A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 25, 2024

Understanding our current position is like having a detailed map before embarking on a journey. Charting a course toward our desired destination can be difficult without knowing where we stand. This awareness allows us to identify our strengths, recognize the gaps, and make informed decisions about the steps we need to take. In both personal growth and organizational development, clarity about our starting point empowers us to set realistic goals, measure progress, and ultimately reach where we

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TeachThought

AUGUST 20, 2024

Critical thinking is the ongoing application of unbiased analysis in pursuit of objective truth. Although its name implies criticism , critical thinking is actually closer to ‘ truth judgment ‘ based on withholding judgments while evaluating existing and emerging data to form more accurate conclusions. Critical thinking is an ongoing process emphasizing the fluid and continued interpretation of information rather than the formation of static beliefs and opinions.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 15, 2024

Deadline for abstract submission 16 th Sept 2024 Editors: Dr Natalie Djohari and Dr Gavin Weston, Bournemouth University. With the growing accessibility of generative AIs, haptic technologies and open-source software, this Teaching Anthropology Special Issue asks; ‘how is anthropological knowledge production changing in this fast growing socio-technological era?

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 4, 2024

Listen to my interview with Mitch Weathers ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom 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? Most of my teaching experience was in middle schools, so I spent a lot of time with kids who were going through one of the most tumultuous transitions o

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History Tech

AUGUST 7, 2024

I was chatting on a text thread with a group of teachers and administrators last week when one of the high school admin types casually mentioned that her first day back with students had gone pretty well. Seriously!? Cue my stunned surpise.

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Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 30, 2024

Sociology is often a favorite course for students. They love studying and analyzing the interactions between others. However, they often forget to consider how outside factors influence their lives. So, students need to take some time to see how the media and society shape their thoughts and opinions. Thankfully, the Music and Gender Project and Gender of Toys Project provide personal, impactful ways to do this!

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 4, 2024

Myths often arise from misunderstandings, oversimplifications, or a desire to maintain the status quo. They can also be intentionally created to mislead or manipulate, serving as barriers to embracing innovative practices or protecting existing power structures. Additionally, some myths may originate from well-intentioned but inaccurate assumptions or generalizations about an idea or strategy.

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Teaching Anthropology

AUGUST 6, 2024

This content is password protected. To view it please enter your password below: Password: The post Protected: McGlobalisation with a side of Sustainability first appeared on Teaching Anthropology.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Listen to my interview with Megan Sumeracki ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom 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? Here’s a scenario you might be familiar with: A person — maybe you, maybe someone you know — studies for hours to prepare for a test.

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History Tech

AUGUST 13, 2024

After last week’s post about back to school social studies activities, I had a bunch of people ask about using Connections in their classrooms. So. today, a bit more detail. Most mornings a pretty much the same for me. Coffee.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

Four years after the pandemic shuttered schools, we all want to be done with COVID. But the latest analyses from three assessment companies paint a grim picture of where U.S. children are academically and that merits coverage. While there are isolated bright spots, the general trend is stagnation. One report documented that U.S. students did not make progress in catching up in the most recent 2023-24 school year and slid even further behind in math and reading, exacerbating pandemic learning los

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 18, 2024

Do you ever feel virtually everything seems critical or important as a leader? Most, if not all, of us have been in this position repeatedly. What happens, though, is that we place an emphasis on tasks that seem essential but have little to no impact on student learning. Prioritization The reasons people often prioritize less essential tasks over crucial ones are multifaceted.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 7, 2024

Address Common Project-Based Learning Challenges Through Culture-Building contributed by Sara Segar , Experit Learning Depot I would never claim to be the world’s best project-based educator. There have been ups and downs, some duds, and big mistakes. I have encountered every PBL challenge imaginable, but I’ve used them as opportunities to do better.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 14, 2024

Of the nearly 10,000 students enrolled at Brookdale Community College in central New Jersey, about 17 percent are still in high school. Some of them travel to the campus during the school day to take courses in introductory English, history, psychology and sociology. Others stay right at their own secondary schools and learn from high school teachers who deliver college-course lessons.

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Strange Maps

AUGUST 13, 2024

One of the more unexpected consequences of Brexit, the United Kingdom’s decision to leave the European Union following a 2016 referendum, is that it has made EU membership more popular. The British exit from the EU was the high-water mark of a general distrust, even disgust, experienced by public opinions across many member states towards the bureaucracy in Brussels.

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Women's History Network

AUGUST 4, 2024

The White Rose resistance movement began in Nazi Germany and ended in a shock trial where three of its members were executed. This blog post focuses on Sophie Scholl, one of the members of the movement who was executed by the Nazis in February of 1943.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2024

Hear the audio version of this story, from Vermont Public. BURLINGTON, Vt. — In his first year in graduate school at the University of Vermont, John Ball lived in a dark studio apartment in the basement of a building three miles from the campus. With utilities, it cost him $1,500 a month — more than the national median rent. “I just needed a place, and I was, like, OK, I’ll live anywhere, basically,” said Ball, who is working toward a doctorate in cellular, molecular and biomedical sciences.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

Personalization is the future of education because it recognizes that every student is unique, with distinct learning preferences, paces, and goals. This approach shifts away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model, allowing students to learn at their own rhythm and delve deeper into concepts that pique their interest. By creating experiences that make instruction personal and address individual needs, personalized learning enhances engagement, motivation, and ultimately, student achievemen

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TeachThought

AUGUST 17, 2024

Education has gone beyond acquiring knowledge to acquiring skills using EdTech tools; students learn digital literacy, teamwork, and critical thinking skills. Using technology in learning also enhances the student’s ability to appreciate and ponder on issues in a previously deemed impossible manner. Thus, tech serves as an additional tool for navigation, similar to how tutors and experts at a professional coursework writing service assist with developing writing skills.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skill

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 17, 2024

This week marked the start of a new chapter in my teaching career. I’ve transitioned to Batavia Middle School, where I’m now teaching 8th grade social studies in room 234. While the subject remains the same, I’m facing new procedures, new students, and a new textbook. Thursday and Friday – Frayers, 3xCER Adapting to Change At my previous school, we used TCI History Alive, but now I’m working with McGraw Hill’s Voices of the Past.

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Women's History Network

AUGUST 26, 2024

Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India (1844 -1925) is a royal figure often disregarded in historical literature. Although studies surrounding Alexandra’s husband, King Edward VII, are plentiful, there is comparatively little written about Alexandra other than a handful of biographies and academic literature surrounding her clothes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman instructs students on atoms, matter and, she says, how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. For about 20 of the 80 minutes of almost every class, she engages her chemistry students in literacy skills, she said: closely reading passages from their textbooks, “breaking apart” prefixes and suffixes for relevant vocabulary and identifying root words.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 14, 2024

Digital Promise’s new Digital Equity Framework provides guidance for bridging the digital divides for states and K-12 education systems.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 1, 2024

by TeachThought Staff Welcome to a new school year! While most teachers and students have so much to look forward to as the new school year begins, at times the groans you will hear from the students are almost as loud as the more subtle groans of the teachers. The end of summer is always seen as a tragic end to freedom and fun. Like on Mondays, when the whole long week seems to loom threateningly in front of you, new school years can sometimes fill you with the same sort of dread.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

Many teachers and professors are spending time this summer experimenting with AI tools to help them prepare slide presentations, craft tests and homework questions, and more. That’s in part because of a huge batch of new tools and updated features that incorporate ChatGPT, which companies have released in recent weeks. As more instructors experiment with using generative AI to make teaching materials, an important question bubbles up.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 13, 2024

We were sad to learn last week that Mike Bisenius , a 2022 graduate of the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program, has passed away after a brief, intense illness. Mike was a highly dedicated teacher. Last fall we ran a story about Mike, who’d been named 2023 North Dakota History Teacher of the Year by the Gilder Lehrman Foundation.

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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 12, 2024

If we graded schools on how accurately they grade students, they’d fail. Nearly six out of 10 course grades are inaccurate, according to a new study of grades that teachers gave to 22,000 middle and high school students in 2022 and 2023. The Equitable Grading Project , a nonprofit organization that seeks to change grading practices, compared 33,000 course grades with students’ scores on standardized exams, including Advanced Placement tests and annual state assessments.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2024

The post How Skill Recognition Can Create Equitable Pathways for Student Advancement appeared first on Digital Promise.

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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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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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TCI

AUGUST 8, 2024

Discover the latest updates from the past month designed to make your teaching experience smoother and more efficient. Here’s what’s new: New Back-to-School Courses and Sessions: Start the school year strong with our Foundations 2.0 courses. Learn the latest features in “Navigate and Plan with TCI 2.0” and “Assign and Grade with TCI 2.0.” For more insights, check out the Summit playlist on the TCI YouTube Channel.

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Heinemann Blog

AUGUST 26, 2024

How can we leverage the linguistic and cultural assets that our students bring into the classroom? How can we effectively engage multilingual students and build meaningful connections?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. Credit: Eugene Mymrin/ Moment via Getty Images One of the biggest problems with using AI in education is that the technology hallucinates. That’s the word the artificial intelligence community uses to describe how its newest large language models make up stuff that doesn’t exist or isn’t true.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2024

The post Vote For Digital Promise’s Transformative SXSW EDU Panel Submissions appeared first on Digital Promise.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 1, 2024

10 Team-Building Games For The First Day Of School by TeachThought Staff Team-building activities are great–especially for the first day of school or early in the school year, Not only can they help establish routines, tone, and expectations, they’re also fun, and can help learners feel comfortable. Though many older students in high school and college may groan at their thought, they’re usually fun, and great ways to help students feel at ease.

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