A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 16, 2014

School should allow students to follow their passions, use real world tools to solve real world problems, develop and apply essential skill sets, think divergently, create artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery, and foster creativity. Schools need to work for students if the goal is to prepare them for the real world.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

These artifacts were found alongside skeletons, jewelry, pottery, and other items in a well-preserved tomb from the Early Bronze Age. Our artifacts are older and from a different area on the map, suggesting the alphabet may have an entirely different origin story than we thought," Schwartz noted. What Was the Purpose of the Cylinders?

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A New Way to Study Ancient Artifacts For decades, archaeologists have relied on traditional methods to analyze artifacts and architectural remains. The team matched 3D scanned pottery fragments with physical artifacts, streamlining their study of sherds located in distant museum collections. 1 Cobb, P.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

It does not rely on someone being in a leadership position in a traditional sense but more so on a desire to want to change professional practice. This is also where it is sustained to the point that it becomes an embedded component of school or district culture.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Recent analysis of artifacts from two Lusatian Culture cemeteries suggests that early metallurgists were not only working with iron from terrestrial sources but also incorporating metal from ataxite meteorites—an extremely rare form of nickel-rich iron that originates in space. A Witnessed Meteorite Fall?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2025

Traditionally, scholars have debated linguistic origins based on indirect clues—symbolic artifacts, brain size, or the complexity of tool-making. Yet, despite its central role in human evolution, determining when and how language first emerged remains a challenge.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

To correct this, the team organized a workshop where archaeologists directly examined artifacts from both traditions side by side. 7, 8) Core with two opposing faces with parallel detachments This fundamental difference in technique suggests that these groups did not learn from one another or share a common cultural tradition.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Artifacts suggest that the Zeravshan Valley was not only a migration route but potentially a place of cultural exchange. A Window into Climate and Migration Beyond individual artifacts, Soii Havzak provides clues about the larger environmental shifts that early humans endured.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 24, 2014

Image credit: [link] In the face of adversity, right off the bat the seeds for innovation will be planted and students will begin to create amazing artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery. So much time and energy gets put into traditional newsletters and websites even though the impact is fairly minimal.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 3, 2014

The missing link is guidance on how these tools can be used effectively and appropriately to allow students to create artifacts of learning to demonstrate conceptual mastery. Vicki Davis has created a resource that identifies how traditional writing can be taken to the next level with cloud-based tools.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As we continue this tradition, fostering a connection with the field school, we eagerly anticipate the ongoing journey of learning and growth it offers. The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Testing the Hypothesis with Replicas To test this hypothesis, the research team recreated similar stones using local pebbles and a flint drill, then enlisted Yonit Kristal, a traditional craftsperson, to spin flax using these replicas. However, this type of analysis is beyond the scope of the current study.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2012

Students don''t need resumes, they need to create artifacts of learning that provides detail as to what they can really do or know. Godin provides a compelling alternative to a traditional resume and hiring process. Virtually every school has students craft one to go along with their college application materials.

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TeachThought

JUNE 5, 2024

Asking a question that pierces the veil in any given situation is itself an artifact of the critical thinking teachers so desperately seek in students, if for no other reason than it shows what the student knows, and then implies the desire to know more. Questions reveal far more than answers ever might. A bad question stops thinking.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

Mapping Myths and Movements Mythological Motifs as Cultural DNA At the heart of this study is the database of Yuri Berezkin, which catalogs the presence or absence of 2,138 "mythemes"—core narrative motifs—across 926 traditions worldwide.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 17, 2025

Unlike its predecessor, the Oldowan tradition, which focused on basic percussive technologies, the Acheulian period is marked by a broader use of advanced tools such as handaxes and cleavers. Emerging from the earlier Oldowan tradition around 1.75 The Acheulian culture, which emerged around 1.75 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0161322

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 5, 2025

The team behind the discovery, led by Ignacio de la Torre, Luc Doyon, and Francesco d’Errico, argues that these tools represent a distinct technological tradition, not just an opportunistic or accidental use of bones. ” The implications of this are profound.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Hieroglyphic depictions and ritual artifacts reveal that early Egyptians often used animals to represent gods, cosmic forces, or societal ideals. The deliberate alteration of sheep horns likely mirrored this tradition, transforming them into living symbols of the elite’s ability to dominate and reshape the natural world.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

I was accompanied by NMHS Adobe guru Walt Pevny, who consistently integrates technology in his classroom to allow students to create artifacts to demonstrate learning. Digital publishing tools will function to bridge the gap between websites and traditional apps.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 18, 2017

We ensured accountability through numerous unannounced observations, collection of artifacts, and adding a portfolio component to the evaluation process. Therefore, as principal I directed my staff to include an authentic context and interdisciplinary connections into every lesson and project.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 2, 2025

The discovery of a sophisticated stone tool tradition in southern China is now forcing a major reassessment of that assumption. These artifacts suggest that the inhabitants of Longtan were engaging in complex tool-making behavior typically attributed to Neanderthals in Europe. Who Made the Tools?

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

The Engraved Stones of the Levant The researchers focused on five artifacts from four archaeological sites: Manot Cave, Amud Cave, Qafzeh Cave, and Quneitra. The artifacts themselves varied in form—two engraved Levallois cores, a flint plaquette, and two incised cortical flakes—but each bore markings that required closer scrutiny.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

“These features, whatever their age, demonstrate traditional ancient Indigenous practices, driven by the universal human need to transport possessions and resources.” The researchers propose that these markings, found in association with human footprints, may represent the earliest known use of a human-drawn transport system.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. The radiocarbon dating places these tools firmly within the Early Epigravettian, aligning with known sites across Italy.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Examples of retouched artifacts from the stratigraphically youngest Middle Palaeolithic assemblage at Jebel Faya, Emirate of Sharjah, United Arab Emirates. These artifacts stand out for their sophistication, demonstrating a clear departure from earlier Middle Paleolithic traditions. What Comes Next?

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. Some students may prefer offline strategies involving writing, drawing, or designing, while other students will prefer to use technology and create digital artifacts of their learning.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 22, 2021

However, a lesson that challenges the learner to wrestle with ideas, explore and discover, and create artifacts of their choice to demonstrate their learning, takes time, creativity, and mental energy to construct. A lecture or mini-lesson followed by a worksheet or pencil and paper practice does not require much design work.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods. These sites include Roman Egypt, Gaul, Roman Britain, Pompeii, Rome, and Constantinople.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

As we continue this tradition, fostering a connection with the field school, we eagerly anticipate the ongoing journey of learning and growth it offers. The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Excavations revealed thousands of stone artifacts and animal bones, indicating human presence approximately 44,000 years ago. Excavations in a deep cave on Timor Island unearthed thousands of artifacts, revealing signs of human presence dating back 44,000 years. 1 Shipton, C., Morley, M.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2024

Discovered in Poland, this artifact challenges our understanding of their cognitive abilities and symbolic culture. Symbolic Culture of Neanderthals The bear bone joins a growing collection of Neanderthal artifacts with parallel incisions, hinting at a shared symbolic culture. Different views of a roughly 4-inches-long (10.6

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. With teacher librarians across the U.S. Create More! Consume Less?

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

In a new paper published in Advances in Archaeological Practice 1 , Ward and his colleagues are calling for museums to take a more ethical, culturally informed approach to caring for the bones of animals, particularly those tied to Indigenous traditions. That disregard has persisted in many collections today.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Artifacts and the Cellar's Significance Over a thousand artifacts were uncovered during the excavation, including pottery fragments, flint tools, and fossilized sea urchins. The choice of an elevated site far from bogs and streams suggests careful planning, likely for defensive reasons and flood protection.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 3, 2024

Previously believed to be a mere work of art, this 37,000-year-old artifact now emerges as a sophisticated tool for crafting rope. Echoes from Antiquity This revelation not only reshapes our understanding of ancient artifacts but also highlights the resourcefulness and ingenuity of our ancestors. 1 Conard, N.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 13, 2021

Here is a non-exhaustive list of some of these shifts in coaching and how they have contributed to cultures of continuous growth and changes in how the instructional technology coaching role is perceived: The shift to distance learning has removed many logistical and scheduling challenges coaches previously faced in a traditional school day.

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