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My favorite First Week of School Activity

Active History Teacher

The first week of school is crazy. From the first day of school through at least the first week, we have schedule changes, assemblies and all the chaos! I mean my class is nuts. I needed a first week of school activity I could do with kids that would get them interested in my class in a meaningful way. We all need an activity for the first week of school that goes beyond the normal “get to know you” games.

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PROOF POINTS: Some of the $190 billion in pandemic money for schools actually paid off

The Hechinger Report

Reports about schools squandering their $190 billion in federal pandemic recovery money have been troubling. Many districts spent that money on things that had nothing to do with academics, particularly building renovations. Less common, but more eye-popping were stories about new football fields, swimming pool passes, hotel rooms at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas and even the purchase of an ice cream truck.

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Pathways to Success: Co-Designing Micro-credentials and LERs for K-12 Learners

Digital Promise

Co-design sessions with Jobs for Maine’s Graduates (JMG) & Talladega City Schools around micro-credential and LER implementation

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Black Families Turn to Microschools and Homeschool for ‘Safety’ in Education

ED Surge

When Sheresa Boone Blanchard, a mother of three in North Carolina, started homeschooling her son during the pandemic, it might actually have saved her time. Isaiah, her middle child, had finished fifth grade in June 2020. With the health crisis going on, Blanchard switched him to virtual lessons when he started sixth grade. But he has ADHD and just couldn't focus without someone with him, she says.

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OPINION: Colleges have to do a better job helping students navigate what comes next

The Hechinger Report

Higher education has finally come around to the idea that college should better help prepare students for careers. It’s about time: Recognizing that students do not always understand the connection between their coursework and potential careers is a long-standing problem that must be addressed. Over 20 years ago, I co-authored the best-selling “ Quarterlife Crisis,” one of the first books to explore the transition from college to the workforce.

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Inspiring Tomorrow's Earth Optimists Today

Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

An afterschool club in partnership with the Smithsonian and the World Wildlife Fund aims to build environmental leadership skills through hands-on experiences and exposure to a wide range of "green" careers

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Read Aloud Podcast: Build Background Knowledge with Digital Text Sets

Heinemann Blog

When you make the decision to move beyond long-used textbooks, you might wonder, what will kids read?

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Coastal Eden

Sapiens

A poet interrogates the garden of Eden origin story by reimagining it against the backdrop of East Africa’s coastal environment. Coastal Eden – Listen in the evening, frangipani fronds unfurl their lemon-yellow limbs into a cloud that fills the garden. the coastal breeze lifts palms and verdant leaves as if limp arms. coastal current, not salty brine but telluric, carrying memory thwarting geography, sea becoming alpine. coastal gusts sweet busy with heat, dizzying twisting twisting until

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2024-2025 Placement Service

Society for Classical Studies

2024-2025 Placement Service kskordal Mon, 07/01/2024 - 12:38 Image Annual maintenance for the SCS Placement Service is complete. As of Monday, July 1, the Current Ads page of the Placement Service is publishing job advertisements with application deadlines falling in academic year 2024-2025. Job seekers can subscribe or resubscribe to the service for the 2024-2025 year at any time by visiting the Placement Service for Job Seekers page.

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Immunity, Vampires, and the Apocalypse!

Life and Landscapes

IMMUNITY, VAMPIRES, AND THE APOCALYPSE! In which order should we take them? In reverse? Alright, the apocalypse first! Is it happening? Nope. Different folks have different beliefs about the coming destruction, of which they are all certain. Mine? An asteroid. It has happened before. A two-mile wide asteroid [1998, OR2] just passed by! Remember the dinosaurs?

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Going to the Source

C3 Teachers

This is the third post in a series on sources as the Building Blocks of Inquiry. One of the most innovative features of IDM is its interconnectedness. Yes there are separate questions, tasks, and sources. However, a good IDM will always have questions, tasks, and sources that intertwine and rely on each other. To this end, each of the features of an IDM (including the assessment) should rely on each other, bringing out the essence of the content.

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RGS Annual International Conference 2024

Living Geography

A cross posting from my new blog. 'At the Home of Geography' will share my work as the Vice President: Education of the Royal Geographical Society. It will also share more of the work that the RGS is doing to support teachers and advance geographical learning. One of the largest events connected with Higher Education is the RGS's Annual International Conference.

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Going to the Source

C3 Teachers

This is the third post in a series on sources as the Building Blocks of Inquiry. One of the most innovative features of IDM is its interconnectedness. Yes there are separate questions, tasks, and sources. However, a good IDM will always have questions, tasks, and sources that intertwine and rely on each other. To this end, each of the features of an IDM (including the assessment) should rely on each other, bringing out the essence of the content.

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Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution

Political Science Now

Polarization of the Rich: The New Democratic Allegiance of Affluent Americans and the Politics of Redistribution By Sam Zacher , Yale University Affluent Americans used to vote for Republican politicians. Now they vote for Democrats. In this paper, I show detailed evidence for this decades-in-the-making trend and argue that it has important consequences for the U.S. politics of economic inequality and redistribution.