A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2024

One of the most significant challenges educators face is time. While the focus is typically on getting more of it, the emphasis should be maximizing what is already available. When it comes to student learning and success, how time is used when students are in class is pivotal. While sound instruction will always be needed in some form, meeting the needs of learners relies on other pedagogical pathways that veer away from all students consistently doing the same thing, at the same time, the same

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Teaching Education 360

Zinn Education Project

JULY 21, 2024

Dr. Bernice Johnson Reagon (October 4, 1942 – July 16, 2024) was a song leader, composer, scholar, and activist. Visit the SNCC Digital Gateway to find a short profile of her life with interviews and primary documents and learn more at BerniceJohnsonReagon.com. As an example of the power of Dr. Reagon’s ideas and experiences, we share a clip from an interview conducted by Blackside, Inc. for Eyes on the Prize about the Albany Movement.

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Living Geography

JULY 21, 2024

A new exhibition opens at the Migration Museum in September: on the 12th. It explores the story of migration and how it has built modern Britain. It's called 'All our Stories'. Details: “Ever since the first Jute, the first Saxon, the first Roman and the first Dane leaped off their boats and planted their feet on British mud, we have been a migrant nation.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 21, 2024

Today's blog may be a bit shorter because I actually think my brain needs a break from all the thinking today, but I wanted to share something that I have been thinking about since last week that has larger pedagogical implications. Last Saturday I went to Toronto to go to the Disability Pride March, and it was lovely to be in community with folk and to see friends that I had not seen in a long time (over a year and a half at least) because when you move so many things change.

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Living Geography

JULY 21, 2024

Check out the latest survey results here. Listen to the results here. From the link above, you can access a spreadsheet to see how your local seaside town fared in the survey. You can then explore the methodology.

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