A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Marilyn Price Mitchell shared the following in an article for Edutopia: Research has since established resilience as essential for human thriving and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

My answer is simple: the failure occurs because when we introduce edtech into our classrooms, we continue to focus on things rather than on the process -- on devices instead of on good pedagogy. Successful and sustained edtech implementation requires that good pedagogy must first be in play within the classroom.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist. I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. Studying human bodies provides a deep historical perspective on social dynamics whose echoes remain with us today.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

The Cultural Effect As a species, we express ourselves through differences. What makes ‘culture’ interesting is how it both recognizes the individual while simultaneously allowing them to disappear into the whole again. In culture, there is both identity and anonymity. But why not consider something more ambitious?

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Teachers were burnt out, the national turnover rate was high and our school didn’t have the capacity to train staff to facilitate community-building circles and implement socio-emotional pedagogy. Considering these adverse factors, the school leaders decided to invest in our students’ well-being and purchase a packaged curriculum.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Even our pedagogies model this thinking. According to Papert: “The content for human development is always a culture, never an isolated technology.” According to Papert: “The content for human development is always a culture, never an isolated technology.” It doesn’t have to be this way.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Hollie’s work explores how students' culture impacts how they engage in the school environment. In this sense, culture transcends race and includes age, religion, and class, to name a few. Sharrocky Hollie in places where Black and Brown children were the primary learners.

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

With support and collaborative input from the LEGO Foundation, Project Zero embarked on an exploration of the pedagogy of play in 2015, in partnership with the International School of Billund in Denmark, which has made play a key part of its approach to learning. It’s possible to play with a purpose.

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Pedagogy to Share

MAY 17, 2023

This time, we spent three whole days learning, playing, laughing, discussing pedagogy in our unique contexts, and deliberating over issues connected to global citizenship in multilingual and multicultural contexts. From the European Wergeland Centre , Marianne Haug spoke about educating for democracy and human rights.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 29, 2025

This years series will explore ideas and examples of transformational and adaptive leadership through history, mythology, philosophy, and material culture. We are interested in sources from the diverse cultures of the ancient Mediterranean basin, not merely limited to Greece and Rome, but also Persia, Phoenicia, Lydia, Egypt, Etruria, etc.,

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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. Her words describe the transformative power of reading — a skill that, unlike spoken language, humans are not naturally hardwired to master. Are they culturally relevant for our kids?

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

to imagine and develop the research design for the archaeological investigation of UCI’s campus at some time in the future (perhaps an excavation to be conducted by non-human intelligence). Ian Straughn worked with students in an introductory archaeology course using Humata.ai Next, students examined the apps themselves.

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2019

Gotto Chair in Child Development and professor of psychology and human development at Peabody College, Vanderbilt University. Many teachers have been trained to think of belonging as only a product of classroom culture and student social relationships, that ultimately students have to learn to negotiate and navigate. and Antonio M.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This returns the thinking to the idea of knowledge(s) and the implication that to unlock this requires what Margaret Roberts has called "powerful pedagogy" which is where we come in. which meant a textbook-driven pedagogy, which was lamentable looking back, and which I talked about in my recent session at Practical Pedagogies 2024.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. Students have begun taking surveys about their perspectives on school culture and their own well-being, and they have been enthusiastic about the hands-on, science-based learning activities. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

teachers weren’t as well trained in math pedagogy and that American society didn’t value mathematical achievement as much as other countries. Leave this field empty if you're human: The latest PISA scores reinforce the results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) test of math and reading, which U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2024

This variation reflects the diverse historical and cultural priorities of different states. Throughout her career, Swan has been interested in inquiry-based pedagogy, drawing from her experiences as a teacher. And inquiry, as a practice, relies on examining diverse perspectives to understand human phenomena.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

In addition to academic requirements like high-level mathematics and science courses (required for many tertiary tracks but not always available or required at township schools ), Launch accomplishes its mission through unique pedagogies intended to expand students’ aspirations and propel them toward “fulfilling futures.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. The kind of behaviors that we get in this ‘gotcha’ culture of social media are directly the opposite of what is productive in conversation. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 5, 2019

Let goals and pedagogy lead the design. Once you’ve gathered insights from the community, develop a goal or pedagogy of practice that can guide your spatial design. . If we want schools to support human development and learning, Wilson says, we need to begin to question some of what we’ve inherited. Other elements?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

I learned truths about European imperialism and the humanness before slavery — how colonists from all over Europe stuck their flagpoles into African soils, controlling nations and influencing heritage for centuries. Humanizing pre-colonial history catapulted a spiritual reckoning and unlocked a familiar wholeness for me. King, Ph.D.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 7, 2025

We are also very eager to receive proposals that focus on pedagogy and explore cutting-edge teaching methods that integrate the interests of K-12 educators and college faculty. Pedagogy-related abstracts may include fewer references if they build upon teaching approaches in progress explored by the submitter(s) and/or other educators.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented. One consideration is that BIPOC solution providers and developers likely possess deep community and cultural expertise but often lack the necessary access to share their solutions.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

In 2015, I think we will see many more classrooms making efforts to connect across cultures and borders, learning more deeply about the world we live in and taking action to improve it.” ’ A prime example of this work from 2014 are the texts, lesson plans, and pedagogy shared by educators on Twitter through #FergusonSyllabus.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Programs must be rooted in values including forgiveness, equality, solidarity and respect for human worth. Nature and outdoor play are staples of Norwegian culture. Different culture,” she said, as she recalled the story. Through kindergartens, children are meant to learn to take care of each other and develop friendships.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A curriculum expert who reviewed the pedagogy explained to me that the unit was “weak” and does not meet Common Core standards as the creator claimed. Should you ding a lesson because it doesn’t include diverse authors or cover culturally diverse topics? Such a lifesaver!” Choose from our newsletters.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 20, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. There’s human development and linguistics and neuroscience and psychology and special education and speech language pathology. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org?

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 26, 2024

This is probably because the existence of a diversity of learning styles is a view held by much of society, and the claim humans learn in very different ways is often repeated as fact even though there isn’t strong evidence it is true. To begin with this led me to believe she might need radically different pedagogies to other children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

By third grade, they are debating complex topics, like genetically modified foods and the ethics of testing human drugs on animals. Regular no-blame, student-centered discussion of this data is a key step in promoting a collaborative school culture. Related: The future of proficiency-based education.

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Pedagogy and Formation

OCTOBER 11, 2024

In this talk I shifted focus and considered how we develop and sustain a pedagogy that transforms classroom life. I address this critical topic more fully in Chapter 6 of “Pedagogy and Education for Life”, where I zoom in on the life of our classrooms and the wider school. 99 ‘Pedagogy and Education for Life’ p.99].

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Pedagogy and Formation

JANUARY 27, 2022

We need to sharpen our human imagination and develop our "social imaginary". In ' Pedagogy and Education for Life ' I cite Charles Taylor's work that is helpful in addressing the above. Taylor suggests that to understand culture, we need to stop assuming only ideas move people.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 26, 2024

The committee also thought that the pedagogy analyzed in the article lends itself to application in many different classes, modalities, and educational environments and thus has the potential to be of interest to a wide audience and have broad impact. The committee found the article methodologically sophisticated.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

These programs painstakingly endeavor to elevate what Chinese academic environments have long downplayed : liberal education, humanities disciplines, and skills like critical thinking. beyond human ) and transformed its methodology, and that anthropologists were trained to open their body-mind during ethnographic work.

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