A Principal's Reflections

MAY 12, 2024

While I enjoy keynoting and facilitating workshops, it is through a coaching lens that I get to see how teachers and administrators are implementing innovative learning strategies with fidelity. Through their actions, I can collect evidence to show efficacy while curating exemplars I can share in my presentations. No matter where I go, I get the same message from educators on their desire for practical strategies.

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TeachThought

MAY 16, 2024

15 Reflection Strategies To Help Students Retain What You Just Taught Them by Terry Heick Reflection is a natural part of learning. We all think about new experiences–the camping on the car ride home, the mistakes made in a game, or the emotions felt while finishing a long-term project that’s taken months to complete. Below I’ve shared 15 strategies for students to reflect on their learning.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 13, 2024

Shifting from teacher-led to student-led learning requires that teachers equip students with the skills necessary to assume responsibility for specific learning activities in the classroom. It also necessates that teachers release some of the control in a lesson and trust that with the right scaffolding and support, students can drive the learning experience.

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Geography Education

MAY 14, 2024

“ GeoInquiries are short, standards-based inquiry activities for teaching map-based content found in commonly used textbooks. Each activity is designed using a common inquiry model and can be presented quickly from a single computer and projector or modified for students’ hands-on engagement. Collections of 15–20 activities per topic enhance your curriculum throughout the year.

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Passion for Social Studies

MAY 13, 2024

America is unique for many reasons. People can choose what they believe in, from cultures to religions. Additionally, people learn to compromise and work with others with different beliefs. All of this is part of political socialization. Essentially, this is the process where people develop their political knowledge, values, and ideology. This often begins in childhood and continues throughout one’s life.

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TeachThought

MAY 14, 2024

Embracing the Future of Social Work Through Online Education by TeachThought Staff The social work profession is on the cusp of a transformative era. Once viewed with skepticism, online education is rapidly becoming a powerful tool for expanding access to quality social work education and empowering the next generation of social workers. Let’s look at how online learning bridges the gap for aspiring social workers, fosters practical application in the virtual classroom and paves the way fo

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

The students were the last to know. On April 29 – just a week before finals – Wells College announced that it would close. The last-minute decision by the 156-year-old liberal arts college in upstate New York sent students rushing to find new colleges for the fall. And it threw newly accepted students, who had already put down deposits, into a frantic scramble to see if the colleges they had turned down would take them back.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2024

Micro-credentials can expand your personal and professional development, be combined to create a custom learning path, and can even kickstart a lifelong learning experience.

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Strange Maps

MAY 13, 2024

Imagine it’s 2050 and the old countries of Europe are gone. In their place are entities based not on history, language, or ethnicity, but on the type of renewable energy they’re best at producing. A centralized power grid redistributes these variously sourced types of energy throughout the continent to even out temporary gaps and seasonal imbalances.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Although state and local leaders are building comprehensive plans to increase the number of Black teachers, few plans include the recruitment of more Black principals, who play a critical role in Black teachers’ development. Only 10 percent of public school principals nationwide are Black , which helps explain why hiring and retaining Black teachers has been so problematic.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

STEM identity can last a lifetime and help students thrive in school, future careers and life. Inclusive STEM programs widen job opportunities for the growing technology sector, support students in building digital literacy skills and empower young people to become creators — not just consumers — of technology. Educators face the challenge of engaging students in STEM amidst limited resources.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2024

Learn more about the six core tenets of Inclusive Innovation R&D that are foundational for school and community-based innovation to emerge.

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 14, 2024

The 7th film in our Dynamic Learning Series designed to introduce students to a range of important ideas and skills related to the science of studying. The series combines both theoretical insights and practical demonstrations of how an understanding of study skills can enhance student exam performance.

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Psychology 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Seventy years ago this month, the Supreme Court handed down its landmark decision in Brown v. Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. The decision appeared to pave the way for equal educational opportunities for every child and integrated classrooms where students from all backgrounds could prepare to thrive in their communities, careers and lives.

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2024

In the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic, millions of children regularly miss elementary, middle and high school. Is the same pattern of absenteeism playing out at colleges, too? If so, what’s driving the trend? And what can professors and higher ed leaders do about it? To find out, EdSurge interviewed Terri Hasseler, a professor in the Department of History, Literature, and the Arts at Bryant University in Rhode Island.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

MAY 14, 2024

Eboo Patel, president and founder of Interfaith America, joins Raj Vinnakota for a Preamble conversation.

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ShortCutsTV

MAY 11, 2024

As with their Sociology counterpart, Lumen Learning also supply a range of Psychology PowerPoint Presentations to support their (free) online Psychology course and complement the equally-free Openstax Introduction to Psychology Textbook. If you’re not familiar with this particualr text it’s an example of a growing field called OER (Open Educational Resources).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Linda Brown was a third grader in Topeka, Kansas, when her father, Oliver Brown, tried to enroll her in the white public school four blocks from her home. Otherwise, she would have had to walk across railroad tracks to take a bus to attend the nearest all-Black one. When she was denied admission, Oliver Brown sued. The case, and four others from Delaware, the District of Columbia, South Carolina and Virginia were combined and made their way to the Supreme Court.

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Diane Ravitch

MAY 13, 2024

A few days ago, I joined a discussion with Dr. Tim Slekar and Dr. Johnny Lupinacci about the current state of public education. It was aired on their show “Busted Pencils,” which is dedicated to teachers, students, and public schools. We talked about charters, vouchers, testing, and how to get involved. Everyone can stand up for what they believe.

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Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2024

The post How Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Improved Its Educators’ Job Satisfaction and Career Trajectories appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

As you enter today's classrooms, it's clear: Technology isn't just a tool, it's the driving force behind vibrant communities, shaping how students learn and teachers connect. Many students have access to technology in their classrooms, but the true challenge lies in harnessing resources effectively to enhance learning and build stronger, more resilient communities.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Last week, I wrote about trends in school segregation in the 70 years since the Supreme Court’s landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. That data showed considerable progress in integrating schools but also some steps backward, especially since the 1990s in the nation’s biggest cities.

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Education Elements

MAY 14, 2024

Implementing personalized learning across an entire school district is an ambitious undertaking. It requires a dedicated investment of time and resources, but the potential benefits for student learning are undeniable. One of the biggest challenges is prioritizing thoughtful professional development for educators amid many competing priorities in districts.

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Women's History Network

MAY 13, 2024

Not long after the Korean War broke out in early 1950, calls for expressing socialist solidarity with North Korea appeared throughout the Second World.

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ED Surge

MAY 15, 2024

“You would make a great leader,” my principal said as I sat in his office. He had just approved my participation in a teacher leadership program. I shifted uncomfortably in my seat. I’ve never felt comfortable in the principal’s office — and this was no exception. “And you know, we are really in need of new principals.” By we , my principal meant the Department of Education, and by need , he was referring to the recent exodus of school administrators in the state of Hawai’i.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2024

Students at one New York university have a surprise awaiting them: an $8,000-a-year “academic excellence fee.” We have to ask: Isn’t academic excellence included in tuition? In fact, tuition is only part of the cost of college. Like car dealerships, schools are nickel-and-diming consumers with huge fees — fees for student activities, fees for athletics, fees for building maintenance, fees for libraries, even fees for graduation, the bills for which arrive just as students and their families thou

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All Things Pedagogical

MAY 11, 2024

This week I received a few emails about attempts to make conferences accessible after the fact. Some of these emails asked for folk to approach these emails in good faith, that they understood that what they were proposing was far from what folk have been telling them for a long time, but at least it was something right? I am going to be honest (because I am never anything but this, if you know me and the work that I do, and what I advocate for) that emails like this really upset me more than gi

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Anthropology.net

MAY 14, 2024

In the lush landscapes of Papua New Guinea, a land steeped in mystery and tradition, lies a genetic tapestry rich with the echoes of ancient human migrations and interbreeding. A recent study 1 sheds light on the unique genetic adaptations of Papua New Guineans, revealing how genes inherited from Denisovans, extinct human relatives, may play a crucial role in their immune response.

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ED Surge

MAY 14, 2024

ST. PAUL, Minn. — What do you want to be when you grow up? That’s a question long faced by high school students. But these days, students have access to far more information than in the past about what, specifically, they could do as a job after they graduate. And that is changing the way students are thinking about whether or not they want to go to college — or when they want to go.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

Tom Brunskill thought he wanted to be a corporate lawyer. Now, looking back, he thinks it may have had less to do with his actual skills and interests, and more to do with his devoted consumption of television dramas like Suits and Boston Legal. “I used that as my proxy for choosing a career in corporate law, which – shocker – is not a great reason to choose a career,” Brunskill said.

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Heinemann Blog

MAY 15, 2024

Teachers' biggest concerns with AI are the ethics. Using ChatGPT as an ally alongside student writing encourages honest and productive use of the tool.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2024

A bone, meticulously carved with 17 parallel incisions, offers a window into the ancient world of the Neanderthals. Discovered in Poland, this artifact challenges our understanding of their cognitive abilities and symbolic culture. Different views of a roughly 4-inches-long (10.6 centimeters) bear bone that has Neanderthal-made cut marks on it. (Image credit: T.

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ED Surge

MAY 17, 2024

With digital education platforms generating data on how millions of students are learning, they are also sitting on veritable information gold mines for researchers who are trying to improve education. An ethical and legal conundrum stands in the way: how to responsibly share that data without opening students up to the possibility of having their personal information exposed to outside parties.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2024

Jolene Hunt-Fleming did not hesitate nearly 13 years ago when her daughter asked for help with her newborn baby son. She knew her daughter, a single parent, needed full-time child care to finish school and work. Hunt-Fleming, who has worked for years as a mortgage funder and is certified in human services, also stepped in when the next three grandchildren – now ages 2, 6, and 9 – came along.

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Living Geography

MAY 17, 2024

As you may have read on this blog a few days ago, I am going to be working with the RGS as Vice President: Education from June. Prior to this announcement, the education team had organised a useful workshop which invites teachers (probably London based logistically speaking) to come along and discuss their needs. Details are here.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 16, 2024

The study 1 of ancient DNA has led to a groundbreaking discovery: the remnants of three common human viruses within the bones of Neanderthals who roamed the Earth over 50,000 years ago. This finding opens a window into the past, shedding light on the viral landscape of our ancient relatives and raising intriguing questions about the potential recreation of these ancient pathogens.

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Digital Promise

MAY 16, 2024

The post Tackling Tech Pathway Challenges: AERA Debut Ignites Fresh Opportunities appeared first on Digital Promise.

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