History Havoc

JANUARY 12, 2025

One of the books I have taught for the past decade has been The Jungle by Upton Sinclair. Every year I talk about how the book helped pass legislation dealing with food preparation. As a class we read tiny segments of it and some students find the segments quite gross. It is never fun to talk about rats falling into the sausage and nobody taking them out just before going to lunch.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Recent advances in neuroscience are revealing what Montessori educators have known for over a century - that learning is deeply connected to emotion, relationships, and the integration of mind and body. At the recent Montessori Schools of Massachusetts conference, I shared how cutting-edge brain research aligns with and validates core Montessori principles.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2025

Microsoft Powerpoint has a free template called 'Create your own Colony'. You can find it when creating a new Template by searching for it. This could be the basis for an interesting Citizenship lesson perhaps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2025

Donald Trumps election for a second term marks a significant shift in American policy direction, even though education efforts were not a key focus of the 2024 election. However, Trumps enthusiasm for artificial intelligence now presents a unique opportunity to prepare K-12 students for an increasingly tech-driven world. AI expertise is growing in importance from logistics and health care to manufacturing and more.

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2025

The Financial Times had a range of interesting articles this weekend, but one in particular was relevant for Geography. Henry Mance looks at the AMOC: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. "The utterly plausible case that climate change makes London much colder" by @henrymance for @FinancialTimes : [link] Prof Michael E. Mann (@MichaelEMann) January 11, 2025 If this ocean current shuts down, the implications for the UK are that if it does, we will become a lot colder rather than warm

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All Things Pedagogical

JANUARY 12, 2025

Another blog for me this week instead of podcast (the podcast is coming next week). And this is mainly because of what the title of this blog suggests, awareness. I am trying to use even more awareness in the ways that I make decisions and the work that I do. So let me tell you a story, because sometimes stories are how we reinforce awareness. Usually if a topic for the blog doesn't come up during the week based on discussions I have had, or a thing I have read, then I use my walk to the farmer'

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Living Geography

JANUARY 12, 2025

The NAEE is sharing a Year of Environmental Lunacy. There will be a monthly post looking at the full moon which occurs in that year. These have a name which often stems from America and Canada's Indigenous / first nation people, and the world they lived in, but that means they are not always appropriate for the UK. This project is about suggesting a name which fits with the UK's wildlife.

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