A Principal's Reflections
MARCH 27, 2023
There is a great deal of confusion out there as to what personalization is when it comes to learning in and out of the classroom. When terms that are new materialize, there is a natural inclination to develop a meaning that works for a particular narrative or goal. A lack of clarity or pedagogical understanding translates to people and organizations making up whatever fits best.
Catlin Tucker
MARCH 28, 2023
What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of international educators in Dubai grappling with these challenges.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 30, 2023
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! When Willie Carver Jr. won Kentucky’s 2022 Teacher of the Year award, he had no plans to leave the profession he was so passionate about.
Digital Promise
MARCH 29, 2023
The post How We’re Becoming Rural Historians to Inspire Project Based Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.
ED Surge
MARCH 29, 2023
In many classrooms, students demonstrate an enviable tech savviness as they easily navigate new applications with grace and little fear. Need your computer hooked up to the projector? There is a good chance at least one student can do it for you. Need help getting the WiFi booster to work properly? Ask a student. There is no question that today’s schools are filled with digitally savvy children who have grown up with technology and the internet of things.
Education Elements
MARCH 28, 2023
The bright morning sun floods in through the yawning glass windows and casts long shadows in the front of the classroom. My colleague and I and about ten-odd teachers sit huddled at the desks near the back; some of them are poring over resources on their screens, others using markers, pens, and paper cutouts on small chart paper. INDEPENDENT PRACTICE, the text underneath one of these cutouts proclaims.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 27, 2023
Even in high school, Miguel Agyei worried about how he’d pay for college. This story also appeared in USA Today The son of parents who work at a hospital and for UPS, Agyei wanted to go to a school away from his home state of Illinois, but that was too expensive. He instead picked close-by Bradley University and worked during the summer to pay the costs his financial aid didn’t cover.
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ED Surge
MARCH 30, 2023
Though I usually use this space to offer answers to teaching advice questions from professors, I wanted to try something different. For my next few installments, I’m writing letters to people who have exemplified what it means to be an effective teacher. The first letter in the series was about what I learned when visiting a colleague’s hybrid class.
Pedagogy and Formation
MARCH 31, 2023
Since not all readers of this blog have read my book 'Pedagogy and Education for Life' , I thought it might be helpful to look at the foundational principles of the pedagogy I developed and encourage. There are three major purposes and each has a number of things we do as people of faith in God to reflect and encourage a right view of education. In this post I will briefly outline the actions that are required to demonstrated that we see this as foundational to our teaching and faith-based educa
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 27, 2023
A troubling post-pandemic pattern is emerging across the nation’s schools: test scores and attendance are down, yet more students are earning high school diplomas. A new report from Washington, D.C., suggests bleak futures for many of these high school graduates, given the declining rate of college attendance and completion. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The numbers are stark in a March 2023 report by the D.C.
Maitri Learning
MARCH 28, 2023
We hear a lot of talk about the Montessori materials, but what exactly are those materials? How do we determine if something "qualifies" as Montessori or not? There is actually a list of characteristics that must be considered when creating a Montessori material. Dr. Montessori developed this list because she knew that science is always advancing. The materials she developed in the early 1900s would necessarily need to evolve as our understanding of the world and human development grew.
ED Surge
MARCH 27, 2023
OAKLAND, Calif. — The lab starts filling up after school lets out. Students trickle in. They help themselves to a snack — today it’s tacos — and chat excitedly with friends. They laugh and joke, listening to Beyoncé and Rihanna on built-in speakers. Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business.
Perspectives in Anthropology
MARCH 31, 2023
Written by Keith Hart The originality of KeynesCommerce waxed and waned throughout the agrarian era, until the market became thedominant principle of industrial capitalism. Within a framework of agriculture, exchange stillcommanded much theoretical attention. Economy eventually became identified withmarkets which from the eighteenth century were accepted as being central to society.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 28, 2023
I am a poster child for the English major. I entered college in 1989 with an interest in human rights advocacy, planning to be a lawyer. I quickly fell in love with poetry in a class I’d somewhat randomly taken on John Keats and William Butler Yeats. Before long, I immersed myself in literature, philosophy, religious studies and creative writing classes.
Maitri Learning
MARCH 28, 2023
We hear a lot of talk about the Montessori materials, but what exactly are those materials? How do we determine if something "qualifies" as Montessori or not? There is actually a list of characteristics that must be considered when creating a Montessori material. Dr. Montessori developed this list because she knew that science is always advancing. The materials she developed in the early 1900s would necessarily need to evolve as our understanding of the world and human development grew.
ED Surge
MARCH 29, 2023
“Sounds like you’re a really good older brother.” Logan Shideler said that to a 14-year-old boy who had called California Youth Crisis Line because he was contemplating suicide. Shideler lent an ear to the boy, who talked about feeling protective of his younger brother. The people who answer the phone aren’t there to give advice, says Shideler, who supervises volunteers for the crisis line, which is run by the nonprofit California Coalition for Youth.
ED Surge
MARCH 28, 2023
There’s a lot of talk these days about the teacher pipeline. Who’s in it? Is it drying up? How do we fill it — and fast? At the same time, and not unrelated, the teaching profession is experiencing a period of upheaval. Narratives around staff shortages, resignations, burnout, politicization and other issues are circulating, creating an atmosphere of discouragement and gloom for those in the field and those adjacent to it.
ED Surge
MARCH 29, 2023
In some ways, middle school is very much the same as it was a decade ago. In my own classroom, I recognize some of the hallmarks of the middle school years — changing voices, students spurting up three inches by the time May rolls around, and the awkwardness of being surrounded by so many developmental stages at once. In so many moments, it reminds me of myself when I was in the sixth grade.
ED Surge
MARCH 31, 2023
Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. As an instrumental music teacher, I am used to advocating that the arts are essential to all students even though they may not be classified as a core subject. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 27, 2023
Whenever you hear the phrase “parental rights in education,” listen carefully. What sounds like increased protection for children is part of a Republican campaign slogan, one that may or may not resonate with our country’s fragile public-school parents, teachers and children in the post-pandemic era. Republicans hope it will, though many parent groups and Democrats disagree.
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