A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 4, 2015

Possibilities include the library/media center, classrooms, or a common area of the school. For a maker culture to succeed and thrive in a school, leadership matters. I learned some of these lessons unbeknownst to me as they were only brought to my attention after making to learn became an embedded component of our school culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

While AI can provide data-driven insights and automate certain tasks, it needs a nuanced understanding of human relationships, cultural contexts, and complex decision-making processes essential for effective leadership. While AI can support these efforts, it should be seen as something other than a substitute for human leadership.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2014

For example, Laura as the library media specialist, limited by a dated library, turned to online resources and a digital space as 21st century libraries should comprise fluid, flexible learning spaces.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Developing their own cultural awareness , discussing race , and selecting culturally responsive texts are three strategies, supported by research, that help educators to sustain inclusive learning environments. Developing cultural awareness and discussing race.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 29, 2018

I desperately needed an innovative leader in the library who could transform the space in a quick amount of time. Laura not only transformed the space but her actions and resolve helped to transform the entire learning culture of the school and ultimately the district. Another great example was the hiring of Laura Fleming.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

As I have since transitioned from school principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education ( ICLE ), my work now focuses on helping schools transform teaching, learning, and leadership to create vibrant cultures that kids want to be a part of. Drunk-driving vehicle simulators that are used in PE/Health.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 27, 2022

Here is a really cool interactive Google Arts and Culture site all about the Timbuktu Manuscripts. Learn about the Mosque of Djenne here and its importance as a library for manuscripts. In another section, you can click on the different topics that the manuscripts cover and read a summary of what they say.

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Digital Promise

MAY 25, 2017

The Digital Promise maker learning team spent some time in Greer, South Carolina this winter observing and filming the Riverside Middle School Library Club students as they worked to design solutions to problems they identified in their community. We are excited to share their story as the second in our series of Maker Promise videos.

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TeachThought

APRIL 28, 2024

Literacy is crucial to any learning environment, from promoting comprehension to nurturing empathy and cultural understanding both inside the classroom and beyond. ” – Harper Lee “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.” 50 Quotes About Reading “Reading is the beginning of wisdom.”

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Makerspace added to the library in 2013. We have transformed the teaching and learning culture at NMHS that begins and ends with a growth mindset. The change process then gets a boost from an intrinsic motivational force that not only jump starts the initiative, but allows for the embracement of change as opposed to looking for buy-in.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Check out this great article from the School Library Journal on this project. Laura Fleming is having a substantial impact on the culture here at NMHS. Here are a few highlights from her short tenure thus far: Created a digital badge platform to recognize informal learning being undertaken by NMHS staff.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

This day, however, was not really much different than any other day at NMHS as we have made a commitment to integrate digital learning into school culture for some time now. She then utilized a variety of virtual manipulatives (using the SMART tablet ) from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

Laura had returned to New Milford this past September and is literally constructing a modern day Library Media Center. Within a few minutes of us arriving students flooded the Library, a space for conversation, research, learning and inventing. When we arrived to New Milford High School, Laura Fleming (@NMHS_LMS) greeted us.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Create a Culture That Normalizes Mistakes “When you create a classroom that’s focused on the rewards, the gold stars, the grades, kids are just trying to look good and get the good grade,” David-Lang says. You want to create the kind of culture where formative assessments are not intimidating. It’s on the spot, right there.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Media libraries, interactive apps, and virtual language tutors: technology is changing how we approach language learning. Join groups and follow accounts for fellow language learners and natives, especially those who share memes and discuss pop culture. They look so heavy. Where do you start? What’s the best way to make progress?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

rose-ringed or ring-necked parakeet) was included in The Naturalists Library , an illustrated natural history series popular in the United Kingdom during the Victorian era. According to medical anthropologist Eileen Moyer , the sculptor Nicolas Dings included this imagery to invoke thoughts of cultural diversity and tolerance toward migrants.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

10, 2025 By Studies Weekly NEWSLETTER You only need to walk into a store and see St Patricks Day decorations to know Irish Americans have profoundly impacted our countrys culture. But instead of helping these Irish immigrants, many US citizens blamed them for creating these unsanitary conditions, according to the Library of Congress.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Sustainable change relies on understanding people, culture, and processes. Subscribe to websites via RSS feeds, customize to your learning needs/goals, create you own unique educational current events library, and share websites quickly with your staff. This is best accomplished through collaboration, consensus, and understanding.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

No Tech Use the first 5 minutes of a class or meeting to ask the group this question: “What are five words you’d use to describe our school culture today?” Here are some ideas for doing it with different levels of technology (including none at all). Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 14, 2014

With these elements in place the stage is set for innovation and the creation of a school culture that works for students in the digital age. The students worked with Mrs. Fleming on new Google Chromebooks in the library to design their e-books. Change does not happen when all of the gears are not working in concert.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

The places where the adults tasked with that responsibility (known as McKinney-Vento workers because of the law that funds their jobs) connected with these students, like public libraries, closed down. Whether students feel like they belong at school is really important for academic achievement or even getting them to show up, she says.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. 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. Captain Silas Soule 1863 or 1864. Soule fired first, wounding Squier in the arm.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Elevate the Collective In Western cultures, we have traditionally emphasized individual achievement, but Qarooni urges us to put more effort into celebrating what we can each contribute to the whole. What are you particularly proud of and why? What part do you still think could improve? ” Come back for more.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2022

I encourage you to pick up a copy or borrow it from your library and dig into it in its entirety.) (By the way, while below I share some great information that I gleaned from “Fact vs. Fiction,” it is chock full of additional information, resources, and analysis.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Goal 1: Recruit a Team of Committed and Diverse Individuals to Effectuate Change To create a more diverse student and staff population, we have to do the work of building and nurturing a culture that creates a safe and courageous space for students, families and staff who have been historically marginalized. Why are they all men?” they asked.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 12, 2024

For questions or for more information, call the Library at 207-244-7065, visit www.swhplibrary.org , or email programs@swhplibrary.org. Register for the event at: [link] Image Credits Southwest Harbor Public Library logo He summers in a cottage in Deer Isle, Maine.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

See also Roles For Artificial Intelligence In The Education In the realm of online content consumption, streaming platforms like Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video, and Disney+ provide children with access to a vast library of movies, TV shows, and animated series.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

” This disadvantages students whose families may adopt a culture that places a strong value on humility. The OpenStax team focused on understanding the value that GenAI brought to teachers seeking resources in its free library of high-quality educational content.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 23, 2019

A meme is defined as a cultural item in the form of an image, video, phrase, etc., My favorite place to send students to look for history-based images is the Library of Congress. Library of Congress Primary Source Sets I encourage students to browse the primary source sets or to search for an image. Our students certainly do!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Most students in the California State University, Chico library were silently poring over books or computers on a recent afternoon, but one group was tucked into a corner peppering university president Stephen Perez with questions. CHICO, Calif. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times What’s the world’s smallest mountain range?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

Like many teachers, I would tap into the the Library of Congress, which would give me tips for teaching with primary sources , including quarterly journal articles on topics such as integrating historical and geographic thinking. We could listen to podcasts on the geography of world cultures from Stanford University. And so on… .

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Often, the product of this influence is a colonialist narrative that presents past cultures as flawed or inconsistent (because they fail to meet modern criteria) and modern (usually Western) cultures as the resolution of these inconsistencies. Fellowships will be distributed equally across the 2025-2026 academic year (i.e.,

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

A new online library called the “Innovative Models Exchange ,” unveiled Monday, hopes to give educators an easy place to quickly consider some possibilities. High-Dose Tutoring “Schools, typically, in this country, don't have enough of an innovation culture.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2022

Ranganathan—often referred to as the Father of Library Science—proposed Five Laws of Library Science in 1931, a theory of principles of operating a library system. I have watched students lead peers to new sections of our library to explore new genres. Let Kids Choose S.R.

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