A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 9, 2022
Many concepts are looked upon negatively as they are associated with buzzwords, fads, or a lack of substance. You won’t get much of an argument from me as to the validity of this view because it is true in many cases. Educators want proven strategies that can be implemented readily that will address diverse learner needs while leading to an improvement in outcomes.
My AP Life
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Educational leadership classes are great for the principalship. Not so much for the job of assistant principal. AP DeAnna Miller shares helpful advice she has found on her own in the books of Baruti Kafele (values and beliefs) and Ryan Donlan (day-to-day management and more). The post No One Told Us How to Be Assistant Principals first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The company that owns Lego is diving headlong into K-12 education’s switch to digital. Kirkbi A/S, the private investment and holding company that owns a controlling stake in Lego, acquired the video animation company BrainPOP for $875 million. The deal was announced Tuesday. Fueled by the digital transformation of K-12 learning, the acquisition is expected to be only the first of many for Kirkbi A/S.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 10, 2022
In 2019, a grassroots campaign led by parents succeeded in passing a wave of dyslexia legislation. At least seven states, from Arkansas to Wisconsin, now require teachers to be trained in the Orton-Gillingham teaching approach and use it to help students with dyslexia read and write better. Many more states mandated hallmarks of the Orton-Gillingham method, specifically calling for “multisensory” instruction.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 13, 2022
The post Navigating Zimbabwe’s Competence Curriculum: A Push for Student-Driven Tech appeared first on Digital Promise.
Education Elements
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The teacher attrition crisis in US education has been in the headlines a lot in recent months. Many districts and schools started the 22-23 school year woefully understaffed, leading districts to implement drastic stop gap measures just to open their doors. Some districts opened this fall with armies of substitute teachers, shortened school days, and were forced to implement confusing and sub-optimal alternative schedules.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Google has silently acquired a widely-used K-12 data and analytics company. The tech giant confirmed, in an email to EdSurge, that it's picked up BrightBytes for an undisclosed amount. The acquisition does not appear to have been publicly announced. And Google declined to provide any details, including when the sale had taken place. But an email about the deal sent by Google to a school district in early May, obtained by EdSurge, cites May 17th as the expected date of the transaction.
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Digital Promise
OCTOBER 12, 2022
The post How My Class Found Joy in Learning Through the Process of Discovery appeared first on Digital Promise.
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 12, 2022
WBA: The OER Highlighted at the National Council on Public History Annual Conference Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 13:08 In May, Director of Online Programs Peter Mabli presented Who Built America: The OER––ASHP/CML's upcoming free and publicly-accessible version of the WBA textbook with interactive charts and content from History Matters––at the National Council of Public History’s Annual Conference.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Educators and parents started this school year with bated breath. Last year’s stress led to record levels of teacher burnout and mental health challenges for students. Even before the pandemic, a mental health crisis among high schoolers loomed. According to a survey administered by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in 2019, 37 percent of high school students said they experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness and 19 percent reported suicidality.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 13, 2022
As schools across the South grapple with vacancies, many turn to those without teaching certificates or formal training to serve students. This story also appeared in AL.com and The Dallas Morning News. Alabama administrators increasingly hire educators with emergency certifications, often in low-income and majority Black neighborhoods. Texas, meanwhile, allowed about 1 in 5 new teachers to sidestep certification last school year.
Maitri Learning
OCTOBER 8, 2022
I was invited by the Childhood Potential Conference to offer a talk on the BEST topic: Practical Parenting to Support the Brain. The video below is a brief/short version of the longer version made for the conference. Key highlights include: The brain never stops changing Experience guides brain development Use it or loose Helping the child gain independence to grow strong brain neworks The stress response and how to avoid it Toileting and bedtime tips If you're interested in Montessori parenti
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 12, 2022
Welcome Rachel Pitkin Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 13:13 Rachel Pitkin is a first-year PhD student in History at the GC. Her current research interests include public and urban history, and history of women and gender in the twentieth century United States. Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 12, 2022
I’m so sick of hearing about self-care and feelings. Life just happens to us, and there’s not much we can do about it. A former student of mine shared this opinion in a class seminar about Transcendentalism. Not exactly what Whitman had in mind, but I digress. While I am accustomed to hearing stories about former students, this one surprised me more than others.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 9, 2022
BOULDER, Colo. — In high school, Carlos Granillo was a standout honor student and multisport athlete whose hard work earned him admission to the state’s flagship university, the University of Colorado Boulder. This story also appeared in NBC News. Coming from a high school in Aurora that was 60 percent to 70 percent Latino, he figured he’d find a good number of Latinos on campus.
Maitri Learning
OCTOBER 8, 2022
I was invited by the Childhood Potential Conference to offer a talk on the BEST topic: Practical Parenting to Support the Brain. The video below is a brief/short version of the longer version made for the conference. Key highlights include: The brain never stops changing Experience guides brain development Use it or loose Helping the child gain independence to grow strong brain neworks The stress response and how to avoid it Toileting and bedtime tips If you're interested in Montessori parenti
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 12, 2022
New Media Lab Reopens for In-Person Students Wednesday, October 12, 2022 - 13:56 The NML assists doctoral students from across academic disciplines to create digital projects or tools to support their scholarly research and teaching. Lab projects integrate digital technologies into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2022
A little over 50 years ago, a student teacher in Minneapolis hit upon a novel idea to engage his eighth grade American history class in a unit on westward expansion. Don Rawitsch, with the help of two fellow student teachers, Paul Dillenberger and Bill Heinemann, created a game in which students took on the role of a wagon leader making the harrowing journey from Missouri to Oregon in the mid-1800s.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 14, 2022
The Hechinger Report is publishing ongoing coverage of America’s child care crisis, including challenges finding care, staffing shortages and the need for more funding. If you’d like to share your experience, we’d love to hear it to help inform future reporting and possibly include in our articles. Please fill out this form and a member of our team will contact you to talk more.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 13, 2022
Some introductory courses have a “weed-out” reputation for narrowing the paths students can take through college. ( Organic chemistry , anyone?) Research by the nonprofit Gardner Institute and other groups has found that these typically-freshman-year classes tend to prune some kinds of students from academic tracks more than others. For example, a new study published in the journal PNAS Nexus found that, among students who perform poorly in intro STEM classes, those who are underrepresented mino
ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2022
Now that so much college work is done digitally in learning management systems, many colleges are trying to analyze student data from those platforms to predict which students need help. But the practice is so new that it’s not yet clear how well the approach actually works. Can big data from the LMS predict success in a class? That’s the question tackled by a research paper published this week.
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
ASHP/CML will host a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded institute in Summer 2023 for 25 college and university teachers to study the visual culture of the American Civil War and its aftermath. This sixth iteration of the institute will focus on the era’s array of visual media—including the fine arts, ephemera, photography, cartoons, maps, and monuments—to examine how information and opinion about the war and its impact were recorded and disseminated, and the ways visual media expressed
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
This summer thirty middle and high school teachers from throughout the United States joined the ASHP/CML for a National Endowment for the Humanities-funded Summer Institute on LGBTQ+ Histories of the United States. For two weeks in July, participants met virtually for presentations by noted scholars and archivists, and for hands-on workshops focused on teaching about LGBTQ+ history.
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Work is ongoing on “Past/Present,” our AHA-funded project to create teaching resources and primary source collections that help educators link history to current events. The new collections of materials will be available by the end of this school year on Social History for Every Classroom, ASHP/CML’s online resource database for K-12 educators. Over the summer we met with teams of teachers from across the country and educational advisors to discuss the use of history to teach current events, exp
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
For the second year, ASHP/CML has received a small grant to participate in CUNY’s LGBTQIA+ Consortium. With funding from the City Council of NYC, the Consortium supports LGBTQIA+ training, education, programming, and archives at 14 campuses. At the Graduate Center, participants include CLAGS: the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies, the Mina Rees Library, and the Public Science Project.
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
In May, Director of Online Programs Peter Mabli presented Who Built America: The OER––ASHP/CML’s upcoming free and publicly-accessible version of the WBA textbook with interactive charts and content from History Matters––at the National Council of Public History’s Annual Conference. His presentation was part of an online roundtable discussion among public historians who have created open educational resources, digital monographs and edited collections, and other digital publications.
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Rachel Pitkin is a first-year PhD student in History at the GC. Her current research interests include public and urban history, and history of women and gender in the twentieth century United States. Rachel comes to the GC with a background in education, and in teaching history/social studies. She holds an MA in Museum Studies and an MA in History, and she is a longtime volunteer at the LGBT Community Center National History Archives.
ASHP CML
OCTOBER 11, 2022
The NML assists doctoral students from across academic disciplines to create digital projects or tools to support their scholarly research and teaching. Lab projects integrate digital technologies into traditional academic practice, challenging scholars to develop fresh questions in their respective fields using the tools of new technology. Visit the New Media Lab website to learn about upcoming meetings and for information about how to become involved.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 11, 2022
Log on to the website for the online tutoring company VIPKid , and a pop-up will appear asking visitors to select which part of the world they’re in. Users can scroll through more than 230 “regions” across six continents, including Madagascar, Mexico, Morocco, Montenegro and Myanmar. It’s a marked change from the education company’s origins, which, up until about a year ago, catered almost exclusively to students in mainland China, offering one-on-one English classes with tutors from the U.S. an
ED Surge
OCTOBER 14, 2022
With anxiety over AI growing , the federal government published its blueprint for how to keep privacy from flatlining in the digital age. Published last week, the Biden Administration’s “ Blueprint for an AI Bill of Rights ,” a non-binding set of principles meant to safeguard privacy, included a provision for data privacy and notes education as one of the key areas involved.
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