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Meet Your Stakeholders Where They Are

A Principal's Reflections

Earlier this year I was fortunate enough to have an article published in the digital version of ASCD's Educational Leadership. The title of the article was Transforming Your School with Digital Communication. As our learning culture began to change it was critical that I was able to articulate these changes to my stakeholders.

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Keeping Kids Engaged in Remote Learning

A Principal's Reflections

A recent Chalkbeat article highlighted the results of some surveys that alluded to this issue: And engagement with schoolwork was relatively low across the board, reflecting the challenges of keeping students engaged in a chaotic time and of teaching from a distance. They sure don't facilitate an engaging learning experience for kids.

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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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The Pedagogy of Digital Discussion

A Principal's Reflections

As I was researching for some solid pedagogical links, I came across this wonderful article that Todd Finley wrote for Edutopia titled Rethinking Whole Class Discussion. As a supplement to traditional discussion strategies technology can serve as a catalyst to increase engagement by getting more learners actively involved during lessons.

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Are Schools Ready for What Comes Next?

A Principal's Reflections

Will the lessons learned during the pandemic be applied to create a better learning culture for kids? Cornelius Minor recently penned an article titled Why #BlackLivesMatter in Your Classroom Too. How will social distancing work? How will you focus on mental, just not physical, health of students and staff?

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Children as Artists: A New Perspective on Upper Paleolithic Cave Art

Anthropology.net

The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. 1 ” Rewriting Prehistory: Were Children Active Creators?

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The Problem With Zeros

A Principal's Reflections

Just because something has been done in the past, or is a traditional component of school culture, does not mean it is an effective practice. For some practical alternatives to dishing out zeros check out the latter portion of the article by Norrell titled Less Than Zero. doctor’s note, death in the family, etc.).