A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

In my coaching work, suggestions typically arise for ideas on implementing various personalized strategies effectively at the primary level (PreK – 1). While choice , in my opinion, might not be the most developmentally appropriate option, I do see station rotation (or centers) as a viable option. Establishing engaging and educational station activities for primary-age students in the English Language Arts (ELA) curriculum is essential for fostering literacy skills, including reading, writing, l

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TeachThought

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

From promoting vocabulary to fostering creative storytelling, LEGOs offer a surprisingly useful tool for literacy education The post The Benefits Of Using LEGOs To Promote Literacy appeared first on TeachThought.

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Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

When teaching US History, there is a strong focus on heroic individuals. Honestly, the strength of some of our heroes allowed the United States to grow and develop in powerful ways. For instance, MLK and Malcolm X used their voices to fight for equality. However, they did their work differently. While MLK was more calm and collected, Malcolm X was more abrasive in his work.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Credit: Allison Shelley for EDU Educators around the country have embraced the “science of reading” in their classrooms, but that doesn’t mean there’s a truce in the reading wars. In fact, controversies are emerging about an important but less understood aspect of learning to read: phonemic awareness.

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Strange Maps

MARCH 1, 2024

Had he not wrapped himself in a discarded cloak, Ulysses would have frozen to death at Troy. Our hero’s host, Eumaeus the swineherd, hears the story and gets the hint: He loans Ulysses a cloak, because again, the night is freezing cold. This part of Homer’s Odyssey doesn’t sound very Mediterranean. Sprinkled through Homer’s twin epics, Felice Vinci spotted a heap of similar anecdotes that pointed away from the traditional setting of the Iliad , an account of the Trojan War, and the Odyssey

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TeachThought

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Circle practice in the classroom involves sitting in a circle and engaging in age-approriate meaningful dialogue. The post Getting Started Using Talking Circles In The Classroom appeared first on TeachThought.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

In summer 2012, my life changed. I was a 20-year-old college student with a bright future. I was fearless and ready to take the world by storm. All of my hopes and dreams came crashing down when I began experiencing what felt like a black curtain within my field of vision in my right eye. I went to my eye doctor and learned I was suffering from a retinal detachment that required surgery.

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Women's History Network

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The year is 1649 and Lady Jean Wemyss has a headache. Since paracetamol won’t be invented for another several hundred years, Jean reaches for the next best thing: a handwritten recipe book. The cure, written down in her mother’s neat hand, suggests the use of some trusted betony water.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

As synthetic prayer flags and scarves pollute the Himalayan region, a team of scholars and activists work to spread sustainable materials drawn from Indigenous knowledge. ✽ In the summer of 2022, one of us, Kalzang Dorjee Bhutia, brought gifts to his relatives with babies in northeast India. In their Sikkimese Bhutia community, new mothers receive chicken, cash, and other items known as Bya-kay—literally, “bringing a chicken.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

“My students can't use these digital programs.” “I don't have time to use technology with my littles.” “It’s exhausting to get them all logged in.” “Our students already have so much daily screen time.” In my role as a technology specialist — or tech coach — at an elementary school, I support teachers of students in pre-K through second grade and I often hear comments like these.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

OXNARD, Calif. — On a Wednesday morning this December, Dale Perizzolo’s math class at Adolfo Camarillo High School is anything but quiet. Students chat about the data analysis they’ve performed on their cellphone usage over a week, while Perizzolo walks around the room fielding their questions. The students came up with the project themselves and designed a Google form to track their phone time, including which apps they used most.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Dr. Britt shares insights into her College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Faculty Institute experience and how it has impacted her classroom instruction.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

A healthy classroom community is one that is inclusive, supportive, open, and safe for all students to express and be themselves. An open, supportive community allows students to learn fully by feeling comfortable to ask questions, explore as learners, and show up to each lesson authentically and wholly. How to create a community of learners in a multilingual classroom Here are five ways you can turn your multilingual classroom of students into a community of learners. 1.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Jared Ten Brink, a doctoral student in education at the University of Michigan, is an enrolled member of the Nottawaseppi Huron Band of the Potawatomi. He lives a two-and-a-half hour drive from the tribe’s reservation, which makes it hard for him to help his two young kids learn about their Native heritage. As a former science teacher and instructional coach, though, he was looking for a way to deliver the teachings of tribal elders to a broader audience via distance education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Samantha, 11, asks her seventh grade teacher’s permission to leave the classroom each time the subject of climate change comes up. Samantha, from a small town in Massachusetts, sees stories about climate change on social media and in the news. She has asked her family about it, and while not wanting to scare her, they acknowledge the disastrous impact that climate change is increasingly having on our planet , including the connection between Earth’s rising temperatures and the increase in extrem

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Did you know that New York State has nearly 800 public school districts? (Source: nysed.gov ). This ranks New York in the top 10 states with the highest number of school districts per state (Source: nces.ed.gov ). Within those districts exist some of the largest and smallest in the country. In a small village between the Shawangunk Ridge and the Catskill Mountains, Ellenville Central School District (CSD) serves 1,475 students in seven different communities.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The post How School Districts are Integrating Generative AI into their Policies appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

When the federal government released its revised edtech plan last month, it was laying down its hope for a future that delivers on effective instruction for students. The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. January’s update was published alongside guidance concerning the use of technology for helping students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

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. Students at Bessemer Elementary School don’t have to go far to see a doctor. If they’re feeling sick, they can walk in to the school’s health clinic, log on to a computer, and connect with a pediatrician or a family medicine provider.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 28, 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 Liz Prather about the pressure of the teacher shortage and how we can support teachers who come to education through alternative certification.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The post Growth from Within: A Thriving Teacher Residency Model in Rural California appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Envision hosting a home movie night where each friend arrives with a different set of technology relics: laser discs, VHS tapes, Betamax and even physical slides. To add to the complexity, everyone brings media files in a variety of formats, such as.m4a,mov, and.wma. The devices, equipped with various players and connectors like VGA, HDMI and Bluetooth, create a chaotic jumble of hardware incompatibility.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

When I was 11, my younger sister Hanna suffered a complication during a routine surgery. She was unable to breathe for 15 minutes and faced months of recovery that would keep her at home. As a family, we wanted to spend as much time with her as possible throughout her recovery, which meant reconsidering my traditional elementaryschool schedule. Supporting Hanna was just one reason why my family and I decided I would enroll in a tuition-free online charter school program beginning in fifth grade

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Recent discoveries 1 of rock art and cave paintings in the caves of Patagonia, Argentina, challenge previous notions about the antiquity of rock art in the region. Dating back to the late Holocene epoch, approximately 8,200 years ago, these ancient paintings provide insights into the cultural heritage of South America's early inhabitants. Archaeologists discovered certain motifs in Patagonia, Argentina, dating back more than 8,000 years ago.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The following is an adapted excerpt from Andrea Honigsfeld’s forthcoming Growing Language and Literacy: Strategies for Secondary Multilingual Learners, Grades 6-12.

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Dr. Preece

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

With the teacher recruitment offering worrying times for schools and ITE providers alike , it’s already quite common – and likely to become more important – that HoDs and Departments have a considered approach to supporting non-specialists with teaching in Geography. It’s probably wise to focus this on supporting at KS3 in the first instance – if you are having non-specialists delivering KS4 or above, then it might be a different set of conversations!

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TCI

MARCH 1, 2024

Geography education plays a pivotal role in cultivating global awareness and critical thinking. At TCI, we believe that geography class should be an immersive experience where students see the world through a geographer’s eyes. The much-loved Geography Alive! Regions and People program is coming out with a new edition in 2024 that includes new features and elevates old favorites, such as the Mapping Labs and Global Connection activities.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

University of Wyoming anthropologists have unearthed one of the earliest circular plazas in Andean South America at the Callacpuma archaeological site in Peru's Cajamarca Basin. Led by Associate Professor Jason Toohey and Professor Melissa Murphy, their research 1 sheds light on monumental megalithic architecture dating back approximately 4,750 years.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 1, 2024

Despite the fact that our current high school math curriculum is often outdated and not preparing students for the current societal and workplace realities, change is slow to come. Today, we hear from Steve Leinwand and Eric Milou, longtime champions of high school math instruction reform and authors of Invigorating High School Math.

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Education Week - Social Studies

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

IB programs offer students college credit in high school and advanced learning environments.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

A poet-anthropologist from India recalls a checkpoint encounter in Sri Lanka, just months after the Easter Sunday bombings. “08.03.2019” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽ Check post breaks reverie of a lulling, serpentine journey entwined with tea hills.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Recently, a storm brewed in the scientific community following the publication of a monumental paper in Nature 1 , detailing the findings of the All of Us study—a massive U.S. health research endeavor aimed at capturing the genetic diversity of people across the nation. While lauded for its ambition and scope, the paper faced significant scrutiny over a key figure depicting patterns of relatedness among nearly 250,000 study volunteers.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

MARCH 1, 2024

Drafting your constitution is one of the first must-do tasks of creating a student council. You absolutely need one. If your council already exists but doesn’t have one, or the existing one is severely lacking, clear the calendar to write it. A constitution is what makes the work the council does legitimate. It also helps you mitigate crises because your constitution gives you clear language on addressing situations like removing an officer or dealing with a micro-managing principal.

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

One of the final ERASMUS+ projects I took part in before Brexit ended this wonderful opportunity for personal and professional development for all UK teachers, was the D3 (Developing Digital Data Literacy) Earlier today, Karl Donert posted that EUROGEO is proud to have been awarded the Erasmus Plus quality label by the Flemish National Agency for the work undertaken in the D3 Project (Developing Digital Data literacy) #Eposvzw Find out more [link]

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In the news EdWeek recently published a Spotlight on Artificial Intelligence (AI) in education, featuring news and insights on how AI is impacting and transforming education. The reporting highlights the necessity for teachers to integrate AI into their teaching methods. Additionally, underscored throughout the reporting is the need for educational systems and policymakers to adapt to the rapid advancements in AI technology, ensuring that both teachers and students are equipped with the necessar

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Studies Weekly Spotlight: Texas Teacher Shares Passion for Nonfiction Jan. 14, 2021 • Studies Weekly Sandra Bradshaw, a second-grade teacher in Texas, is in the education field because she wants to positively impact students’ lives. “When students show a true understanding of the concepts being taught and topics being discussed, then I am thrilled for their discoveries and personal connections,” she said in a recent interview.

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O-Level Geography

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

What is CCUS? How does the Equatic process tap on the ocean's ability to store carbon dioxide? How does electrolysis break down water into its carbon negative hydrogen and oxygen constituents? How can the byproducts be used?

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