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What Students From Rural Communities Think College Leaders Should Know

ED Surge

During her first semester at Southern Methodist University, Savannah Hunsucker went on a retreat with the other students enrolled in her leadership scholars program. The event took them away from the Dallas campus and into the Texas countryside. “I remember everybody looking up and being surprised to see stars in the night sky, and I thought that was so odd,” Hunsucker says.

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Protected: Getting Your Ducks in a Row – an icebreaker activity

Teaching Anthropology

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What I Need From My White Peers to Thrive as a Teacher of Color

ED Surge

During my first two years of teaching, I dealt with many situations that left me feeling downtrodden, broken and totally drained. For example, one day, I was sitting in my classroom in full panic mode as I tried to figure out how to create a graphic organizer for my students’ first essay. When an idea finally crossed my mind, and as I was about to write down my thoughts, a student stormed in and refused to leave.

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Protected: Practicing Primatology

Teaching Anthropology

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Is Neutrality Possible…or Even Necessary? Reflections from the 2024 Faculty Institute

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

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Protected: An Archaeological Adventure

Teaching Anthropology

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Investing In The Right Initiatives and Resources To Create Meaningful Change

Education Elements

Have you ever taken up a hobby with enthusiasm, only to abandon it because life got in the way? Maybe you started knitting with dreams of creating beautiful scarves, but now the yarn sits untouched in a box tucked away somewhere. Or maybe you once eagerly hiked every weekend, but now your hiking boots sit in the back of your closet, gathering dust. What obstacles got in your way?

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Black Teachers: A Pedagogy of Organized Resistance

Zinn Education Project

On Monday, May 5, 2025 , historians Jarvis Givens and Imani Perry, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian and Rethinking Schools executive director Cierra Kaler-Jones, will discuss the Black Teacher Archive , a a freely available digital portal centralizing materials created by professional organizations of African American educators, historically referred to as Colored Teachers Associations (CTAs).

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Article in 'Teaching Times'

Living Geography

Cross-posting from my teaching blog. I was contacted by Teaching Times who were interested in the session I had planned for the GA Conference 2024 on 'Everyday Geographies', which was called 'Wake up, smell the geography'. I turned it into a piece which fitted their structure and it has now been published on their website. A recent piece on GIS was written by Katie Hall I noticed.

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In the News: Next-Gen Classroom Observations, Powered by AI (via Education Next)

Edthena

In the news In a thought-provoking article titled “ Next-Gen Classroom Observations, Powered by AI ” published in Education Next, author Michael J. Petrilli explores the evolving landscape of AI in education, with a particular focus on teacher development and evaluation. Petrilli highlights Edthena’s innovative use of video technology and AI for teacher professional development.

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Greening Paris' rooftops and the Olympics

Living Geography

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History Blog which has over 300 posts on it already. With some additional content. A nicely illustrated story from The Guardian described a plan to green the rooves of Paris. This would have several benefits for the city, which is preparing to host the Olympics - some events are already underway ahead of the Opening Ceremony.

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The Biogeographic Context of Human Evolution in the East African Rift System

Anthropology.net

A groundbreaking study published in Nature Ecology & Evolution 1 sheds light on the biogeographic context of human evolution within the East African Rift System. Led by Ignacio A. Lazagabaster, a Ramón y Cajal researcher at the Centro Nacional de Investigación sobre la Evolución Humana (CENIEH), this research provides a comprehensive analysis of mammalian fossil records, revealing how climatic and environmental changes have shaped the evolution of mammals and hominins over the

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Rochelle Terman Receives the 2024 APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award for “The Geopolitics of Shaming: When Human Rights Pressure Works – and When It Backfires”

Political Science Now

The APSA-IPSA Theodore J. Lowi First Book Award is presented annually to honor a book in any field of political science that exemplifies qualities of broad ambition, high originality, and intellectual daring, showing promise of having a substantive impact on the overall discipline, regardless of method, specific focus of inquiry, or approach to the subject.

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Theme Panel: Innovating for Democracy: New Technologies, New Roles

Political Science Now

Innovating for Democracy: New Technologies, New Roles Friday, September 6, 2:00pm – 3:30pm Co-sponsored by the Democratic Innovations Related Group Full Paper Panel Participants: (Chair) Jane Mansbridge, Harvard Kennedy School (Discussant) Christopher F. Karpowitz, Brigham Young University (Discussant) Stephanie Burkhalter, Humboldt State University Session Description: As the applications of deliberative minipublics proliferate, citizens are consulted with new technologies, and they are bein

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