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Ditching Traditional Grades & My Online Gradebook

Catlin Tucker

This summer I read Starr Stackstein’s book Hacking Assessment: 10 Ways to Go Gradeless in a Traditional Grades School. In her book, Stackstein chronicles her journey ditching grades in a traditional school setting and offers some excellent strategies a teacher can use to go gradeless.

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The Role of a Leader in Building Capacity

A Principal's Reflections

As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques you wish to see in your classrooms, archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations. To complement traditional means of professional learning, work to create or further develop a Personal Learning Network (PLN).

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Learning Never Stops

A Principal's Reflections

For the purposes of this post, let’s put aside more traditional pathways that are either provided to educators or ones that are sought out, such as conferences and workshops. While every webinar is broadcast live at a set time, what makes them very appealing is that they are archived for convenient viewing.

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Tracing Roti’s Pasts, Presents, and Futures

Sapiens

I (Mariam) grew up in a Pakistani diaspora family, where I observed roti-making as an organizing tradition of my home culture, but one that remained a gender-exclusive space for girls, mothers, and aunties. We both started our lifelong studies of roti at a young ageboth as a frequent eater and observer of the food. where I teach.

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10 Strategies to Improve Instructional Leadership

A Principal's Reflections

As you come across research that supports the types of effective pedagogical techniques that you wish to see in your classrooms archive it in a document that you can refer to when writing up observations. To compliment traditional means of professional learning, work to create or further develop a Personal Learning Network (PLN).

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Bits and Bytes Don’t Leave Bones

Anthropology News

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression. Digital artifacts follow the same patterns.

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Call for Pitches: Care

Anthropology News

How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations? Issued: July 15, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until November 1, 2024 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the forms of care that permeate human and nonhuman worlds.