A New Initiative to Strengthen STEM Career Pathways in San Diego
Digital Promise
JUNE 25, 2024
Digital Promise’s new STEM Pathways initiative, in collaboration with community partners, aims to reimagine the Pre-K to workforce pipeline
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Evidence Shows That Home Visits Support Children and Families. Here’s What to Know.
ED Surge
JUNE 25, 2024
While her daughter naps, Bridget Collins spends an hour reviewing and role-playing activities with her home visitor, Amanda Pedlar, in the front room of her house in San Antonio, Texas. This week, the pair starts by discussing 3-year-old Brook’s burgeoning curiosity. Pedlar notes that it’s normal, at this stage of development, for Brook to ask “Why?
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How to Effectively Manage Large-Scale Change in School Districts
Education Elements
JUNE 25, 2024
Why is change so hard? Navigating change in schools isn't just a leadership challenge—it's a personal journey for every educator and administrator involved. Educators often find themselves adapting to new standards, implementing new initiatives, or integrating innovative tech, which can feel like steering a ship through stormy seas. In this blog, we will dive into some of the reasons why people and organizations are resistant to change and what we can do to effectively manage large-scale change
New psychology curriculum – concepts, content and contexts
Psychology Sorted
JUNE 25, 2024
In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new IB Diploma psychology curriculum coming soon. All Year 1 Diploma psychology students will be studying it from September 2025. The new psychology guide won’t be published until Feb/March 2025, but teachers don’t need to wait till then to start preparing. The subject brief in the public area of the IB website can help you get started.
What If Banning Smartphones in Schools Is Just the Beginning?
ED Surge
JUNE 25, 2024
The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum. Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for warning labels on social media systems, saying “the mental health crisis among young people is an emergency.
Why Don’t We Trust Students?
Catlin Tucker
JUNE 25, 2024
As someone who regularly works with teachers on topics like blended learning, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and student-led learning, one recurring theme I encounter is control. There’s a pervasive fear among educators when it comes to releasing control and allowing students to take more ownership and responsibility for their learning. This begs the question: Why don’t we trust our students?
Water Rights in the West: The Hoover Dam
Teaching American History
JUNE 25, 2024
On this date (June 25 th ) in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, authorizing construction by the federal government of a gigantic dam on the Colorado River, just west of the Grand Canyon. The dam, which would eventually be named after Hoover, took five years to complete, at a then unprecedented cost of $49 million (about $900 million today).
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Why Do Issues “Whose Time Has Come” Stick Around? Attention Durability and the Case of Gun Control
Political Science Now
JUNE 25, 2024
Why Do Issues “Whose Time Has Come” Stick Around? Attention Durability and the Case of Gun Control By Kristin A. Goss , Duke University and Matthew J. Lacombe , Case Western Reserve University In any healthy democracy, myriad policy issues compete for the public’s attention. Most remain on the periphery of politics, either because they achieve salience only in narrow communities of interest or because they grab headlines only for brief periods of time.
On the Tracks to Translating Indigenous Knowledge
Sapiens
JUNE 25, 2024
A team of researchers will journey by railway to Lac Seul First Nation in Canada to better understand alternative ways of seeing the world. OUTSIDERS PREPARE TO VISIT INSIDERS Next year, a team of Indigenous and non-Indigenous researchers will travel 27 hours by train from Toronto, Canada, to Lac Seul First Nation in the northwestern part of Ontario to engage with Knowledge Keepers.
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