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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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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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. schools, as teachers attempt to make a traditional, Eurocentric curriculum personally interesting to a diverse student body.

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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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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. Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Martha Bongiorno School Library and Instructional Technology Lead at Fulton County Schools How did the pandemic affect creativity? During the pandemic, she saw creativity pushed away as schools scrambled to get the traditional core content out to students. Bongiorno argues that creativity can’t be an afterthought in the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. There was nothing like this.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. This is particularly concerning because engagement and cultural relevance have both been proven to have a positive impact on student outcomes. Cultural and social relevance.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2019

In Oregon, Portland Public Schools is partnering with their local Native American community to develop culturally relevant curriculum that integrates traditional ways of knowing with science and technology.

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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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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2024

Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History: Call for Fellows kskordal Mon, 03/04/2024 - 13:37 Image The Future of the Past Lab and the Center for Premodern Studies at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities are excited to announce a three-year series of visiting fellowships titled “Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History.”

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

It’s kind of a cultural moment where educators know what’s best for kids but then they’re sometimes prohibited from following those recommendations by either their school district policies or by state law. . There are wonderful single stall restroom designs that cost about the same as regular, traditional binary restrooms.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 4, 2015

In South Fayette, a suburban and rural district of 2,700 students near Pittsburgh, it’s woven into the district culture, as well as the core curriculum at every grade level. Most of the projects happen in a “learning lab,” which operates like a traditional library or computer room.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

Source: Library of Congress Juneteenth — June 19th, also known as Emancipation Day — is one of the commemorations of people seizing their freedom in the United States. This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Dancer at Juneteenth celebration in Washington, D.C. Photo by Carol M. But We Can’t Teach?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

Read” mode builds up children’s English vocabulary so they can access traditional books, too. Once kids know how to read in English, Malzkuhn says, they can go the library and pick out any book they want. They do and can become bookworms,” she said through an interpreter. The biggest demand from those who have tried the apps?

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

Rapidly changing technology, particularly the emergence of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in education has positioned faculty and leaders with a pivotal decision to make: Stick with the known comfort of traditional methods or experiment with the enticing, yet intimidating, potential of AI. It’s not indicative of weakness or failure.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Curating the kind of library that truly reflects the diversity of human experience takes time, intention, money, and good tools. She is the co-author, along with Valerie Tagoe, of the 2022 book Liven Up Your Library: Design Engaging and Inclusive Programs for Tweens and Teens ( Amazon | Bookshop ). It’s a win-win-win-win-win.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Many schools rely on counting noses at traditional Back-to-School nights or parent-teacher conferences to gauge whether parents are engaged in their children’s learning. nitially, Malik relied on traditional meetings to get parent feedback. As a bonus, the location prompted her to get library cards for the family.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. Two of our VILS locations are on Maui, Hawaii, which has an extraordinarily rich culture and strong community traditions. Safari Books. Kalama Intermediate School.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 5, 2023

Thinking Tasks Unlike in a more traditional classroom, where the lesson might start with direct instruction from the teacher, a typical day in a Thinking Classroom starts with the teacher assigning thinking tasks for students to work on in groups, and direct instruction is only given on an as-needed basis. ” Come back for more.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 7, 2017

Connecting all the pieces, flanked by the high-tech science lab, a fireplace and plush sofas, is a modular, wide-open library of books and magazines for children to enjoy. Some aspects of Finland’s primary schools may be culture-specific and non-transferrable to other nations. My job is to protect that environment for children.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. She liked the people and the culture and the history. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

But as the movement against seat-time learning grows, more schools nationwide will be grappling with grade levels, deciding whether to keep them or to hack through thickets of political, logistical and cultural barriers to uproot them. We can’t keep structures that would allow us to fall back into a more traditional system,” said Steiner.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2016

What’s different is the culture. But these lessons are taught in the context of African, Latino and Native American traditions. She says she chose Roses in Concrete for her son over more established dual language schools because of the school’s emphasis on teaching students their culture.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school. The 16-year-old likes the school’s course-intensive program, in which students take just one or two classes at a time but complete them much more quickly than at a traditional school.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

There is more time for students to actually do the work, in this case, read, rather than the focus on the more traditional, round-robin style of reading where students spend a lot of the reading time waiting for their turn to read.”. Why it works. So understanding who kids are as people. I get new books every week,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Dominguez is part of a neighborhood activist group fighting to retake the abandoned school and turn it into a community arts and culture center. She has lots of ideas: tutoring services, a library, a theater, a kitchen, case managers, social workers. “It made me very sad to see the school closed.”. she said, smiling.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2018

Still others are stymied by academic calendars that continue to favor the traditional 18- to 22-year-old, even though such students are no longer the norm. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. But former students can be hard to track down, if not untraceable.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

College is geared more toward the traditional student,” he said. Some experts believe that student fathers’ graduation problems are cultural and connected to the reasons men are less likely than women to go to college in the first place. But Castillo said that getting a higher education is probably the hardest thing he’s ever done.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

The idea behind the Muñiz Academy, named for the longtime principal of Boston’s first dual-language elementary school (the Rafael Hernandez K-8 school), was that many Hispanic students would do better in schools that support their cultural background and, with it, the Spanish language. Tommy Chang, Boston Public Schools superintendent. “It

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2018

Parents were intrigued by the schools, which seemed to offer an alternative to traditional public schools. The cultural area introduces students to puzzle maps, flags and globes. Students will not find a laptop or tablet program here; the school has three computers available in the library for older students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

which Powell describes as an isolated world of “sacred peaks, spirits and clans” where homelessness, alcoholism and unemployment are as rampant as books and libraries are scarce. There’s not much in the way of a college going culture at Chinle High, beyond the unsung efforts of a handful of exemplary coaches and teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Adding more vocational training to traditional education appears to be a popular way of addressing this. Students walk to Shipman Library at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. An ardent advocate for course sharing, Docking, the president of Adrian, said it can save imperiled colleges and their unique cultures. “I

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