A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 7, 2024
As we navigate the shifting currents of the educational landscape, it's clear that transformative change is not just necessary—it's inevitable. To foster an environment where every student thrives, we must reimagine our approach to education from the ground up. This calls for a system that is not just a patchwork of quick fixes but a comprehensive blueprint for enduring change.
TeachThought
JANUARY 7, 2024
How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom. The post Levels Of Integration For Critical Thinking appeared first on TeachThought.
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A Psychology Teacher Writes
JANUARY 21, 2024
I’ve been an instructional coach for nearly four years now; while I certainly don’t think I’ve got it cracked yet and would not consider myself an expert, I think I’ve learned a huge amount since starting and want to share some of those reflection here. I’ve written previously about this here and here where I’ve talked about some of the mechanics of coaching.
Cult of Pedagogy
JANUARY 21, 2024
Listen to the interview with Jenn Borgioli Binis: Sponsored by NoRedInk and Edge•U Badges This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Over the last decade or so , we’ve settled into a choreographed dance around large-scale, state-mandated standardized test scores.
HistoryRewriter
JANUARY 17, 2024
Adam Moler and I will kick off the second season of The Social Studies Show on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 6 PT/9 ET. We are excited to work with our EduProtocols Plus members to better understand the role of Archetypes in understanding historical events. The Archetype Foursquare EduProtocol (Chapter 13) helps students at all levels demonstrate that they can transfer their learning from one subject (English) to another (History).
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.
A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 28, 2024
In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the role of leadership is pivotal. The notion of educational leadership extends beyond administrative responsibilities; it embodies the vision, direction, and ethos of a learner-centric environment. Building capacity is not just an individual pursuit but a collective journey towards excellence. It is vital because it directly impacts the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning environments.
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A Psychology Teacher Writes
JANUARY 31, 2024
A challenge that sometimes presents itself when giving feedback to students is that their work is already of a pretty high standard, and it feels like we’re really nitpicking with our improvement points. The reality is that what they’ve produced is probably already near the top of the mark bands, and one or two small tweaks might not necessarily make much difference.
ED Surge
JANUARY 22, 2024
When Satya Nitta worked at IBM, he and a team of colleagues took on a bold assignment: Use the latest in artificial intelligence to build a new kind of personal digital tutor. This was before ChatGPT existed, and fewer people were talking about the wonders of AI. But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2024
Educators have long debated the best way to teach, especially the subjects of science and math. One side favors direct instruction, where teachers tell students what they need to know or students read it from textbooks. Some call it explicit or traditional instruction. The other side favors inquiry, where students conduct experiments and figure out the answers themselves like a scientist would.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 31, 2024
Sitakunda, Bangladesh, is one of the world’s largest sites for shipbreaking. The industry is a motor of national development, but once dismantled, ships release hazardous materials that affect everyone in the area. Camelia Dewan writes about the life and labor of workers and fishermen on the beaches where ships are sent to die. Bangladeshi workers “cut” through ships run aground on intertidal beaches with hand-held gas torches.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 24, 2024
1) From the recent annual meeting of the American Society of Tropical Medicine & Hygiene (abstract 6949) we learn that the R21/Matrix-M malaria vaccine maintained it’s efficacy over 4 seasons. …Importantly, maintained high efficacy over four malaria seasons with only four doses is demonstrated, with no concerns to date of rebound in those who have not received repeated booster doses of the malaria vaccine.
TeachThought
JANUARY 27, 2024
We’ve gathered 25 of the top math resources for 2020–a mix of established and all-new tools to support the building of math skills and the grasp of important mathematical concepts. The post 25 Of The Best Math Resources [Updated] appeared first on TeachThought.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 9, 2024
The post How Students Are Driving Change in Graphic Design Pathways appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
JANUARY 16, 2024
When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech has shaped social relationships. Her argument is that our internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others, even when devices are temporarily removed.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 11, 2024
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. 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: Though college enrollment seems to be stabilizing after the pandemic disruptions, predictions for the next 15 years are grim.
Strange Maps
JANUARY 31, 2024
For almost 20 years, “Green Boots” was a creepy landmark near the summit of Mount Everest. Mountaineers ascending via the north face would invariably pass by this frozen body, huddled into a limestone alcove some 1,150 feet (350 m) below the top. To the live climbers who passed the body, the corpse, still clothed in brightly colored climbing apparel, must have seemed a grim exemplar of the saying that “every corpse on Everest was once a highly motivated individual.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 21, 2024
I am pleased to have spoken at their yearly conference yesterday. If I understand them correctly (here is their web site ), it is for elite college students — grad and undergrad — at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and the rest of the Ivies. No other schools.
TeachThought
JANUARY 16, 2024
From education to commerce, the French language, in its niche, contributes to the rich linguistic and cultural tapestry of Dubai. The post Is French Common in Dubai? appeared first on TeachThought.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 30, 2024
The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities is co-hosting an in-person event with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veterans and clips from the documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Powe
ED Surge
JANUARY 24, 2024
One morning, my students were getting ready for a math test and working through a set of review problems. For many of them, the biggest challenges weren’t the questions on the paper in front of them, but their ability to attend to it. As I checked in with one student who appeared to be working quietly, it turned out he had carefully solved the first problem, only to write guesses down for the rest.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 29, 2024
The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Even after campuses reopened and the health threat diminished, colleges and universities continued to offer more online courses and added more online degrees and programs.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 5, 2024
The post Launching Our Portrait of a Graduate Initiative for More Powerful Learning Opportunities appeared first on Digital Promise.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 21, 2024
There is: Poor Things The Delinquents [Los Delincuentes], from Argentina, tragicomedy. The Teacher’s Lounge All of Us Strangers Anselm 3-D The Zone of Interest Of course many of those came out in their respective foreign markets before 2024, but that is not the point. Rather it seems cinema has turned a corner and is vital and original again (though not culturally central?).
Sapiens
JANUARY 31, 2024
An evolutionary anthropologist draws lessons from paleogenetic’s journey from Jurassic Park fiction to Nobel Prize reality. ✽ The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Geneticist Svante Päabo had, according to the awarding group, made a “ seemingly impossible task ” possible: extracting DNA from the remains of individuals who lived long ago.
Education Elements
JANUARY 9, 2024
Imagine a new educational paradigm: virtual tutors provide real-time assistance, ensuring no students are left behind. Interactive simulations and virtual reality experiences engage learners in immersive educational adventures, making lessons come alive. Teachers collaborate to analyze student performance data, enabling targeted interventions and fostering a supportive and dynamic learning environment.
ED Surge
JANUARY 31, 2024
Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. As a parent, I felt the impact of the departures when I had to guide my then seventh-grader through math without a consistent teacher after a mid-year exit.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 15, 2024
Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. al. “ Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. It’s audible proof that a student is paying attention and not drifting off, research suggests.
Edthena
JANUARY 11, 2024
The world of education technology is expansive. With so many options and tools out there, the challenge for many K-12 leaders and teachers is identifying which tools can actually help enhance the learning experience. AI-Powered Coaching In a session at the National Charter School Conference , presenter Donna McDaniel explored how AI Coach by Edthena , played a critical role in helping Donna (a ninth-grade science teacher with 30 years of experience) evolve her teaching practice.
Marginal Revolution
JANUARY 23, 2024
A point I tried to make on our Politix episode with Will Stancil is that progressive-minded people — and particularly progressive-minded media figures — have a certain ideological investment in the promotion of bad vibes. Younger left-wing people are notably more depressed than politically conservative ones, which may be partially selection effect, but I think is driven by the fact that so much progressive messaging about the world is marked by negativity and doomerism.
Heinemann Blog
JANUARY 16, 2024
One of the greatest benefits of using a workshop approach toward the teaching of mathematics is the consistent ability for a teacher to meet students where they are. But what does that mean?
Digital Promise
JANUARY 26, 2024
The post How We’re Designing Culturally Responsive Discussions in World History Classrooms appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
JANUARY 18, 2024
At the beginning of her now nearly 30-year career, Leslie M. Gauna was given a warning: Bilingual education wouldn’t be a viable career option in the long term. Yet nowadays the need for Spanish-speaking teachers in the United States is as strong as ever, with districts around the country struggling to hire them fast enough. The dearth of bilingual teachers is especially counterintuitive in Texas, where Gauna is a professor and where she conducted a qualitative research study on what she calls t
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 26, 2024
FAYETTEVILLE, Ohio — Ghosts populate the campus of Chatfield College. They’re in the fading photos on the library walls of students who, over 177 years, attended the college and the boarding school from which it sprang, and of the Ursuline nuns who taught them, in their simple tunics and scapulars. Amid seemingly endless acres of tobacco, soybean and wheat farms in a village in southwest Ohio with a population of 241 , the now-closed college sits at the end of a narrow entrance road flanked by B
Institute for Citizens & Scholars
JANUARY 16, 2024
The post In Newark, 16-Year-Olds Win the Right to Vote in School Board Races appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.
ShortCutsTV
JANUARY 29, 2024
Short set of Notes on a kind of complementary, albeit less revolutionary, approach to understanding crime and deviance that you can either lump-in with Critical Criminology or treat as a separate, neo-critical, perspective. Your choice. But let’s just hope it’s the right one, for everyone’s sake… Left Realism: A Young Man’s Game?
Heinemann Blog
JANUARY 26, 2024
The skills of reading and thinking critically have always been a part of learning, curricula, and assessment. We want students to be able to figure things outs for themselves, to evaluate concepts and sources, to compare, contrast, and connect ideas, and to clearly articulate their thoughts. These are essential, 21 st -century skills. Often, however, students will associate critical reading and thinking with test-taking or specific assignments—something they do only in school or in a certain cla
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