded in speech. A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent.
One District’s Approach to Successful AI Integration
ED Surge
APRIL 30, 2025
Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps? As districts explore AIs potential, they must also confront critical questions about equity, algorithmic bias and access.
The Foundational 4 Cs of Critical Thinking in K-12 Education
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MAY 1, 2025
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OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning
The Hechinger Report
APRIL 28, 2025
Arts graduates, both undergraduate and postgraduate, are highly educated yet often unprepared for careers beyond academia. Traditional arts education frequently leaves them struggling to enter commercial sectors like galleries, auction houses and publishing. Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles.
Meet the 2025 Scholars of the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Program
Political Science Now
APRIL 29, 2025
APSA is pleased to announce the 2025 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Class. This year, 14 undergraduate students will participate in the annual, intensive five-week program hosted by Duke University. The 2025 institute is being held May 25 June 26, 2025, under the direction of Dr. Paula D. McClain. This is the 39th year of the program. RBSI is designed to introduce aspiring political scientists to the world of doctoral study.Named in honor of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner, former APSA
Neanderthal Engineers of the Ice Age: A Bone Spear Point from Mezmaiskaya Cave Challenges the Narrative
Anthropology.net
MAY 2, 2025
The Point Beneath the Hearth High in the North Caucasus, tucked into the limestone layers of Mezmaiskaya Cave, archaeologists have found 1 what may be the oldest bone projectile point in Europe. It’s not made of flint or obsidian. It’s not large. In fact, it’s just 9 centimeters long, whittled from the dense outer layer of a bison’s limb.
How One District Built Coherent Systems for Digital Equity
Digital Promise
APRIL 29, 2025
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How To Play The ‘Count To Ten’ Team-Building Game
TeachThought
APRIL 28, 2025
Understanding how to play the 'count to 10' team-building game is about rules, timing, and sequence. Engaged students pick it up quickly.
Beyond the Science of Reading: What Montessori Can Teach Us About Early Literacy
Maitri Learning
MAY 2, 2025
For decades, the United States has invested billions in reading research, yet nearly two-thirds of fourth graders still cannot read proficiently according to national assessments (National Assessment for Educational Progress [NAEP], 2022; Weasler, 2024). As a literacy educator and researcher, I've been fascinated by a recent dissertation that sheds light on a potential blind spot in our approach to reading instruction.
AI: risky business
Living Geography
APRIL 29, 2025
Tim Price Walker has produced a nice piece on LinkedIn exploring the use of AI in Geography. The core strengths of geographythe ability to analyse, connect, and synthesise information across places and spacesare more essential than ever. These foundational skills empower us to engage with a changing world, and, importantly, they remain our anchor as new dimensions of reality emerge.
Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape
Anthropology.net
APRIL 30, 2025
At first glance, the animal figures painted on rock shelters in the northeast Kimberley look deceptively simple—thin outlines of kangaroos, some barely adorned, others stylized into abstract form. For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP).
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings
Political Science Now
MAY 2, 2025
Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings By Christina L. Boyd , University of Georgia ; Paul M. Collins Jr. , University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Lori A. Ringhand , University of Georgia. In this research letter, we examine whether gender and racial bias affect interruption rates at one of the most visible events in American politics: US Supreme Court confirmation hearings.
Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs
TeachThought
APRIL 28, 2025
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CORE praised in The Atlantic article
CORE Econ
APRIL 29, 2025
Were proud to see the CORE Econ project mentioned by Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen in an article for The Atlantic: America and its universities need a new social contract. Danielle commended our efforts to make the teaching of economics more relevant to present day economic realities and the concerns of students: “An example of a valuable initiative is University College Londons CORE Econ project.
GA Blog: Creative Fieldwork
Living Geography
APRIL 29, 2025
It's been nice to see little elements of the importance of the everyday making their way into other resources and blogs. Creative Fieldwork 2 was produced by the Field Studies Council in partnership with the Geographical Association and Newcastle University. The book can be purchased from the GA Shop. I have a copy. The book contains a range of creative fieldwork approaches, which engage students with questions that they think are important and worthwhile, often in their local area where they li
Stone, Silence, and Sand: New Evidence of Pleistocene Life in Iran’s Central Desert
Anthropology.net
MAY 2, 2025
Tracing Human Movement Across the Iranian Heartland In the northern reaches of Iran’s Central Desert, nestled between the rugged Alborz Mountains and the flat, wind-worn claylands to the south, archaeologists have uncovered eight scattered landscapes rich in Paleolithic stone tools. These findings 1 from Eyvanekey, Semnan Province, represent the first direct evidence of Pleistocene hominin activity in the central corridor of this harsh, often overlooked region. “The archaeological re
5 Key Insights for Sustainable School Change, According to Superintendents and Researchers
Education Elements
MAY 1, 2025
In today's rapidly evolving world, change feels like the only constanta paradox highlighting the relentless pace confronting educational leaders. In our recently launched podcast, The K-12 Change Equation , conversations with educational leaders consistently underscore a crucial theme: meaningful, systemic change rooted deeply in historical context, student voice , visionary leadership, and sustained community advocacy is not just beneficial, its essential.
Things That Shaped Me: The Student Who Called It Like It Was
Moler's Musing
MAY 3, 2025
It was late in the year. We had a new textbook series, and I was opening our Civil War unit with what the book called a geography challenge. Blank map. Labeling instructions. A few basic questions. I passed it out like I had all yeargoing through the motions, hoping something would click. Then a student stood up and asked the question I hadnt said out loud, but had been carrying with me for months: Why are we doing this?
Beyond Zimbardo: The Stanford Prison Experiment
ShortCutsTV
MAY 4, 2025
The Stanford Prison Experiment, arguably one of the most controversial experiments of the 20th century, has polarised opinions for over 50 years: To its supporters, the transformation of perfectly decent college students into brutal guards or compliant prisoners demonstrated the power of situations to determine behaviour.
Heathrow Expansion
Living Geography
MAY 2, 2025
Rachel Reeves announced in February 2025 that the Government will be going ahead with planning for a 3rd runway at Heathrow Airport despite the obvious impact that will have on speeding us to 2 degrees and more of warming. The Standard has now published a map of the immediate area affected by the plans. Sipson is mentioned here The third runway project really began to take shape in 2006 when the Department for Transport published a report mooting the possibility.
Faces from the Deep Past: How Europe's Skulls Record 30,000 Years of Upheaval
Anthropology.net
MAY 1, 2025
The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. Across millennia, Europe’s crania have silently recorded the toll of famine, climate, warfare, and migration. A new study 1 by Pavel Grasgruber of Masaryk University traces the sweeping changes in male cranial morphology from the Upper Paleolithic to the cusp of the Bronze Age, offering a rare skeletal counterpoint to the genetic narratives that often dominate prehistoric discourse.
For Example: How to Use Examples in Political Science
Political Science Now
APRIL 30, 2025
For Example: How to Use Examples in Political Science By John S. Dryzek , University of Canberra. There is a large literature on the use of cases, hardly anything on examples. They are different: cases get analyzed, examples get deployed. Examples can perform clarifying, didactic, persuasive, universalizing, critical, and cogitative functions. These six functions all have their own logic, and a set of guidelines for how to perform each of them well is developed.
Impacts of volcanic eruption
O-Level Geography
MAY 3, 2025
What are the environmental impacts of volcanic eruption? How did the 2023 Icelandic volcano eruption affects the Arctic? Impact of Icelandic volcanic eruption on the Arctic based on satellite, ground observations, and PSCF analysis.
Dynamic Learning: Mindmaps
ShortCutsTV
APRIL 28, 2025
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ALAW
Living Geography
MAY 4, 2025
Which stands for"All Leeds aren't we?" Yesterday was a stressful couple of hours as I followed the live text updates on the final games of the 2024-25 Championship season. The situation changed quite a few times, with either Burnley or Leeds set to lift the trophy. It was into injury time when the deciding goal was scored, confirming Leeds as Champions.
Hunter-Gatherers at the Edge of the Ice: Tracing the Ahrensburgian in Scotland’s Far Northwest
Anthropology.net
APRIL 29, 2025
When the last Ice Age released its grip on northern Europe, vast landscapes emerged from the ice. Among them was a rugged, newly exposed frontier—the British Isles. While the southern lowlands began to host reindeer hunters and mobile foragers, the highlands and islands of Scotland remained largely uncharted in the archaeological record. Until now.
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities
Political Science Now
MAY 1, 2025
From Protest to Child-Rearing: How Movement Politics Shape Socialization Priorities By Allison P. Anoll , Vanderbilt University ; Andrew M. Engelhardt , Stony Brook University ; MacKenzie Israel-Trummel , William & Mary. Classic political behavior studies assert that childhood socialization can contribute to later political orientations. But, as adults consider how to introduce children to politics, what shapes their decisions?
The Evolving Landscape of CTE
ED Surge
MAY 1, 2025
Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are evolving, becoming more deeply integrated into mainstream high school curricula. Alongside this transition is an expanded perspective on career exploration, and a stronger emphasis on student agency and well-being. In this first episode of a new series, The Idea Spark podcast, host Carl Hooker speaks with Elyse Monahan, a former CTE educator and current National Product Sales Specialist at Pearson.
How VC3 Is Advancing Video Coaching for Teacher Learning (via ET Magazine)
Edthena
MAY 1, 2025
In the news In a recent article from ET Magazine , Edthena’s VC3 platform was highlighted as the next evolution in video coaching, designed to elevate teacher learning through deeper collaboration and smart, time-saving tools. According to the article, drawing on more than a decade of innovation, VC3 combines asynchronous video-based coaching with new layers of AI-driven insight.
Zed Nelson: The Anthropocene Illusion
Living Geography
MAY 3, 2025
In the paper today was an image from Zed Nelson's book: 'The Anthropocene Illusion'. It's a painted wall in a zoo, but who is the painting for? Not the occupant of the cage. On his Facebook page, Zed says: After six years of working on The Anthropocene Illusion, the project (and I) have won the Sony World Photography Award 2025. It couldnt be better timed with the book coming out on May 15 (on pre-sale now).
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