A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). You can read the article HERE. Since only snippets of my responses were embedded into the piece I wanted to share the specific questions that were asked and my thoughts on each.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

I still remember the day when I sent my son Nick in with a copy of the Scholastic Administrator magazine where I was featured on the cover. Once Judy realized that I was Nick’s father we began to immediately have conversations on how to improve the school culture at PS 3.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.” He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 31, 2021

Whiteness, meaning the institution that upholds white culture and affirms white ways of being as superior over other ways, seeks to sustain and protect itself. To ask that these books be put aside to welcome others is deemed “cancel culture.”. That’s how it survives. Identifying its tactics is a necessary skill for understanding it.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

We invite submissions that probe the anthropological dimensions of AI: how it affects and is affected by human behavior, social norms, and cultural practices. Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling. How is AI (re)shaping what it means to be human? And is humanity shaping AI?

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Anthropology News

JULY 15, 2024

Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In late September, my sophomores were packing up for the day when I noticed a group of boys, heads down, all focusing on what looked to be magazines open on their desks. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions. They lifted each page carefully, with a mix of reverence and deep concentration.

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It helps us recognize that we are beautifully diverse in our cultural choices and fundamentally the same in our humanity. It's about what life is like all over the world. How do people live? What do we have in common? What is different? And it's so simple.

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It helps us recognize that we are beautifully diverse in our cultural choices and fundamentally the same in our humanity. It's about what life is like all over the world. How do people live? What do we have in common? What is different? And it's so simple.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Learning and Teaching About Black Death When I was nine years old, I learned about the murder of Emmett Till after reading his story in one of my Aunt Helen’s “Jet” magazines. They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2021

It broke again 13 years later after the Sandy Hook shootings, by which time I was leading lockdown drills as a school leader and writing for Principal magazine about the path towards healing. The question is: Do we have the will as a culture? The toxic mix of mental illness and guns will not disappear.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

Congregants meet twice a week to read and discuss the Bible, have Q&A sessions for The Watchtower magazine teachings, and sing worship songs. But even though nearly all the congregants are Zambian, what makes the meetings in the congregation special is that they are all conducted in Mandarin. This greatly impressed Mr. Cheng.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 19, 2024

Anthropology News is the American Anthropological Association’s (AAA) award-winning member magazine, and its focus is insightful anthropology stories for anthropologists and anyone with an interest in anthropology. Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

What Happens When Students Don’t Receive a Diploma Culturally, graduation is a right of passage and a source of immense pride. Another recent graduate, a talented, multidisciplinary artist, was recently featured in one of the most prominent art spaces in the city — and is currently publishing his first magazine.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Listen to the interview with Sarah Riggs Johnson and Nate Wolkenhauer: Sponsored by Studyo and Scholastic Magazines+ This post was co-written by Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate combats this by consciously working to build — and maintain — a culture of respect in his classroom. This isn’t really about math.

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Anthropology News

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Petersburg Times , and Deborah Tannen for The New York Times Magazine , The Washington Post , and Vogue to name a few. In the 1980s regular bylines appear in mass-market media from various anthropologists such as Maria Vesperi for the St. Also in the 1980s the Margaret Mead Award gets established by the AAA and the SfAA.

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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. Master teacher” Heikki Happonen Photo: Hannu Koskela.

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2022

In Time magazine, a teacher sensibly characterized SEL as “the base layer of education.” Evidence abounds that children and teens are more successful when they have warm, caring relationships with educators and peers; instruction in building important life skills; and a sense of belonging in school.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Admittedly, using magazine rankings to measure the quality of a school is clumsy at best. In the absence of a better system, we relied on magazine rankings to compare schools. The whole culture of the college admissions process puts the cost of an education on the backburner. Then we waited for fat envelopes.

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Digital Promise

JULY 27, 2018

As the founder of MAKE magazine Dale Dougherty states in his 2011 TED Talk: “ We are all makers. ”. It can be a challenge to implement a makerspace — to motivate and train staff, outfit and maintain equipment and the space, and to build a true maker culture in a school. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. Having a maker mindset is key.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In a 2015 Fortune Magazine survey of nine tech giants – titans like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google – six of those companies reported that black and Hispanic employees made up less than 10 percent of their representative workforces. It’s about unlearning learning culture,” said Johnson.

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Anthropology News

AUGUST 11, 2024

Through an audio essay, inspired by John Akomfrah’s documentary “The Last Angel of History,” attention is drawn to South Africa’s evolving visual scene and its engagement with cultural nuances within the NFT AI space. Something that Koffi Kouakou foregrounds. Koffi Kouakou: It. You know, AI’s emerged and I think.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

We seek to uncover the myriad ways in which treasures, both tangible and intangible, are perceived, created, sought after, and understood across different cultures and throughout time. Digital treasures: the preservation and significance of digital data as cultural artifacts or questions around privacy and personal information.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Students were free to choose their poems from the dozens that have been featured at the magazine and to create a social media post that could be published. To find those emotions and truths, and to remind others of the daily rigors of life, is the role of artists and academics.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 6, 2024

Think short-form magazine-style stories with scientific bite—low on jargon, high on storytelling—or compelling photo essays or multimedia pieces. Anthropology News encourages submissions in a variety of formats to present compelling stories that make anthropological insights accessible to a wide audience.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

In northern Virginia, she watched her parents navigate language barriers, cultural differences and caregiving responsibilities as best they could, sometimes stepping up to serve as the translator herself. She referenced a TIME magazine cover story from February 1997, called “How a Child’s Brain Develops.” But did it?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. They don’t speak the language; they don’t understand the culture, the routines—all of that invisible stuff that we take for granted.

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Political Science Now

APRIL 8, 2024

Regions that were historically peripheral, often marked by distinctive dialects and cultural traits, developed a collective self-perception of marginality and lower status. It highlights the importance of historical cultural divides, especially those rooted in linguistic differences, in shaping current political behaviors and preferences.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 10, 2018

Grandparents are great for this, and so is living in a community where there are cultural events or schools where children can be immersed in the second language. This article originally appeared in Knowable Magazine , an independent journalistic endeavor from Annual Reviews. Don’t worry about what we refer to as “code mixing.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

I played guitar in a punk rock band, scoured music magazines, wrote song lyrics and even booked and promoted local concerts. Whether my own kids are “good at school” or not, how do I make sure that the culture of academic pressure and urgency in school doesn’t negatively impact their self-worth? I don’t know.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

In 1992, Treisman received one of the MacArthur Foundation’s “genius” grants , recognizing his transformational work; in 1999, Black Issues in Higher Education magazine named him one of the 20th century’s outstanding leaders in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2018

We’re still suffering from the consequences of the culture war, where the humanities in particular and also the social sciences and now even the sciences are seen as ideologically driven,” Hoeckley said. Related: Ivy League degree: Now what? To overcome this, some advocates of the liberal arts have tried to quantify its practical value.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

I try to tell them when you go to University of Georgia, it is going to be a cultural change,” said Murray, adding that many white students come to UGA from rural areas, where they aren’t used to being around black students. “In In the living areas is where people are more themselves, and you see who they really are.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2023

That movie, which everyone in Silicon Valley and in the culture at large was talking about, was “The Social Network,” depicting the contentious creation of Facebook. The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.”

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

He has written three books about urban politics, theory and activism, as well as published work in academic journals, online magazines and newspapers. Professor Oli Mould teaches at Royal Holloway, University of London. It's always good to see other people using blogging as a way of sharing work, ideas and thinking out loud.

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