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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. Dwelling A Freediver Finds Belonging Without Breath By Sally Montgomery An anthropologist takes us on a journey down the line to explore what freediving can teach us about ourselves and kinship with the sea.

Archiving 110
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5 Conditions for Getting Formative Assessment Right

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. ” David-Lang says. It was not learned.”

Pedagogy 294
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An Ode to Jonathan Marks, or How I Became a Marksist

Anthropology 365

Jon had been teaching a graduate seminar just across from the shooting and hunkered down with his students as the campus locked down. The book dismantles the idea that genetic similarity can explain what makes us humanor that genes can do the cultural and historical work of explaining behavior, intelligence, or social life.

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Why Connect?

A Principal's Reflections

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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Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject

Cult of Pedagogy

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. I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. Nate teaches Pre-Algebra and Algebra 1 to 6th, 7th, and 8th graders.

K-12 262
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How can we use themes to teach cultural geography?

Maitri Learning

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. But, these may not get at the heart of what we hope these materials teach: an understanding and appreciation of the similarities and differences of life around the world. It's about what life is like all over the world. How do people live? What is different?

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How can we use themes to teach cultural geography?

Maitri Learning

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. But, these may not get at the heart of what we hope these materials teach: an understanding and appreciation of the similarities and differences of life around the world. It's about what life is like all over the world. How do people live? What is different?