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. There was a shift in culture and in school. I ended up applying shortly after attending the event. That would’ve been in college for you.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., After a week of contemplation, I found myself wondering why we can’t do both.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

By contrast, ethnography is the systematic description of a single contemporary culture, often through ethnographic field. Women practitioners and indigenous experts have been documenting society and culture quite like an ethnographer during the era when 19 th century evolutionism was the dominant paradigm.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2023

That could be social events where students could make friends or finding professors willing to serve as mentors. But what about events like freshman orientation? So in my culture, I would answer the question,” Mentor recalls. Aren’t those sufficient to make students feel a part of the community? Mentor responds with a story.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. I’ve had events where literally one person showed up and I had to throw away a bunch of food,” Childers said. Attendance has improved since he made the events more casual. “We

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

The UC Davis California History Social Science Project frames current events within their historical context , connecting students’ present to the past. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. And so on… .

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

It isn’t an event; it is something we work at forever. Now, I think of sleep as avoiding physical exhaustion, while rest is more about avoiding daily psychological exhaustion. EdSurge: What is educator wellness? Our three physical wellness routines of food, movement and sleep directly impact the dimension of mental wellness.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

We also did some live podcast events last year, including tapings of podcasts in front of audiences at SXSW EDU in Austin and at the ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia. EdSurge is an independent newsroom that shares a parent organization with ISTE.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

Credit: Marissa Leshnov for The Hechinger Report The 24-year-old now runs hurdles for the UC Davis track team while pursuing a double major in psychology and African American studies, and obstacles peppered his path off the track as well. Eighty percent of college happens outside of class time,” Jack said.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Alfred “Red” Joseph, a senior history and philosophy major, and Lyndsi Burcham, a junior psychology major, stand outside Irvine Auditorium before the opening ceremony of the fourth annual 1vyG Conference at Penn, holding the SWAG given to attendees bearing theme “Focusing on the Future.” They cried, hugged and flirted.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

EdSurge connected with educators who decided to leave the classroom this year and with researchers focused on child psychology and student achievement to better understand how turnover impacts teachers and students—and why the retention crisis remains, despite efforts to return to normalcy.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The college also organized an annual event to invite local Hispanic families to the campus. Local Spanish-speaking Hispanic business leaders took part, helping build a linguistic and cultural bridge between the school and the community. The efforts had incremental success. None have last names like Villatoro, or appear to be Hispanic.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

A wall of the Rodriguez family home celebrates three seminal events with these words: “A moment in time, changed forever.” Ashley is the first in her family to attend college, a freshman studying child psychology on a full scholarship to prestigious Oxford College of Emory University, where annual estimated costs approached $80,000 this year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2016

Although the two Connecticut events occurred back-to-back, Malloy likely failed to connect the dots: Given their diverse instructional, linguistic, and cultural competencies, paraprofessionals could help address the state’s recurring bilingual teacher shortage. However, their pathways into teaching contain many hurdles.

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments. Extraverts are “the life of the party,” while introverts, on the other side of the scale, require less stimulation from people or events. There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Valeria Flores Morales, a sophomore psychology major at the University of Puerto Rico, was admitted to a top-ranked mainland university her family could not afford. “It We don’t have that culture of studying for [the SAT]. It makes us really angry to see people getting all the opportunities in the world just because they’re rich.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Aaliyah Williams, a junior at The Charter School of San Diego, takes notes while watching an online video for her AP Psychology class. Related: Students sat in cubicles using computers. It wasn’t popular. Still, the 16-year-old wants to eventually transfer back to her old school, where she played softball, basketball and golf and ran track.

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Digital Promise

JULY 14, 2016

Visual schedules of daily events can be created so that the person with autism understands what will be happening at any given time, thereby reducing unpredictability, a factor that often generates anxiety and frustration. Cultural psychology recognizes that families are diverse with respect to ethnic, racial and religious background.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 10, 2024

StarTalk Radio: Hosted by astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson, covering space, physics, and other science-related topics with humor and pop culture references. The Science of Happiness: This book explores scientific insights into happiness and well-being, backed by research in positive psychology.

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2024

He’s now a school psychology clinical manager at the staffing agency BlazerWorks, where he works with school districts to help them fill their school psychologist positions. If we were to add another layer, it’s that cultural variable,” Olvera says. What if there’s items on the assessment that are not familiar with the kid’s culture?

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ED Surge

MAY 22, 2023

Vona is co-founder of the Center for Safe and Resilient Schools, an organization that helps schools develop prevention and intervention strategies as well as long-term recovery approaches following traumatic events, such as a mass shooting or a natural disaster. Pamela Vona : It looks different almost every time.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2017

Mendoza, 22, who ended up taking a year off before returning to Harvard this fall, illustrates a paradox: Nonwhite students are often more stressed than their white classmates, but less likely to seek psychological help. Related: The new minority on campus? Too often, he said, it’s the last part that’s missed.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2017

Dean originally claimed he was just there to witness a historical event. Unlike the use of such obviously inflammatory language, cultural ignorance and unconscious bias can be inconspicuous, but they are no less injurious than outright discrimination. Lee was scheduled to be taken down later that day.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2024

Over the past 30 years, school shootings have “changed the culture of education,” Marleen Wong, CEO of the Center for Safe and Resilient Schools and Workplaces, said at the recent event. “It It is possible to recover but it’s a very difficult journey.”

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

If you’re fortunate and motivated enough to speak at an event like this then, let’s be honest, it’s a pretty good gig. There’s a lot of discourse around why people don’t engage in PD and it is worthwhile investing time exploring literature on teacher learning, culture, theories of motivation, habit formation, behaviour change etc.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. They created a “language registry” to alert students, staff and faculty whenever an event was scheduled in their target language. Mississippi Learning. In some academic fields research is going global.

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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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Anthropology News

JANUARY 16, 2024

1947–2023 Dr. Karen Ito was a dedicated anthropologist, committed to promoting the understanding of the diversity of human cultural experience, with significant and wide-ranging contributions to the field of anthropology. Her research continued to focus on how a people framed events and experiences in that world.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

This year, she took 25 students to Belize, where they learned about the Garifuna and Mayan cultures. Being in Africa and seeing the things that you have embraced as your culture in this place that you know far preceded it was powerful.”. Uwahnie Martinez (left), the owner of Palmento Grove Cultural Center in Belize, helps Frederick A.

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. To figure this out, we have to look at what has happened in our culture in recent years. How about EVERYTHING!

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 29, 2023

The answer is a resounding YES! In some ways, children are most certainly different today than they were even five years ago because we humans are biologically programmed to adapt to our culture: our time, place, and group. To figure this out, we have to look at what has happened in our culture in recent years. How about EVERYTHING!

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Humanities Psychology Cultures 52

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.” In our current culture, silence is compliance, so it is essential that we speak up. No person is born with hate and bias toward someone that looks or talks or acts different from them.

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Anthropology 365

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Institutional academic cultures often contribute to these mental health challenges, suggesting that these concerns are not purely individual but systemic within academia. The project invited students to consider how scientific knowledge develops and is situated in the historical and cultural dimensions of the times.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Ordinarily, we think of trauma as stemming from a defined event—the emotional shock waves you might experience from a single act of violence, for example. But decades of research on child development have also made clear that trauma is not caused by isolated events alone. We need psychological support, we need help with our kids.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2023

Around the country, LGBTQ+ students and the campus groups founded to support them have become a growing target in the culture wars. In some cases, that meant removing any information on sexuality or sexual maturation from elementary school health curricula, and also revising health, psychology and certain A.P. Some families have sued.

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Geogramblings

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Our world has shrunk due to the spread and influence of popular culture and branding; we are more connected whether physically through higher speed extensive transportation or digitally through the internet. Not just between cultures and groups but also harmony within. This is fundamental to the aims of PSHE.

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