A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) It’s been a few years now since I left the principalship to pursue my new career as a Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE).

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 7, 2025

He received an extensive education in New Orleans through the 1930s and earned a master’s degree and an MD. He received a theoretical physics and applied mathematics education at Brooklyn College, Princeton University, and New York University. DeBakey (19082008) Michael E.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 14, 2025

3 Human-recorded audio with synchronized highlighting on Studies Weekly Online Primary Source Analysis Worksheets Download these free easy-to-use worksheets that help students analyze various types of sources and bring their stories to life. DOWNLOAD RESOURCE The post Scaffolding: What is it and Why is it Important?

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Primary Source Analysis Worksheet: Photograph Analysis Start Learning with Primary Sources Start engaging with primary sources with our free downloadable Primary Source Analysis Tools.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 14, 2025

To her, …education isnt just about learningits about creating a supportive, empowering community. The dynamic and collaborative nature of education keeps her motivated to bring her best to the classroom every day. Education is not a solo endeavor. To tackle these barriers, Frances emphasizes the power of relationships.

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ED Surge

JUNE 2, 2023

Both technologies have made their way into classrooms, leaving educational researchers wondering about their differences and implications for learning. We asked Robert Spierenburg, the chief executive officer at All Things Media , to help explain how AR and VR differ and what that means for the classroom.

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Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 18, 2024

” Sending emails, weekly newsletters, or using the school phone to communicate are great communication alternatives if they cannot download one of these apps. Sometimes teachers have to stay after school to complete lesson planning, grading, copying, or other tasks that they might not have been able to finish during the day.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

They have discovered that the download-and-use resources allow them to take a break from the constant lesson-planning and creation. Higher Education. To play off the age-old adage “Feed them, and they will come,” I think those of us in education should say, “Provide teachers with quality resources, and they will stay!”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. So how much work would it take to come up with guidelines to help educators manage the challenges of using generative AI tools for their work? AI is everywhere.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Lesson planning : Do they come up with interesting activities to teach their content? And in education, we like fast and free. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

But for everyone else, they were totally DIY, using downloadable step-by-step instructions. The idea is that lesson plans, like climate recipes, will be created, shared and improved upon by the community of school food-computer users. “We The food computers for the pilot schools came pre-assembled. Kids are natural tinkerers.

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

If you're a US History teacher looking for PDF worksheets for your high school or middle school classroom, I have tons to share, including this 30+ page packet of free engaging assignments you can download and start using right away. This makes them easy to differentiate for special education students with accommodations.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

Unlike other educational robots — such as Bee-Bots, Dash & Dot, and Lego Mindstorms — that are geared to a specific age range, Root is meant to span from pre-kindergarten to college. If they can download an app, then they can use the robot to help teach coding.”. Zivthan Dubrovsky, robotics team leader at Harvard’s Wyss Institute.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 1, 2023

It’s pretty well known in educational circles that cooperative learning is supported by research, but so many teachers still struggle with it, so when things don’t work well, they give it up. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you.

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ACRE

MAY 1, 2023

Mike Casey, Professor of Finance at the University of Central Arkansas, developed a set curriculum units for teaching personal finance topics to Arkansas students based on the state’s personal finance educational standards. trade school, associate’s degree, bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, doctorate) Click here to Download materials

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Most students in the Lower 48 can post videos on their schools’ websites or download assignments in a matter of seconds. That would have brought everything—email, online testing, cloud-based records systems and student research—to a halt.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

The project typifies the mix of personalized and social learning that’s been a mainstay for 25 years at King, a founding member of a school network called EL Education. Related: Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight? Ron Berger, chief academic officer, EL Education. Ten schools began using the model in 1993.

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

Arkansas educators asked, we listened! Do they have future purchases, like cars, apartments, or education that they would like to pursue? The lesson plan provides examples that you can discuss with students to show them how to track income and expenses as well as how to create short and long terms savings plans.

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Ashleigh's Education Journey

JUNE 28, 2017

In this post: Pacing Guides Fourth Grade Morning Work Reading Writing Guided Math & Workshops Social Studies & Science Classroom Management Top Ten Resources Pacing Guides It’s hard to start the year without a plan, so you can download example fourth grade pacing guides here.

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Maitri Learning

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Here is some guidance from our Language Teacher Education Album ⁠ on what we can do. #1: For more information, download our free lesson plan describing how to use Matching Cards. If you'd like to go deeper with all of these activities, take a look at our Language Teacher Education Album. R., & Shu, H.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

Education professor Dr. Rudine Sims Bishop famously described it this way: “Books are sometimes windows, offering views of worlds that may be real or imagined, familiar or strange. And it’s challenged, and it’s educational but it’s done in such a way that it’s still entertaining. ” Come back for more.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 10, 2025

DOWNLOAD RESOURCE Boss Tweed in courtroom, Courtesy of Getty Images Second Wave of Irish Immigration In 1845, the Potato Famine spread across Europe, but nowhere did it cause more devastation than in Ireland.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The predicament arises when learners struggle to keep pace with a mandatory curriculum, raising questions about the effectiveness of a one-size-fits-all, grade-level approach to education. Imagine it could be a catalyst for good in restoring our foundational principles to get us back to the heart of education. How did we get here?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 25, 2017

The recent Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) further clarified what almost everyone in the world of education already knew: the way we are teaching students is causing them to fall behind. Throw away the books and stop asking each teacher to individually “reinvent the wheel” by creating lesson plans from scratch.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

MagicSchool offers more than 50 different AI-assisted tools to help speed up so many of the teaching tasks that take so much time: lesson planning, assessment building, feedback, communication with parents, even an IEP generator. Take a look at Upschool, whose mission is to “change the world through purposeful education.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2018

The collective bargaining simulation was organized by the DePaul University Labor Education Center, which runs the exercises in roughly 10 high schools a year to introduce students to economic justice and the negotiating power of unions. CFT, which represents roughly 120,000 educators, is lobbying for $2.7 Higher Education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

With political topics as polarizing as they are right now, it is understandable for teachers to want to try to avoid them and just stick to the lesson plan. School leaders report that polarization over major social and political issues interferes with schools’ ability to educate children. Asking questions to understand?

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ED Surge

APRIL 15, 2022

percent decline in the grade 2 math skills it was trying to improve, having omitted to train educators on how to use the new resources effectively. Governments and development organizations have financed material distribution without similar investments in training educators on how, when and why to use these tools.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

School buses provide Wi-Fi access for downloading homework assignments, as well as lunches, at various locations in South Carolina. Related: Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works? of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2021

Led by Micah Ross, a biology teacher, the academy was piloting an app-based pandemic simulation, part of Operation Outbreak , a platform of lessons on infectious diseases and the public health response to their spread. The value of pandemic education was suddenly evident. Credit: Becky Morris.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Young people today have seen very few victories for education, reproductive rights and social justice in their lifetimes, and have instead lived through numerous attacks on their very selves. As experts on youth activism and sex education, we know that young people deserve better and will not settle for ignorance.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2018

As a result, African-Americans made huge strides in education, entrepreneurship and political power. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 9, 2024

On January 8, 2024, historian Khalil Gibran Muhammad joined educators Jesse Hagopian and T. One lesson is to constantly be wary of statistics and efforts to determine criminality. Another powerful lesson for me was the connection between Black education and Black criminality, as if there is causation. Thanks, T.

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