A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Well, another year of writing has passed, and it was a big one as 2019 marked ten years since I began my blogging journey. Well, after begrudgingly agreeing to pen some guest posts for him, I built up my confidence and launched my blog in March of 2019. Blogging has certainly changed over the past ten years.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Now its a cognitive science argument that a core curriculum is also good for our brains and facilitates learning.

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

With support and collaborative input from the LEGO Foundation, Project Zero embarked on an exploration of the pedagogy of play in 2015, in partnership with the International School of Billund in Denmark, which has made play a key part of its approach to learning. Project Zero has a dedicated blog to Pedagogy of Play.

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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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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 21, 2024

This needs to be strong, meaning that they have a broad and deep understanding of effective pedagogy, rooted in evidence, but also effectively filtered through the lens of the specific context in which the teacher is working. The key is figuring out the level of alignment between the mental models held by both the coachee and the coach.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

This observation speaks to the idea that different modes of communication and expression are fundamental to understanding and interpreting different societies and cultures and, consequently, that the semiotic complexity of human experience cannot be contained in plain text.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 23, 2024

Citation from the Award Committee: The 2024 APSA-PSA International Partnerships Award Committee has selected The Active Learning in Political Science (ALPS) Blog to receive the 2024 APSA-PSA International Partnership Award. The blog reflects an inclusive approach to voices and communities, focusing on empowering early career academics.

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Edthena

JUNE 16, 2023

Reflecting on classroom videos drives teacher inquiry into teaching practices Teaching candidates’ classroom videos offer unbiased evidence for more productive conversations about pedagogy and learning in action. Video reflection and analysis support culturally responsive practices, too.

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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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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Many teachers have been trained to think of belonging as only a product of classroom culture and student social relationships, that ultimately students have to learn to negotiate and navigate. What you teach and how you teach it plays a strong role in whether students feel like they belong , particularly in math classrooms.

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Edthena

JULY 22, 2021

Here is a breakdown of what that means and what it looks like for teachers: In his book Fugitive Pedagogy , Dr. Jarvis Givens created the term rigorous sight , which encourages educators to investigate all aspects when teaching Black history. Read more on Edutopia: Teaching Black History Year-Round Requires Rigorous Sight.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

How did you use technology to support curriculum, pedagogy, and assessment? What are technology-integrated lessons that are responsive to students’ beliefs, values, and cultures? To what extent did these meet the needs of your specific students and benefit their learning? get to know me and each other better?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Let goals and pedagogy lead the design. Once you’ve gathered insights from the community, develop a goal or pedagogy of practice that can guide your spatial design. . Follow Project Zero’s Pedagogy of Play project on Twitter. Learn more about Pedagogy of Play. Other elements? Evaluation is a process.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The main theme associated with this growth centers around a mindset to improve each year while also using strong pedagogy as a foundational piece of instruction.”. VILS inspires ‘culture of collaboration and innovation’. The VILS program sparked a whole new culture of collaboration and innovation among our teachers,” McClary said.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

These experiences provide a framework for learning that uses surroundings, communities, and cultures to invite inquiry, investigate biases, and deepen understanding. Over the past two years, TDSB has taken significant steps to shift their culture of equity to better support all students to be their authentic selves.

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Pedagogy and Formation

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

While the blog focus of this blog is pedagogy, and has been unpacking the arguments contained in “Pedagogy and Education for Life”, you might not be aware that I’ve written a number of other books. In this post, I want to try to explain the connection ‘Biblical Critical Theory’ and my thoughts on pedagogy and education.

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Pedagogy and Formation

MAY 26, 2024

Life as we Inhabit many communities As I have written before on this blog, our children learn much more in the day-to-day life of the school than just curriculum content. In 'Pedagogy and Education for Life' , I offer vignettes of students I taught. Education is more than reception of knowledge.

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Pedagogy and Formation

JUNE 6, 2022

I devote a whole chapter in my book ‘ Pedagogy andEducation for Life ’ to stories and storytelling. I’ve just posted on my ‘ Language & Literacy ’ blog about some wonderful children’s books, which prompted me to discuss the impact that stories have on children’s lives.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2017

The children are so used to being rooted in fairly traditional pedagogy. For us, the experiences of schools and youth organizations across such a diverse range of cultures and contexts around the world has been illuminating, and we look forward to continuing to learn with this expanding and increasingly diverse global network.

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C3 Teachers

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

This blog post delves into the power of inquiry to transform traditional classrooms into dynamic spaces of discovery, fostering critical thinking and lifelong learning skills. Curiosity: Learning through inquiry stokes a culture of curiosity, giving students agency to think, wonder, and question.

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Pedagogy and Formation

APRIL 30, 2024

Foundations for Change in Secular Education While this blog has focused largely on pedagogy in faith-based schools, I've been reminded recently that secular schools face similar challenges with students, and also in relation to teacher development, I think there is more common ground than we might imagine. So What's Different?

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All Things Pedagogical

MAY 28, 2023

I totally agreed, and what she was talking about goes a bit further than what I already discussed in my podcast episode about UDL and accessible pedagogy , but it was still something that made me think just how many of these terms float around and people may have completely different understandings of what they mean.

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Psych Learning Curve

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

Daniel Willingham Blog) Over the weekend the New York Times published an article on the front page about the teaching of reading. In education, there are many buzzwords about effective pedagogy including real-world connection, critical thinking, and employing student voice.

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All Things Pedagogical

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

This week my blog is going to focus on something I have been thinking a lot about and talking about with colleagues and friends, which is the courses that we used to teach or the sessions we used to facilitate, that we don't anymore, and how they still haunt us in different ways.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , “equity is about making sure every student is a powerful learner.” ” So what does true intellectual engagement look like for students and how can teachers create a classroom environment with a strong culture of learning?

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 10, 2024

These remarks can be found on my blog. How can we do advocacy and activism in a space that has questionable citation practices, that sees more value in h-index than community building, and is that the kind of legacy and pedagogy we want to share with a new generation of learners and peers? MAI: Feminism & Visual Culture , (6).

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Letters and Ink Blog

AUGUST 9, 2022

And there’s a lot of science and cultural understandings that show us that those old school “rules” like no chewing gum and don’t you dare be late are outdated and insensitive to the needs of our students. The post Teacher How To: Effective Classroom Expectations first appeared on Letters and Ink Blog.

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Digital Promise

MAY 1, 2017

A series of collaborative activities were used to introduce aspects of Chinese language and culture to students in Australia before they spent time on exchange in China. While considering the technology, pedagogy and content influencing their choices, teachers are also considering the contexts in which they are working.

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All Things Pedagogical

AUGUST 2, 2024

There is something to be said about how moral injury in academe is a by-product of a lack of cultural and information capital. A "need to know" culture often leads to a need to leave eduspace (I just typoed this as eduscape and that definitely that works as well).

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Letters and Ink Blog

JULY 25, 2022

You might be ready to take your community building to the next level with 5 proven steps to maintaining a positive classroom culture ! The post 10 First Day of School Activities that aren’t Cheesy first appeared on Letters and Ink Blog. Have you tried any of these before? Leave your suggestions here Happy Back to School!

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All Things Pedagogical

OCTOBER 25, 2024

I am not sure how many times I have started this blog with that sentence or some sort of version of that sentence. I changed what I was going to write about in this blog at least 3 times this week. This week was a hard week.

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Maitri Learning

OCTOBER 18, 2022

You can read more about this in my blog post about a pilot teacher education program I helped to develop with a team of brilliant Montessorians at NCMPS.) The challenge here is that the training program must adapt to the culture. After all, this is a scientific pedagogy so we should question everything!

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C3 Teachers

MAY 23, 2022

To support this claim, preservice teachers might bring up the inherently political components of language preservation projects, food sovereignty, linguistic justice, abolitionist teaching, and/or culturally relevant pedagogy (Nickman, 2009; NK 360, 2018; Lyiscott, 2014; Baker Bell, 2020; Love, 2019; Ladson Billings, 1995; 2014).

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