A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 23, 2024

There is a saying out there that I hear often: learning is learning. While I don’t discount this view, I firmly believe there is so much to it at the individual level. Preferences and experiences play a significant role in how we all learn, and interests do as well. When asked to do the same thing at the same time in the same way, it is pretty much a fact that a few people will thrive, some will get by, and others will struggle.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

Before we think about instructional coaching, let’s talk about teaching. It’s clear from just spending a short time reading statements from politicians, reports in the media, or discourse on social media that teaching also has something of a PR problem. Part of the issue is that few people outside of the teaching profession seem to really understand just how complex and challenging teaching is (see more on this here ).

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 28, 2024

Edsurge just published a new story by Jeffery R. Young about new features of AI that will require educators to make even more adjustments. First, Open AI is making its latest generation of Chatbot free to anyone. Second, new tools make it easier for students to skip notetaking in class. For example, one tool allows students to simply record a teacher's lecture.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2024

The post Lift Every Voice in Tech: Black Talent Share How to Transform the Tech Industry appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

ALBANY, Ore. – It’s 7:15 on a cold gray Monday morning in May at Linn-Benton Community College in northwestern Oregon. Math professor Michael Lopez, in a hoodie and jeans, a tape measure on his belt, paces in front of the 14 students in his “math for welders” class. “I’m your OSHA inspector,” he says. “Three sixteenths of an inch difference, you’re in violation.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

While her daughter naps, Bridget Collins spends an hour reviewing and role-playing activities with her home visitor, Amanda Pedlar, in the front room of her house in San Antonio, Texas. This week, the pair starts by discussing 3-year-old Brook’s burgeoning curiosity. Pedlar notes that it’s normal, at this stage of development, for Brook to ask “Why?

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Strange Maps

JUNE 24, 2024

Here are four things about hurricanes that you may not know. One: They’re the local name of a global phenomenon. Large tropical storms in the western part of the Pacific Ocean are called typhoons. In the Indian Ocean, they’re called cyclones. In the North Atlantic or the eastern part of the Pacific, they’re hurricanes. The term “tropical cyclones” is often used as a catch-all term.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2024

CENTRAL FALLS, R.I. — When Natalia Molina began teaching her second grade students word problems earlier this school year, every lesson felt difficult. Most students were stymied by problems such as: “Sally went shopping. She spent $86 on groceries and $39 on clothing. How much more did Sally spend on groceries than on clothing?” Both Molina, a first-year teacher, and her students had been trained to tackle word problems by zeroing in on key words like “and,” “more” and “total” — a simplistic ap

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ED Surge

JUNE 26, 2024

While summer is the busiest time of year for military families to transition to their next duty station, throughout the school year, they move from state to state, and sometimes even across the world. Even after 16 years of being married to the military, my family learned that my husband would be moving in an unaccompanied permanent change of station for a year overseas.

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Education Elements

JUNE 25, 2024

Why is change so hard? Navigating change in schools isn't just a leadership challenge—it's a personal journey for every educator and administrator involved. Educators often find themselves adapting to new standards, implementing new initiatives, or integrating innovative tech, which can feel like steering a ship through stormy seas. In this blog, we will dive into some of the reasons why people and organizations are resistant to change and what we can do to effectively manage large-scale change

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 28, 2024

Planning ahead This two-year plan is for a combined HL/SL class. It will also work if you are lucky enough to teach your HL and SL students separately. Tomorrow I will provide a one-year plan for teaching SL students. Though the IB Diploma psychology is recommended as a two-year course , I know that some teachers have to fit it into one year! The recommended teaching hours from the subject brief are: This equates to about 3 hours a week for SL over two years and around 5 hours for HL.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2024

Since the release of ChatGPT in November 2022, educators have pondered its implications for education. Some have leaned toward apocalyptic projections about the end of learning, while others remain cautiously optimistic. My students took longer than I expected to discover generative AI. When I asked them about ChatGPT in February 2023, many had never heard of it.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

The movement to keep smartphones out of schools is gaining momentum. Just last week, the nation’s second-largest public school system, Los Angeles Unified School District, voted to ban smartphones starting in January, citing adverse health risks of social media for kids. And the U.S. Surgeon General, Vivek Murthy, published an op-ed in The New York Times calling for warning labels on social media systems, saying “the mental health crisis among young people is an emergency.

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Heinemann Blog

JUNE 27, 2024

Classrooms need to be safe and welcoming spaces for all children, including children and teens who identify as LGBTQ+. And teachers need to have all the tools to nurture and support all learners and build a classroom community that is inclusive and inviting. To that end, we have pulled together resources to educate ourselves, our classrooms, and our school communities to better support our LGBTQ+ students and colleagues.

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Psychology Sorted

JUNE 25, 2024

In case you hadn’t heard, there’s a new IB Diploma psychology curriculum coming soon. All Year 1 Diploma psychology students will be studying it from September 2025. The new psychology guide won’t be published until Feb/March 2025, but teachers don’t need to wait till then to start preparing. The subject brief in the public area of the IB website can help you get started.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 24, 2024

One brain study, published in May 2024, detected different electrical activity in the brain after students had read a passage on paper, compared with screens. Credit: Getty Images Studies show that students of all ages, from elementary school to college, tend to absorb more when they’re reading on paper rather than screens. The advantage for paper is a small one, but it’s been replicated in dozens of laboratory experiments , particularly when students are reading about science or other nonfictio

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ED Surge

JUNE 28, 2024

A couple of years ago, as schools that had been forced to go virtual due to the coronavirus pandemic began to bring students back on campus, Pedro Olvera noticed that his phone started ringing more. Olvera spent much of his career as a school psychologist in Santa Ana Unified School District, just a stone’s throw from Disneyland, where about 40 percent of students are English learners who speak Spanish.

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Heinemann Blog

JUNE 24, 2024

How can I fit poetry into my busy classroom schedule? And how do I even introduce poetry to students?

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Teaching American History

JUNE 25, 2024

On this date (June 25 th ) in 1929, President Herbert Hoover signed the Boulder Canyon Project Act of 1928, authorizing construction by the federal government of a gigantic dam on the Colorado River, just west of the Grand Canyon. The dam, which would eventually be named after Hoover, took five years to complete, at a then unprecedented cost of $49 million (about $900 million today).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Growing up in an immigrant family, I was painfully aware of the sacrifices my parents made for me to be educated in the United States. Their love and support were boundless, embodied by their long hours of work and their emphasis on education from an early age. One day, I remember taking it upon myself to try to give them the best of everything by chasing after the golden ticket to success: getting into an elite college.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 27, 2024

The post Opportunities for OpenSciEd: Identifying Practitioner Needs for Equitable Implementation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 28, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 has revealed that a Neanderthal child with Down’s syndrome survived until at least the age of six, providing the earliest-known evidence of the genetic condition and hinting at compassionate caregiving among Neanderthals. This discovery offers profound insights into the social dynamics and empathy within Neanderthal communities.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

JUNE 26, 2024

Meet the Tennessee educator ensuring a sense of belonging in her classroom and supporting newcomer immigrant students and their families in her rural Appalachian community

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2024

What happened: The D.C. Council maintained funding for the Early Childhood Educator Pay Equity Fund, the nation’s first publicly funded program intended to raise the pay of child care workers in the district and provide them with free or low-cost health insurance. The back story : In the face of a $700 million budget shortfall, D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser proposed cutting the $87 million program to replenish the city’s diminished reserve fund.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 25, 2024

As someone who regularly works with teachers on topics like blended learning, Universal Design for Learning (UDL), and student-led learning, one recurring theme I encounter is control. There’s a pervasive fear among educators when it comes to releasing control and allowing students to take more ownership and responsibility for their learning. This begs the question: Why don’t we trust our students?

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Education Week - Social Studies

JUNE 27, 2024

Learning civics can begin in kindergarten with the simple understanding that we are all part of a community. Here’s what that looks like.

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Heinemann Blog

JUNE 26, 2024

The popular Office Hours webinar series from Lucy Calkins and the TCRWP will resume on February 6th, 4:00–5:00 PM (ET). In these interactive webinars, which will occur on the first Thursday of the month from 4:00–5:00 pm (Eastern Time), Lucy and her TCRWP colleagues will respond to questions you pose live.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2024

Imagine being a district leader tasked with selecting the ideal educational technology tools from a sea of thousands of options. The stakes are high: The right choice can transform classrooms, while the wrong one can waste precious resources. How do you decide? At the heart of this challenge is understanding how districts approach their edtech procurement decisions.

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Women's History Network

JUNE 24, 2024

Please note that this article contains content that may be sensitive to readers with herpetophobi In the last decade of the nineteenth century, the British public was reportedly enthralled by a snake charmer’s performances. She was“richly attired in picturesque Hindoo costume, toyed with huge snakes, serpents, and boa-constrictors in a manner which held lookers-on spellbound”.

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Society for Classical Studies

JUNE 28, 2024

In Memoriam: David Konstan kskordal Fri, 06/28/2024 - 08:35 Image David Konstan: November 1, 1940 – May 2, 2024 [link] The Society for Classical Studies is deeply saddened by the recent loss of David Konstan, who passed away Thursday, May 2, 2024. He served as President of the SCS (then named the American Philological Association) in 1999, and he was the recipient of the Charles J.

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Living Geography

JUNE 27, 2024

A few weeks ago I was reminded of the Atomik spirit which was distilled from fruit found within the exclusion zone at Chernobyl. I have long had a fascination with this place, and had almost got to the point of organising a visit several times - it seems unlikely to ever happen now. There was a bottle and a wooden box in which it can be delivered and I now have a bottle to sip on special occasions, and savour the radioactive fruit.

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Anthropology News

JUNE 27, 2024

1935-2023 David C. Grove, 1935-2023 David C. Grove, Jubilee Professor of Anthropology Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, and Courtesy Professor of Anthropology at the University of Florida, passed away on May 24, 2023, at the age of 87 after a long illness. His career trajectory focused on the archaeology of complex societies in central Mexico c. 1000–500 BC in the Formative (Preclassic) period.

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Pedagogy and Formation

JUNE 28, 2024

In this post I want to address what I see as the tension for people of faith between three well known concepts, 'Open-mindedness', 'Critical thinking' and 'Indoctrination'. My specific focus will be on how Christian schools deal with them. For some of my readers who identify with other faiths, what I have to say has equal relevance to you too. Educating the whole child, involves many things, but the role of faith in their (and our) lives must be central and obvious.

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Life and Landscapes

JUNE 27, 2024

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Living Geography

JUNE 27, 2024

The Wicked Leeks newsletter is well worth subscribing to. A recent issue explored the Fake farms which are used by some supermarkets to market fruit and vegetables. Nick Eason talked about the problems with this sort of marketing. It could be a mass-produced tomato from an unsustainable, plastic-covered, Spanish holding, or intensively reared, factory-farmed meat that’s polluting British rivers.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 26, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by the University of Granada (UGR) uncovers how early Homo sapiens influenced the establishment of Bonelli's eagles in the Mediterranean. This research highlights the complex interplay between human activity and avian competition, revealing that while early human presence facilitated Bonelli's eagles' establishment, modern human activities now threaten their survival.

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Women's History Network

JUNE 26, 2024

One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’ To sign up for the seminar please visit the following paper: sign up here We hope to see as […]

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