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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

NCHE

After Jessica Ellison invited me to participate in a conversation about how academic historians might be of use to K-12 teachers, I did a little research: I asked teachers at our state social studies council what they most needed for their work. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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10 Ways to Grow as a Pedagogical Leader

A Principal's Reflections

Abolishing the routine of announced observations, having teachers provide artifacts of evidence to show the bigger picture since you can never see all that is done in a single observation, and prioritizing the collection assessments over lesson plans can also be effective.

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#Internet4schools: Make Your Voice Heard

A Principal's Reflections

We began to create a school that worked better for them in that they could create learning artifacts to demonstrate conceptual mastery through the construction of new knowledge and application of skills. The typical K12 public school has the same internet access as the average home, only with 200 times more users.

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A Window Into the Early Epigravettian: Grotta della Lea and Italy’s Final Ice Age Hunters

Anthropology.net

Because the site was relatively undisturbed before excavation, researchers have the opportunity to apply modern techniques to analyze sediments, organic materials, and artifacts in ways that were not possible at many earlier-discovered sites. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S.,

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The Station Rotation Model

Catlin Tucker

To reinforce the reality that the station rotation model is a K-12 model, I highlight the benefits of this model for teachers, which include: The ability to create small learning communities within the larger class. Creativity Allow students to use digital tools to create artifacts of their learning (e.g.,

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Rebuilding a School Community with Maker Learning

Digital Promise

Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. To ensure access to high-quality educational experiences at the high school level, students enrolled in Grades 9-12 were provided tuition to attend one of two neighboring high schools. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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Portraits and Pathways: Computational Thinking Pathways Fulfill a Portrait of a Graduate

ED Surge

In the spirit of backward design, by conceiving what well-rounded success looks like at the end of the K-12 journey, these Portraits lay the foundation for what the pathway itself needs to be. To date, all 50 U.S. It wasn’t one more thing for teachers to do. It was another means to enact the Portrait itself.”

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