A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

We were able to transform the learning culture of a traditional school and in the process got results while becoming an example that others emulated. Image credit: https://andrewherrick.files.wordpress.com If we are to improve learning and ultimately school-based outcomes student agency needs to be a real element of school culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2014

If you haven’t noticed, I have been a tad bit excited over the past couple of weeks leading up to the release of my new book. It is about taking a hard look at the type of school culture leaders are currently sustaining and asking is this really preparing our students for success.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

Upon leaving New Milford High School a few weeks ago, I was like a proud father who watched his children grow up, mature, and experience undeniable successes that forever changed the teaching and learning culture there. The hiring process can make or break a school culture. It needed a digital age and pedagogical reboot.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Sometimes that means looking beyond traditional metrics of success to find other areas where the needle can be moved. It was at this point that we planned longitudinal work over the course of the year, which included a book study using Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms. When faced with adversity, we take one of two paths.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 2, 2021

In a short period of time, we have seen innovative companies such as Uber, Lyft, Vrbo, DoorDash, and Robinhood disrupt many traditional service areas. To learn more, get your copy of my new book on Amazon. The “Jetsons moment” has become engrained in our lives no matter where we live or work.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 15, 2015

This is also where it is sustained to the point that it becomes an embedded component of school or district culture. 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. Be the change that you wish to see in education, and others will follow.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

While it is understood that management is a necessity associated with the position, it should not be something that comes at the expense of improving the learning culture. Try also to read one education book and another related to a different field such as leadership, self-help, or business.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. We were no different and had succumbed to a fixed mindset.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

Each and every one of them has played a huge role in transforming the learning culture at NMHS. For it is they who made the choice to go down the road less traveled five years ago when we began transforming our learning culture. The community welcomed me with open arms and I inherited a staff eager to grow and learn.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 26, 2012

This summer I have made a commitment to reading more and have chosen books that I think will help me become a better leader. I highly recommend both of these book at any educators who is interested about the science behind motivation or overcoming resistance to become and indispensable component of an educational organization.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

There are many changes I intend to make, but the most significant will be creating a book that is more “evergreen,” a book with less focus on tools and more on the dispositions of digital leaders. Society is now in the midst of the Fourth Industrial Revolution , which was in its infancy as I began writing this book.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

By reframing prehistoric creativity as an inter-generational endeavor, this study reveals that children were not just observers but active participants in shaping their cultural landscapes. This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. Book Chapter : Art and Human Development , 2013.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. This is also where it is sustained to the point that it becomes an embedded component of school and/or district culture. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

In a book that is both practical and beautiful, she lays out a pathway for how schools can make more authentic connections with the people in students’ lives outside of school. This is one of those books, because at a time like now, when so many things feel broken, it gives us some ways to heal.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Something I’ve noticed is that most states have standards requiring students to learn about Native Americans, both pre-contact cultures and modern citizens. Please keep in mind that each cultural group has varying preferences in regard to language and treatment but there are some universal rules. Do not single out Native children.

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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. How were those pots used?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Credit: Flaviane Malaquias Costa Elizabeth Ann Veasey, a professor at USP and co-author of the study, explained: “We traveled from the remote past to the present, tracing a lineage from archaeological remains to extant maize varieties still being cultivated by traditional peoples.” Bonavia, D., & Grobman, A.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

This places them in the most important role to usher in and sustain meaningful change in the classroom that will ultimately shape school culture for the better. Josh’s book outlines and discusses five key areas that teacher’s should focus their energy on if they want to see change and start this revolution.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Jenn David-Lang Kim Marshall Jenn David-Lang, meanwhile, has been doing a similar project since 2007, when she began publishing The Main Idea , a single, detailed monthly summary of an important education book to help education leaders connect to the most important ideas on leadership, teaching, and learning. It’s on the spot, right there.

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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. My hope is that this book will make a difference in the work of other leaders and those that aspire to lead.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

Now, with a new book coming out in May, provocatively titled “MATH- ish ,” Boaler is fighting back. But Boaler’s popularity and influence have made her a focal point in the current math wars, which also seem to reflect the broader culture wars. She had written a book, “What’s Math Got to Do with It?:

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

Instructional leaders understand that management is a necessary evil associated with the position, but not something that should come at the expense of improving the learning culture in order to increase achievement. Try to also read one education book and another related to a different field such as leadership, self-help, or business.

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Anthropology 365

DECEMBER 3, 2024

After five years of research and writing, I am pleased to announce that my first book is under contract with University of Texas Press. Below is an excerpt from my book prospectus. How do environmental, historical, and cultural factors influence human-javelina relations in Texas?

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Anthropology News

MARCH 31, 2025

Having hoped to bring the exhibit to campus for the past number of years, we were finally able to do so after securing a small grant from our campus Center for the Latino/a and Latin American Studies Center (CLLAS), and with collaboration from the UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History.

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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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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016). Researching Socioeconomic Status Outside Of The Classroom Clever and Miller (2019) held a study that looked at a non-traditional learning experience with college-aged students.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. The books themes resonated with her, she said. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 7, 2012

Even after receiving this news, I still took my Mac Book Pro with me to the funeral home. I have shared both of these stories to demonstrate the potential that technology has in re-shaping school cultures and how we learn. At this time I still do not know why, considering I was told that there was no Internet connection available.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

Constable shared that in her book, Passport Entanglements , binaries related to passports allowed her to rethink other binaries such as ethnographer/research subject, state/society, care/control, and fake/real, as part of an epistemological approach that intertwines them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2022

This year, he took that project a step further with the book “From Reopen to Reinvent: (Re)Creating School for Every Child,” which was published in July. Horn and I spoke last week about his book and how we can “recreate” our education system to better serve all students. That’s a second big shift that the book proposes.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

My guest is Dave Edwards, an educator who works to teach these principles through his brand-new book, Gender-Inclusive Schools ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), and his website of the of the same name. As the parent of a transgender daughter who has experienced discrimination, Dave’s mission is a personal one. What should I have said?

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

In a new book called La Cucina Italiana Non Esiste (literally “Italian Cuisine Does Not Exist”), food historian Alberto Grandi claims, among other things, that Italians only discovered tomato sauce when they emigrated to the Americas, where tomatoes are native, in the 19th century.” Or where your croissant is from?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Voice Educators, both teachers and administrators, should have a say in many elements that influence a school’s learning culture. Consider having some of your talented students create a wood box do this the traditional way and then leave it in the faculty room. Image credit: www.peoplematters.in

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TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

Its enduring significance stems from its profound critique of traditional teaching and learning methods. Freire’s work critiques traditional pedagogical practices and offers a compelling vision for a more just and participatory education system. Footnote #8: Sartre, op. wouldn’t all this be a world?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Through our co-design work , we partnered with public preschool teachers and families from culturally diverse, low-income communities and together explored how CT could be meaningfully introduced to young children to support their learning more broadly. She especially loved the Bedtime book and has asked to read it often at night.

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