ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

“For the last few decades, educational reform has been coasting on these outdated ideas about human nature, about human psychology and human society,” says Hendrickson. You can't have a culture without having metaphors. You can't have a culture without having songs and dances and rituals.

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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). Are they culturally relevant for our kids? It makes me empathize with other people.”

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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.,

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Understanding the Psyche of Technological Resistance in the Education Workforce Resistance to change, especially technological change , is fundamentally anchored in our human psychology. In navigating the AI transition, we're not just adopting a new set of tools, but reshaping our educational landscape.

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

As educators, it is imperative that we acknowledge the challenges this life can bring and our role in supporting military children and families. The Barriers Military Children Face The challenges families experience in military life can be a source of psychological stress, especially for children.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

According to Diane Hughes, a professor of applied psychology at New York University, “It’s well established that there’s no biological basis for race.” The Role of Educators in Combating Hate and Bias The good news is our educators are not helpless to address hate and bias incidents.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture. Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human.

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

When we're focusing on immediate crisis response, we use concepts from what we call “psychological first aid,” and that's where we really emphasize establishing a sense of safety, predictability and consistency. Educators are not trained to be first responders, yet in these incidents, they're being asked to be first responders.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Research in psychology has led to a clearer picture of common pitfalls in human reasoning — instincts people are wired to make that may have helped our caveman ancestors but that now lead people to make biased decisions or incorrect assumptions. It's a very simple mechanism — it’s a cultural confirmation bias. …

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2024

struggles with math instruction, there’s interest in cultural perceptions about who possesses strong math abilities. Frequently, when I interviewed experts about why math students around the country are struggling, those experts would comment that part of the problem lay in the culture. But within a short span, Holifield would be dead.

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2022

But perhaps the greatest barrier is departmental culture. Our faculty have a new and deeper obligation now, not only to open student minds to intellectual discoveries, but to turn the classroom into a caring refuge from cultural and economic abuse. If your department doesn’t support active learning , why should you?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

A Yale University psychology professor has gathered highlights of what research says about the most common human thinking errors into a popular class at the university that she recently turned into a book.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The external forces have to do with the conversation that the culture is having about cancellation, about what authors are OK, about what books are OK and what content is OK. And this seeps into the college culture within the context of a classroom. And I need to preface it by saying I love my students, I'm here for my students.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

So in my culture, I would answer the question,” Mentor recalls. Researchers also named what they didn’t find: The exercises didn’t have a bigger or smaller impact for any particular racial or ethnic group of students. When she first arrived in the United States, it took some time to realize that people who asked, “How are you?”

Middle School 113

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Now, I think of sleep as avoiding physical exhaustion, while rest is more about avoiding daily psychological exhaustion. Tim Kanold Kanold: When we first started working on the physical wellness routines, I didn't quite understand the difference between sleep and rest with the same clarity that Tina did.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

The discrepancy stems from systemic factors like economic inequality, as well as cultural ones. A recent national survey conducted by the American Psychological Association found that more than 85 percent of psychologists are white. Families may believe that therapy is ‘a white people thing,’” Cherestal says.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

So what do educators want these metaverse world-builders to know? On this week’s EdSurge Podcast, we dig into education and the metaverse, with Kathy Hirsh-Pasek, a professor of psychology at Temple University and one of the authors of that new Brookings paper. We want it to be culturally responsive.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

You can’t interview Asians because they won’t say anything substantive due to the norms of their culture,” she said. I was in the first year of the top doctorate program in my field, and we were 20 educators-in-training being taught best practices of various communication research methods by supposed leading experts. Wait, what?

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

For educators like Aion and Bowyer, the expectation that public education would “return to normal” is one of the factors that pushed them out of the profession. For schools and districts, high turnover is not only problematic for school culture, it is also a significant drain on time, resources and money.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

The American Psychological Association (APA) defines competition as “any performance situation structured in such a way that success depends on performing better than others.” Influenced by my own experiences and the philosophy of my school, competition became a staple in our classroom culture. That was too hard to bear.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Whether my own kids are “good at school” or not, how do I make sure that the culture of academic pressure and urgency in school doesn’t negatively impact their self-worth? What psychological and spiritual damage would this cause? Many students are harmed by this urgency—I was harmed by this urgency. I don’t know.

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

When she works in a classroom, Niobe Way, a professor of developmental psychology at New York University, wants to dive into the deep end. Way says that people are starving for these questions, a sad consequence of what she sees as a culture and education system that have shut off people’s natural penchant for deep relationships.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2022

SEL promotes stronger school climates, attendance, belonging, empathy, identity development, cultural relatability, and appreciation of others and of the common good. According to one American Psychological Association survey , members of Gen Z are more likely to rate their mental health as fair or poor than older generations.

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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. Before, I wanted to study psychology … but I didn't know exactly what path I wanted to take. Then, as I added my education and child development minors, [my classes] sparked my interest in going into teaching. I have been in California ever since.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2025

As immigration arrests increase across the country, the psychological strain on immigrant children or whose family members are immigrants is likely to continue, too. Cardenas, also an associate professor of clinical psychology, discussed how teachers and administrators can help students feel safe at school.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

You want to create an atmosphere that allows students, faculty and staff to exist askew from society, from the general culture, so that they can learn how to create some distance and reflect upon what's happening in the world around them. But I think campus culture is something that may be different. How do you build cultures of trust?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2025

That includes, the editors note, anthropology, archaeology, classics, cultural studies, disability studies, ethnic studies, gender studies, history, law, linguistics, literary studies, performing arts, religious studies, philosophy, postcolonial studies, queer studies, psychology, sociology, visual arts, and women's studies.

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