ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. I made someone feel psychologically unsafe? He’s not really about equity work, look at the culture he’s created. I kept thinking, “Me? I was starting to believe these things. I wish I had.

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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.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Thanks to discoveries in the fields of organizational psychology and neuroscience, we can gain a better understanding of what human traits or behaviors are best suited for leadership, and why they are of benefit to the organizations and teams these individuals lead. Case in point.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? To avoid the shame trap, savvy educators don’t compare their knowledge and skills with others’.”

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. “Without conscious intervention through education and universal values, humanity risks perpetuating cycles of dominance, inequality, and ecological collapse.”

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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. Right now, culture is probably the most important thing that leaders can be thinking about. McClure: How does engagement connect to a concept like workplace culture?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Our goals were not far-fetched or new.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Every year ACX, as the blog is often called, hosts a book review contest, and the latest winner summarizes Egan’s 1997 book, “ The Educated Mind: How Cognitive Tools Shape Our Understanding.” And that appealed to Brandon Hendrickson, who stumbled across Egan’s work while doing a master’s program in education at the University of Washington.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? At colleges and universities, there's a culture of professors grabbing materials from the web without always citing them. But many experts say it depends on what a teacher is doing with AI.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning. Research indicates that educator wellness directly affects education quality , student achievement and school climate.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Many leaders in education have similarly called for action to address the biases of those working in schools across the country. Researchers have long hypothesized that teachers’ unconscious attitudes and prejudices may limit learning and degrade the educational experiences of Black youth. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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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. It can be traced back to an ingrained fear of the unknown , a protective psychological response that’s hard-wired into our brains to shield us from potential threats.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Kids were busting into Zoom meetings across the country at that point in the pandemic, but for Kelley, whose job is to help design California’s statewide education policy, and her female colleagues, the situation held special resonance. “We The principal consultant focused on education for Assembly appropriations is female.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2020

Just ask a parent trying to take the place of educators while working from home.). Meanwhile, cultural institutions are relaxing rules and paywalls to offer much-needed diversion, like free streaming of Broadway musicals and plays, operas, online art programs and free downloads of books from public libraries.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Two meta-analyses on growth mindset were published online in the fall of 2022 in the journal Psychological Bulletin and arrived at opposite conclusions about one of the most popular ideas in education. How could two such studies come out within just three weeks of each other in Psychological Bulletin and arrive at opposite conclusions?

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2019

We create a culture in our classrooms, establish norms and routines, and seek to influence our students. Students deserve to work with educators who inspire, challenge, support, connect with, and believe in them. Journal of Educational Psychology , 91(3), 537. Organizational Dynamics , 18 (3), 19-31.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Recent advances in neuroscience are revealing what Montessori educators have known for over a century - that learning is deeply connected to emotion, relationships, and the integration of mind and body. The implications for education are profound. Our classrooms and families are also forms of culture.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Even so, some educators are trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in the metaverse. This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” We want it to be culturally responsive.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University. What’s an example?

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

Whether you’re an instructional coach, school leader, or a fellow educator down the hall, supporting teachers effectively can be difficult. They’re on the front lines of education and are often the first to see problems, identify solutions and meet the needs of students. But that is why supporting teachers is more important than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2021

“Like we’ve been on this really long flight into outer space, sometimes it feels like we’ve just been in another universe,” said Kim Hirabayashi, a professor of clinical education at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education. It resulted in psychological distress for many. “We

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

One of the biggest challenges to making communities that are overall better for youth mental health is the very way the issue is talked about, says Nat Kendall-Taylor, CEO of the FrameWorks Institute and a psychological anthropologist. Pekel says he feels like he’s living through a second big paradigm shift in education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

She is now an assistant professor of psychology at Yale University. We know praise differs by culture,” Leonard said. “And so how kids respond to that should very much differ by culture.”. But this isn’t a causal study. It’s just a correlation.”. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This year, I began another complicated questwith an institutional behemoth: the New York City Department of Education. The things they can really use — in-home and remote services — have become flashpoints in pandemic resource battles and culture wars. During a pandemic. Advocating for Krishna is different now.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 21, 2024

“You can understand someone else's culture, what they celebrate, what they honor and what they believe in, without personally asking. Imagine Learning EL Education aligns with the concept of high-quality instructional materials (HQIMs). Imagine Learning EL Education is science-backed and heart-driven.

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Teaching Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In a 1934 lecture on techniques of the body, for example, Marcel Mauss argued that studies of movement should attend concomitantly to biological, sociological and psychological facets. This particular activity comes on the heels of a discussion of cultural universals in comparative perspective. Human hygiene is taken as an example.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Regardless of where your understanding of gender fluidity lies, what you probably have in common with your fellow educators is that you want all of your students to feel safe, accepted, and loved while they are under your care. Edwards added this piece based on his own experience working with educators. What should I have said?

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The challenge, then, for PD is to use these levers to secure engagement (note: this is not about some rather sinister form of psychological manipulation to ‘trick’ people into engaging or getting buy-in; it’s about finding ways to explicitly show that people’s perceived individual needs are actually in alignment with whole-school goals).

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. In our Future Teachers series , we ask these questions to aspiring educators on the cusp of entering the classroom. Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. That would’ve been in college for you.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma. And this isn’t a new conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2018

Anne Gregory, an associate professor of psychology at Rutgers University, recalls just such a scenario when an angry high school student shouted an expletive (“F— off!”) It’s a practice derived from a movement in education known as restorative justice, an approach to discipline that replaces punishment with repairing harm.

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All Things Pedagogical

JUNE 22, 2024

Anxiety about the scarcity model in general in higher education, and funding cuts, more precarity, more doing more with less. Folk who think people should just focus on the positives of a space, the positives of a meeting, the positives of education. Anxiety about the scope, goals, and next pedagogical steps of GenerativeAI.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

While parts of the education system have incorporated tailored methods to keep students engaged, mathematics is often still taught in traditional, non-differentiated ways. How can educators transform their approach and teach math in a way that effectively addresses learner variability ? “At and Antonio M.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Mysa’s tuition costs parents who don’t receive aid around $20,000 a year, comparable to what it costs the government to educate a student in a public school. The school doesn’t have grades, and it tries to give students a way to really pursue their educational interests. Ultimately, Fiske says, the goal is personalized learning.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift “All the way into October they can fish in the pond with a net,” said Monie Corona, an environmental education resource teacher for the district. Credit: Steven Henley/ Albuquerque Public Schools And, as recently noted in a review of the potential impact the education sector can have on U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Families and communities have all worried about how they will support their children’s education and development while they learn at home. As educators, we have a responsibility to reimagine our habitual mindsets about how to evaluate student progress. Students know and understand much more than we as educators will ever realize.

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