A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

Pedagogical leaders recognize that management is a necessary part of the job, but it shouldn't come at the expense of cultivating a positive learning culture to boost academic achievement. You can align critical feedback to current research by keeping a document of effective pedagogical techniques found in your readings.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

Other elements embedded in school culture cloud our vision as to what is both needed and possible. When we tackled our grading culture at my school I first looked at the data (we were failing way too many kids) and then used Google Scholar to find research to guide the direction for a better way.

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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. If improvement is the ultimate goal, we as leaders need to focus on elements of our job that impact student learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

Among these resources stands the Innovative Practices Assessment (IPA), which was created to fill a void in moving from ideas and innovative practices to results that improve the learning culture. School leadership teams are expected to collect and document aligned evidence for each item during this reflective process.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

It would be foolish of any speaker or presenter to do so, considering that we don’t really know the people who we are blessed to speak with, let alone the specific culture in which they work. Making people feel good is always crucial, and a critical component of a positive culture. In some cases, this might still be effective.

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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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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 1, 2012

My personal and professional journey in this area is well documented and something that I regularly present on. Your PLN will provide you with the seeds of change, but is up to you to plant, take care of, and cultivate them in order to witness their growth and development into transformative culture elements.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

I am still in awe of the vision and culture that principal Nicki Slaugh has worked with her staff to create. Have students keep this log in a binder or online document and have them reflect on what they have done to incorporate the feedback.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Sustainable change relies on understanding people, culture, and processes. MS Office), simultaneously collaborate on and edit various document formats, access your documents from anywhere in the word, and embed links to your docs in emails, websites, blogs, etc. Features include upload/convert to any format (i.e.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. Most societies are not relativist: they view their own ways as good, other people's as bad, inferior, or immoral a form of ETHNOCENTRISM.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Throw in constant emails, texts, paperwork, parent issues, and calendar notifications, and the reality of educational leadership manifested itself in the form of management, which often came at the expense of instruction and school culture. Eat lunch with the kids to get a pulse on culture. Management fatigue can be grueling.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Discovering Emotion in Ancient Mesopotamia From the flutter of "butterflies in the stomach" to the weight of a "heavy heart," emotions are often tied to physical sensations in modern cultures. Towards a Universal Understanding of Emotions This study opens new doors to understanding whether emotions are universal or culturally specific.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 14, 2020

I'll tell you that I have personally experienced this as a principal and seen in many districts school staff who are asked to print, collate, distribute, collect, read and process all kinds of paper forms and documents. Leaders have the power to shape the culture of our schools. Often these are in multiple languages!

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2013

The culture at New Milford High School empowers teachers to develop creative pathways for students to demonstrate conceptual mastery. In your comment for both photos, you will quote the lines accurately and include the parenthetical documentation for the act, scene, and page number.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2025

These instruments, linked to the Umm an-Nar culture, provide compelling evidence of a shared musical tradition between the ancient civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula and the Indus Valley.​ Al Rahbi Music has long served as a universal language, transcending geographical and cultural boundaries. S., & Douglas, K.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

As immigrant students from Somalia, Venezuela, and elsewhere have swelled the student population in her district, students attitudes toward racial, religious, and cultural diversity have shifted toward greater openness. Reading deeply in the primary documents of each era gave her more resources to deal with students questions.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 29, 2025

This diffuse and varied culture inhabited a vast area from Yunnan, China, to Sumatra, Indonesia, from about 40,000 to 2,000 years ago. Sadly, these examples of a once widespread but still poorly known culture had been ploughed back into the earth. erectus , but theres limited physical evidence documenting their presence.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? Hence, when I saw that the facilitators of the GBL webinar were appropriating Indigenous culture, I had to speak up.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The theory, which has been documented in a small number of laboratory experiments , is that the more students already know about a topic, the better they can understand a passage about it. For example, a passage on farming might make more sense if you know something about how plants grow.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Districts have taken a wide range of approaches, as documented by the Manpower Demonstration Research Corporation, a nonprofit that studies how government policies impact low-income families. Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. I always think of it as Maslow's.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Cultural and Geopolitical Implications of the Findings Rock Paintings and Ritual Significance The caves of Peruaçu Valley offer more than archaeological specimens—they also contain rare rock paintings depicting crops, including maize. Maize: Origin, domestication, and its role in the development of culture. Grobman, A.,

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Found in different parts of Europe, these two industries have often been grouped together as “transitional industries,” implying that they might share a common technological or cultural origin. This has implications for how we view the spread of modern human culture. But do they? 2020 ) and Douka et al. 2014 ) modified.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

2 ) takes different cultural components and specific lithic traditions/categories into account. This suggests that early settlers may have developed cultural adaptations that allowed them to survive in colder conditions. The cultural timeline does not indicate that cold conditions were a barrier to human expansion," the study notes.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Cultural Dimensions of health Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Cultural Dimensions of health. Cultural Dimensions of health Contents style='mso-element:field-begin'> TOC o "1-3" h z u Cultural Dimensions of health. A specialised branch of anthropology, i.e,

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The authors acknowledge the contribution of Abdul Razak Macap, a social anthropologist at the Regional Cultural Heritage Center in Manokwari.) Hand stencils of unknown age document ancestral human presence on the Raja Ampat Islands. It stretches 100 meters deep and is home to bat colonies, monitor lizards, and the occasional snake.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 29, 2017

Our digital transformation, backed by evidence of improved learner outcomes, has been well documented. Instead of a focus on learn to do, schools need to shift their practices and create a culture where students do to learn. In the eyes of many this is success. Students learn differently and have hidden talents that we must unleash.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2013

The only thing though is that this day was just like any other typical day at my school as digital learning has become an embedded component of our school''s culture. Works of art and architecture, not unlike historical documents, biographies, or works of fiction, are a testament to particular cultures and historical events.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

We are extremely proud of the current culture that now exists where technology is seen as one of many necessary tools that are pivotal to student achievement and overall success. Mysocial media journey has been well documented, but it was this journey that provided me with the knowledge, tools, and ideas needed to initiate change.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

A multidisciplinary team of researchers explains historical, cultural, and ethical issues they considered while developing a 3D scan of a South African site to be shared with the world online. The omission of human usage and cultural traces renders these representations static and sterile.

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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. Image credit: [link] It is easy to just say how one should improve instructional leadership or anything else for that matter.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Even though it is simplistic from an aesthetic standpoint, this document is a powerhouse when it comes to the depth of information that it contains. It was at this point that I created the monthly Principal''s Report that can be viewed on the main page of our website. Then social media came into my life.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. s teachers translated documents in Dari before administering tests, but she could not read them since she did not attend school in Afghanistan. They saw a new student being from a different culture and having a hijab.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

Some of those articles are written for mass-market publications, while others focus on specific topics and outlets ranging from nursing to Black culture to material artifacts. Bunk demonstrates that our discipline matters in ways young people cannot see in textbooks, static documents, and often outdated historiographic debates.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

This day, however, was not really much different than any other day at NMHS as we have made a commitment to integrate digital learning into school culture for some time now. Millian’s math students utilized an Avermedia document camera to display work. Students were given a list of paintings/engravings produced in the period 1500-1800.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Its about maintaining connectionto her culture and to those who gather for her dessert. After decades documenting others migrations, I turned to my own familys food stories in 2022, when my uncle, Chandran, passed away during the COVID-19 pandemic. Her care isnt about perfectly replicating tradition.

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TeachThought

JUNE 18, 2024

Learn to document and present scientific findings accurately. Understand the cultural, social, and economic factors in history. Science Science goals encompass a broad scope of fields: Master the basic concepts of Newtonian physics. Explore biological systems and their functions in human biology.

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