The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.

Education 123

Education Economics Tradition Humanities 123

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

Accomplishing this feat also requires educators to take into account when and where students learn. In the lead-up to a curation of a vast amount of research, UNESCO stated the following: In today’s world, education systems must constantly evolve in order to effectively respond to the rapidly changing demands of the societies they serve.

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Tutoring Pedagogy Library Cultures 532

A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Throughout the pandemic, educators have embraced new opportunities that have materialized and taken advantage of a clean slate. Below I will address six specific areas that can help to create an empathetic teaching and learning culture. Compassion means full immersion in the condition of being human."

Pedagogy 543

Pedagogy Cultures Tradition Leadership 543

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 24, 2020

During my years as a teacher and principal, I would spend countless hours planning, researching, and attending professional learning events to hone my craft in order to become a better educator. I established hiring practices that resulted in the hiring of a lot of smart educators. HERE you can access a quick-start guide.

Geography 545

Geography Humanities Cultures Professional Development 545

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2023

Co-create a vision A shared and co-created vision has the potential to transform an organization's culture. Extrinsic rewards are problematic as they create an expectation and seldom result in lasting cultural changes. It is a calling and responsibility to propel a culture forward for improved outcomes in ways that are scalable.

Leadership 465

Leadership Cultures Humanities Research 465

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2017

This applies not only to K-12, but also higher education. Thus, schools and education in general need to create a learning culture that not only inspires students, but also prepares them for success in their future. We are at a crossroads in education. Change is not coming, it is already here beating down the door.

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K-12 Pedagogy Tradition Cultures 401

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

As educators, we feel differently. If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship. What we mean is that the success of novel instruction hinges not just on the quality of the books we teach but on the intellectual culture we surround them with.

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K-12 Pedagogy High School Cultures 140

A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the role of leadership is pivotal. The notion of educational leadership extends beyond administrative responsibilities; it embodies the vision, direction, and ethos of a learner-centric environment. Understanding the Role Leadership is about action.

Leadership 391

Leadership Cultures Education Policy Humanities 391

Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

Anthropology 98

Anthropology Humanities Cultures History 98

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 18, 2016

For every education professional, adversity is a constant reality: lack of time, not enough resources, outdated facilities, resistant staff, and a slew of mandates/directives, to name a few. The human brain is wired to keep us safe, and as a result we often become averse to change.

Leadership 397

Leadership Cultures Humanities Teaching 397

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

Human nature compels us in many cases to take the easiest possible path to success. In my opinion that is the case in education. Educators and stakeholders alike have been brainwashed into thinking that a successful school or district is one who achieves through quantitative measures. What supporting evidence do we have?

Leadership 370

Leadership Professional Development Cultures Educational Technology 370

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

There is always a great deal of discussion about change in education in order to better prepare students for success. Through my work I have seen in person, and through social media, some amazing examples of what education can and should be. If not, then human nature will take over and you will make an excuse.

Global Connections 420

Global Connections Leadership Cultures Tradition 420

Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Nightingale College, South Dakota, US As I grade my Cultural Anthropoloy classs Emic and Etic Perspectives of Halloween essay, two things strike me: 1. Even with this growing fan club for correct AI use, educators seem to universally want to prohibit bad AI use. Chloe Beckett, M.A., So why would AI be any different?

Anthropology 130

Anthropology Sociology Cultures Educational Technology 130

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is investigating the unintended consequences of AI-powered surveillance at schools. The lack of privacy comes at a cost In Rigby, educators lean toward human interaction. Martin said those are helpful, but must be used in concert with human-led initiatives.

Humanities 63

Humanities Middle School High School Research 63

Anthropology.net

MARCH 1, 2025

A World of Languages from the Start For decades, research on infant language acquisition has been dominated by studies conducted in what scientists call "WEIRD" societies—Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich, and Democratic. Indirect language exposure may play a larger role in language acquisition than previously assumed.

Anthropology 105

Anthropology Humanities Cultures Research 105

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. The dynamism of the world, driven by scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and cultural shifts, ensures that there is always room for improvement.

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Junior High Pedagogy Leadership Humanities 343

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2014

I recently read this Education Week post by Jill Berkowicz and Ann Myers titled We Have 21st Century Learners Who Need 21st Century Leaders. Leading the transition from 20th century to 21st century schools includes attention to the human toll it takes when such large changes are being required. I couldn''t agree more.

Leadership 405

Leadership Artifacts Professional Development Cultures 405

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 30, 2016

Educators who have embraced this concept have experienced firsthand the positive impact on professional practice that being a connected educator brings. With this choice comes a great deal of responsibility to initiate and sustain change that will lead to a transformed school culture. The premise is relatively simple.

Leadership 391

Leadership Humanities Cultures Education 391

TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. While progress is being made in sub-Saharan Africa in primary education, gender inequality is in fact widening among older children. Equilibrium.

Education 161

Education Cultures Pedagogy Humanities 161

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2014

Excuses are just a part of human existence. If education is good for one thing, it is for making excuses not to move forward. The feeling is that our system of education has worked so well during this time why change now. When was the last time you came up with an excuse to get out of doing something that you did not want to do?

Leadership 404

Leadership Professional Development Humanities Cultures 404

ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

Last week, the ASHP was one of many organizations and individuals suddenly notified about the termination of grants funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Its state humanities councils bring reading programs, traveling exhibits, and authors to some of the country’s most rural corners.

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Museum Archiving Library American History 98

A Principal's Reflections

JULY 1, 2018

Planning aside, there is another inhibitory element lurking in every organizational culture including education, and that is excuses. So why is it a part of human nature to make excuses? It is the calling of all educators to help them find and unleash it. It is excuses that hold us back.

Humanities 403

Humanities Cultures Education Leadership 403

Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Researchers from the ROOTS Cluster of Excellence at Kiel University have introduced a groundbreaking way 1 to apply modern philosophical concepts, like the United Nations Human Development Index (HDI), to ancient societies, offering fresh perspectives on how and why these communities thrived. Shanks, M., & Tilley, C.

Archaeology 98

Archaeology Humanities Cultures Tradition 98

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

My challenge and motivation were to create a teacher-facing resource that would also be applicable to administrators, instructional coaches, and other educators who actively work in schools. Regardless of the forces at hand, educators play a pivotal role in preparing students for success now and in the future.

Artifacts 420

Artifacts Humanities Teaching Cultures 420

Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

As an educator, understanding AI and its ethical implications is critical to making sure the new technologies introduced to classrooms ultimately help your students. What should educators know about AI? We have the latter view as we believe teachers are essential to education, and that AI should be used to better support them.

Education 174

Education K-12 Learning Science Humanities 174

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. Shuck is a professor of human resource and organizational development at the University of Louisville and co-founder of the start-up OrgVitals. And these facets of culture all live in a similar space.

Cultures 115

Cultures Education Humanities Psychology 115

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

But a growing chorus of education advocates has been arguing that phonics isnt enough. Some educators are calling for schools to adopt a curriculum that emphasizes content along with phonics. The emphasis on phonics in many schools is still relatively new and may need more time to yield results. Weve all been there.

Teaching 141

Teaching Charter School Social Studies Geography 141

TeachThought

JULY 2, 2024

” These might be the wrong questions, a product of our sentimentality as a culture and human insecurity in general. Move farther and ask, ‘What human need did we originally design schools to solve?’ That’s what’s confusing about new tools: they don’t improve things as much as they change them.

Humanities 295

Humanities Tradition Cultures Teaching 295

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

Social Justice 133

Social Justice Humanities Archival Research Critical Thinking 133

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

For the better part of my educational career, I always referred to any type of learning to assist me as a teacher or administrator as professional development (PD). The experiences where I had some level of choice were the most meaningful to me and resulted in real changes to my educational practice.

Professional Development 358

Professional Development Leadership Humanities Cultures 358

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2022

A mother of four in Florida recently questioned the repeated defense of “parent rights” that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis cited before signing his controversial “Parental Rights in Education” bill, known as the “ Don’t Say Gay bill,” at the end of March. “ ‘Parental rights’? In the past year, a culture war has taken over education.

Cultures 128

Cultures K-12 Public School Teaching 128

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The drop in college graduates who majored in humanities ranges between 16 percent and 29 percent since 2012. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002. As the economy recovered, so did the humanities. The last time colleges produced this few humanities graduates was in 2002.

Humanities 143

Humanities Economics History Psychology 143

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

There is no substitute for real human interaction as this is the ultimate relationship builder. It is during this time that they get to share their ideas on the topic, discuss implementation strategies, reflect on what others have said, or provide positive reinforcement. I am always inspired when I eavesdrop on these conversations.

Pedagogy 413

Pedagogy Tradition Research Humanities 413

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 13, 2018

Of course, you have, as this is just a part of human nature. Just because a school or educator might be “good” at something doesn’t equate to the fact that change isn’t required in other areas. Growth in all aspects of school culture is something that has to be the standard. They most definitely are.

Cultures 275

Cultures Tradition Humanities Education 275

ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

With shifting societal norms, advances in technology and evolving pedagogical practices at play, it's no surprise that change is the only constant in education. Typically, humans have an inclination toward safety and the predictability of routine, avoiding the uncertainty that comes with new terrain.

Humanities 98

Humanities Psychology Education Library 98

Anthropology.net

MARCH 31, 2025

It suggests that these journeys were neither incidental nor purely educational but held profound cultural and spiritual significance. Liminal Beings: Children as Mediators In many indigenous cultures, children are perceived as liminal beings—occupying a threshold between the earthly realm and the spiritual world.

Archaeology 83

Archaeology Cultures Humanities History 83

Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

This curve has been cited widely as evidence of a universal pattern in human well-being. Challenging the Happiness Curve with Cross-Cultural Research A Global Look at Well-Being Gurven and his team analyzed well-being across non-industrialized societies using data from three sources. 1 Gurven, M., Rodriguez, D.

Psychology 98

Psychology Cultures Community Engagement Research 98