A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Reflecting on my days as a student, I recall how the subject matter was the primary focus in every class. Whether delivered through lectures in college, direct instruction during K-12 education, or occasionally gleaned from textbooks and encyclopedias, it permeated every aspect of learning. Upon closer examination, it becomes evident that information, in the form of content, held a central role in all my classes.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Part V: Thinking About Thinking Series This is part five 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 “Claim-Evidence-Question” 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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

CHICAGO — In July, in a packed classroom in downtown Chicago, a group composed mostly of early elementary teachers and child care workers read a story about “Wendi,” a fictional preschool teacher who loves reading but struggles in math. This story also appeared in The Associated Press Even though Wendi was drawn to early education where “math was so easy,” she still felt unsure of her skills.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Anna Apostolidou PhD, Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology, Ionian University Given the history of our discipline, it seems rather peculiar that anthropologists are not more “naturally inclined” to employ multimodality in their research and teaching. Apart from its expressive potential, multimodality’s key quality is that it proposes dynamic alternatives to enduring and delimiting dichotomies (particularly text/image) that have been tantalizing the field for over a century, and offers more

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Geography Education

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

“The historic Hope Mill in Scituate will soon be torn down after it was deemed unsafe. The long-vacant mill, which officially shut down in 2006, and has been slowly decaying ever since. The former textile mill sits along the Pawtuxet River in the Hope Village Historic District, which is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.” SOURCE: WPRI This story about this old mill being demolished (which is less than 2 miles from my residence) definitely hits close to home.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

As college classes start up this fall, instructors are handing out syllabi and pointing students to official platforms for turning in assignments and participating in class discussions. Meanwhile students are setting up unofficial online channels of their own, where they can ask questions of classmates, gripe about the professor and sometimes share homework and test answers.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Teaching in today’s world requires presenting content in a number of varied ways for student engagement and content retention. Wouldn’t it be awesome to prep just ONE resource with different strategies for optimal student learning? If you are willing to be creative in your lesson presentation, you can do this with ease! Choosing a Resource […] The post Many Strategies for Student Learning In One Interactive Resource appeared first on A Lesson Plan for Teachers.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 3, 2023

Photo by Chris Anderson on Unsplash Listen to the interview with Marcus Luther: Sponsored by EVERFI and Listenwise At the end of the 2021-22 school year, I sat down to complete my annual reflection on both the successes of the year as well as the walls I encountered. The “wall” I was most fixated upon? Making students better writers. It was not that I felt students had not grown as writers per se , but rather that I did not feel as if I had a strong relationship with students around their growth

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

EAGLE COUNTY, Colo. — Carrie Rodgers gestures toward the silver medallion sitting atop her fridge, then waves it off. It’s nothing really, she shrugs. Still, she reaches for the disc and sets it on the kitchen counter for a closer look. Two roofs and a pair of windows are etched into its center. Encircling the outline of those homes, the badge reads, “MAKE COLORADO AFFORDABLE 2022,” and below it, “IN GRATITUDE FOR YOUR LEADERSHIP.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

I was homeless for six years and now attend Yale as a fully funded graduate student. A tried-and-true bootstrap story, though it has by no means come easily. Like many first-generation low-income students (FGLI) , I began my education at my local community college, Indian River State College in Florida. I experienced a supportive environment for students, including a range of safety nets, personalized advising, ample financial resources and an individualized tutoring program.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Check out these four, free tools around global competence that career and technical education (CTE) faculty can implement immediately.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Coaching is a core element of supporting teacher learning and growth. Whether provided by a principal after a classroom observation or district curriculum specialist leading a PLC, instructional coaching best practices are important for consistent coaching. For school leaders and administrators thinking about the most effective coaching for their teachers, there’s a lot to consider, including: which teachers, from new to veteran, can benefit from coaching, obstacles, such as “teacher resis

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

There are likely droves of educators who find themselves wishing they could take a peek inside their students’ minds to find out, “What the heck are you thinking?” Some of those answers were made available last month when the Boys & Girls Clubs of America released its annual survey of kids and teens ages 9 to 18. The organization says that more than 130,000 young people at nearly 3,500 clubs around the country took part in the survey.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. 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: Ask a person on the first day of college what their college goals are, then 10 years later ask what those goals were – and you may not ge

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The post How Students’ Empathy for Others Motivates Them to Solve Challenges appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Imagine a school district as a ship navigating the vast and ever-changing ocean of education. Just as sailors rely on the North Star to navigate across uncharted waters, school districts can best stay on course with their own guiding light, an instructional framework.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The pandemic has largely changed public perceptions about the appropriate use of technology for young people, argues Katie Davis, associate professor in the information school at the University of Washington. “The pandemic forced us to confront the fact that technology is absolutely essential in our lives, and especially during crises,” she says. Now, she says, discussion is shifting to questions of “When is technology good?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

NEWTON, Mass. — Shannon Vasconcelos fired up her laptop in a sterile conference room in a suburban office park, and right on schedule a mother and her daughter popped onto her screen. This story also appeared in GBH News and National Public Radio The two were in the Adirondacks on vacation, but not even that allowed them an escape from a process that had already begun to consume them: getting the daughter into college.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

A new guide provides sample lesson plans for teachers to introduce students to learner variability, which can increase students’ sense of belonging

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The Effortful Educator

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

I am a teacher that absolutely loves to read research articles focusing on education. I just love it. And nothing spikes my inner nerd more than a well-written article studying a learning strategy that is directly applicable to my classroom and the students I teach. I was recently made aware of such an article (thank you, Brad Busch ) by Drs. Nicholas Soderstrom and Elizabeth Bjork.The article, Pretesting Enhances Learning in the Classroom , takes a look at pretesting and its implication on lear

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Strange Maps

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Philip Sclater should have stopped writing in 1858. That’s when he published one of the foundational texts of biogeography, the science that studies the distribution of species and ecosystems across space and time. Lemur fossils in Madagascar and India But there was one little primate that didn’t neatly fit into Sclater’s division of the world into six biogeographical realms.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

It’s difficult to overstate how vital teachers, a key factor in student success, are to post-pandemic academic and social-emotional recovery. It’s troubling then, to be faced with signs of a teaching profession in decline — with alarming teacher shortages , fewer college students choosing to become teachers and many current teachers not recommending that others enter the profession.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

The post How Designing Personalized Micro-credentials Can Support Adult Learners’ Journeys appeared first on Digital Promise.

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In an active classroom, teachers have many options for student assessment. Along with notebook questions and tests, you can assess student performance through daily activities, group work, and writing assignments. These TCI assessment strategies will help you identify what works for your students and what doesn’t, so you can adjust your instructional plans accordingly.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Our hot tip for efficiently capturing classroom instruction? A hot mic. A wireless classroom microphone, that is. When recording classroom teaching, of course the video component is important. However, capturing crisp teacher and student audio is also integral for later instructional analysis and reflection. Luckily, wireless classroom microphones are easy to find and low-cost to purchase for teachers or professional development and school leaders reviewing teaching videos.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Tempers get short. Test scores suffer. On the worst days, schools close, and students lose days of learning while parents’ schedules are disrupted. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Yorkwood Elementary in Baltimore, before it finally got air conditioning last year, was subject to closure by the district on any day the forecast hit 90 degrees by 10 a.m.

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4QM Teaching

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

We often hear from schools and teachers that we work with that one of their main goals is to increase or improve the quality of student discourse. This is indeed a worthy goal: we want history and social studies classrooms to be active places where students are doing the intellectual work of our discipline, and often that work is best done in conversation with peers or with a teacher or both.

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All Things Pedagogical

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

Happy academic new year to everyone! I know I have not written a blog in about a month and I am sure folk are waiting for new Accessagogy podcast episodes, and also that accessible social media and visuals training I wanted to do for union, labour, and community outreach folk, and I promise those last two are coming as well, but I think I need to explain the radio silence to those of you who are waiting and wondering.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2023

Usually, when I begin writing an essay, I’m hopeful, or at least determined. Not this time. I’m making myself write this essay, even though it scares me. Writing about bodies – about my body – scares me. Our bodies are so sexualized and commodified that talking about them in school or in relation to school feels almost forbidden. When we talk about our bodies, especially bodies perceived as feminine, many people immediately think about sex.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2023

A high school English teacher recently explained to me how she’s coping with the latest challenge to education in America: ChatGPT. She runs every student essay through five different generative AI detectors. She thought the extra effort would catch the cheaters in her classroom. A clever series of experiments by computer scientists and engineers at Stanford University indicate that her labors to vet each essay five ways might be in vain.

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