Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

I teach third grade, when young readers typically transition from developing readers to fluent ones, and it’s at this stage that they’re ready to begin to analyze texts on a deeper level. Whether you teach ELA or another content area, chances are your students read in your class. What I mean is I’m looking for annotations.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

More schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lessons to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. Others say learning facts is unimportant in the age of Google where we can instantly look anything up, and that the focus should be on teaching skills.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 29, 2024

A new book by one of those AI pioneers digs into the origins of ChatGPT and the intersection of research on how the brain works and building new large language models for AI. Listen to our conversation with Sejnowski on this week’s EdSurge Podcast, where he describes research to more fully simulate human brains.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 27, 2025

In the 10 years since I chose a book called Make it Stick for a book study in the summer of 2015, I’ve been encouraging teachers to add more retrieval practice to their teaching. If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Thanks to a donation of 25 books from the University of North Carolina Press, we can offer you a copy of historian Kate Masur and illustrator Liz Clarke’s new graphic history, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region , for your story on teaching about Reconstruction.

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Teaching History High School Education 122

Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 27, 2024

In 2024, there were increased attacks on teaching Black history, including anti-CRT laws and book bans. To counter these attacks, we secured donations from authors and publishers to increase classroom access to the books listed below on African American history. Donations from individuals like YOU make that possible.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 16, 2025

Listen to my interview with Blake Harvard ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Sometimes its the smallest details that separate effective teaching from teaching that misses the mark. Today we’re going to look at three of these.

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Pedagogy Psychology Library Teaching 238

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

Theres no getting around it it takes work to teach students how to write. Consider the evolution of what began as an in-class essay from one of my empathetic, introverted students about the book Behold the Dreamers. Tim Donahue teaches high school English at Greenwich Country Day School in Connecticut.

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Teaching High School Education 112

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

That leader was Nicki Slaugh , my co-author of our book Personalize. My chance encounter with Nicki eventually led to the idea of writing this book after my first year of coaching. The book also emphasizes the importance of building strong relationships and a positive school culture to support these changes. Join the revolution.

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Tradition Critical Thinking Cultures Leadership 411

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

For me, in the case of the latter, that was writing a new book. In this book, my hope was to make a compelling case that the best way to do this is to create a disruptive thinking culture in the classroom and beyond. It’s time to challenge the status quo when it comes to teaching and learning in our classrooms.

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Artifacts Humanities Teaching Cultures 420

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

When it is all said and done, the best experiences are ongoing and job-embedded so that the needed support, application into practice, feedback, and accountability for growth lead to actual changes to teaching, learning, and leadership. The other is ensuring what has been learned leads to improvements in teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Leadership Archiving Professional Development Tradition 410

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

Thanks to my amazing co-author, Nicki Slaugh, I was honored to have my latest book, Personalize , published in June. Honestly, I didn’t think I would have another book in my life soon, let alone an entire one on personalized learning. This webinar offers a pathway to reimagine your teaching strategies and classroom dynamics.

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K-12 Tradition Educational Technology Teaching 367

Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

Listen to the interview with Amanda Morin and Emily Kircher-Morris ( transcript ): Sponsored by Boclips Classroom and Brisk Teaching This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. What we have to realize when we’re doing that, all we are doing is teaching them to mask or camouflage what kind of makes them different.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

They have utilized me as a keynoter, coach (leadership and teaching), and workshop presenter. With the SPED sessions, everything was tied into support and planning for the six approaches to co-teaching embraced by the district. I went deeper into the models from a pedagogical standpoint to help them better plan for instruction.

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EdTech K-12 Pedagogy Professional Development 540

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Despite my best efforts, I couldn't visit classrooms as frequently as I would have liked, and the feedback I provided in written reports could have done more to enhance teaching and learning both inside and outside the classroom. This approach also provides a better understanding of teachers' changing role in the disruption age.

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Leadership K-12 Artifacts Lesson Plan 542

Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

Megan Sumeracki Megan is the co-author of the book Ace That Test: A Student’s Guide to Learning Better ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), and a team member on the fantastic site The Learning Scientists , where a group of scientists share all kinds of useful information about how we learn. .” And that can cause problems.”

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Pedagogy Library Teaching Research 243

Zinn Education Project

JULY 17, 2024

That is why it is important to teach about immigration. Find lessons, teaching guides, and other resources for teaching about immigration below. The Line Between Us: Teaching About the Border and Mexican Immigration Teaching Guide by Bill Bigelow Lessons for teaching about the history of U.S.–Mexico

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Teaching Social Justice K-12 History 132

Teaching American History

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For the past year, Teaching American Historys webinars have been about the presidential election. We want to spend some time rereading and reflecting on those books that contributed to the national conversationsome immediately and others through the weight of time. Last spring, we broke down the presidential election cycle.

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Primary Sources American History Professional Development History 52

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. 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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Leadership Lesson Plan Archiving Tradition 529

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 19, 2025

On Monday, March 24, 2025 , historian Jeanne Theoharis and Rethinking Schools editorJesse Hagopian will discuss Theohariss book, King of the North: Martin Luther King Jr.s She is the author or co-author of numerous books and articles on the Civil Rights and Black Power movements and the politics of race and education.

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Professional Development History Teaching Education 126

Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. And if you have new lessons to teach, you may struggle to help them catch up. Its important to note here that you dont need to transform your entire classroom or stop teaching the way youre used to.

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Pedagogy Teaching Library Classroom Management 172

The Effortful Educator

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Heres hoping as many as possible read the book and action the ideas getting these learning ideas on the front foot is a tough ask (weirdly) and moving teachers from their obsession about teaching to add an obsession about learning is the aim of the game. Teachers love to teach. The act of teaching is so enjoyable.

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Psychology Professional Development Humanities Teaching 120

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

With over 200 published articles and more than 50 books on reading education, Rasinski has dedicated nearly 40 years to studying reading fluency and helping struggling readers become proficient. The science of teaching reading is less clear than the science of reading itself. What strategies can teachers use to develop reading fluency?

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 14, 2024

Boyd, and Barbara Paciotti ( transcript ): Sponsored by WeVideo and The Modern Classrooms Project I used to think librarians did three things: (1) organize and fiercely protect large collections of books, (2) check those books out to visitors, and (3) shush people. The library is more than just quiet spaces with just books.

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Library Pedagogy Advocacy Professional Development 360

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

In these groups, we use data to identify reading and/or phonics skills that students have not yet mastered and then teach them explicitly. Data is the most significant piece of the success of this format of teaching and learning. I have never felt so confident in my teaching.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 8, 2025

Access Lesson Teaching Guide APeoples Curriculum for the Earth is a collection of articles, lessons, stories, poems, and graphics to breathe life into teaching for environmental justice. But the hailstorm of legislation attacking anti-racist education has a less obvious target: teaching about the environment and about climate change.

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Teaching High School Education 131

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Remember when we had to get all of our professional literature and information from journals, books, conferences, over the phone, or people that we came in direct contact with? Inspiring high school students to choose teaching as a profession. Inclusion and REAL collaborative teaching. We live in amazing times.

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Education Library Social Justice Professional Development 368

Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.”

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Humanities Teaching American History Government 52

The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I let kids choose their books. Kids slipped their phones between the pages of the books they selected. It was an utter failure. Reading scores stagnated. The claim is widely believed.

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Teaching Geography History Library 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “ When I first got there.

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Teaching Civics K-12 Civic Engagement 139

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

But Waite noted that educators can incorporate the topic into activities they already do, like art lessons or reading picture books. (I I once attended an elementary school lesson in which the teacher read a book about a family beach house after Hurricane Sandy.)

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Lesson Plan Elementary School Humanities Teaching 126

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

.” – Eric Sheninger and Tom Murray When Tom Murray and I set out to write Learning Transformed our goal was to connect as much research as possible to our ideas and statements as well as the amazing work taking place in schools, known in the book as Innovative Practices in Action (IPA’s). Cited Sources Barrett, P., & & Zhang, Y.

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Research K-12 Pedagogy Psychology 372

ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2024

The program later gave her an opportunity to co-author and publish her first children’s book at age 16. Campbell now attends American University, where she participates in the Teaching Fellows program , which awarded her a full scholarship and offers a range of resources and support to aspiring educators, such as teacher coaching.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2024

Holding several new books, I was transported back to my high school years, a time before smartphones and social media, when I would cautiously approach the gay and lesbian section of my local bookstore. Reading, then, becomes a means of self-affirmation, and readers often seek their mirrors in books.”

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Humanities Cultures High School Teaching 125

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

Examples include release time, professional learning opportunities off-site, a premium parking spot, tickets to school events, books, and school supplies. Teaching Managers To Relate: Using Feedback To Bolster Commitment And Morale. If you really want to boost morale, try eliminating as many after-school meetings as possible.

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Leadership Cultures Psychology Research 479

Zinn Education Project

APRIL 28, 2024

For this 4th annual Teach Truth Day of Action, we are offering a pop-up display so event hosts can set up an information table at a public space such as a bookstore, library, or farmers’ market. The display includes banned books with information sheets, postcards, buttons, stickers, and signs. If you are in D.C.

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Library Teaching Education 135

Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

Jon had been teaching a graduate seminar just across from the shooting and hunkered down with his students as the campus locked down. The book aimed to give readers a way to talk about human variation without resorting to outdated and biologically inaccurate concepts of race. That distinction was central to the book.

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