TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This article explores the transformative power of a collaborative, unified approach, emphasizing the need for intentional, purpose-driven collaboration. It outlines strategies and principles for fostering a culture of mutual respect, trust, and shared vision, highlighting teachers and principals’ critical roles in student success.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Check out this great article from the School Library Journal on this project. Paperlet is an online participatory publishing platform that takes the existing traditional writing process a decisive step further by bringing the readers into the creative process too. Currently she is now working on a similar program for students here.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 14, 2020

Digital leadership calls for a multifaceted approach using both traditional and new-age strategies to ensure that the right message reaches stakeholders in a timely fashion. Leaders have the power to shape the culture of our schools. We can't assume communication staples such as snail mail (i.e.,

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

This article was originally published at YES! Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition. Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons.

Economics 114

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Makerspaces have moved from fringe initiatives to vibrant components of school culture. People craving more than a drive-by event, traditional school professional development day, or mandated training have an authentic outlet that caters to their interests. Leadership is leadership ladies and gentlemen.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 13, 2018

Growth in all aspects of school culture is something that has to be the standard. It begins with getting out of actual and perceived comfort zones to truly start the process of improving school culture. Image credit In a recent article Joani Junkala shares some great thoughts on the importance of stepping outside our comfort zones.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Kim Marshall is the force behind the highly regarded Marshall Memo , a weekly, subscription-only summary of 8 to 10 of the most impactful articles in education. “In one of the articles we summarized, Craig Barton says we learned in teacher school that open-ended questions are best, right?” ” explains David-Lang.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

It was at this point that I began to take more risks to create a better teaching and learning culture at NMHS. Up until this point in my career I would say that I followed the traditional playbook for school leaders. But I learned from a mentor early on that making mistakes is okay; just don''t make the same mistake twice.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 26, 2016

To this day I still remember the article that I read about Twitter in the Staten Island Advance one cold Sunday in March of 2009. As someone who was totally against the use of social media for both personal and professional reasons, that article was intriguing to read as it essentially reinforced my negative perception.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. To put some perspective on this, not one traditional classroom had an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in it four years ago. So what changed? There you have it.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2017

When it has a tight grip on a school culture, any attempt at change is met with resistance or blatant inaction. Traditional Grading Practices and Homework There is a great deal of research out there that supports changes to how educators grade and the use of homework. Get over it! It’s about who you want to be.”

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A multidisciplinary team of researchers explains historical, cultural, and ethical issues they considered while developing a 3D scan of a South African site to be shared with the world online. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons.

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. Places and cultures are proud of what they see as their accomplishments that are foundational to their heritage. But perhaps we should reconsider our ideas about so-called ‘national dishes.’

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Anthropology News

MARCH 25, 2025

Powers, scholar of Lakota life and culture, died on January 5, 2025, at the age of 90. At the time of his death, Bill had participated in Lakota (Teton Sioux) culture for 75 years. He went to Pine Ridge time and again and learned to dance, sing, and drum in the traditional styles and to speak Lakota fluently.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Knowledge sometimes can cause these internal conflicts, and even stress, where weoftenhave to decide between making a choice that we feel is ethical and correct or making a choice that fits our personal food preferences, traditions, lifestyle, bank accounts, and access. So, I never tell people what to do. Then, I would also say advocate.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Those relations left a permanent mark on the Peninsula and the vestiges of Ancient Roman culture still abound not only there, but also in other countries which came under Iberian influence. Material culture remains from the Roman times on the Peninsula’s territory. Inspirations in art. Mutual relations in the field of religion.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In this article, I explore the divergent perceptions and expectations surrounding care duties held by elders and their guardians. The 2021 Civil Code introduced multiple new articles on adult guardianship, including the provision for individuals to select their guardians when fully capable.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

Every year, schools face an ever-widening spectrum of needs in their classrooms, including students with different learning preferences, skills, abilities, cultural backgrounds, and language proficiencies. Students can read articles, watch videos, and listen to podcasts to learn. Technology is good at transferring information.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

This is part of a three-article series covering key principles to consider when building out computer science programs in your academic setting. Read the other articles here and here. Celebrate and showcase students’ achievements and learning outcomes.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2018

Strauss noted in her article that researcher R. That research indicates that students in these schools generally have higher scores on both traditional state tests and international assessments. But in this twisted time, young children starting public pre-K at the age of 4 are expected to learn through “rigorous instruction.”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2017

Vossoughi, Hooper, and Escudé’s research, published in the recent article “Making Through the Lens of Culture and Power: Toward Transformative Visions for Educational Equity,” points out an important issue: maker learning is integrating into schools even as “maker learning” itself is loosely defined.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

Several days later, after I successfully climbed the 5,000-meter mountain, I returned to the cafe to find the kittens just as eager to snuggle with me as I answered emails and worked on articles. Just as important as these culturally specific factors, however, may well be qualities inherent to cats that drive people’s fascination with them.

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Humanities Cultures Government Tradition 142

Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Sprinkled through Homer’s twin epics, Felice Vinci spotted a heap of similar anecdotes that pointed away from the traditional setting of the Iliad , an account of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey , the story of Ulysses’ 10-year journey home to Ithaca after the fall of Troy. This part of Homer’s Odyssey doesn’t sound very Mediterranean.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

As one young woman put it in a recent New York Times article , “If it wasn’t for these youth work-force programs, I don’t think I would have realized I wanted to be a mechanical engineer.”. To turn this vision into reality will require a significant culture shift. Importantly, proven work-based learning models already exist.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

According to a Gallup article , schools that promote creativity see improved scores on standardized tests and results of deeper understanding. During the pandemic, she saw creativity pushed away as schools scrambled to get the traditional core content out to students. Creativity is about making a major impact on learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. This is particularly concerning because engagement and cultural relevance have both been proven to have a positive impact on student outcomes. Cultural and social relevance.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

A Teacher’s Guide to Celebrating Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month May 2, 2024 • Studies Weekly Diverse perspectives strengthen education, according to Heather Singmaster’s EdWeek article from November 2018. They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

I reached out to the authors of these articles and other scholars from that time to ask just that. From there, penning op-eds and pitching articles are within most ethnographers’ grasp. Yet, by the time I studied anthropology and journalism in the 2000s and 2010s, the disciplines no longer crossed paths. What happened?

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

How do we care for objects, archives, words, history, traditions, animals, plants, ideas, and obligations? Feature articles should be around 2,000 words, photo essays should consist of six to eight high-resolution images with a 750-word introductory essay, and audiovisual work can be developed in consultation with AN editors.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Anton Blok published several pioneering studies and numerous thought-provoking articles, many of which were focused on themes related to violence and its control. From 1973 to 1985, Blok was professor of cultural anthropology at the Radboud University in Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 22, 2023

article, video, podcast). Exploring Different Cultures: When discussing cultural differences and traditions, the teacher could prompt students to share their initial assumptions and how their views changed as they learned about diverse cultures. This encourages cultural sensitivity and open-mindedness.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 23, 2017

This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Traditional Mathematics Teaching. Traditional middle or high school mathematics teaching in the U.S. A key missing ingredient in these traditional lessons is conceptual understanding. has changed little in the last century.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

Having been an English teacher and also working with educators, there are some students who feel intimidated by heavy texts, or might be reluctant to read articles or books. We've also been thinking about how a graphic novel like this could support a culture shift in the ways that people are thinking about how to teach computer science.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. What a black teacher more attuned to a black child’s background, culture and language may recognize as evidence of exceptional aptitude or talent may go undetected by a white teacher. Read the original article.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2022

My last article, about how teacher care is more than self care , was the most read on EdSurge for the month of November. This involves the system and it involves the cultures in our schools. What is more practical to focus on is the culture of support and caring in our schools.

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