ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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Edthena

AUGUST 12, 2021

Many educators have heard of culturally responsive teaching, but do they really know what that entails? Culturally responsive teaching is a framework and approach for how to teach. So, what is culturally responsive teaching? Culturally responsive teaching accelerates student achievement.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

September 8th is International Literacy Day, a great time to think about promoting a class culture that values reading. Below are strategies and resources I’ve used to cultivate a reading culture in my classroom. Cultivating a culture of reading doesn’t happen overnight. Guest post written by Amy Tobener-Talley.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. But the brain chemicals have a lot to do with the framework and approach to teaching. Knowing the brain science behind culture’s role in learning is immensely important for teachers who want to prioritize CRT.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 5, 2018

As a result, the learning culture does not evolve or becomes stagnant for both learners and educators. My point is that the focus should be on taking a critical lens to traditional practices and determine if the way in which they are being implemented is actually in the best interests of a vibrant and prosperous learning culture.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

As a teacher, I know that the desire for building a culture of trust is strong — and mutual. These kinds of conversations were not possible when I began teaching in the district. This is a culture of fear, not of trust. These conversations are necessary in order to build a culture of trust.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

Culturally responsive teaching is key to equitable and inclusive education for all students. For candidates in higher education programs training to become teachers, learning to teach with a culturally responsive lens is not just about talk, it’s about action. The presenters noted two sources of inspiration.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2024

Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). The national teacher shortage is worse in nonmetropolitan places, and it’s most problematic in racially diverse and high-poverty rural schools. Hansen-Thomas also points to the U.S.

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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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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

MARCH 17, 2023

So this year I took a new approach, trying to embed a culture of ongoing retrieval practice throughout year 13, with accountability built in (see also Mike Hobbiss’ excellent post on an alternative way to go about this here ). First I got the school calendar and plotted all the teaching weeks from September to February.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place. And he records the conversations.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach. Developing their own cultural awareness , discussing race , and selecting culturally responsive texts are three strategies, supported by research, that help educators to sustain inclusive learning environments. Developing cultural awareness and discussing race.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up. When Marc Watkins heads back into the classroom this fall to teach a digital media studies course, he plans to make clear to students how he’s now using AI behind the scenes in preparing for classes.

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

But We Can’t Teach? Yet, if the right wing has its way, it will be illegal to teach students about Juneteenth. At least 44 states have passed or proposed legislation to prohibit teaching about structural racism. But educators around the country continue to pledge to teach the truth about structural racism.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 28, 2024

It will also work if you are lucky enough to teach your HL and SL students separately. Tomorrow I will provide a one-year plan for teaching SL students. The recommended teaching hours from the subject brief are: This equates to about 3 hours a week for SL over two years and around 5 hours for HL.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

What sports didn’t offer us was the opportunity to develop awareness and appreciation for our cultural identity. When I was nine years old, my mother enrolled my brother and me in folklorico — a traditional cultural dance that emphasizes Mexican folk culture — at our local recreation center. At first, I was annoyed.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2024

Attending school in America has been a “positive culture shock” to Marzia Mohammadi, a 17-year-old senior at Mt. Haastrup said many immigrant families think it is taboo for a child to have a disability and schools should consider those cultural nuances before communicating with them. Lebanon High School. It was new for them.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

If you are an educator committed to culturally responsive teaching, you likely know Zaretta Hammond. Zaretta is the expert and author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , and we’ve highlighted her insights about what culturally responsive teaching even is and the neuroscience behind CRT.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available. Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

That’s one of the primary concerns of those watching these populations of students, according to Lynette Guastaferro, CEO of Teaching Matters, a New York-based nonprofit that tries to expand access to quality instruction. For the kind of intervention Teaching Matters performs, the data is “non-negotiable,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

I never had an easy time teaching. Those threats have only increased since last year as schools have become a focal point of the culture wars, contributing to challenges the teaching profession has long faced in recruiting and retaining teachers from underrepresented backgrounds. I was a gay man in the rural south,” Carver said.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 25, 2024

First, it provides a baseline understanding of academic performance, culture, student achievement, and overall climate. Strengths What are the core strengths of our teaching staff or leadership team? What resources or support systems are in place to enhance teaching and learning? How are these effectively utilized? (e.g.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. The post Some evidence for the importance of teaching black culture to black students appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Stuart Blythe teaches writing courses at Michigan State University that are officially listed as in-person only. But not every educator who tried hybrid teaching of some kind during the pandemic has continued it. Even vocal proponents of HyFlex admit it’s not widely popular among college instructors.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. McNabb, an assistant director of teaching and learning engagement at Virginia Tech. “If But one group is often left out of the design process: students.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

By Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, & Lara Watkins, Bridgewater State University Students can read about culture, but hearing peers narrate personal experiences in another country provides invaluable firsthand insights. Analysing these narratives allows for a deeper understanding of cultural differences.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me. Teaching has consumed me.

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ED Surge

JUNE 6, 2023

There is a really wonderful organization called the Philosophy Learning and Teaching Organization that offers tons of resources and holds lots of webinars and in-person events and trainings for teachers to teach philosophically. So you teach people that we're going to take turns — we're gonna listen to each other.

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ACRE

JUNE 27, 2023

The Delta Cultural Center is a museum and educational complex that tells the story of a land and its people, capturing what makes the Arkansas Delta region unique. It is the mission of the Delta Cultural Center to preserve, interpret and present the cultural heritage of this legendary 27-county area.

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