Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 3, 2024

At this point in the school year, you have had time to establish classroom routines, nurture your relationships with students, and design and facilitate entire units of study. It’s the perfect time to ask your students for feedback. Employing a simple feedback strategy like “keep, start, stop” helps you quickly take the temperature of the class and make any necessary adjustments to ensure the rest of the year is as productive and positive as possible.

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Education 209

ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

One of the greatest challenges schools and districts face is low parent engagement. Often, the assumption is that parents don’t make time to engage with their child’s learning community or do not care about their student’s academic progress — even if that student is performing poorly or below academic expectations. It is the school’s responsibility to ensure that children are learning, but learning extends beyond school walls.

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Middle School Community Engagement Teaching Education 132

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

When I made the challenging, life-altering decision in April 2023 of where to pursue my Ph.D., the University of Texas at Austin seemed like the best fit. As an underrepresented student, I felt assured by the school’s diverse faculty and student population, along with their embrace of a robust diversity, equity and inclusion mission, and looked forward to continuing my research on improving the quality of mental health care for all families.

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Education Policy Research Teaching Education 121

ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

In an increasingly interconnected world, connectivity is the lifeline that bridges gaps, fosters knowledge exchange and empowers individuals to thrive in diverse socioeconomic spheres. But how is connectivity important to agricultural communities? Endless Network , a global organization committed to addressing equity disparities, strategically invests worldwide to tackle challenges such as insufficient internet access.

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Library Leadership Research Teaching 90

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 3, 2024

Did you know that the biggest Civil Rights Movement demonstration of the 1960s happened in New York City? Did you know that at the same time people were pressing for desegregation in Montgomery and Birmingham, they were doing so in Los Angeles, Milwaukee, and Boston? On Monday, June 10, 2024 , scholar Brian Jones, in conversation with Teaching for Black Lives co-editor Jesse Hagopian, will shed light on the history of the Civil Rights Movement in the North and ways that those stories can be incl

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Library Elementary School History Cultures 52

Transcending Pedagogy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Mid-week, mid-unit. Lately, I’m feeling like I’m always in the middle of things. I think it’s in part because once I get a new adventure underway, I’m continually deepening, enhancing, expanding, re-routing, and revising it. Sometimes maybe derailing it, but for today we won’t “go there.” I’ve been working with my AP Lit seniors on my latest version of book clubs – this one is on climate fiction.

Pedagogy 52

Pedagogy Human Rights Teaching Humanities 52

Strange Maps

JANUARY 3, 2024

Wizards and Trolls, Elves and Hobbits, not to mention the occasional Ent or Ringwraith…Middle-earth teems with the strangest creatures. What the place lacks, unfortunately, is the one life form that can make statistical sense of it all: a census taker. Fortunately, there’s no need to imagine a bureaucrat armed with a clipboard stalking the streets of Bree or quantifying the goings-on in Fangorn Forest.

Government 52

Government Humanities Cultures 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

WAUKEGAN, Ill. — On a sunny but brisk November afternoon inside Robert Abbott Middle School, six eighth grade girls quickly filed into a small but colorful classroom and seated themselves in a circle. This story also appeared in The 19th Yuli Paez-Naranjo, a Working on Womanhood counselor, sported a purple WOW T-shirt as she led the group in a discussion about how values can inform decisions.

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Middle School Psychology Public School Tradition 142

Living Geography

JANUARY 3, 2024

Food is a topic which I will be teaching once again in the new year. It's one of my favourites and I have a whole range of resources. Alastair Humphreys has been mentioned on the blog recently, with his new book 'Local'. Last year, he shared an idea for exploring food, particularly for those who might live in a large city. This involved exploring the world foods available.

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Teaching 52

ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Let the countdown commence! We’re bringing you a roundup of the higher ed stories EdSurge published in 2023 that were most popular with you, our readers. As these headlines show, college is in flux. Administrators, professors and students are rethinking nearly everything about how higher education works. It starts with the very basics — like whether it even makes sense anymore to measure learning in credit hours — and builds up to future-facing conundrums about how to handle the sudden ubiquity

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Education Pedagogy Tradition Government 97

Living Geography

JANUARY 3, 2024

At the start of summer 2023 I had the very great pleasure of seeing Peter Gabriel playing live, over 36 years after I saw him for the first time, touring his 'So' album. I wore the t-shirt I bought back then (it still fits fine). While most of his peers have become lucrative “legacy acts” who entertain live audiences solely with material from their glory days, the 73-year-old continues to break new ground [link] — The Economist (@TheEconomist) June 22, 2023 I liked this piece in The Economist (I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2024

Elected officials are pushing university presidents to categorically silence student speech on salient political issues. This runs afoul of the values of academic freedom and free speech. In the case of public institutions, giving in to such pressure is unconstitutional. Free speech is a vital liberty that the American Civil Liberties Union has fought to protect at all levels of government, on campuses and across society for over 100 years.

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Advocacy Government History Education 144