A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

Morale can best be defined as the confidence, enthusiasm, and discipline of a person or group at a particular time. Thriving cultures that produce results make every effort to keep this on the positive side. However, this is easier said than done. While the pandemic has undoubtedly played a monumental role in decreasing morale, other factors continuously play a role, such as leadership, mandates, lack of time, systems that are in place, a toxic culture, inadequate pay, or trying to maintain a wo

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Catlin Tucker

AUGUST 17, 2022

In my last two posts on self-awareness and self-management , I explored strategies for helping students identify, understand, and regulate their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors. The next social-emotional skill is responsible decision-making. This competency requires students to take their heightened self-awareness and ability to manage themselves and make responsible choices about how they respond to different situations and interact with others.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2022

Immediately after winning a prestigious fellowship and becoming North Dakota’s first Albert Einstein distinguished educator fellow, physics teacher Michelle Strand had little time to celebrate. She resigned from the job she loved. Strand was denied the yearlong leave of absence she requested to help guide federal STEM education efforts. In refusing to guarantee that Strand could return to the school district afterward, her superintendent in West Fargo cited, somewhat ironically, the teacher shor

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

Taryn Southern is a performer who likes to experiment with cutting-edge technologies. She’s recorded a pop album that she co-wrote with some AI code, for instance, and she’s created a digital clone of herself that she can use to make videos for her popular YouTube channel. Southern has been a celebrity ever since she was back in high school: She was a contestant on American Idol when she was 17, in that popular reality show’s third season.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2022

The post 4 Tips for Creating Powerful Challenge Based Learning with Students appeared first on Digital Promise.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 17, 2022

Here are two excellent clips about the Egyptian Book of the Dead, a book written mostly in hieroglyphics with vignettes and stories about the deceased and their journey into the afterlife. And here is a short activity students can complete after the videos. It includes some of the entries in the Book of the Dead and asks students to create categories for the entries.

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Edthena

AUGUST 15, 2022

Teaching video clubs are an effective way for educators, and aspiring educators, to collaborate. By watching videos of peers’ teaching practice, teacher candidates receive helpful feedback and ideas for classroom improvement. And when these teaching video clubs are diverse, the stronger the learning experience. At the recent American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education (AACTE) 74th Annual Meeting in New Orleans, Georgia College Professors Roddran Grimes and Stephen Wills presented Dive

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Students who graduate from the University of Colorado Boulder actually will make about $8,000 more a year than students who graduated from less elite four-year universities in the state. State data indicate that the extra payoff is only half as much, about $4,000. Credit: AP Photo/David Zalubowski. How much is a college degree worth? Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce calculates that a bachelor’s degree will confer an average lifetime earnings of $2.8 million.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 15, 2022

William Dalrymple, the author of numerous books about India, including " T he Anararchy: The East India Company, Corporate Violence, and the Pillage of an Empire , " is starting a new podcast called "Empire." Anita Anand, author of the Patient Assassin , will cohost the podcast with Dalrymple. You can listen to a trailer and the first episode on Apple Podcasts [link] and on Spotify.

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Education Elements

AUGUST 15, 2022

School leaders, teachers and parents have had to navigate difficult conversations in the last few years. During the panedemic, they explained to students that the learning will be shifting again to virtual, that collaboration will look and feel different, that although “sharing is caring,” let’s pause on the sharing of supplies for now. The skill it takes to navigate these discussions with students and children is already complex; but add the sensitivity needed to when students are grappling wit

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ED Surge

AUGUST 17, 2022

There was a shift in Cheryl Gonzales’ life—a period of transition that seemed full of possibilities—around the time of a high school graduation. Not hers, her youngest daughter. The 43-year-old mom of four (and grandmother of two) turned her thoughts back to an associates degree that had sat unfinished since she left St. Philip’s College, in San Antonio’s east side, rather suddenly 20 years before.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 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! In 2020, as the pandemic, polarization and racial justice uprisings upended the status quo, calls to use the moment to build a better education system to address the country’s inequities became ubiquitous.

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Edthena

AUGUST 19, 2022

It’s a great time to reflect on lessons learned from education experts so far this year. Our free resource site for educators, PLtogether , features conversations with education experts and leaders about topics from professional development to teacher wellness. We’ve rounded up the best bits of advice and insights from education experts from the past year.

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Civics U

AUGUST 19, 2022

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.” Tenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution The previous Civics U article on Federalism dealt with the division and assignment of power between the federal government and the states as established in the Tenth Amendment.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

A popular communication and collaboration tool for K-12 teachers that’s been around for more than a decade is closing for good. Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

For those of us in the trenches of the community school movement, an increased federal focus on community schools couldn’t come at a better time. City leaders and others are increasingly aware of the power of community schools as an equity strategy. And equity is needed now more than ever as schools face hardships exacerbated by the pandemic. No wonder local calls for community schools are growing louder and more frequent.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

As I rolled into the school parking lot, I ran through the day’s to-do list in my head. I have to submit data from two recent tests, fill out two data reflection forms, start progress reports and complete the SEL survey about each of my 23 kindergarteners. I hope no behavioral concerns arise, because if I can avoid a parent phone call I might be able to get some of this done—well, that is if I do a virtual assignment during social studies.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

When Anna Camba moved from Venezuela to the U.S. four years ago, she worried about arriving too “late” in her educational journey to succeed in her new home. But the Spanish-speaker says she found the support she needed by enrolling in a dual-language program at the Honors College at Miami Dade College, which helped her to pursue higher education in both her native language and in English.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 19, 2022

Universities are expected to do a lot these days. From delivering mental health options for students to growing their online programs, they have their fingers in a lot of pies. And they need to: Experts say that the number of services that students expect from a university has grown considerably in recent years, especially in the context of increasing technological change.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2022

In June, more than 40 neurodiverse high school and college students traveled to Washington D.C. to meet with representatives from the Department of Education and elected officials. Their goal? To advocate for measures designed to better support students with learning disabilities in higher education. “I think that a lot of the time, different learners are overlooked,” says Claire Robinson, a rising senior in Issaquah School District, who traveled to D.C. to join the lobbying effort.

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