TeachThought

AUGUST 5, 2024

by TeachThought Staff In ‘ Shifts For The Classroom of the Future ,’ Terrell Heick said, “It’s challenging enough to manage a traditional learning environment where the curriculum is handed to you, and meetings are set, and you’re simply there to manage; adding more ingredients to the mix seems like asking for trouble. But the truth is, it’s becoming increasingly difficult to educate children in the face of such radical technological and pedagogical progression.” Compared

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Parents know they should talk and read to their young children. Dozens of nonprofit organizations have promoted the research evidence that it will help their children do better in school. But the focus has been on improving literacy. Are there similar things that parents can do with their children to lay the foundation for success in math? That’s important because Americans struggle with math, ranking toward the bottom on international assessments.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

What if why you choose to become a teacher determines how successful you will be in the role? Society has always been fascinated to learn about the motivations of famous athletes, entertainers, and politicians and how they came to their profession. We think about their career trajectory and consider its relevance to ourselves or people we know. What if, similarly, we learned about the motivations of aspiring K-12 teachers, and used that to predict how effective they will be and how long they wil

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The Effortful Educator

AUGUST 5, 2024

October 2016. That’s when I started this blog and posted for the first time. Almost 8 years later and almost 1 million blog hits later, I’ve got a book being published. It still feels surreal to see where reading research and writing about its implications in my classroom has taken me. I’ve worked with some big time education corporations and have even worked with the U.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2024

Too many of our public schools are missing teachers, especially in hard-to-staff subject areas. We have a teacher shortage, and it could get worse. According to a recent report , last school year, 45 percent of public schools said they were understaffed, and nearly 9 in 10 school districts reported struggling to hire teachers heading into the 2023-24 school year.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

Educational technology adoption has grown significantly in the past decade, and it’s clear that K-12 schools are now comfortable with and embrace the new technology norms. The next step for school leaders is to focus on purchasing edtech strategically, ensuring that these tools genuinely make a positive difference in teaching and learning. Susan Uram Director of Educational Technology at Rockford Public Schools But effectively evaluating edtech products is no small feat.

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Heinemann Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

Welcome back! It’s that time again for supply checklists, password resets, classroom refreshes, and a new 30 oz coffee travel mug as the start of the school year rushes in.

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Heinemann Blog

AUGUST 5, 2024

In this episode, Kelly Boswell focuses on finding the balance between conventions and creativity. In this excerpt from her audiobook, Every Kid a Writer , Kelly helps us understand the importance of flexibility for more enjoyable and productive learning experiences— and gives several practical approaches for implementing this. From engaging students in conversations about quality writing to providing the freedom to write without constraints, you'll get actionable tips to use right away.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 5, 2024

Different countries are making different efforts to prepare for the summer heat to come across Europe, and which has already reached places all over the globe. Some parts of the SE of England met the criteria today: a minumum of three days where temperatures cross heatwave thresholds (which have been raised slowly over the decades). MeteoSwiss started to add Heat Wave Danger levels to their forecasts some time ago.

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Life and Landscapes

AUGUST 5, 2024

Surrounding Fort Knox including Southern Indiana will be released soon. The Table of Contents is below for the 180k+ word journey log. I. KENTUCKY Surrounding Fort Knox Entering Through Pitts Point What Was There Before Muldraugh and Its Hill The Geology The Borden Delta The Trouble With Trilobites The Old L & N Turnpike Tioga Falls and Bridges to the Past U.S.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 5, 2024

Recent research 1 has shed light on the genetic adaptations that allowed early humans to survive in colder climates after migrating out of Africa. This discovery highlights the role of specific gene alterations that provided a survival advantage to those early pioneers as they ventured into new, harsher environments. The Great Migration: From Africa to the World Around 70,000 years ago, modern humans began their journey out of Africa.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

AUGUST 5, 2024

University of Denver chancellor Jeremy Haefner and Rutgers University president Jonathan Holloway discuss free expression and campus protests on the PBS series The Open Mind.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Carey McWilliams Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor major journalistic contributions to society’s understanding of politics. Citation from the Award Committee: We are pleased to present the 2024 Carey McWilliams Award to Adam Iscoe. In addition to his well-received work across multiple outlets, Mr.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 5, 2024

Artificial Intelligence (AI) has rapidly become an invaluable tool in education, transforming how teachers plan, instruct, and assess their students. Here’s an in-depth look at how AI can serve as a personal assistant for educators and the importance of editing and the 80/20 rule in maximizing its effectiveness. Lesson Planning and Curriculum Development AI tools, such as ChatGPT, are revolutionizing the way teachers approach lesson planning and curriculum development.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

The Edward S. Corwin Award is presented annually by the American Political Science Association (APSA) to honor the best doctoral dissertation in the field of public law. Citation from the Award Committee: In “The Spirit of Caste: Recasting the History of Civil Rights,” Lucien Ferguson writes a compelling account of the civil rights movement and the constitutional protections on which it depends through the lens of caste.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 5, 2024

Graduate Students in International Political Economy Pre-Conference Short Course Full Day Short Course 9:00am – 5:00pm The Graduate Students in International Political Economy (GSIPE) Workshop is an interdisciplinary virtual workshop space organized by doctoral students from universities across North America and Europe. For the last two years, we have held an in-person pre-conference event at APSA, and for the third consecutive year, invite submissions for the GSIPE Pre-Conference Workshop at AP

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