A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2024

In today's rapidly changing world, where new challenges and technologies emerge at an unprecedented pace, students need to be relevant thinkers to successfully navigate the complex social, economic, and environmental issues they will face. The ability to think relevantly enables them to connect classroom learning with real-world applications, fostering deeper learning and cultivating critical life competencies such as problem-solving, adaptability, and creativity.

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Critical Thinking Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Cultures 449

TeachThought

MARCH 5, 2024

3 Knowledge Domains For Teaching And Learning by TeachThought Staff Thinking in the 21st century is just different. That doesn’t […] The post 3 Knowledge Domains For The 21st-Century Student appeared first on TeachThought.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Listen to the interview with Blake Harvard: Sponsored by Listenwise and Khan Academy Kids Please allow me to describe an all-too-common situation that has occurred in probably every teacher’s classroom: You teach your heart out. Really just knock it out of the park: explaining, describing, providing examples, modeling … you know, all the things we’re taught to do during instruction.

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Teaching Anthropology

MARCH 7, 2024

By Shelene Gomes, University of the West Indies, & Lara Watkins, Bridgewater State University Students can read about culture, but hearing peers narrate personal experiences in another country provides invaluable firsthand insights. Analysing these narratives allows for a deeper understanding of cultural differences. In this instance, the online platform Flip enabled cross-institutional, cross-border student interactions to discuss cultural similarities and differences— core subject matter o

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HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

Thick Slides (although not in our book) are a flexible and popular EduProtocol that should be in every Social Studies teacher’s toolbox. Thick Slides help students extract key information from text, lesson, or video and complete a deconstructed paragraph that asks for specific fields like who, where, what, when, and why? They are a fun and engaging formative or summative assessment that gives students some structure for writing.

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Social Studies Primary Sources Government History 246

TeachThought

MARCH 2, 2024

by TeachThought Staff Do not limit a child to your own learning, for they were born for another time. R […] The post A Powerful, One-Sentence Argument For Progressive Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

In an experiment on how best to study for a math test, learning through errors was pitted against working through practice problems in a Barron’s study guide, pictured above. Credit: Jill Barshay/ The Hechinger Report / The Hechinger Report For a few weeks in the spring of 2016, nearly all the eighth graders at a small public school affiliated with Columbia University agreed to stay late after school to study math.

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Tradition Middle School Psychology Project-Based Learning 136

Women's History Network

MARCH 8, 2024

In 1840, Memoirs of Princess Daschkaw, Lady of Honour to Catherine II was published in England. The two-volume text included the personal memoirs of Russian noblewoman Ekaterina Dashkova (1743-1810), one of the most powerful, well-known and misunderstood women figures of the Enlightenment.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ THE IDEA THAT TWO different human species, Homo sapiens (us) and Neanderthals, coexisted in Western Eurasia 50,000–40,000 years ago has long captured the imagination of academics and the public alike.

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Humanities Archaeology Ancestry Museum 122

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2024

Our colleague at The Hechinger Report, Fazil Khan, died February 23. Please consider donating to a fund in his name that will support a data journalism internship at Hechinger. Consider this a head’s up: This week’s newsletter is about poop. Specifically, potty training. In January, Utah Rep. Doug Welton introduced a bill that would require kindergarten students be potty trained before parents enroll them in school.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

For years, I’ve worked with young people during one of the most significant transitions of their lives. After 12 years of compulsory schooling, they approach the edge of the nest — and many feel unprepared, realizing they are about to lose the comfort of seeing their friends every day, the support of trusted adults outside their families and the predictability of a daily school schedule.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 4, 2024

In my last blog post, Using the Station Rotation Model in Math , I wrote about the benefits of shifting from a whole group, teacher-led lesson design to small-group differentiated instructional sessions. I make the case that the whole group, teacher-led approach to instruction limits opportunities for individual exploration and deep engagement with mathematical concepts.

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Artifacts Research 89

Digital Promise

MARCH 7, 2024

The post How Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Transformed My District appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 7, 2024

People who read college applications are a lot like detectives. Without having been there for the event (the student’s K-12 education and life), they must find clues in documents (high school transcripts and student essays) and eyewitness accounts (letters of recommendation) to solve the case (decide whether a student might be able to thrive at the college).

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

Ken Futernick brings together people who disagree deeply on issues that are most dividing school communities these days — such as teaching about gender and sexual identity or about the history of racism in America. And he records the conversations. You might think the discussions would involve shouting matches or verbal fireworks. But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to ke

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Cultures Elementary School Teaching History 119

ShortCutsTV

MARCH 6, 2024

This new PowerPoint Presentation introduces students to some (okay, 9) of Sociology’s founders, from the Big Three of Marx, Durkheim and Weber to lesser-known, but equally important in their own way, names such as Harriet Martineau and William Du Bois.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

Anna Lenardson If you ask Anna Lenardson, a 2023 graduate of Ashland University’s Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG) program , why she enrolled in the challenging program, she replies, “I love to learn. I loved being with other teachers, talking about history and government.” True, she had to complete a lot of reading before arriving at the weeklong residential summer courses.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2024

The impact of Black people in early care and education cannot be overstated. Black women, in particular, have played a crucial role in American society, caring for multiple generations of children. Recent reports indicate that 95 percent of child care workers are female. And although Black people make up only 13 percent of the total U.S. workforce, 18 percent of U.S. child care workers are Black.

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Economics Education Teaching 120

ED Surge

MARCH 7, 2024

A few weeks ago, Ferris State University made a splashy announcement that it planned to enroll two chatbot “students” in its classes, calling it a novel way for colleges to test their curricula. The unusual idea seems in some ways like a publicity stunt to call attention to a the academic major it offers in artificial intelligence — and local TV news stations pounced on the notion that nonhuman classmates would be participating side-by-side in hybrid college classes with T-shirt-clad young peopl

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Women's History Network

MARCH 3, 2024

Wednesday, 6 March, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Articulating Syrian Women Refugees’ Education in an Age of Uncertainty Political conflicts propelled a wave of refugees that are seen as a force that threatens the stability of the UK and Western Europe.

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Education 92

Heinemann Blog

MARCH 8, 2024

For March, we’re bringing you a list of 6 Heinemann professional books about social-emotional learning. We hope these resources enable you to make lasting impact and meaningful connections with your students.

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Pedagogy Teaching 91

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

SAN FRANCISCO — It was two days before the start of the school year, and Lauren Koehler shrugged off her backpack and slid out of a maroon hoodie as she approached the blocky, concrete building that houses the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD) Enrollment Center. Koehler, the center’s 38-year-old executive director, usually focuses on strategy, but on this August day, she wanted to help her team — and the students it serves — get through the crush of office visits and calls that comes

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

When Pierrce Holmes entered ninth grade, his school put him in 9C, a lower-level algebra class. Before then, Holmes had always earned good grades in math — mostly As — and when he found out his friends were in honors math, he felt he belonged there too. And so he approached his guidance counselor and asked why he wasn’t in the honors math class. “Oh, do you want to try?

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K-12 Middle School Research High School 119

Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2024

The post How These Teachers Have Fostered Design Thinking, Creativity, and Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

MARCH 5, 2024

Schools across the country are grappling with fewer students in classrooms, causing a ripple effect on learning, funding, and engagement. Research shows that the number of chronically absent students has nearly doubled , from about 15 percent in the 2018-2019 school year to around 30 percent in 2021-2022. Millions of students miss 10% of the school year or more—whether excused or unexcused—and substantial increases in chronic absenteeism were prevalent across every state that captures this data.

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Living Geography

MARCH 6, 2024

A new article in the TES from Steve Brace. It explores the persistence of some topics in the school curriculum, instead of exploring some of the newer curriculum thinking and relevant topics for an age of climate breakdown. I first heard the term being used by John Morgan at a seminar at the Institute of Education, although I had explored this idea in 2007-8 when I worked as one of the CfBT Regional advisors at the time of a new curriculum, and put together a presentation of such case studies (w

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Geography Teaching Education 86

ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

When Adriana Cervantes-González started school in California as a child, it was at a time when state policy was determined to get all English-learning students proficient in the language within one year. That meant that bilingual education was out, in favor of English immersion. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. As a kindergartener who spoke only Spanish, Cervantes-González had a part-time bilingual aide in her otherwise English-only classroom.

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Geography Tradition Public School Teaching 95

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2024

The post How to Ensure Your School District is Data Ready appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 7, 2024

Welcome to The Dispatch, a Heinemann podcast series. Over the next several weeks, we'll hear from Heinemann thought leaders as they discuss the most pressing issues in education today. In today's episode we hear from Heinemann author Kristin Bourdage about designing instruction that deepens learning to prepare students for meeting the challenges of life with creativity, problem solving, and inquiry.

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Education 84

All Things Pedagogical

MARCH 2, 2024

This has been an incredibly busy week for me. On top of the work that I do on a regular basis I had the honour of presenting to information and library professional colleagues at UNBC and other colleges/universities from the north on accessible and ethical GenAI considerations. On Wednesday I was part of a great keynote panel at Centennial College's teaching and learning symposium.

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Leadership Library Teaching Research 81

ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2024

During my first years of teaching, I decided that no matter how difficult life got, both in and out of the classroom, I would never leave my class in the middle of the year. For years, my co-teachers would come and go from our grade level, and all I felt was adversity towards them: I mean, how could they leave in the middle of the year without considering the impact on our students?

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Education Teaching Middle School History 86

Sapiens

MARCH 4, 2024

A poet-anthropologist in Indonesia criticizes extremist militants who use religion to commit violence. “At the Intersection of Sarinah Plaza, Thamrin Street” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽ At the street intersection we often pass through, on that sunny day, suddenly grief falls heavier than laughter.

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Cultures 69

Digital Promise

MARCH 4, 2024

Community college faculty members share how they’re integrating global competence into their career and technical education classes.

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Education 68

Anthropology.net

MARCH 7, 2024

A recent study published in PNAS 1 unveils surprising insights into the social complexities of Europe's last hunter-gatherers through advanced DNA analysis of skeletons dating back 8,000 years. The research suggests that these ancient communities developed cultural strategies to mitigate inbreeding, challenging prior assumptions about their social structures.

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Ancestry Archaeology Cultures Humanities 59

Studies Weekly

MARCH 6, 2024

Ways to Increase Student Memory Power Mar. 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Every teacher knows the sheer joy that students take in becoming experts on their favorite topics! From dinosaurs to planets and everything in between, if they are interested, they have a remarkable ability to retain and remember a huge amount of information. What if we could harness this enthusiasm to encourage this type of interest and memory power in other school topics?

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 6, 2024

An activity with heart shaped paper, seeded with wildflowers, for writing poems of hope.

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ED Surge

MARCH 4, 2024

The national average rate of chronic absenteeism in K-12 schools has significantly increased in recent years. According to data from the U.S. Department of Education, nearly 14.7 million students, or 29.7 percent of the student population, were chronically absent in the 2021-22 school year. Early data from the 2022-23 school year indicates minor improvement, with 27.85 percent of the student population being chronically absent.

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