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Leveraging AI to Save Time Architecting Equitable, Student-centered Learning Experiences

Catlin Tucker

Part II: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group to Achieve Equity in Education The first blog in this series, “ Time Efficiency vs. Equity in Education ,” explored two major barriers teachers face when shifting from whole group, teacher-led, teacher-paced model to student-centered blended learning models. Time and control are powerful enforcers of the status quo.

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Proudly Announcing the 2023 Cohort of HP Teaching Fellows

Digital Promise

The post Proudly Announcing the 2023 Cohort of HP Teaching Fellows appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Will Teachers Listen to Feedback From AI? Researchers Are Betting on It

ED Surge

Julie York, a computer science and media teacher at South Portland High School in Maine, was scouring the internet for discussion tools for her class when she found TeachFX. An AI tool that takes recorded audio from a classroom and turns it into data about who talked and for how long, it seemed like a cool way for York to discuss issues of data privacy, consent and bias with her students.

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PROOF POINTS: Lowering test anxiety in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

In education circles, it’s popular to rail against testing, especially timed exams. Tests are stressful and not the best way to measure knowledge, wrote Adam Grant, an organizational psychologist at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School in a Sept. 20, 2023 New York Times essay. “You wouldn’t want a surgeon who rushes through a craniectomy, or an accountant who dashes through your taxes.

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Time Efficiency vs. Equity in Education

Catlin Tucker

Part I: Transitioning from Whole Group to Small Group In the ever-evolving education landscape, one of the most pressing challenges teachers face is striking the right balance between time efficiency and ensuring equitable learning opportunities for all students. As educators embrace innovative technology-enhanced instructional models , they often grapple with letting go of the time-saving practices inherent in the traditional teacher-led, teacher-paced whole group approach to instruction.

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Digital Promise Launches FutureLab to Investigate Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning

Digital Promise

The post Digital Promise Launches FutureLab to Investigate Transformative Approaches to Teaching and Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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How to Drive Student Success With Creative Generative AI Tools in the Classroom: Part 1

ED Surge

This article is the first of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting. The 21st-century classroom is a dynamic, ever-evolving space where cutting-edge technologies, like artificial intelligence (AI), are pushing us all to rethink what students need to learn and how that learning can best be structured to prepare them for the future.

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OPINION: Higher education must take the lead on climate change, beginning on our own campuses

The Hechinger Report

As higher education leaders in California and Louisiana, we see the impacts of the changing climate across the communities we serve. Propelled by historically warm oceans, after the hottest July ever recorded, Hurricane Idalia wreaked deadly havoc across the Southeast. In Louisiana, the record heat exacerbated hundreds of still-burning wildfires. In California, when Tropical Storm Hilary hit, the National Weather Service warned of life-threatening flooding, the streets filled with mud and reside

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How to Navigate LERs: What Job Seekers Want From Equitable Onboarding Practices

Digital Promise

The post How to Navigate LERs: What Job Seekers Want From Equitable Onboarding Practices appeared first on Digital Promise.

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We Don't Have to Sacrifice Joy for Rigor in the Classroom

ED Surge

A joyful class is a rigorous class. A rigorous class is a joyful class. I wrote this mantra on a sticky note and placed it on my desk as a daily reminder that my students’ right to access joy is just as important as academic rigor. During my third year of teaching, I struggled to envision what rigorous learning looks, sounds and feels like without joy.

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Sociology Lesson Plans

Passion for Social Studies

Sociology is often a student-favorite course to take! Honestly, it is fascinating to study how people interact with each other. Since students love this course, it is essential to have engaging, interactive sociology lesson plans. Luckily, there are tons of incredible sociology lessons to ensure students explore the underlying social forces that shape human behavior.

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How one state is incorporating data science in every subject – even art

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! While data science isn’t a new subject, there’s been growing interest recently in helping students — in both K-12 and higher ed — gain data science skills.

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How One Bay Area District Is Addressing the Teacher Shortage through Affordable Housing

Digital Promise

The post How One Bay Area District Is Addressing the Teacher Shortage through Affordable Housing appeared first on Digital Promise.

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What to Know About the Relationship Between Teacher Turnover and Housing

ED Surge

Today, a 20-acre stretch of green space known as the “ Coy facility ” remains an active school campus in East Austin. But soon, Austin Independent School District will convert it into an apartment complex to house teachers and staff who are increasingly getting priced out of the urban Texas district. The goal is to create at least 500 new rental units on the site, alleviating — if not solving — the housing burden that so many of the district’s 10,000 staff members say they face.

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The 4 Things You Should Be Looking for to Measure Student Engagement

Edthena

Counting the number of raised student hands to measure student engagement? There’s a lot more to understanding the engagement of a strong classroom, according to professional learning expert Jim Knight. In fact, there are four indicators that teachers, instructional coaches, and school leaders can look for to understand students’ engagement in learning—and none of them involve hand-raising.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. Politicians around the country have been aiming to demolish progressive policies by targeting teaching about race and ethnicity, the LGBTQIA+ community and women’s reproductive rights.

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How Pathways and Pedagogy Make Graduate Portraits More Powerful

Digital Promise

Portrait of a Graduate skill sets can be viewed as Thinking Dispositions, broken down into three elements: ability, inclination and sensitivity.

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Students Need a Holistic Approach to Pandemic Recovery

ED Surge

Millions of students across the United States spent their summers in learning and enrichment programs, many of which employed intensive tutoring designed to bring math and reading scores up to grade level. These efforts can be important and life-changing , yet research finds that increased learning time alone will not be enough to recover from the pandemic’s devastating effects on learning.

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Advancing Educational Equity in Times of Political Crisis

Education Elements

The Polarization of Education: As consultants at Education Elements, my teammates and I have the incredible opportunity to support districts around the country as they solve some of their toughest challenges. These challenges range from “How do we change our practices to increase students’ agency over their own learning?” to “How do we use quantitative and qualitative data to determine our priority areas over the next five years?

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Experts share the latest research on how teachers can overcome math anxiety  

The Hechinger Report

This story about math anxiety was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sign up for our early childhood newsletter. Elementary school teachers often face a significant challenge when it comes to teaching math: their own discomfort with numbers. The Hechinger Report recently hosted a live event for people to learn more about efforts to solve this problem.

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Cultural Relativism

Anthropology for Beginners

Cultural Relativism Cultural Relativism expresses the idea that the beliefs and practices of others are best understood in the light of the particular cultures in which they are found. The idea is predicated on the degree to which human behavior is held to be culturally determined, a basic tenet of American cultural anthropology. This is often joined with the argument that because all extant cultures are viable adaptations and equally deserving of respect, they should not be subjected to invidio

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When a Tiny Fraction of Teachers File Most School Discipline Referrals

ED Surge

Education wonks have long raised the alarm about how school discipline is applied unequally among students of different racial and ethnic groups, with Black students facing a disproportionate number of office discipline referrals (ODRs). The effects of such practices can reverberate throughout a student’s life, according to the American Psychological Association, leading to worse mental health and lower grades.

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Singapore's population

O-Level Geography

[link] How does the pandemic affect the population size of Singapore? Why is a declining population a threat in Singapore? There were a record number of 24,767 citizen marriages in 2022 Births of Singaporean babies fell 4 per cent to 30,429 The citizen population continues to age, with 19.

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‘We must talk about this real history’: Reactions to ‘divisive concepts’ ban

The Hechinger Report

A battle over New Hampshire’s “divisive concepts law” has been brewing in the state since 2021. The measure restricts instruction on topics that might leave students feeling inferior or superior based on race, gender, ethnicity, or another attribute, and also applies to training done by state agencies. This story also appeared in The Boston Globe Earlier this year, state lawmakers proposed a repeal, eliciting more than 1,000 letters to the House Education Committee.

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Germany to legalize cannabis — but not here, there, or just about anywhere

Strange Maps

In 2024, Germany could become the first major European country to legalize the recreational use of cannabis. But just because it will be allowed in theory, doesn’t mean you will be able to light up a joint in practice. Legal, but mostly in theory The bill now being prepared for a vote in the Bundestag proposes continued prohibition of cannabis use in so-called Jugendschutzgebiete (“youth protection zones”).

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Helping Students Think With Their Whole Bodies

ED Surge

When people think about thinking, they typically conceive of the brain as a kind of machine or muscle that is strictly confined to our skulls. As Rodin’s famous sculpture of the thinking man propping his chin on his hand, we imagine the mind as all in our heads. But what if those typical metaphors for our brains are limiting our capacities to think and learn?

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Water shortage in Koh Samui

O-Level Geography

How does tourism impact on water resource in Koh Samui? What is Sustainable Tourism Development?

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How can we use themes to teach cultural geography?

Maitri Learning

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It's about what life is like all over the world. How do people live? What do we have in common? What is different? If we really want to show children about life on different continents, we need to show them the SAME kinds of life on each continent. That means we show them a school on every continent, fishing on every continent, a wedding on every continent, a market on every continent, etc.

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2025 Annual Meeting

Society for Classical Studies

2025 Annual Meeting kskordal Mon, 09/25/2023 - 10:22 Update 2/5/24: 2025 Annual Meeting: SCS Abstract and Proposal Submission System is Open We are pleased to announce that the SCS Abstract and Proposal submission system is now open and can be found via the link below: [link] Upon accessing the submission system, please read in their entirety the instructions found on the landing page.

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Empowering Teachers and Inspiring Students for a STEM-Driven Future

ED Surge

Education is an indispensable profession in our world today, as teachers play a pivotal role in equipping students for the challenges of the future, enabling them to be successful at every stage in life. The positive impact of teachers has been extensively substantiated through years of research highlighting that teacher effectiveness is the most important school-based factor related to student achievement and outcomes.

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The SAR Method

The Effortful Educator

Sense → Attend → Rehearse A more accessible understanding of memory and learning for the classroom and studying. I’ve been talking this week with my students about memory and learning. And, while I firmly believe this is a topic worthy of studying by all students in all subject areas, I am lucky enough to teach a course (AP Psychology) where this is part of the curriculum.

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How can we use themes to teach cultural geography?

Maitri Learning

Cultural geography is about more than where things are located on the earth. It's about what life is like all over the world. How do people live? What do we have in common? What is different? If we really want to show children about life on different continents, we need to show them the SAME kinds of life on each continent. That means we show them a school on every continent, fishing on every continent, a wedding on every continent, a market on every continent, etc.

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Why Public Schools Must Bolster Civics Instruction (Opinion)

Education Week - Social Studies

Our students are among the youngest voters in the country. Are they being targeted as pawns in an illicit political game?

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Season Two of Accessagogy

All Things Pedagogical

A quick blog post to say I am getting back into the posting schedule I had last year where one week I will post a podcast episode and one week I will post a blog. So this week is the launch of Season 2 of Accessagogy where I talk about all of the things that have happened with social media over the summer and suggest some things to think about when you are deciding where to go next.

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Why it matters that Americans are comparatively bad at math

The Hechinger Report

BOSTON — Like a lot of high school students, Kevin Tran loves superheroes, though perhaps for different reasons than his classmates. This story also appeared in The Associated Press “They’re all insanely smart. In their regular jobs they’re engineers, they’re scientists,” said Tran, who is 17. “And you can’t do any of those things without math.” Tran also loves math.

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Quality Over Quantity

A Principal's Reflections

In education, there is never a lack of ideas on how to improve teaching, learning and leadership. Most would agree that they are a dime a dozen. Over the years, I have been writing extensively about efficacy-based pathways that have led to proven results. While innovation is a lofty goal, we must be cognizant of what we are trying to accomplish. Too many balls in the area can have an adverse impact on focus, derailing what we are trying to improve.

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Correlating Democracy and Per Capita Income: A Simple Introduction to an Old Finding

Steven V. Miller

We typically credit Seymour Martin Lipset for first noting this correlation. I’m teaching an undergraduate class on quantitative methods where I’ve been cautioned—repeatedly—the students are not super eager to go as hard and fast as I’d like on this material. It’s already going to be an interesting experience breaking the traditional link to Stata on the curriculum in favor of R. 1 Toward that end, students will get basic univariate statistics, bivariate statistics, and get to play with a simple

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