A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

The morning began with Collen providing an overview of our school''s comprehensive Holocaust education program; highlighting the course curriculum, the study seminar to the U.S. Jenny Eisenberg, from the Bureau of Education and Cultural Affairs arranged for the teachers to visit our school.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2010

With this program I was able to comfort frightened incoming freshmen during orientation, raise money to assist victims of the genocide in Darfur, and attend inspirational seminars about leadership and ethical issues. One of my most rewarding experiences was my involvement in the Peer Leadership Program.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 23, 2025

1933-2024 Credit: Penny de los Santos Sally McLendon (1933-2024) Sally McLendon was an American scholar of Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in North America, with a special focus on the Indigenous languages and communities of Northern California. She completed her Ph.D. at Berkeley in 1966.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America. By empowering our students to think historically, they can redefine the political sphere.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

This might require a cultural shift in some cases, but given the soaring cost of tuition, it is necessary for institutions to think about return on investment for students and their parents, not only in intellectual terms but also monetarily. Raise awareness of realistic careers.

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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. Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said. School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

But for now, it’s focused on training existing educators to become more “culturally responsive,” representing diverse cultures and frames of reference in their teaching. But it also shows how hard it can be to change the culture of a school — and the mindsets of its teachers.

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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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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

27, 2020 seminar on adolescent learning and well-being in Berkeley, California. Culture is shaping it.”. It’s a perfect storm of change,” said Dahl, speaking before education reporters at a Feb. Given the right support, teens can develop intrinsic motivation and passions, he said. “That is the wrong way to think.

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HistoryRewriter

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Literature that was once filled with European tradition now contains Mexican events, culture, tradition, and history. They confirmed what Jon Corippo says in his EduProtocol seminars, “More reps mean more confidence!” Mexican Literature became reinvented by The Underdogs since its appearance in 1915.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. So, given my experience, I did not consider how the curriculum could impact my proven ability to create a culture of cooperation, critical engagement and compassion. I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

On Monday I was in charge of TIES’ annual all-day Leadership Seminar. They and their staff are able to open up spaces to find out what students are passionate about and interested in and then leverage those opportunities to create cultures of intrinsic motivation. “I skipped the Vikings game for this workshop and am glad that I did”

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

In English, all students are enrolled in a four-strand program called City Seminar. From there, Jordan led a discussion that touched on Plato’s Allegory of the Cave, student debt, cultural appropriation and white privilege. A primary goal of City Seminar is to introduce students to college-level writing.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2020

“Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions. universities, they often experience culture shock. Eventually, I gained confidence to sit in the front row of department lectures and seminars, taking notes and publicly asking questions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2022

Faculty should want to change the culture of their required courses; they should want to work in the best departments with bleeding-edge science — and undergraduate students are vital to this goal. Making this change will maintain a culture of excellence while giving all students an alternate pathway to success.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

We attempted to see the world in, for example, a small piece of digital device, unraveling its biographical trajectory embedded in global processes of labor, power, politics, cultures, and economies. Credit: Yanping N Figure 3: Pieces from an installation featuring water bottles found in residential buildings and seminar rooms.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Kanold, an award-winning educator, author and national thought leader in mathematics and professional learning communities (PLCs), has co-authored numerous best-selling books and conducted professional development seminars worldwide. And they can teach wellness by first modeling their own wellness goals.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2018

Siwaju is a seminar-style program that gives students a platform to discuss various topics that influence their own lives. When I entered the classroom as an adult, I promised myself that everything I accomplished, everything I did with and for my students, would center on introducing them to an appreciation for their own blackness.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2016

Next fall, in an upper class seminar on the neuroscience of animal behavior, students will begin each class with a short writing exercise, encouraged to ponder a scientific question or a finding. In science education, cultural origins and ethnic diversity are not marked as topics of discussion.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Native students are also more likely to face racism and microaggressions than white students, and there’s often a disconnect between their cultural identities and Western higher education institutions, according to Native American higher education experts. Not realizing Cante was Native, the student accused her of cultural appropriation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

Credit: Camilla Forte/The Hechinger Report The obstacles are not only financial and academic, but also cultural. Moorpark has added “equity lounges,” summer trips to Africa, and seminars for professors on how to best teach men. He’s supposed to be strong and not show weakness,” Sanders says. “If Just 7 percent of U.S.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Solmsen Fellowships are to be awarded to scholars working in the humanities on European history, literature, philosophy, politics, religion, art and culture in the classical, medieval, and/or early modern periods (before 1700). Fellows are expected to present their work at an Institute seminar and participate in the weekly seminars.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

Along with orientations and admission seminars open to all students, there is also an institute for leadership development specifically for Black and Latino students. “We Proyecto Pa’Lante is a program designed to help Latino students and students who are interested in learning more about Latino cultures during their first two years.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In her own teaching practice, Dweck continues to give a mindset boost to Stanford University freshmen who take her fall seminar. If education were studied in business schools, growth mindset would make for an ideal case study of what happens when an academic concept spreads through pop culture and explodes like wildfire.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

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. It prepares men with children for high school equivalency tests and college by providing classes, tutoring, counseling and parenting seminars.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Those results were published in the January, 2018, issue of Games and Culture. In another graduate seminar, Fishman assigns only one paper. .” In surveys conducted by GradeCraft’s inventors, students reported that they worked harder and felt more in control of their class performance. million points.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

When she walked into his first-year seminar at Dickinson College, Steve Riccio was impressed by his new student’s enthusiasm. For many faculty, this new role requires a culture shift. And that overcame all institutional cultures.”. Faculty are required to flag any problems by specified dates during each semester. CARLISLE, Penn.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Melissa Hedges, the math curriculum director for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers at a professional development seminar how folded paper can be used to demonstrate the solution to a fractions problem. “Why am I enjoying myself right now?” she asked colleagues. “I I hate math.” Credit: Abby J. New district leaders abruptly ended that work.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

The district is also providing training in cultural sensitivity to police officers in schools; she added it is up to principals to decide whether to use their discretionary funds to hire counselors beyond those provided via the district’s funding formula.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

For many, the case for language learning is simply about being able to interact with people from other cultures. At the first section meeting in early September, 16 students — heritage speakers and language learners — chattered in Chinese and English as they crowded into a seminar room. Mississippi Learning.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The deadline for submitting ALL proposals for the 2026 Annual Meeting is Monday, April 7, 2025 at 12:00 P.M.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Ohio Wesleyan University offers freshmen “first-year Fridays” programs focused on careers, and career planning is also now covered in a mandatory first-year introductory seminar. We’re trying to change the culture a little bit where this becomes part of what you do,” he said. You’re trying to get used to your weirdo roommate.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

and Bruce Hecker’s 12th grade English class at South Side High School had the focused attention of a college seminar, with little chitchat or sluggishness despite the early hour. There was a real culture that ‘We hate school and we hate language,’” Burris said. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report. It was 7:58 a.m.,

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