A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Inclusion is essential for special education (SPED) because it promotes the social and academic development of students with disabilities, fosters a sense of belonging, and prepares them for life outside of school. It aligns with legal and ethical imperatives, is often cost-effective, and encourages teacher development. Inclusive education also positively impacts school culture, reduces stigma, and advocates for equity and civil rights, ensuring all students have equal opportunities and contribu

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This multiple award-winning book sat in my teenage daughter’s room for a couple of years before I got around to it. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by NoRedInk and The Modern Classrooms Project I was having a conversation this morning with a teacher I’m very close to, someone who trusts me enough to be honest with me, and who does it in a way that is loving and generous. She was talking about how my website and podcast sometimes make her feel like she’s not doing enough, she’s doing it all wrong, her teaching is never quite good enough.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Students face many challenges in high school. While they are excited to grow up, they are also making decisions that impact the rest of their life. As they prepare, they often take stressful courses, such as AP Government. Since teachers understand the stress of high-stakes tests, they do everything they can to make review fun. Thankfully, there are resources ready for an amazing AP Government review!

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Geography Education

OCTOBER 20, 2023

I love the podcast “Everything Everywhere Daily” Podcast. As the title implies it’s an omnivorous exploration of fascinating topics, often focusing on interesting places or pivotal moments in history. Most are approximately 10-minute summaries and for exploring more about the middle East, these podcasts would be a great place to explore further.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I was recently facilitating a training session on the station rotation model when several educators expressed concern about the noise level of the classroom during a station rotation lesson. They asked how I keep the noise level down at the stations that are not teacher-led. Like most classroom expectations, I spend time directly teaching what each type of station should look and sound like.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 1, 2023

A s readers of my blog know, I am incredibly passionate about pedagogically-sound personalized learning. Who wouldn’t be excited about implementing strategies that support ALL learners getting what they need when and where they need it to succeed? What is even more intriguing is that there is no one best way to personalize, something I wrote extensively about in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms and this recent blog post.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2023

A study published in 2023 in the journal of Applied Cognitive Psychology documented that second graders memorized more multiplication facts when they practiced using flashcards rather than by repeating their times tables aloud. Credit: Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images Young students around the world struggle to memorize multiplication tables, but the effort pays off.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The United States has undergone many changes through its rich history. While some are positive improvements, such as the creation of the lightbulb, others are not. For instance, there have been wars, conflicts, and times when citizens had no food. Citizens who lived through the Great Depression witnessed loss, hardships, and hurt on unprecedented levels.

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Geography Education

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The region of Nagorno-Karabakh has had ethnic, political, and cultural strife ever since the fall of the Soviet Union. In October 2023, Azerbaijan militarily took over the region prompting many ethnic Armenians to flee to Armenia. Since 1994, this was the event that Armenia was trying to prevent, but couldn’t.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Since the release of ChatGPT late last year, the essay has been declared dead as an effective way to measure learning. After all, students can now enter any assigned question into an AI chatbot and get a perfectly formatted, five-paragraph essay back ready to turn in (well, after a little massaging to take out any AI “hallucinations”). As educators have looked to alternatives to assigning essays, one idea that has bubbled up is to bring back oral exams.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In today's fast-paced world, traditional one-size-fits-all educational approaches need to be updated. Students have diverse needs, preferences, and learning paces, making it crucial for schools to adapt to this variability. Enter artificial intelligence (AI), a powerful tool that has the potential to revolutionize education by personalizing learning experiences for every student.

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Continuing to develop my Ethnic Studies-themed book list, this week I read The All-American by Joe Milan Jr. It was a fast-moving story about a young Korean boy who gets into a legal mishap and has his whole world unravel. Bucky Yi is a seventeen-year-old running back in the small town of Tibicut. Shades of Squid Game keep the pages turning. Things can’t get worse, but then they always do.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Just over 50 years ago, long before a global pandemic knocked 100,000 Canadian women out of the work force and left child care providers

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2023

The start of the school year is an exciting time for the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools community, as schools are rolling out devices to students. For the 31 Cohort 10 schools that are just beginning their Verizon Innovative Learning journey, rollout is the beginning of new learning opportunities. The event marks a major milestone and is the culmination of months of hard work that began in the spring when teachers received their devices and began planning.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

OCTOBER 29, 2023

I love visualisers. They’re a great bit of kit that can let you do lots of really useful things in your teaching. Some schools love them so much they’ve got one in every classroom. I champion them in CPD sessions, when I’m giving lesson feedback, and I’ve certainly mentioned them in a blog or two. But I’ve got a guilty secret. I never use one. I do have one, but haven’t touched it for about 2 years.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Students these days are terrible at sorting true facts from misinformation online and on social media, many studies show. But it’s not because students aren’t good at critical thinking, argues Mike Caulfield, a research scientist at University of Washington’s Center for an Informed Public. Instead, they just need a little bit of guidance on how to approach the flood of text, images and websites they encounter on a daily basis.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

During this school year, I have been working with Stryker Local Schools in Ohio. Like all my implementations where the work is job-embedded and ongoing, learning walks are a core component. In September, the leaders and I conducted walks in every classroom over two days. As a result, I provided them with close to 5000 words of feedback. With the suggestions in hand, the leaders were empowered to review what we had seen and my recommendations to determine the focus for an upcoming professional de

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 2, 2023

This year I have been reading a variety of new titles for my Intro to Ethnic Studies course. I want the books to be different from a traditional History or ELA class reading so that students understand the purpose of Ethnic studies is supposed to bring students and communities together. Per California’s Ethnic Studies Framework , these stories should address racialized experiences and ethnic differences as real and unique, build greater understanding and communication across ethnic differe

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SEATTLE — Mireya Barrera didn’t want a fight. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. On the rare occasions when other teachers who spoke Barrera’s language, Spanish, were asked to help, the conversations still faltered because they weren’t trained interpreters.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The post This Cross-Sector Group Will Support the Future of Maker Learning in Southwestern Pennsylvania appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Photo by Artem Podrez on Pexels.com “There’s an hour of my life I’ll never get back.” How many times have we heard or said that after attending a PD session? And yes, some of those sessions may well have been truly awful for all kinds of reasons. But one of the things people sometimes grumble about is that there was nothing new : “I know all this, I’ve been teaching for years” “I didn’t take any new ideas from that” “Nothing new but it was nice to hear that I’m doing everything right” The last o

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Plato once quoted Socrates lamenting that, “If men learn this, it will implant forgetfulness in their souls; they will cease to exercise memory because they rely on that which is written.”1 The ancient philosopher was speaking, of course, of the latest technology in the B.C. era: hand-written scrolls. As humans, we’ve always had a somewhat complicated history with invention.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. When teachers feel valued and supported within their school community and environment, student learning is also better supported. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. We’ve rounded up four resources that provide best practices for improving school culture, including how psychological safety is crucial for educators and strategies for valuing and suppo

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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The modern classroom is rapidly changing, and it’s not just the use of tablets and online assignments that are making a difference. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the educational landscape is opening doors to a wealth of possibilities that were once the stuff of science fiction. While attending the ACAMIS Technology Conference , a plethora of cutting-edge technological applications in education were showcased.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! On May 31, a school board meeting in Hernando County, Florida, made national news when more than 600 hundred people showed up and the meeting lasted until 2:30 a.m.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The post How a Youth-Led Initiative Aims to Improve Access to Education in Cameroon appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Burnout rates are high among principals. How can we promote self-care? The past few years have been tough on school leaders. Principals have been putting out fires and coping with unexpected situations. Many principals admit that their careers have become very stressful with work overload, breakdown with communication, and values conflicts. Principals are challenged to handle pressure, student achievement, and working harmoniously with diverse stakeholders.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

How is AI currently utilized in higher education? As of fall 2023, we are still in the early stages of figuring out what AI integration means for higher ed. In some classrooms, such as my own, we talk about what AI can and can’t do. We look at examples of output from large language models (LLMs) and critique how well it did with the responses. Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter vers

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Edthena

OCTOBER 19, 2023

In the News AI has exploded in popularity over the past few months. Education is certainly not exempt from its impact. For many school district leaders, the prospect of leveraging AI might seem scary at first. However, with proactive and careful planning, school district leaders can harness the power of AI while maintaining a secure, structured learning environment.

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TCI

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Teachers have much to juggle between planning lessons, grading, and leading a class. TCI’s social studies programs provide comprehensive planning and support tools so you can focus on what you do best: teaching. Here are a few tools to help you stay on top of lesson planning. 1. Quickly Review Information in the Planning Box Start your lesson plan with the planning box.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

MONTREAL — Raad Jassim really likes his job. This story also appeared in The Washington Post As an adjunct faculty member at a Canadian university, Jassim has four teaching assistants to help him grade assignments and answer questions. He makes the equivalent of about $7,000 per course, per term. He has a multiyear contract and can typically pick the subjects that he teaches.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 17, 2023

The post Supporting Students In Being the Protagonists of Their Own Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 2, 2023

As schools and school districts strive to foster academic excellence and student achievement, teachers and school leaders often set aside their personal care. However, educator well-being is vital to the health and success of any educational environment. Educators who are well-supported can focus on what they do best – inspiring and guiding students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Amy Ballard, Ph.D., a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Yet Ballard’s main focus is not the tools themselves, but rather, how to support teachers leveraging edtech to help improve student learning.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Trendlines don’t lie. As this chart shows, in warmer countries, people eat spicier food. Conversely, the colder the climate, the fewer spicy ingredients in your cuisine. There are of course outliers and other exceptions (and we’ll get to those). But the three-pepper question is: Why do dishes in hotter climates use more spices? Some like it spicy, and none more so than the Ethiopians.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I recently attended and spoke at the inaugural USA Festival of Education at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. It was a wonderful experience; well organized, incredible speakers ( Dr. Daniel Willingham delivered the opening keynote), and a lovely venue. It was, by my estimation, a perfect example of how any and all conferences of education should be run.

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