A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2024

It goes without saying that AI is a hot topic of conversation in education circles and beyond. In the beginning, I was a skeptic myself, but now I use it to support my professional work, especially when I coach leaders. While there are legitimate concerns and anything generated by AI needs to be fully vetted, the most profound benefit is how it can save educators precious time.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Imagine waking up each morning with no hope for the day ahead, navigating a minefield of potential conflicts with your body on high alert. That was my reality as a marginalized youth — misunderstood, labeled as a troublemaker and cast out without a chance to reconcile and evolve. Growing up with anxiety in school is an all-too-common experience that perpetuates a cycle of fear and resentment.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

APRIL 7, 2024

A new Smithsonian guide features tips for exploring objects in the sky, examines technology that helps us better understand the universe, and explores ways culture and the arts have used the cosmos to stimulate our imaginations

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2024

The evolution of dogs from their wild ancestors, the grey wolves, stands as one of the enduring mysteries of human prehistory. While the broad strokes of this transformation are understood—dogs emerged from wolves during the last Ice Age, roughly 15,000 years ago—the finer details, such as where and how this domestication occurred, continue to elude researchers.

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 7, 2024

Everything we make, each card, each guided lesson plan, everything is grounded in the science of development. We're not just giving you our opinions. We're giving you what neuroscience says we need to give our students. There is a paradigm shifting research article written by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and colleagues that sums this all up. The findings in this paper will rock the world of traditional education.

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O-Level Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

[link] What caused the flooding? Where are the places affected by the flood? How does the flood affect the people?

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Maitri Learning

APRIL 7, 2024

There is a paradigm shifting research article written by Mary Helen Immordino-Yang and colleagues that will rock the world of traditional education. She and her team have organized learning, neurodevelopment, and “nurturing emergent developmental potentials” into five key domains. We Choose, Change, & Embody: Humans are living, dynamic systems with agency Embedded in Culture: Culture frames our behavior and sense of meaning/purpose Group-Dependent: Humans develop with and in response to tho

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Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

This is a new book by Steve Puttick. I bought a copy recently and read it in two days as it was immediately accessible and drew me in with the subject and its themes of curriculum and exploration, along with a critical look at the development of the discipline and its tendency towards 'whiteness'. I've also revisited it in order to write this post. Here's a longer review of the book following on from an earlier quick mention and a review posted on Amazon.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. “Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program.

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Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

The CDRC mapping tool exploring your surname and its geographical spread is here. It has changed location.

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Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

A cross posting from my Iceland blog - check the blog out. An interesting tool. #Iceland Professor Shawn Willsey examines data from the last few days that could explain why the eruption is still going on for so long. And he introduces an interesting new tool: [link] [link] pic.twitter.

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Living Geography

APRIL 7, 2024

Anglia Square is an area of Norwich which has had a lot of attention given to it over the years to try to work out how to update what has become a little 'tired'. Its an area that I often park in, as the parking is a lot cheaper than the multi-storey car parks. There have been many plans put forward for developments, including high rise buildings. There are already some fairly run down areas and recently another grand plan fell through it seems.

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