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. 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 a great example of forced change.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Kistler, L.,

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

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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. Most importantly, the book offers an optimistic view of possibilities, even in the face of social and environmental precarity.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 28, 2022

While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. We choose books for students who know who they are and those who are questioning.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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History Tech

JULY 10, 2023

And one consequence of the altered agenda is that my summer reading list, a treasured tradition dating back to the summer following my first year of teaching middle school, is now […] Let’s just say that my May and June did not go as planned and leave it at that.

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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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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. I’ll never forget when my 5th-grade teacher had our class reenact a scene from the book "Roll of Thunder Hear My Cry". They reinforced a monolithic depiction of Black life devoid of any moments of joy, hope, or success.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

In their new book, Teaching for Deeper Learning: Tools to Engage Students in Meaning Making , my friend, Jay McTighe , and his co-author, Harvey Silver , write about an active reading strategy that encourages students to engage with texts before, during, and after reading. Yet, reading is like any skill that we can improve with practice.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The Sea Islands experiment, as it was known, marked a positive moment in the fraught history of Black education, notes education law expert Derek W. Black in his new book, Dangerous Learning: The Souths Long War on Black Literacy. Black But bad habits die hard. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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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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Life and Landscapes

JANUARY 6, 2025

Thoughts of history bring forth lives once living. As I sit with my breakfast, staring out on this river of history, I wonder who was the first European to see it?France John Filson, in the map accompanying his 1784 book entitled, “The Discovery, Settlement, and Present State of Kentucke,” shows “Big Bone Cr.”

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 31, 2020

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. When it comes to connecting with your colleagues, I’ve seen teams of teachers commit to a book study as a way to connect and learn. We all have unique interests, learning preferences, histories and life experiences, family dynamics, strengths, and weaknesses.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Every teacher shows up with their own histories and insecurities and flaws. One person who definitely knows that is Elena Aguilar, who has been coaching teachers for two decades and has written eight highly acclaimed books all centered on helping teachers grow. It can be lonely. It can be overwhelming.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. You know how Ms.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher. The books are archived here.

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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

But many schools limit what is possible by adhering to rigid and outdated frameworks like traditional subject and grade divisions. In his book “Deschooling Society,” Ivan Illich observed: “Most learning is not the result of instruction. He has a master’s degree in education and a doctorate in history.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. For example, my students read a variety of books about education to learn more about challenges and solutions in the field.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C. They learned about the history of their neighborhoods and the origins of the music they listened to. Still, my love of history had an outlet in school. This generation of students interacts with more content than any other generation in history.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. They are rallying to defend the right to teach truthfully, to protest book bans, and to defend LGBTQ+ rights. African American History Monument by Ed Dwight, State Capitol Grounds, Columbia, South Carolina. But We Can’t Teach? Source: Alamy.In

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 10, 2024

Thanks to a generous donation of books by Haymarket Books , we can offer you a copy of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance for your story on teaching about a related lesson.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Be careful when teaching the history of the United States. We need to emphasize that Native American groups were (and are still) unique with distinct language, beliefs, traditions, and dress. Give preference to books written by Native authors. I will be the first to admit, I’m guilty of this too.

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Teaching American History

JUNE 11, 2024

Most will delve into the complex and fascinating American story, reading books that will enrich their teaching for next year. Some MAHG students and graduates of the program now have time to read books recommended by fellow students and professors. We asked teacher friends what they plan to read during the summer vacation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2017

On Twitter, users add lessons and resources to the #CharlottesvilleSyllabus and #CharlottesvilleCurriculum pages; everything from identity charts to readings on the history of white supremacy to conflict resolution activities. What was troubling enough as 20 th century history is happening in present time. history standards ?

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Amid the oppressive heat, an idea emerged, one that later evolved into a children’s picture book. Fifteen students specializing in traditional handicrafts collaborated with local artisans to illustrate a children’s book. The story centered on the enigmatic arrival of an ice shelf on Laft’s shores.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

But even then, teachers of traditional U.S. and global history classes are often crunched for time by the end of the school year and struggle to fit in discussions of any events that happened after the end of the Cold War in the 1990s. It’s going from the front pages of the newspaper to the history books.”.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

The category includes archaeological remains, buildings and structures, landscapes and places, towns and neighborhoods, objects, historical documents, folk traditions, and other things associated with and valued by people. These include objects significant to the archaeology, architecture, science or technology of a specified culture.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. Since then, states such as Arkansas and Texas have also opposed the true teaching of the history of Black people in this country by dropping African American history courses and eliminating diversity, equity and inclusion efforts. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Testing Wars in the Public Schools: A Forgotten History. link] Reese, W.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Five years ago, I published a book on the future of university credentials, making some predictions about what seemed likely to come next in the market for degrees and emerging forms of alternative college credentials. In my book I might have been a bit overly optimistic about the resistance of traditional higher ed, however.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

Hershovitz, who has two young children of his own, highlights the philosophical potential of youngsters in his book, “Nasty, Brutish and Short: Adventures in Philosophy with Kids.” The book ends up being a playful way to explore big philosophical issues, regarding justice, authority and language. And Rex isn't uncommon.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Students may start to see themselves as a “B” student in math or a “D” student in history. Rather than continue traditional grading practices, I recommend that school leaders re-center the goal of assessment: to provide feedback that propels teaching and learning — and consequently our young people — forward.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

In the past, college libraries were shelves of books with nooks and corners where people could put their heads down and get their homework done, Agarwal says. Today, many of those books are being moved or digitized, he says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that. You’re stronger minded.

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