A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

In this book, my hope was to make a compelling case that the best way to do this is to create a disruptive thinking culture in the classroom and beyond. Here is a short excerpt from Chapter 1: If we are to develop students who think disruptively, we must examine and reflect on our current teaching and learning practices.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 15, 2013

Pillar #5: Student Engagement and Learning Many of us firmly believe in technology’s potential to transform the teaching and learning cultures of schools. This results in various levels of disengagement during the teaching and learning process. To view the entire series click HERE.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. It also provides insight into all elements of school culture and student learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2012

As a leader this is the type of teaching and learning culture that I want to foster and cultivate, one where creativity flourishes, students find relevancy and meaning in their learning, and teachers are given the support to be innovative. A teaching and learning culture powered by intrinsic motivation will achieve this.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 4, 2013

A good example will be Mozilla Webmaker , a suite of open-source tools dedicated to teaching digital skills and web literacy, as well as Scratch , which offers open-source programming for kids. Visitors to both our physical and virtual Makerspaces are greeted with the following message: "What is Worlds of Making @ NMHS?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

In my opinion, schools that wish to create the most relevant and meaningful learning culture will go in one of these directions. Probably the most significant impact, either 1:1 or BYOD can have is in the area of teaching digital responsibility, citizenship, and the creation of positive footprints online.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2014

The whole premise behind this concept it to provide relevancy, meaning, and authenticity in the teaching and learning process. Meaningful change will only happen if we begin to give up control and establish a culture built on trust and respect. In the end students have taken ownership of their learning.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

The two needs are related, for there is simply not enough time for those who teach multiple classes, often in multiple disciplines, to stay on top of the flood of specialized writing, to be confident that they are teaching the best that scholars have learned. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The bottom line is that all educators yearn for quality professional learning as opposed to development that leads to sustained improvements in teaching, learning, and leadership. However, I would say an equal amount have found little to no benefit. Once an exemplar is shared, give educators time to reflect and then plan their activities.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

By contract all teachers had to teach five periods. Once we got rolling though we realized that our improving school culture did not warrant so much attention to, and supervision of, duties, which eventually made it much easier on all of us. In addition, they each had a lunch, prep, and duty period all 48 minutes in length.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

I mention this, as it is important to note that it isn’t one particular action or person that ultimately moves an idea or initiative into something that positively impacts school culture. This applies to the success that my staff and I were able to be a part of during our digital transformation a few years back.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2016

It fosters personalization, creativity, and collaboration, giving students infinite ways in which to create artifacts of their learning and knowledge. BYOD enhances learning, increases productivity, allows students to grow their research skills, and gives teachers the chance to teach appropriate digital responsibility.

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TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

If the ultimate goal of education is to teach students to think, then focusing on how we can help students ask better questions themselves might make sense, no? It is a visual and interactive tool to foster a culture of inquiry. Process Create the Space: Designate a section of a wall or a bulletin board as the Wonder Wall.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 14, 2021

The PLCs are composed of teachers who teach similar grade levels and/or subject areas. Teachers in one subject area, at one grade level, or teaching in one community are likely to face unique challenges and have different interests. What is challenging about their teaching assignments? What are they curious about or wondering?

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

From the audience, as an anthropologist-in-training afraid her fieldwork would amount to nothing, I was thrilled to hear a cultural-historical reference on the nose enough for me to easily interpret (ventriloquize?). This statement might seem at first glance to be in line with an account that considers history and cultural conditions.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

At a time when we are witnessing yet another political battle to restrict students and young people from learning about Black history, I want to remind us all that learning and teaching Black history shouldn’t be a matter of choice or convenience – it is a necessity. For me, the ability to teach Black history is a matter of life and death.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

Most playlists culminate in a performance task or artifact intended to demonstrate students’ ability to transfer or apply what they learned working through the playlist. Learning a Language: Acquiring a new language involves mastering vocabulary, grammar, pronunciation, and cultural nuances.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this third post, we explore how Powerful Learning is collaborative and connected, share research that grounds these two principles, and provide resources to support your own learning and teaching practices. Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Resources for learning and teaching the fullness of Black history all year round. Although Black Americans reinvented and established a unique culture, we’re eternally connected to the sub-Sahara. It opens with an explanation of its title and its connection to Black culture. King, Ph.D.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A version of the game board, discovered in Azerbaijan, could predate the Egyptian artifacts, raising new questions about the game’s true origins. The research, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , offers fresh insights into this ancient game and its cultural significance. Crist et al., Crist et al.,

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

I teach in New Orleans, a city known for its food scene. When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Students I teach in the morning one semester show up more engaged and productive than when I have them in the afternoon.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

During the transition to online and home-based instruction, teachers and administrators turned to instructional technology coaches for support in the meaningful, effective use of technology to ensure learning continuity and minimize teaching and learning disruptions.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Teaching these subjects is vital because each equips students with essential knowledge and both hard and soft skills.

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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

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. If you can’t find one, don’t worry. Many museums offer online resources that you can use instead.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

Implement and Assess: Implement the chosen options in your teaching practice and assess their effectiveness in helping students apply and transfer their learning. What activities can I use to help my grade students understand the cultural/historical context of ?

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

How can teacher prep programs offer the type of learning experiences that support aspiring teachers’ inquiry into their teaching practice? The two shared how video analysis, implemented via Edthena Video Coaching , helped structure reflective experiences for teaching candidates that drove teacher agency.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. How does this play out in a K-12 setting?

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

We invite submissions that probe the anthropological dimensions of AI: how it affects and is affected by human behavior, social norms, and cultural practices. AI is a complex field that appears poised to impact nearly every aspect of human life, from work to interpersonal relationships, education, mental health, and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Teacher summer camp,” Aimee Hollander, an assistant professor and director of Nicholls State University’s Center for Teaching Excellence, jokingly called it. McMillan, who teaches in a rural southeast part of the state, said the geography of her school is one reason she applied to the fellowship.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2019

The artifacts educators are collecting to demonstrate their skills and the narratives that are coming out of the classroom prove how micro-credentials support educators in ways that impact their students’ learning and their school communities.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The walls, adorned with posters showcasing different languages and cultures, reflect the richness of the tapestry of diverse worlds and ways of being that fill the room. The sound bowl and its owner teach us the power of holding on, of moving through moments of despair to the potential of the next.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Uncharted doesn’t stand alone in the narrative it serves, but it is a notable entry in a long line of pulp fictions that treat tangible cultural heritage as objects that can be removed from their context with no change in significance. Shambhala, for example, originally exists in a context that reinforces Buddhist values and teachings.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

When people use the term in my classes, it makes me feel like an artifact of the past. Today, there are over five million indigenous people and 573 federally recognized Native nations within the boundaries of the United States, and each of these tribal nations has a distinct history, language, culture and way of governance.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities. history, racism, and LGBTQ+ identity.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2017

Indeed, what are the first steps on the journey to great teaching? Beginning to Teach micro-credentials , issued by Educators Rising and developed in partnership with Digital Promise, offer an answer to these questions. Classroom Culture. The Beginning to Teach micro-credential stack is one way to do so. Collaboration.

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