Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2017

On Monday I was in charge of TIES’ annual all-day Leadership Seminar. compared to those in more traditional schools]. 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.

Leadership 167

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

But perhaps the biggest deviation is that the school has eschewed traditional remedial courses altogether, building that content into its first-year curriculum and giving students whatever extra support they need in the credit-bearing classes. In English, all students are enrolled in a four-strand program called City Seminar.

Tradition 88

Tradition High School Cultures Research 88

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. We spend the entire year cultivating in them a sense of pride, culminating in their graduation at which they don traditional stoles and are honored as full members of the community.

Middle School 105

Middle School Economics Tradition Humanities 105

Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

While some Chinese anthropology departments keep the tradition of extensive collaborative work, One Res presented a more “liberated” version where ideology did not matter, and authority could be challenged. Indeed, openness can hit the limit, while traditional ways of learning have their own merits. Like a textbook?”

Anthropology 98

Anthropology History Humanities Tradition 98

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.

Tradition 100

Tradition Psychology Cultures Education Policy 100

Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Kingdon Fellowships sponsor scholars working in the humanities in the historical, literary, artistic, and/or philosophical studies of Christian and/or Jewish religious traditions and their role in society. Fellows are expected to present their work at an Institute seminar and participate in the weekly seminars.

Tradition 52

Tradition Humanities History Cultures 52

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.

Political Science 85

Political Science Tradition Cultures Teaching 85

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.

Tutoring 140

Tutoring High School Library Research 140

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Traditional language learning in the U.S. 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.

Heritage 95

Heritage Global Studies Advocacy Psychology 95

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.

Museum 52

Museum Anthropology History Cultures 52

Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Deadline The deadline for submitting ALL proposals for the 2025 Annual Meeting is Friday, April 5, 2024 at 11:59 P.M. (ET).

Geography 52

Geography Pedagogy Tradition Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

While the Newark Honors College still hews to a relatively traditional approach, the Living-Learning Community is redefining from scratch what it means to be an honors student. Honors College students participate in seminars and service projects and take a freshman colloquium. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

Social Justice 92

Social Justice Economics Public School Library 92

Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2022

You can apply to volunteer using the following link: Volunteer at the Annual Meeting Update 10/4/2023: To view the Program Outline for the 2024 Annual Meeting, please visit the following page: Program Outline This is the schedule of SCS paper sessions, panels, seminars, and workshops at the 2024 Annual Meeting.

K-12 52

K-12 Archiving Social Justice Library 52

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

Charter School 111

Charter School Psychology High School Private School 111

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

Charter School 83

Charter School Middle School Project-Based Learning Elementary School 83

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2024

Robert Cassanello at the University of Central Florida in Orlando — one of the nation’s largest campuses with 70,000 students — warned in red ink on the syllabus for his graduate seminar on the Civil Rights Movement (as for all courses he teaches) that he “will expose you to content that does not comply with and will violate” anti-DEI laws.

Sociology 129

Sociology Advocacy Anthropology Government 129

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

You have to actually have a culture of strengths built into the school,” Waters said, claiming that her research shows that you can’t just teach strengths to students; the adults in the schools must also learn the method and model it. Expense is not the only hurdle. Not everyone in Galt has fully embraced the approach, however.

Elementary School 92

Elementary School Psychology K-12 Private School 92

ED Surge

OCTOBER 26, 2022

During my career, I have obtained three degrees in education and social policy, cultural and educational policy studies and learning sciences — not to mention, I am currently working on a doctoral degree, as we speak.

Teaching 101

Teaching Professional Development Humanities History 101

Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The project investigates how communities accommodate differences in culturally resonant ways and asks what everyday practices and justifications they draw on to maintain civil relations and avoid conflict and violence. These relationships call on older traditions of religious tolerance in the region. We can and must do more.

Anthropology 141

Anthropology Human Rights Humanities Cultures 141

Teaching American History

OCTOBER 8, 2024

The Fourteen Points outline what Wilson believes are the war’s causes—territorial borders that disregard traditional national groups; colonial ambitions; violations of the freedom of the seas; the stockpiling of armaments. When I use this document in seminars, teachers always want to talk about it.

American History 52

American History Library History Government 52

Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Social Justice Leadership Teaching 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2025

As a Black Chicana, I vividly remember being the singular student of color in my freshman-year seminar at Michigan State. Underrepresented students also have options other than the traditional elite universities. At these schools, a students culture and identity are revered and shared.

Tradition 96

Tradition History Cultures Education 96

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2024

Amherst enrolls about 1,900 students and offers more than 850 courses, many of them small seminars. Epstein gives me a sampling of some of the history department’s offerings, like ‘Birth of the Avant-Garde: Modern Poetry and Culture in France and Russia, 1870 to 1930.’ I study the stuff of culture and ideas and how those change.

Humanities 91

Humanities Critical Thinking History Cultures 91