Fri.Feb 21, 2025

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

This past week, EduProtocols made Andrew Jacksons presidency more interactive and engaging , helping students analyze his impact through Fast & Curious, Annotate & Tell, MiniReports, Somebody-Wanted-But-So-Then, Thin Slides, and Number Mania. We started each day with Gimkit vocabulary practice , reinforcing key terms before diving into content.

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Building Effective Teacher Mentoring Communities: Lessons from the Field

Maitri Learning

Early in my mentoring career in public school, I made the mistake of approaching teacher development with a deficit mindset. I went in believing teachers needed to be "fixed." I was armed with PowerPoint presentations and rigid expectations. Not surprisingly, this approach bred resentment rather than growth! When I ultimately left that position to take on a new role (as a teaching assistant at Harvard), I felt I just hadn't done a very good job.

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Skulls, Strontium, and Secrets: Unraveling the Rituals of Iron Age Iberia

Anthropology.net

A Mysterious Ritual Resurfaces in the Archaeological Record In the rugged landscapes of northeastern Iberia, ancient fortresses once stood, their walls bearing silent witness to the turbulent rituals of Iron Age societies. Among the most perplexing of these practices is the display of severed human heads—gruesome relics once nailed to walls or placed near entrances.

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Learn more about: The Hawaiian Land Hui Movement: Race, Law, and Property in Territorial Hawai’i

Political Science Now

Project Title:The Hawaiian Land Hui Movement: Race, Law, and Property in Territorial Hawaii Mahina Tuteur, University of Hawaii at Mnoa Mahina Tuteur is from Koolaupoko, Oahu and is currently pursuing a PhD in Indigenous politics at the University of Hawaii at Mnoa. She is a graduate of the William S. Richardson School of Law, with certificates in environmental and native Hawaiian law.

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Ancient Mariners of Southeast Asia: The Boatbuilders Who Crossed the Ocean 40,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

Long before recorded history, when vast ice sheets covered much of the Earth and early humans were just beginning to explore the world beyond Africa, a remarkable group of seafarers was already crossing the open ocean. The ancestors of today’s islanders in the Philippines and Island Southeast Asia (ISEA) were not just drifting along ocean currents—they were building boats, crafting fishing tools, and navigating deep waters thousands of years before the Polynesians or the great Chines

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Social Disruption, Gun Buying, and Anti-System Beliefs

Political Science Now

Social Disruption, Gun Buying, and Anti-System Beliefs By Matthew J. Lacombe , Case Western Reserve University , Matthew D. Simonson , Hebrew University of Jerusalem , Jon Green, Duke University and James N. Druckman , University of Rochester Gun ownership is a highly consequential political behavior. It often signifies a belief about the inadequacy of state-provided security and leads to membership in a powerful political constituency.

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Sustainability - teaching geography in a changed world

Living Geography

Thanks to the GA for sharing a link to a webinar which explored how to teach about the major issues facing the world through the lens of sustainability. It was organised by the Oxford Education Deanery and shared on their website. Description of the event: This is an important time to be a geography teacher. Climate breakdown and biodiversity collapse are the biggest issues of our time, and ones that todays young people are going to face throughout their lives.

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Quality of Life

Living Geography

We often discuss the difference between quality of life and standard of living with students. This is often in association with discussions of development, and levels of development - summarised by various ever-changing acronyms such as HICs, LICs, LEDCs etc. This Big Issue article by Isabella McRae explores a report from the Loughborough Centre for Research in Social Policy plus Joseph Rowntree Foundation.

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How a tribe won a legal battle against the federal Bureau of Indian Education — and still lost

The Hechinger Report

SUPAI, Ariz. Kambria Siyuja always felt like the smartest kid in Supai. Raised by educators in this tribal village at the base of the Grand Canyon, she started kindergarten a little ahead of her peers. Her teachers at Havasupai Elementary School often asked Siyuja to tutor younger students and sometimes even let her run their classrooms. She graduated valedictorian of her class.

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