A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Effective leadership is not just about setting goals, improving pedagogy , and making decisions; it's also about managing relationships and resolving conflicts. Adaptability, inspiring trust, and leveraging an empathetic lens are crucial elements for a positive resolution (Kouzes & Posner, 2017; Goleman, 1988; Tannenbaum & Schmidt, 1973). As a leader, your ability to defuse the situation and restore calm can have a profound impact on the learning environment in your school or district.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

Listen to the interview with Jocelyn Greene: Sponsored by EVERFI and The Wired Classroom Picture this: A group of students stands in front of the class taking turns speaking confidently about the content they’ve been studying. But they’re not just kids anymore; they are news anchors, talk show hosts, or curators at an art gallery. They are playing “as if” they are inside the locations in their literature or science.

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Thrive in Grade Five

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Can anyone become President of the United States? When kids are asked what they want to be when they grow up, you’ll hear at least a few say that they want to become President. That’s a great aspiration to have, but the founding fathers included guidelines in the Constitution detailing the requirements for presidential candidates. Before we dive in, I’d love to share the Election 2024 Map that I’m using with my students.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

For better or for worse, visual information is the new internet, and infographics are pioneers in mashing information and images together in a way that hopefully tells a story, provides utility, or both. You need a few basic ‘things’ to create infographics. 1. A tool that works (below, we have eight ) 2. Reliable data sources 3. Something to say (that’s up to you) Now, to create quality infographics is a bit more involved, but itself can be reduced to practice and observation

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

Are your government students excited for the upcoming election? I’m sure they are full of opinions and ready to discuss their thoughts with the class! This will definitely be an exciting election year. So, it is crucial to teach students about the voting process and its importance to our democracy. When teaching voting in the social studies classroom, students need to be civically engaged to understand how voting is essential to our democracy.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The post The Transformative Impact of Challenge Based Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

When producers for a popular Netflix series sought a permit to film on public lands in the U.S. Southwest, many Native leaders objected. A Hopi tribal official, Stewart B. Koyiyumptewa, shares his views. ✽ In early 2024, a controversy swirled around filming for the Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse in the Grand Canyon and Chaco Canyon in the U.S. Southwest.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

A student’s view of PS2 Pal, the AI tutor used in a learning experiment inside Harvard’s physics department. (Screenshot courtesy of Gregory Kestin) We are still in the early days of understanding the promise and peril of using generative AI in education. Very few researchers have evaluated whether students are benefiting, and one well-designed study showed that using ChatGPT for math actually harmed student achievement.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. This is the first in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Please watch this short film Ordinary Treasures: Objects from Home first then progress to read our piece. This short film co-created by Dublin City University Irish Refugee Network asks the simple question, “If you had to leave home, what one object would you bring with you? “ Introduction: Objects in the Maelstrom “Every object tells a story if you know how to read it.” Henry Ford In the heart of Dublin City University, a room hums with the energy of co-creation and laughter

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Four years ago this month, one of the most devastating wildfires in Oregon’s history erupted across the southern portion of the state. As the COVID pandemic raged, leaving children out of schools and away from regular routines and social interactions, the fire only magnified the disruption. It destroyed thousands of homes in the agricultural towns that make up the Phoenix-Talent School District, displacing hundreds of families and closing as many businesses.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

A Lesson from the Founders for Constitution Day Americans in our day think “transparency” in government essential to its efficient and wholesome operation. The delegates to the Constitutional Convention did not entirely agree. They understood that secrecy encourages careful deliberation and compromise in the political arena. Most of the delegates to the Constitutional Convention understood how precariously their new nation stood together, and how important it was to deliberate and compromise dur

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

The post Bridging the Literacy Gap: 4 Resources to Boost Adult Literacy for Social Mobility appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Young people experiencing family instability and trauma are at increased risk for precarious living situations and interrupted educational experiences. And students who leave school before graduation are considerably more likely to experience homelessness and less likely to enroll in college. By failing to systematically and preemptively address youth homelessness through our schools, we are increasing the chances of hundreds of thousands of young people becoming and remaining homeless.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

ST. PAUL, Minn. — At the end of each school year at Central High School, seniors grab a paint pen and write their post-graduation plans on a glass wall outside the counseling office. For many, that means announcing what college they’ve enrolled in. But the goal is to celebrate whatever path students are choosing, whether at a college or not. “We have a few people that are going to trade school, we have a few people that are going to the military, a few people who wrote ‘still deciding,’” said Li

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

We are delighted to announce the winners of our annual book prize for 2021 and 2022.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 14, 2024

A recent discovery 1 of Neanderthal remains in a cave in southern France has reignited debate about the reasons behind the extinction of Neanderthals approximately 40,000 years ago. While researchers have long speculated about various factors, a new study from the Globe Institute at the University of Copenhagen provides significant evidence supporting the theory that Neanderthals may have vanished due to their isolated social structures and lack of genetic diversity.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the United States today, 9 out of 10 school superintendents are white and two-thirds are white men. When you think of a typical superintendent, the person you imagine probably doesn’t look like me. As a Latina, my leadership isn’t often expected, nor is it always welcome. Institutional biases block career advancement for educators of color , who constitute only 1 in 5 U.S. teachers and principals.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

College students around the world have deep-seated fears, if not despair about the existential threat of climate change — fears they may have harbored since childhood. As the frequency of severe weather events increases and the Earth’s temperature inches upward, emotions have intensified for a lot of students in the United States and it turns out that many keep their concerns about living on a warming planet to themselves.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

“I came to theory desperate, wanting to comprehend—to grasp what was happening around and within me.” – bell hooks From January to May 2024, I taught a class that could have been blocked at my previous institution in Florida—if it wasn’t potentially illegal. The class? Intersectional Anthropology. I’ll start with a confession: I am not a cultural anthropologist.

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Maitri Learning

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

I had such a wonderful time with the parent and school community at Orion Montessori last week. We met for 90 minutes to look at how the way we parent can nurture strong brain development from infancy through adolescence. I met Shriee Srinivas, Orion's founder and CEO, back in 2018 when she was a student in the Neuroscience of Learning course at Harvard.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This week, I wanted to highlight our continuing early ed math coverage by talking to Joe Hong, who wrote a story about a Milwaukee school district trying to revive methods it used for math instruction a decade ago. Our conversation below has been lightly edited for length and clarity. A small group of teachers in Milwaukee are trying to return to math strategies the district used from 2004-2014.

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Studies Weekly

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

5 Classroom Management Tips for Elementary Teachers Sep 17, 2024 • by Studies Weekly Classroom management is such a big part of teaching and has become more critical as students readjust to post-pandemic in-person learning. As a former kindergarten teacher, I want to share five teacher tips that can help you navigate tricky behaviors that may arise.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

The post A Walk Down Memory Lane: 10 Years of Research on Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting is long associated with endeavors to unearth concealed artifacts, illustrated best by buried troves of gold left behind by past communities. Cryptic signs leading to invaluable treasures have inspired hunters to go on often dangerous quests to retrieve them. Hoping to unearth artifacts of long-gone communities, treasure hunters, we are told, descend into harrowing caves with foul air, wander into thick forests, or dig for days—all to get rich quickly.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. A team of researchers from the University of Cape Town and the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology has reconstructed the genomes of 13 individuals who lived between 1,300 and 10,000 years ago, revealing crucial insights into human migrations and population stability in souther

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Moler's Musing

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I’ve been slammed lately with so much going on—coaching tennis, adjusting to a new school, juggling presentations, and life in general. Honestly, I’ve been feeling like a first-year teacher again! Between managing the chaos of lesson planning, keeping up with my students, and coaching, it’s been a whirlwind. With everything happening, I decided to take my weekly activities, add a quick description, and let AI handle the blog writing.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Two superintendents share their perspectives on priorities, aspirations, and vision for the coming school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

This story is a collaboration between Grist and High Country News and is reprinted with permission. On a wet spring day in June, fog shrouded the Mission Mountains on the Flathead Indian Reservation in northwest Montana. Silver beads of rain clung to blades of grass and purple lupine. On a ridge overlooking St. Mary’s Lake in the southeastern corner of the reservation, the land was mostly cleared of trees after state-managed logging operations.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Recent research 1 led by Flinders University reveals that Paleolithic hunter-gatherers on the Mediterranean island of Cyprus were responsible for the extinction of two endemic megafauna species: the dwarf hippopotamus ( Phanourios minor ) and the dwarf elephant ( Palaeoloxodon cypriotes ). These extinctions occurred within a span of less than 1,000 years, driven by hunting practices and the environmental impacts of the early human settlers on the island.

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Becoming a History Teacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com Most beginning teachers are very concerned about what they should wear on their first day at their school placement. Do they need a tie? Are these shoes (imagine a comfy formal shoe with echoes of trainer) ok? Do tattoos need to be covered, and piercings removed?Why is this one of their primary concerns? Because they want to make a good impression and appear professional and, in their mind, professionalism is most often associated with good timekeeping, attendance an

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

I was a guest on The Sausage of Science podcast with Dr. Chris Lynn, discussing my research. Listen below.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

This is an edition of our climate change and education newsletter. Sign up here. 109 on the first day of school? That was the case this year in Palm Springs, California, where parent Cyd Detiege has been campaigning to delay the start of the school year because of extreme heat. Palm Springs Unified District officials haven’t budged, but administrators elsewhere in the country are shifting school calendars to keep kids from commuting to school in high heat and learning in sweltering classrooms, a

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

Recent archaeological findings suggest that the Bronze Age board game, Hounds and Jackals—also known as Fifty-Eight Holes—may have originated not in Egypt, as previously believed, but in Asia. A version of the game board, discovered in Azerbaijan, could predate the Egyptian artifacts, raising new questions about the game’s true origins.

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Michael Dukakis could have been the first Greek-American president. But in November 1988, the then-governor of Massachusetts lost the election to George Bush Sr. Perhaps the U.S. wasn’t ready yet for a commander in chief with an exotic surname and non-European heritage (Dukakis’ father was born in a small town on the coast of Asia Minor, now part of Turkey).

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Sapiens

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In a dystopian short story, an anthropologist imagines an alternate world in which Kashmiris are forbidden to dream. Republished by permission from English Language Notes , 61(2): 15–18. Copyright 2023, Regents of the University of Colorado. All rights reserved. ✽ I SEE THE DEAD body of the young boy in my head. After the word got out that he had begun dreaming the military arrested and disappeared him.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Through a convening of educators and community organizations, new education resources for students spotlight local histories in engaging new formats, telling stories from right in their own backyards

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