Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It’s kind of a cultural moment where educators know what’s best for kids but then they’re sometimes prohibited from following those recommendations by either their school district policies or by state law. . There are wonderful single stall restroom designs that cost about the same as regular, traditional binary restrooms.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

She believes encouraging a culture of grace and continuous learning allows educators to explore new strategies, take risks, and refine their practices in ways that uplift students. Unlike traditional textbooks, Studies Weekly removes barriers and allows for a dynamic, interactive approach to learning.

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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. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Read” mode builds up children’s English vocabulary so they can access traditional books, too. The apps are being used in schools in 30 states, according to Malzkuhn, with more than 50,000 total downloads so far. Once kids know how to read in English, Malzkuhn says, they can go the library and pick out any book they want. More stories.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

To further support family engagement, the district’s parent participatory evaluation group engages five cultural groups (Somali and East African, Black/African American, Native American, Hmong, and Hispanic/Latino) to provide feedback on areas the district could improve. Download the Digital Promise Data Equity infographic.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

Thinking Tasks Unlike in a more traditional classroom, where the lesson might start with direct instruction from the teacher, a typical day in a Thinking Classroom starts with the teacher assigning thinking tasks for students to work on in groups, and direct instruction is only given on an as-needed basis.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Learning Studios , a program directed by Digital Promise Global as part of HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom initiative, engages a diverse group of learning centers around the world, ranging from traditional school settings to after-school and out-of-school programs, and supports them in bringing design-centered learning to their students.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 18, 2019

Overall, a better learning environment and culture is formed.” It can also incorporate variables, which encompass the traditional trappings of games such as hit points and score. If you are worried about students losing their work they can archive their work which downloads a copy to their harddrive. Options in Twine.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

She rattled off students’ responses as they popped up on the smartboard in a colorful word cloud: “Forced relocation, reduced population, disease, warfare, cultural destruction … wow, that’s a powerful term.”. Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds.

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Education Elements

JUNE 27, 2018

Our company is known for having a unique organizational culture. We have eliminated the traditional organizational hierarchy of direct managers; we employ a self-organizing team structure; and if you attended this year’s Personalized Learning Summit, you know we also view trivia and dancing to 80’s music as valuable team-building time.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

And you’re the only student representing that culture at your school. Because that’s something that I hear a lot from people in predominantly white spaces is that the kids are not choosing to read books that feature characters from cultures outside their own.” . “My advice was not to do that.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 30, 2024

In addition to providing needed heat, wood-hauling practices are an essential part of cultural identity. federal agencies existed, the Bears Ears area holds enduring cultural, historical, and aesthetic significance to the tribes of the region. However, Indigenous practices do not always fit neatly with U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 12, 2024

It’s still just not even close to what the traditional public schools go through. And so if you have an existing traditional public school and you lose a class of children, probably it’s not going to close the school, but it does create a financial challenge because you’re losing some of those dollars.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 2, 2023

Another approach is to look into our curricula to find places where the contributions of many cultures can be more fully acknowledged. We’ll be doing this here with a specific focus on Arab cultures. “And the reality is that the Arab heritage and the Arab culture is something that is across content areas.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 9, 2022

And at the end of this post there will be something you can download to play around with yourself or with students. lesson-12-qatar-2022 Download lesson-12-qatar-2022-poster-worksheets Download One of the most powerful things about Geography is the subject’s ability to tackle controversial issues. Stick with it.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Others are turning to social media to fill in gaps when traditional forms of education are either disappearing or insufficient. These platforms, now part of our daily lives, have the power to reach young people where traditional education may fail.

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Political Science Now

MAY 12, 2025

In addition to her traditional research, she is a co-author of Constitutional Law in Contemporary America (3E Cambridge UP) and American Democracy Now (9E McGraw Hill), and sole author of a new text, Race and the Law in the US (Cambridge UP 2025). Meet the Co-Facilitators Michelle D. Deardorff is the Adolph S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Office hours for Patrick Cafferty’s biology classes are anything but traditional. He downloaded outlines of biology diagrams and sent them to students to print on their own. Gonzalez Niño partially blames the culture of academia for that. This year, the office hours became a time for students to play games together.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 6, 2025

What we do have is a culture of respectone that honors the dignity and diversity of all students, families, and educators. She is the author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , which I’ve referred to many times on this site, and one of the most respected voices on the topic of equity-driven education.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

I also wanted to let folks know that we at the Zinn Education Project offer free, downloadable people’s history lessons that many of you have probably used for middle and high school students, and we also have an important report on Reconstruction that we hope you all will check out and think about how to use in your classrooms. Thanks, T.

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