A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 25, 2024

Understanding our current position is like having a detailed map before embarking on a journey. Charting a course toward our desired destination can be difficult without knowing where we stand. This awareness allows us to identify our strengths, recognize the gaps, and make informed decisions about the steps we need to take. In both personal growth and organizational development, clarity about our starting point empowers us to set realistic goals, measure progress, and ultimately reach where we

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TeachThought

AUGUST 27, 2024

contributed by Samantha Saumell , I Have, Not I Am All teachers want to help students become successful readers and writers. Whether students like reading or writing, they are readers and writers, whether they know it or not. Students sometimes think that they only ‘write’ in school. But the truth is they write every time they text a friend, write a list, write a card, or even message a friend on a video game.

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Passion for Social Studies

AUGUST 30, 2024

Sociology is often a favorite course for students. They love studying and analyzing the interactions between others. However, they often forget to consider how outside factors influence their lives. So, students need to take some time to see how the media and society shape their thoughts and opinions. Thankfully, the Music and Gender Project and Gender of Toys Project provide personal, impactful ways to do this!

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ED Surge

AUGUST 29, 2024

The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skill

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 26, 2024

Two University of California, Berkeley, researchers documented how they tamed AI hallucinations in math by asking ChatGPT to solve the same problem 10 times. Credit: Eugene Mymrin/ Moment via Getty Images One of the biggest problems with using AI in education is that the technology hallucinates. That’s the word the artificial intelligence community uses to describe how its newest large language models make up stuff that doesn’t exist or isn’t true.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 29, 2024

What Is Life About? The Best Quotes We Could Find by TeachThought Staff What Is Life About? The Best Quotes We Could Find “People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive.

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Women's History Network

AUGUST 26, 2024

Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India (1844 -1925) is a royal figure often disregarded in historical literature. Although studies surrounding Alexandra’s husband, King Edward VII, are plentiful, there is comparatively little written about Alexandra other than a handful of biographies and academic literature surrounding her clothes.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2024

The other day, one of my students told me that she’d been assigned the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar for her high school English class. It was the first time I had encountered a high school English assignment involving an author with whom I was wholly unfamiliar. But can we even call rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar an author, his lyrics literature? Call me a snob, but I would argue that we cannot and should not, especially at a level so introductory to the English literary canon as high school.

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TeachThought

AUGUST 29, 2024

Using Goal Setting and Data Tracking to Enhance Student Agency and Achievement contributed by Samantha Lopez As educators, we are often referred to as ‘data-driven decision-makers.’ Even in an upper elementary classroom, students can access their grades and keep track of their assignments. Instead of only using data, how can educators show students how to use their own data to make their own decisions about their learning?

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Edthena

AUGUST 29, 2024

Research shows that 68% of new teachers feel unprepared to address the cultural needs of their students effectively. Leveraging Edthena’s Video Coaching platform , Dr. Adrian Cortes and Dr. Bryan Carter have developed a practical, research-based framework that addresses this challenge, significantly impacting teachers’ self-awareness of culturally responsive teaching practices.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 27, 2024

Blog: Culture-Heroism in Vergil’s Eclogue 5 and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Xander Tyska Tue, 08/27/2024 - 14:17

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2024

When Head Start was established in 1965, it was meant to boost outcomes for children from low-income families by offering high-quality early learning and wraparound services, like dentalcare and mental health support. Fifty-nine years later, funding has increased for the program—from about$96 million in the 1960s (about $959 million in today’s dollars) to nearly $12 billion in fiscal year 2023.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

AUGUST 30, 2024

The post Youth Civic Solutions Competition: Empowering the Next Generation of Civic Leaders appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

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Civics 91

ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2024

New federal data on youth mental health offers a few silver linings, but experts caution these signs of progress don’t mean U.S. students are out of the storm. The CDC released the results of its biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey earlier this month, highlighting changes in students’ responses from 2021 compared to 2023. Over those two years, the percentage of students overall who reported feeling persistent sadness fell slightly (by 2 percent).

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 26, 2024

Recent archaeological findings 1 in West Papua have unveiled new insights into one of the most significant migrations in human history—the journey of early Homo sapiens into the Pacific Islands. This migration, which began more than 55,000 years ago, involved highly skilled seafarers who crossed treacherous waters from Asia to the islands of the Pacific, shaping the distribution of our species across the globe.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2024

The post Launching Computational Thinking Routines for K-5 ELA appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Heinemann Blog

AUGUST 26, 2024

The following is an adapted excerpt from Lindsey Moses’ forthcoming Supporting Multilingual Learners: 50 Strategies for Language and Literacy Instruction. Preorder is now available!

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ShortCutsTV

AUGUST 28, 2024

The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime – is something teachers can exploit to demonstrate how sociological knowledge and research can be used to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions we make about the social world.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 25, 2024

A groundbreaking study of the Dolmen of Menga, a massive Neolithic stone monument located in southern Spain, has unveiled remarkable evidence of the advanced engineering and scientific understanding possessed by its builders nearly 6,000 years ago. This research, recently published 1 in Science Advances , highlights the technological abilities of the early farmers and herders who constructed the dolmen, suggesting that they had a sophisticated grasp of physics, geometry, geology, and architectur

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Education Week - Social Studies

AUGUST 28, 2024

Shari Conditt teaches her students about electoral processes through current events including presidential elections.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2024

The post New eBook Supports the Role of Micro-credentials in Lifelong Learning and Development appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Moler's Musing

AUGUST 28, 2024

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs. Balancing these demands while keeping lessons engaging and accessible can be challenging.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 28, 2024

The population growth of prehistoric Europe, particularly after the last Ice Age, was characterized by periods of rapid expansion followed by significant declines. The reasons behind these fluctuations have long puzzled researchers. A recent study 1 by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) adds new insights into the role that fear of conflict may have played in shaping these population dynamics, suggesting that fear itself may have been as influential as actual conflicts.

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Psychology Sorted

AUGUST 30, 2024

I have just added this post to the ‘Holding my Breath’ area of the blog, so that those who liked the book have a chance to donate to the Open Road charity that supports those with substance abuse. My husband and I were sitting outside the other evening and thinking about fundraising for Open Road who were so supportive of my late brother Colin.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 30, 2024

The post A New Approach to Classroom Observations in Higher Education Courses appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education 66

Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 29, 2024

‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP kskordal Thu, 08/29/2024 - 08:44 Image REZ Diff: Call for Papers At the 2024 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) annual meeting in Chicago, we held a panel on ‘Indigenous Perspectives: Ancient and Modern,’ with support from the Mountaintop Coalition. The panel explored the role of classical antiquity in the history of the Americas, focusing on the influence of ancient sources and ideologies on modern systems of oppression which have negatively affected Ind

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 24, 2024

Archaeologists working in Peru’s Viru Valley have uncovered a significant find: the skeletal remains of four individuals buried nearly 3,800 years ago. The discovery, which includes the remains of two children, a teenager, and an adult, predates the rise of the Inca civilization by millennia and offers new insights into the region’s early societies.

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Education Week - Social Studies

AUGUST 28, 2024

The 2024 presidential election offers an opportunity to grow civic engagement, teachers say.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2024

The post LERs and Micro-credentials: The Key to Lifelong Learning & Skills-Based Hiring appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 28, 2024

The GA and the RGS will both be 'in the room' when the curriculum review discussions related to geography take place. The GA is collecting responses from teachers, who may not be in the room, but will be impacted by the decisions made by the review group. The RGS is going to be doing something similar as the picture on the consultation becomes a little clearer.

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 28, 2024

Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation kskordal Wed, 08/28/2024 - 08:48 Image Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation September 26-27, 2024 This international conference explores how early modern interpretations of Tacitus influence later engagements in the cultural imagination. Rather than attempt to prove unbroken continuity in the reception of Tacitus, this conference examines distinct eruptions of interest in Tacitus.

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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Political Science Association (APSA) is very pleased to announce that Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the organization, effective September 16, 2024. Dr. Mealy, an instrumental leader at the association for over seventeen years, previously served as Senior Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Strategic Initiatives at APSA.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Spring 2025 Multi Day Seminars! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open September 9-29, 2024.

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Living Geography

AUGUST 28, 2024

Up to Manchester for a few days and explored several areas of the city (including visits to some of the Quarters). It's now in the news for the reunion of two brothers who fell out. Some personal highlights of our brief visit: - Premier Inn Piccadilly - book a Premier Plus room for a room at the top of the hotel for city/Peak District views - a nice bar area and helpful staff - Afflecks and the Manchester Shop - a warren of independent shops offering vinyl, music, clothing and all sorts of origi

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Society for Classical Studies

AUGUST 28, 2024

CFP: Kin and Clan in Roman Antiquity: New Perspectives on the Roman Family kskordal Wed, 08/28/2024 - 09:02 Image Kin and Clan in Roman Antiquity: New Perspectives on the Roman Family Organized by Dr. Jordan Christopher and Dr. Elliott Piros of the Loyola Marymount University Department of Classics and Archaeology What: We invite submissions from historians, philologists, and archaeologists (including doctoral students) for a conference exploring new perspectives on Roman kinship, building upon

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Studies Weekly

AUGUST 26, 2024

The Science of Reading: Phonemic and Phonological Awareness Aug 26, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Reading has the wondrous power to transport us across time and space. It enhances our imagination, sparks our creativity, and helps us see others’ perspectives. The stories and characters we meet within the pages of books teach us about our world, ourselves, and others.

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Pedagogy and Formation

AUGUST 25, 2024

The Winners & Honour Books Younger Readers ( Ages 0-6 Years) Voting has been completed and winners in all categories announced for younger readers. As always there were SO many great books. Glad I'm not a judge this year! I should point out that this year we have the appointed judges of the awards, and for some reason there a group of 'Appointed Judges' also suggest winners.

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