A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

" In the absence of knowledge, assumptions fill the void—where clarity is lacking, rumors take root, and uncertainty breeds misdirection. " - Eric Sheninger Imagine trying to navigate a maze blindfolded, with no idea where you're going or what obstacles lie ahead. Frustrating, right? Now, picture having a leader who hands you the map, explains the terrain, and guides you step by step.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada. Archaeology is a hands-on discipline, but it is very difficult to get 200 students doing anything archaeological in a large lecture hall. When I had small-group tutorials for my courses, students took part in what has become a relatively widely used garbology exercise (Google will turn up several variations of this).

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Information and Communication Overloading (ICO) and “Mindful Media” contributed by Dr. Domenico Meschino In today’s digital age, children are immersed in many online activities that shape their daily lives. Social media has become integral to their social landscape, with platforms like YouTube capturing their attention. These platforms serve as virtual gathering places where children connect with friends, share photos and videos, and express themselves through posts and stories

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

In August, more than 300 students started the school year in the first traditional school run directly by the New Orleans school district since 2019. It’s the first time the district has opened its own school since Hurricane Katrina swept through the city nearly two decades ago. The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto and Susannah Clinker, PhD Student, University of Toronto The Schreiber Wood Project (SWP) field school, led by Professor Michael Brand with assistance from Dr. Trevor Orchard takes place on lands once owned by the Schreiber family, settlers from England who acquired the land in the mid-19th century. This land later became the northern end of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus in the Greater Toronto Area.

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Introduction This week in the classroom was packed with diverse activities and learning experiences. Here’s a quick overview of what we covered: Concluded our unit on Native Americans in Ohio Held a commemorative lesson on 9/11 Began a new unit on European exploration Utilized various EduProtocols and tech tools including Gimkit, Blooket, and Storyfile Each day brought its own set of challenges and opportunities as we worked through these topics and experimented with different teaching met

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The pandemic disrupted education in previously unimaginable ways. It limited testing and pushed schools toward remote learning and easier assignments, along with softer grading and a more relaxed attitude around attendance. These accommodations were supposed to be short-term, but most are still with us and are having a negative impact on students. This needs to change.

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Ben Newmark

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

AI is stalking the world for problems it can present itself as the solution to – problems you did not even know you had. It will organise our calendars and write emails to our bosses and employees. AI will paint our pictures and script our film. It will write our poetry and letters to our lovers. For teachers it brings great news too. AI can plan your lessons – saving you time and easing your workload.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

As children across the United States return to school, playground equipment like jungle gyms and monkey bars once again take center stage. While these fixtures have been playground staples since the 1920s, they have also become symbols of parental concern due to the potential for injuries. Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

After a 60-year haitus, an Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna was seen in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. A poet-anthropologist reflects on the echidna’s message through the storied lens of the people of Yongsu Sapari. ✽ As a parent of a young child who loves animals, I find myself speaking with her about species extinction and conservation fairly often.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

What is the instructional leadership gap and how does it affect the learning outcomes of our students? I recently sat down with three district leaders, Sean Bulson, Superintendent, Hartford, (MD) Public Schools, Jerry Boyd, Superintendent of Washington County (TN) Schools, and Portia Slaughter, Chief Academic Officer at Harrisburg City (PA) School District to discuss these critical questions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

With five children aged 11 to 24, Cyd Detiege has sent her kids to Palm Springs Unified School District in Southern California for nearly two decades. “It’s gotten hotter,” she said, noting record-breaking temperatures in the desert city, which hit an all-time high of 124 degrees this July. The first day of school in Palm Springs this year was August 7, when temperatures reached 109 degrees.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. Just look on popular Facebook groups and Reddit threads for tips on getting into selective colleges, and you’ll likely find posts recommending that students participate in intensive research or compete in science competitions as a way to stand out on college applications.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. She would help students gain political efficacy—the knowledge and confidence they need to make their voices count in our political system. Once she found her calling, colleagues helped her make her way.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024. Organized by Sequoia Miller and Dame Odundo, the presentation was a transhistorical and transcultural journey through Odundo’s methodology and approach to makin

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The interbreeding of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals is a well-established fact, revealing a fascinating chapter in human evolution. While previous studies have focused on when these encounters occurred, recent research has turned its attention to where these interspecies interactions took place. New evidence 1 now suggests a specific geographic location where these two species met and interbred: the Zagros Mountains.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Integrating technology into the classroom involves more than just adding gadgets and software; it’s about creating a dynamic learning environment where students are actively engaged and teachers can teach more effectively. This journey requires collaboration among technology teams, instructional coaches and educators. Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology t

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today? I ask myself this question in the mirror of my undergraduate dorm room. Not aloud, of course. That would defeat the whole point. The answer isn’t for me. I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

Meetings are where people come together in time and space. We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. People who have experienced state torture while in prison often use meetings to share their stories with those who have no such experiences. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In a very groundbreaking, surprising study 1 , researchers have revealed that European Neanderthals consisted of at least two distinct populations, evolving in isolation for tens of thousands of years. Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

“When I present myself in front of students in a positive emotional state, I can increase student cognition, effort and long-term retention of information, Dr. Timothy Kanold excitedly shares. “The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The post Announcing the Launch of the HP AI Academy: Empowering Educators with Generative AI appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Content warning: this blog post includes discussions of eugenics and racism which some readers may find upsetting.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

For centuries, the narrative of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been steeped in stories of environmental collapse and societal downfall. The prevailing theory, widely believed by historians and ecologists alike, suggested that the ancient Rapa Nui people exhausted their natural resources to build massive stone statues, leading to a population crash. This view, largely based on reports from European explorers in the 18th century, painted a grim picture of ecological disaster as the island’s on

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Paul Carr was just one semester shy of finishing his degree at Morehouse College when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. So he decided to stop out, to get a job to support his budding family. He told himself he’d go back soon to finish. That was more than 25 years ago. Carr always intended to return. In fact, he made a promise to his father on his deathbed that he would finish his college degree.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The post 5 Research-Backed Strategies to Help Learners Build Spatial Skills appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

The second of my Worldly Wednesdays was a little more successful in terms of getting involved with supporting other geographers. I was in early, and spent the morning with Hermione Miao. I first me her when she had travelled to study at UCL with Professor David Lambert and had become involved in the GeoCapabilities project, which I had also become part of.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

A recent study, published on September 3, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Complex Systems 1 , presents groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms driving social evolution. The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

One of the country’s richest nonprofits focused on online education has been giving out grants for more than a year. But so far, the group, known as Axim Collaborative, has done so slowly — and pretty quietly. “There has been little buzz about them in digital learning circles,” says Russ Poulin, executive director of WCET, a nonprofit focused on digital learning in higher education.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

In the news As reported in the August issue of Language Magazine , a groundbreaking partnership between Digital Promise and Edthena is revolutionizing how teachers implement Science of Reading best practices. Key highlights of this collaboration include: The AI Coach Platform: Edthena’s AI Coach platform offers teachers personalized, on-demand coaching through interactive conversations and guided action planning.

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A nice reminder of the need to exercise your geographical lens on a daily basis from David Rogers I'm always reminded of Massey's writing when walking down the high street. I've heard at least five different languages, as well as the links around the world. We don't have to go far to see everyday geography and provide fieldwork opportunity pic.twitter.com/y556bjug3r — David Rogers (@davidErogers) September 8, 2024 Reminds me of an activity I do called GlobELY connected where students hunt out gl

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

CFP: Philomathes: An Online Journal of Undergraduate Research in Classics kskordal Tue, 09/10/2024 - 10:04 Image The Classics program at Austin Peay State University, in Clarksville TN, USA, is pleased to invite submissions for the ninth volume of Philomathes: An Online Journal of Undergraduate Research in Classics. This refereed on-line journal publishes original research projects carried out by undergraduate students in any area of Classics: linguistics, literature, art history, archaeology, c

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Students of History

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

If you’re a secondary teacher, you know how important student motivation is. It’s a long school year and often students more than have the ability to succeed but their motivation comes and goes. I never saw that more than in teaching vocabulary. Just mentioning the word “vocabulary” seemed to make my students’ eyes roll and glaze over.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

The study of ancient DNA has revolutionized our understanding of human history, migration patterns, and evolutionary biology. However, the rapid advancements in this field have also brought forth ethical dilemmas, particularly concerning the treatment of ancient human remains and the potential impact of genetic findings on living communities. In response to these concerns, a team of researchers, led by Yale paleoanthropologist Jessica Thompson, has proposed a set of guidelines aimed at ensuring

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Living Geography

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A new opportunity has been developed by the GA. The Scholar programme is an eight week online course. It is led by Becky Kitchen and the course fee includes a whole range of additional benefits including GA membership and delegate fees for the 2025 GA Conference at Oxford Brookes University. This eight-week online course is designed for geography trainees who haven’t previously studied a geography (or a similar) degree.

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ShortCutsTV

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

Designed to enhance the teaching of A-level Sociology, an annual subscription to the Film Club gives you unlimited access to all of our Sociology films (there’s currently around 30 of them). Membership costs just £25+VAT per year and our free 30-day trial gives you complete access to all the films in the library.

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