A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 20, 2023
I often get asked both through social media and in person how to become a consultant. For various reasons, educators are enamored by the keynoting circuit, facilitating presentations at both national and international events, and coaching in school systems. Initially, I had to pause and reflect before responding as I wanted to be very clear on how my journey was more complex than it might seem.
Catlin Tucker
AUGUST 22, 2023
Part III: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part three of a five-part series focused on using thinking routines to drive metacognitive skill building. Click here to revisit my last blog in this series on using the “Connect, Extend, Challenge” routine. To recap, metacognition is a cognitive ability that allows learners to consider their thought patterns, approaches to learning, and understanding of a topic or idea.
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Pedagogy to Share
AUGUST 21, 2023
Thessaloniki August 2023 This week I will be presenting at the 20th Biennial EARLI Conference , hosted by the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki and the University of Macedonia, Greece. The conference theme is “Education as a Hope in Uncertain Times” I will be presenting a 90-minute ICT demonstration and sharing my work with Nearpod interactive presentations.
Cult of Pedagogy
AUGUST 20, 2023
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Thrive in Grade Five
AUGUST 19, 2023
Having a little time at the end of class is something my students look forward to because they have an opportunity to do fun five minute social studies activities. If you find yourself with a few extra minutes of class, you definitely don’t want students to have a free-for-all! That’s a classroom management nightmare. ? Use those precious extra minutes for purposeful, engaging review!
Digital Promise
AUGUST 22, 2023
The post Finding the Low Tech, High Impact Solution to Computational Thinking Instruction appeared first on Digital Promise.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 24, 2023
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: In Hopewell, Virginia, about 20 miles southeast of Richmond, Juanterria Browne spends her days providing child care for children with dis
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Ben Newmark
AUGUST 25, 2023
Some years ago, one of my friends attended a talk by the then Manchester United manger Sir Alex Ferguson. He spoke about how he’d changed his management style. When he began, he said, he sometimes shouted at his players at half-time if he thought this would lead to a positive response. Even back then it was a risk– he knew he had to stay in control and keep his temper, because if he went too far one of his grizzled hard-men might shout back or even physically go for him, which would have a negat
Digital Promise
AUGUST 23, 2023
New learner centered product certification signals to consumers that the LER technology supports diverse learning transition experiences
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 22, 2023
As schools and testing centers shut down in spring 2020, it seemed only fair for colleges and universities to suspend ACT and SAT admissions requirements. A pandemic is as good a reason as any to change the rules. Three years later, and months after the Covid-19 national emergency was declared over, 80 percent of colleges and universities are still following “test-optional” protocols.
ED Surge
AUGUST 23, 2023
With AI — and all it entails — on our horizon, what better time is there than now to focus on enhancing digital literacy, improving digital access and strengthening digital skills? With the proliferation of AI, digital literacy is an imperative. We must ensure that students, educators and caregivers have the skills they need to successfully navigate the internet, safely consume content, effectively create products and services and proactively communicate with others.
TCI
AUGUST 24, 2023
TCI’s free science activities will keep students engaged in science all year long. Explore the list to find seasonal science experiments for elementary and middle school classrooms. Halloween (October) Don’t be afraid to teach with TCI’s free science lessons for elementary and middle school! For Halloween, explore free lessons about gooey oobleck and real body snatchers (parasitoids) that turn their prey into zombies.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 24, 2023
The post 3 Ways to Celebrate Your Students’ Creativity and Innovation This School Year appeared first on Digital Promise.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 21, 2023
America has pulled back from the brink of denying science in education. About 30,000 students in Florida were set to lose out this fall because Advanced Placement psychology classes were “ effectively banned ” due to a state prohibition against discussing certain gender and sexuality topics in high schools; fortunately, the state education department reversed course at the last minute in a game of Public Relations Chicken.
ED Surge
AUGUST 22, 2023
For decades, a nonprofit group called The Moth has produced workshops, events and a popular radio show where people tell transformative stories from their lives. And in 2012, the group started working with high schools, coaching students to turn their stories into polished orations. This year the nonprofit has started sharing those student stories in a new spin-off podcast, called Grown.
Achieve the Core
AUGUST 24, 2023
My child can’t read yet, Mrs. Armstrong! Is my daughter already behind? We just started kindergarten! How many times have we as teachers been asked this question: “Is my child behind?” Well, behind what, exactly? Behind whom? I remember being asked this question by a very concerned and anxious parent at the start of the 2021–22 school year. This parent, like many others, had kept their child home from preschool due to the pandemic.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 21, 2023
Portrait of a Graduate describes skills and competencies within a community that contribute to a life of well-being, fulfillment, and economic security
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 21, 2023
Many education researchers have warned that summer school doesn’t have a strong track record of helping students catch up academically. That’s because it’s hard to convince families to show up. In the wake of the pandemic, school leaders spent billions more on it anyway. In a 2022 national survey , 70 percent of school districts said they had launched new summer programs or expanded existing ones.
ED Surge
AUGUST 21, 2023
As schools increasingly incorporate technology into their classrooms, student tech teams become invaluable resources in supporting both students and teachers. They can assist with device management, troubleshoot technical issues and ensure that technology is effectively integrated into the learning process. These tech teams offer a unique opportunity for students to take on leadership roles and develop valuable skills like problem-solving, teamwork, communication and critical thinking, in additi
Let's Cultivate Greatness
AUGUST 24, 2023
Once something because a requirement, it often loses its joy. It seems like that’s precisely what’s happened now that the Citizenship Test is a high school graduation requirement in many states. During the 2010s, one specific group, the Civics Education Initiative, made it their goal to have all 50 states make passing some form of the US Naturalization Test (the official name of the test) a high school graduation requirement.
Strange Maps
AUGUST 24, 2023
If you know one thing about 12th-century Arab cartographer Muhammad al-Idrisi, it is that he is the author of this wonky world map, which is often included in modern atlases as a prime example of medieval mapmaking skills. That invites comparisons that do him no favors. Among the hyper-precise maps in today’s atlases, al-Idrisi’s looks like a child’s drawing.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 22, 2023
ROCHESTER, Minn. — As her friends return to college this fall, Kelsey DeSmith is way ahead of them. This story also appeared in USA Today DeSmith has been taking in-person classes throughout the summer at the University of Minnesota Rochester, or UMR, while also spending 12 hours a week in a paid internship, on her path to graduating with a bachelor’s degree and getting out into the working world in three rather than the conventional four years.
ED Surge
AUGUST 22, 2023
If you want to feel the soul of a city, go into one of its public school classrooms. I understood this intimately during my time student teaching on the East Coast in Boston. Being an Asian American, I was attracted to the city because of its cosmopolitan reputation and the colleges and universities in the metropolitan area; I assumed that these features of the city would promise a diverse population and a critical mass of people who looked like me.
Becoming a History Teacher
AUGUST 23, 2023
Photo by Thirdman on Pexels.com When you are a teacher everyone thinks they know how to do your job and suspects they could do it too. By virtue of having been a pupil themselves at one point, the school environment and job of teaching feels sufficiently familiar to be open to conjecture. Every year I listen to prospective teachers discuss with conviction what they think a good education should look like.
Edthena
AUGUST 23, 2023
The number of different strategies suggested to school leaders for impacting student learning is immense. It’s hard to know what actually works and which instructional techniques are worth implementing. Micro-teaching has one of the highest measured impacts on improving teachers’ practice for stronger student achievement, according to John Hattie’s Visible Learning research.
Education Week - Social Studies
AUGUST 24, 2023
New civics education requirements are good—if we learn from past mistakes.
ED Surge
AUGUST 21, 2023
Annie Talley Ochoa has long known that she was meant to teach. But as years and then decades passed, her plans to enter the classroom were repeatedly sidetracked and eventually stalled. At age 44, that’s about to change. Talley Ochoa is on track to earn her teaching credential next August, when she finishes her master’s degree in education. Already, though, her first year as a teacher is underway.
Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education
AUGUST 22, 2023
Throughout summer 2023, the Smithsonian partnered with 4-H and the Boys & Girls Clubs of America to unleash the potential of museum visits and out-of-school learning
Anthroholic
AUGUST 22, 2023
Explore the CSS Anthropology syllabus, encompassing cultural, social, and human aspects. Gain insights into diverse societies and enhance your understanding of human behavior for the Central Superior Services exam preparation.
Education Week - Social Studies
AUGUST 22, 2023
Some districts opted for alternatives to the College Board's course to ensure compliance with state law.
ED Surge
AUGUST 23, 2023
Chheng Tang, a parent of three teenage students and one preteen, has found the free internet she gets through her school both relieving and, in a way, unsettling. Tang now works part time as a tutor at DuPont Elementary, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Before that, she worked in special education. For a number of years, she’s relied on discount options for broadband so that her own family can connect to the internet.
Geogramblings
AUGUST 21, 2023
Before I begin, I wish to pay my respect to the Peoples of the Anishinabewaki ᐊᓂᔑᓈᐯᐗᑭ and Očhéthi Šakówiŋ (Sioux) Indigenous groups. The colonial township of Hayward, Wisconsin and Lake Hayward (‘Long Pond’) is located within their unceded lands. I acknowledge that I am but a guest, and my enjoyment of these lands comes with thoughts of their rightful stewardship.
Anthroholic
AUGUST 19, 2023
One of the most fascinating aspects of the human experience is the way we seek to understand our world. This quest has primarily taken two distinct paths: science and religion. While these domains may seem fundamentally divergent, each seeks to answer profound existential questions about life, the universe, and our place within it.
Education Week - Social Studies
AUGUST 22, 2023
See how the College Board, Cambridge International, and the International Baccalaureate approach psychology courses.
ED Surge
AUGUST 24, 2023
Summer is a time for educators to do some learning, and there are plenty of conferences and workshops throughout the season. But one national event for teachers this month had a very unusual trait: It was started and organized by students. The free online conference, called AI x Education , aimed at getting teachers at colleges and high schools up to speed on the latest AI tools like ChatGPT, and to encourage them to try to use them this fall.
Let's Cultivate Greatness
AUGUST 24, 2023
The main principles of the US Constitution can be tricky to teach for a few reasons. First, you’re introducing them at the beginning of your Civics class before diving into the Constitution’s actual text. So it feels a little forced—you’re telling them what they are rather than students discovering them independently. Second, they’re crucial to know to lay a foundation for your course, but time is usually so short trying to cover all the required founding docs as well—the Declaration, the
Anthroholic
AUGUST 19, 2023
The parallels between religion and magic are rooted in their fundamental nature. They both provide explanations for the unknown, promote social cohesion, and are integral to cultural systems.
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