A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 28, 2022
There is no shortage of ways to reflect on how we lead in an effort to initiate and sustain change. Culture is everything. Establishing and maintaining relationships is paramount, which Is why I detailed research-based ways to improve morale in a previous post and in Digital Leadership. Another way to help ensure success in this area is to hold ourselves accountable through a self-efficacy lens.
World History Teachers Blog
AUGUST 27, 2022
Here is a really cool interactive Google Arts and Culture site all about the Timbuktu Manuscripts. Once you open the site, click "learn more about the manuscripts" in the lower right corner and it will take you here , where you can learn everything about the manuscripts. I especially like this section, called "Surprising Things you can read in the Manuscripts" which reviews how the manuscripts were first threatened and some of the material they cover.
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ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Earlier this month, a new study in Nature revealed a key predictor of economic mobility: connectedness. Specifically, researchers at Opportunity Insights found that relationships with higher-income students dramatically improved low-income students’ chances of upward mobility in adulthood, even more than traditional success metrics like school quality.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 29, 2022
Rural schools accounted for 70 percent of the 1,600 schools that had adopted a four-day schedule by the spring of 2019. More schools switched to a four-day schedule during the pandemic. Credit: Photo: Rory Doyle / The Hechinger Report. Is a four-day school week a bad idea? This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The answer matters because hundreds of thousands of students at more than 1,600 schools across 24 states were heading to school only four times a week by the spring of 2019, according to
Edthena
AUGUST 31, 2022
If you support teachers, that means you are supporting teacher well-being. Teachers’ ability to sustain their work is crucial to teacher improvement, and ultimately student outcomes. “We’ve kind of accepted the idea that sometimes to achieve certain academic outcomes, there’s gonna be a cost to well-being,” remarked executive coach Christian van Nieuwerburgh.
World History Teachers Blog
AUGUST 27, 2022
Studying the early development of humans? National Geographic has a great interactive website with short stories about Lucy, Ida, and academic disciplines in archeology and paleontology. I created a short web activity based on the site And Nova has a great documentary about the origins of humans, called "Becoming Human." and a terrific interactive website aligned to the video.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Edtech is ubiquitous in classrooms today, especially considering that the COVID-19 pandemic did something that previously seemed impossible. It thrust virtually every school into the deep-end of edtech, starting with remote learning. When it comes to products that teachers are using to buoy student success, the stakes are high. Congress is earmarking millions in relief to combat COVID-19 learning loss and everyone—from students to teachers to administrators —is feeling frayed as schools try to g
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 31, 2022
The post Learning Transitions: What Are They and Why Do They Matter? appeared first on Digital Promise.
Education Elements
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
As students across the county prepare for the start of a new school year, conversations about how to address our national teacher shortage are becoming more frequent and urgent. Many educators are calling for this conversation to be rebranded as a “teacher walkout” to highlight that teachers are leaving the field as a way to protest a system not built to empower them as decision-makers and innovators.
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Even as some current teachers are leaving the education workforce—or, at the very least, considering it —plenty of would-be teachers are opting for other career paths, creating a worrisome landscape where there are neither enough teachers right now, nor expectations to recover the dearth in the future. This is partly a pandemic consequence, but also the result of a years-long decline in the attractiveness of teaching as a profession.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
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! As much as she wanted to, Karol Harper hadn’t planned to go back to school to get her teaching license. With a full-time job and a family — she couldn’t afford it.
Digital Promise
AUGUST 31, 2022
The post How My Students Are Inspiring Their Community to Build a Greener Future appeared first on Digital Promise.
Education Elements
AUGUST 29, 2022
Educators are often described as superheros; this includes instructional leaders. Here's our superhero-inspired , 3 simple actions that instructional leaders can take in the next month to ensure that teachers and students marvel at their own growth this year. (See what we did there!).
ED Surge
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
When the educational services company Zovio sold its online program management business to the University of Arizona Global Campus in August, it wasn’t a shock. Zovio’s business model is seen by many industry-watchers as a hold-over from the University of Phoenix era, before companies like 2U pioneered the idea of helping colleges both run online programs and finance their creation in exchange for a cut of tuition.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 2, 2022
We finally have the long-feared answer to the question about just how dire pandemic learning loss was: Even worse than anticipated, at least for many nine-year-old students. That’s why we’re moving onto the next one, which matters enormously for the health of our public education system: What can schools, parents and educators across the country do to help students recover?
Education to the Core
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
These 32 name writing activities are a fun and engaging way to get the school year started. We know name writing is at the top of the list at the beginning of the school year! This task doesn’t have to be stressful or frustrating for students or teachers. Try any of these activities to keep […] The post 32 Name Writing Activities appeared first on Education to the Core.
Geogramblings
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
THE BOOK IS OUT NOW! National Geographic Kids Everything: Sustainable Energy is available now! Click the button below to go to the publisher’s website for links. Or even better, visit your local independent book store to see if they can order it in for you! ORDER NOW Some ideas and concepts didn’t make it into the final draft of the book, or they were edited in a way to make them more accessible to a younger audience (while the original is still very much useful for the older kids!).
ED Surge
AUGUST 29, 2022
As the start of the school year kicks off across the country, elementary school teachers work hour upon hour to create welcoming, joyous spaces for learning. They set up their classrooms, consult the curriculum, make lesson plans and determine their routines. Very often, teachers make well-intentioned and thoughtful plans to encourage their students to read daily in order to practice skills and strategies taught in class, as well as to build a lifelong reading habit.
Pedagogy and Formation
AUGUST 30, 2022
One of the greatest challenges for Christian education institutions, is how to build and sustain the centrality of their Christian beliefs, with pedagogy that is consistent with this faith. While a specific faith would have underpinned all religious schools when first established, maintaining such a focus and foundation can be difficult. Far too many faith-based educational institutions end up measuring their success based on the maintenance of academic, cultural and sporting standards and wheth
Education to the Core
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
These 32 name writing activities are a fun and engaging way to get the school year started. We know name writing is at the top of the list at the beginning of the school year! This task doesn’t have to be stressful or frustrating for students or teachers. Try any of these activities to keep […] The post 32 Name Writing Activities appeared first on Education to the Core.
Diane Ravitch
AUGUST 30, 2022
John Merrow’s title is sarcastic. Of course he wants you to read banned books, and he is deeply concerned about the large number of eligible voters—especially young people—who don’t bother to vote. When someone on Twitter posted a list of 25 popular books that Florida Governor Ron DeSantis had supposedly banned from the state’s public schools, people went crazy.
ED Surge
AUGUST 29, 2022
In a deal quietly announced last week, K-12 educational software services company Renaissance Learning acquired Illuminate Education for an undisclosed amount. The deal was announced last Monday on both companies' sites and in an email sent to Illuminate customers. Why the pairing? “This acquisition deepens the company’s assessment capabilities and broadens its commitment to keep teachers at the center of instruction by providing insights and personalized instruction to enhance students’ learnin
Edthena
AUGUST 29, 2022
Back-to-school season is in full swing and there’s much to think about for the new school year. Not sure where to start? We’ve rounded up the top resources for teachers and coaches from August 2022. From saving time to incorporating compassion with students to boosting collaboration, these reads have great ideas and resources for teachers and coaches.
Civics U
SEPTEMBER 1, 2022
Many states recently completed “primary” elections. Many of these were elections held by political parties to select their candidates to run against other parties’ candidates for a given office in the final or “general” election. In government by the people, the citizens of the country as the ultimate sovereign are to operate the government. They do this by choosing who they want to fill and conduct certain positions in government.
The Hechinger Report
AUGUST 31, 2022
President Joe Biden’s recent cancellation of student debt will provide tangible benefits to millions of borrowers, as will his cancellation of billions owed by students who have been defrauded by their colleges and his move to lower monthly payments for all borrowers. That’s good news, but it isn’t enough. The system that got us here has not changed.
ED Surge
AUGUST 29, 2022
When educators consider the term computational thinking (CT), they often think of math or coding. But if you ask Daniel Fung, vice principal and English teacher at the Sham Tseng Catholic School in Hong Kong, he will tell you computational thinking is an entire pedagogy geared toward teaching lifelong problem-solving skills. CT curriculum is not just about coding but rather a pedagogy and mindset.
ED Surge
AUGUST 31, 2022
Returning to college after years away from formal education can feel like a new beginning, as well as a daunting challenge. What sparks students to return? Once they’re back, how can colleges help them stay on track? And what informal networks and resources do students create on their own? Those are some questions we explore in the second episode of our podcast series Second Acts.
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