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How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens

Cult of Pedagogy

Dan, Social Science Johanna, Manager of School Facilities Ashley, English Tiffany, Math When I first started shooting, I tried to emulate Kathy Ryan’s style but, as happens with most or all creative projects, the portraits eventually took on a look of their own. Often, they contributed their own concepts or ideas for poses.

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Why an end-of-the alphabet last name could skew your grades

The Hechinger Report

Instead of placing assignments on a table in the front of the classroom, students today upload their work to a website, called a Learning Management System or LMS, where course documents, assignments and communications are all housed. It is currently undergoing revisions with the academic journal Management Science.

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OPINION: As the coronavirus drives students apart, one college devises a course to keep them together

The Hechinger Report

As Lauren Ziarko, archivist and special-collections librarian, reminds us in the first module of the course: “What people will know about the Covid-19 pandemic is what we tell them … Now is the time to document our story.”. “In ” Related: With enrollment sliding, liberal arts colleges struggle to make a case for themselves.

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AI for Learning: Experiments from Three Anthropology Classrooms

Anthropology News

We engaged in a collaborative project based in the School of Social Sciences at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) designed to explore how AI tools might support undergraduate learning in anthropology. This particular tool allows users to upload their own documents—course readings, research articles, archives, etc.—so

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Service-Learning Can Be the Bridge to Social Emotional Learning. Educators Should Embrace It.

ED Surge

In the aftermath of the fire, impacted students were inspired to conduct a service-learning project and document what happened to wildfire victims. The following year, the Woolsey fire closed our school on parent conference night, causing severe damage to surrounding neighborhoods. This disaster turned many of my students into evacuees.

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Despite popularity with parents and teachers, review of research finds small benefits to small classes

The Hechinger Report

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education.

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WWI and the 1920s: Interview with Jennifer Keene, Part 2.

Teaching American History

Teaching American History has recently published World War I and the 1920s: Core Documents , a collection curated by Professor Jennifer D. Keene , Professor of History and Dean of the Wilkinson College of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences at Chapman University. Would you discuss a document that merits more careful study?