A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Just like with learning, it's a process, not an event. While it is understood that management is a necessity associated with the position, it should not be something that comes at the expense of improving the learning culture. When it comes to leadership, there is no one right way or quick fix.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 24, 2018

As a supplement to traditional discussion strategies technology can serve as a catalyst to increase engagement by getting more people actively involved during lessons. Backchannel Chat has some good answers to both of these questions below: A backchannel is a conversation that takes place alongside an activity or event.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

Other elements embedded in school culture cloud our vision as to what is both needed and possible. Issues such as the status quo, traditions, mindset , fear, apathy, funding, infrastructure, and time seem to consistently rear their ugly heads. It’s not just advancements in technology that have to be addressed in our schools.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 26, 2025

Using Bayesian chronological modeling and data from over 150 archaeological sites, the study examines how two major climatic events—the Antarctic Cold Reversal (ACR) and the Younger Dryas (YD)—influenced early human dispersal across the continent. This event, however, appears to have played a different role in human settlement.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 24, 2014

Administrators and teachers alike will work to establish a shared vision and subsequent plan of action for meaningful change that will hopefully lead to cultural transformation. Administrators will conduct countless observations and walk-throughs while spearheading larger change initiatives to improve achievement and school culture.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. In a political rally organized for the event, he proudly told a crowd in Bomboiza how they were already exporting the fruit to the United States, Canada, China, and Russia.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Their findings underscore the importance of Central Asia not only as a geographical way point but as a cultural and technological nexus where different human populations may have encountered each other over millennia. Artifacts suggest that the Zeravshan Valley was not only a migration route but potentially a place of cultural exchange.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 18, 2015

The primary audience at each event has been teachers, which by no means is a bad thing. With this power comes a greater responsibility to act accordingly to not only challenge the status quo, but also in many cases make bold decisions to transform traditional school cultures. Image credit: [link] Here in lies the issue though.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

As a result, I have seen my own knowledge increase in these areas, participated in exciting professional development opportunities, presented at both my school and at other events on web 2.0, and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. So why is this a big deal? This is exactly what we are setting up to accomplish.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. How were those pots used?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

Makerspaces have moved from fringe initiatives to vibrant components of school culture. People craving more than a drive-by event, traditional school professional development day, or mandated training have an authentic outlet that caters to their interests. Leadership is leadership ladies and gentlemen.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 7, 2025

A Child Buried in Ochre, A Legacy Written in Bone Buried deep within a Portuguese rock shelter some 28,000 years ago, a small child’s ochre-stained bones whisper a tale of interwoven ancestries, ritual significance, and a culture lost to time.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 14, 2024

This can lead to new opportunities, media coverage, being invited to present at local or national events, and recognition for your efforts. While it might seem like a risky shift from traditional methods, the potential benefits students make it a worthwhile endeavor. The key is to take calculated risks.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. President Jokowi seeks to embody and represent this rich cultural diversity.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

And so the power is really in reflecting on that and just sitting with it before we continue with the traditional ways of communicating with families.” Traditional communication has typically referred to those we reach out to as parents , as in parent-teacher conferences , or in more specific roles, as in Mother’s Day events.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

history class this year, she described the American revolution and then expanded on the lesson, making connections to historical events in Mexico, Central America, the Dominican Republic and elsewhere in the Caribbean. schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 26, 2016

We were still using traditional means of communication such as memos, on-site events such as our annual Back to School Night, PTO meetings, email blasts, and face-to-face conferences when needed. Many parents worked multiple jobs and just didn’t have the time to attend events and meetings on-site or even read an email or memo.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

As Contributing Editors for the AFA section column in the larger space of AN , we were responsible for publishing content material, such as essays and interviews, that addressed all matters feminist anthropology, from fieldwork to current events, written in a journalistic style that drew from the authors’ scholarly sensibility and expertise.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2017

Change is a process, not an event. Mandates and top-down directives rarely become embedded and sustained components of school culture because once the focus changes (and it always does) then all the time, energy, and frustration transfers to the new initiative. Taking action to make things better leads to a culture of excellence.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity. When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. At first, I was annoyed.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

(Younger children in the school take courses using more-traditional online tools, including Microsoft Teams.) She’s a champion of a model of education that favors students reading classical texts and otherwise focusing on the traditional canons of arts, literature and culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 2, 2010

It was a great event and I am so proud of the accomplishments that are clearly apparent amongst all of the top students in my area. The valedictorians and salutatorians for that matter are recognized for their achievement of academic greatness at events like this and commencement ceremonies across the country.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

As educational leaders we should be modeling, supporting, and collaborating with our respective staffs to create a vibrant school culture that fosters risk-taking and innovation. To get that same information on our traditional website would have taken a week’s worth of emails and action by two or three different staff members.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 4, 2025

However, this does not mean that they have lost interest in the language and traditions of their parents and grandparents. Among French Jews of Tunisian descent, there has been a recent resurgence of interest in their ancestors lifestyle before migration and with their cultural and linguistic heritage.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry. It is a story of attack, retaliation, and revenge.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 8, 2025

Their findings point to a complex blend of cultural traditions, physical trauma, and ritual significance, raising new questions about Manteño funerary practices and the role of sacrifice in pre-Columbian Ecuador. Valdivia and the Coastal Tradition of Ecuador." DOI: 10.1080/00438243.1992.9980173 Marcos, J. 1 Juengst, S.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Voice Educators, both teachers and administrators, should have a say in many elements that influence a school’s learning culture. This could consist of speaker recommendations, workshop topics, hosting your own event, or even the development of an unconference. Image credit: www.peoplematters.in

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. Research shows that simply living in different cultures creates measurable differences in brain activity and structure.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A scholar of Sikkimese religions and cultures, Kalzang saw plastic khatak and lungta when visiting his relatives’ newborns. Through annual ritual traditions, local people communicate with and care for Mount Everest, or Jomolangma as she is called in the local Sherpa language. However, white is actually the traditional color for flags.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Bake & Bond Events: Host community baking events where passionate bakers can come together to bake and connect. Conceptual Jumping Off Point 2: Duncan Hines as Cultural Transmitter 5. Cultural Baking Kits: Develop themed baking kits that introduce children to various cultural traditions through baking.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

When traditional systems seem to be working in a highly localized educational ecosystem, leaders are sometimes hesitant to innovate in small districts. In collaboration with EdSurge, Northern Ignite hosted an event with 700 attendees at Ramapo College that exposed educators to both the edtech and edtech venture capital worlds.

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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. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy. Roughly the ethnographic approaches can be divided into the following traditions.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Student A The Underdogs written by Mariano Azuela is an incredibly famous novel of the Mexican Revolution as it highlights several traditions in a narrative format. Literature that was once filled with European tradition now contains Mexican events, culture, tradition, and history.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Some parents are really worried about Covid and their child getting sick, but one of the main reasons is about culture. We want them to know a lot about their culture.”. The group connects Muslim home-schoolers in Southern California by hosting events and providing resources, such as books and curriculum. Covid-19 upended that.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

In this interview with EdSurge, Black discusses Dangerous Learning, how challenges to traditional public school education enforce rather than dissolve political divisions, and the unexpected successes hidden in the sad history of anti-literacy. The following interview has been edited for length and clarity.

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Sapiens

MARCH 12, 2024

As an anthropologist, this intimacy with cats fascinates me because they represent another instance of how “human culture” is in fact made up of our relationships with nonhumans. Just as important as these culturally specific factors, however, may well be qualities inherent to cats that drive people’s fascination with them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. Ellison and her dad picked green; Ellison’s mom took yellow, signaling to her daughter it was okay to be a little nervous at the big event.

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