A Principal's Reflections

JULY 7, 2024

We all have that nagging voice, whispering about what we "should" be doing. Maybe it's a call to eat healthier, exercise more, or finally tackle that neglected hobby. But how often does that voice translate into sustained action? The truth is that achieving lasting change is rarely about grand gestures or dramatic overhauls. It's about the power of consistency and continuity – small, steady shifts that build momentum and pave the way for a transformed you.

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Active History Teacher

JULY 12, 2024

Teaching the industrial revolution inventions can be so boring! Our textbooks often put the industrial revolution inventions in multiple places and they are often just a sentence or two! Getting students to process the impact of the industrial revolution inventions in a meaningful way is always my goal. When I put this lesson together, I wanted to get kids up and moving.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Technology by Terry Heick It’s possible that there is no time in the history of education that our systems of educating have been so out of touch with the communities. Growing populations, shifting communities, and increasingly inwardly-focused schools all play a role. In light of the access of modern technology, social media, and new learning models that reconfigure the time and place learning happens, it doesn’t have to be that way.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 7, 2024

When I first started teaching middle school, I did everything my university prep program told me to do in what’s known as the “workshop model.” I let kids choose their books. I determined their independent reading levels and organized my classroom library according to reading difficulty. I then modeled various reading skills, like noticing the details of the imagery in a text, and asked my students to practice doing likewise during independent reading time.

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ED Surge

JULY 9, 2024

For the last year, EdSurge has been showcasing students enrolled in teacher preparation programs to understand who is going into teaching today — and why. In each profile, we hand the mic over to an aspiring educator, letting them explain, in their own words, what drew them into this career path and why they’ve stuck with it. The series, called “ America’s Future Teachers ,” comes at a time when the teaching profession is in turmoil.

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Women's History Network

JULY 8, 2024

Virginia Woolf’s maxim in her now-classic polemic was this: ‘a woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction’.[1] But what if a writer did not have access to these resources – this independent wealth, this private space? What, then, might her fiction look like?

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Digital Promise

JULY 10, 2024

Digital Promise leaders reflect on top insights and learnings around education technology from the ISTELive 2024 conference.

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ED Surge

JULY 8, 2024

Students are missing a lot of classes. Chronic absenteeism, when a student misses at least 10 percent of the school year — which includes missing school for any reason, and not just unexcused absences — nearly doubled from 2019 to 2022. In May, the White House flagged chronic absenteeism as a national “challenge,” pointing toward its connection to lower reading and graduation levels.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

JULY 11, 2024

Virginia E. Rutter is Professor Emerita of Sociology at Framingham State University (MA), where she continues to teach classes on families and methods. She’s a senior scholar at the Council on Contemporary Families.

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Digital Promise

JULY 8, 2024

The post How Centering the Voices of Early Childhood Educators in Rural Communities Can Promote Equity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

When ChatGPT was released to the public in November 2022, advocates and watchdogs warned about the potential for racial bias. The new large language model was created by harvesting 300 billion words from books, articles and online writing, which include racist falsehoods and reflect writers’ implicit biases. Biased training data is likely to generate biased advice, answers and essays.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

My colleagues feverishly jotted down notes as one of my students, Ethan, moved through his presentation on how educators can more intentionally use AI in their classes. Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school.

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Living Geography

JULY 12, 2024

That's the title of a new book by Jack Dangermond in association with the wider GIS community. A description: The Power of Where presents the visionary concepts of Jack Dangermond, cofounder of Esri®, the world’s leading mapping software company. With a foreword by bestselling author and writer for The Atlantic, James Fallows, it’s filled with the latest web maps, illustrations, and real-life stories from a vibrant global community of geographic information systems (GIS) users.

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TCI

JULY 9, 2024

Summer is the perfect time for teachers to rest, recharge, and get inspired. This summer, take advantage of TCI’s professional development opportunities to brush up on the latest teaching strategies and earn professional hours. 2024 Back to School Summit Don’t miss the 2024 Back to School Summit on Thursday, July 25, at 9:00 am PT! With engaging and dynamic sessions, our Summit will get you excited and prepared for the new school year.

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Women's History Network

JULY 9, 2024

Please do join us TOMORROW for a fascinating paper from Dr Lottie Whalen on ‘the smock colony’. Identifiable by their patterned smock dresses, sandals, and bobbed hair, this community of creative women lived, worked, and agitated for change in Greenwich Village in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2024

If we are to believe the current rapturous cheerleading around artificial intelligence, education is about to be transformed. Digital educators, alert and available at all times, will soon replace their human counterparts and feed students with concentrated personalized content. It’s reminiscent of a troubling experiment from the 1960s , immortalized in one touching image: an infant monkey, clearly scared, clutching a crude cloth replica of the real mother it has been deprived of.

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2024

There’s a new battle raging in the long-running war over costly college textbooks , one that may strike a serious blow to the textbook subscription programs promoted by publishers and criticized by student advocates. The U.S. Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

JULY 8, 2024

Among the speakers featured at this summer's Smithsonian National Education Summit, classroom teachers from across grade levels and subject areas will share transferrable practices and insightful strategies with thousands of educator participants

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History Havoc

JULY 10, 2024

Having lived in Texas for a long time, this is my home and I absolutely love it here. However, there is one thing that sticks in my crawl so to speak. Can we stop with the Texas secession talk? First of all, legally and constitutionally the state cannot secede. Plus it would be ludicrous. Texas v. White (1869) This is the Supreme Court case that set the legal president that does not allow a state to secede.

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2024

If you’re a band of hunter-gatherers entering a new land, you don’t move in straight lines — you progress in a pattern called “Lévy walks”. Where you go, and how quickly, is determined by the lay of the land, and how it changes over time. Sahul, before it shrank and fragmented Those two insights are the pillars upon which Australian and French researchers have built a new model for mapping how pre-agricultural humans occupied new territory.

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Archaeology Library Humanities Research 91

Living Geography

JULY 11, 2024

There is now an opportunity for GA members to get a discount on GIS courses which are run by the Royal Geographical Society / ESRI UK. If you ask many teachers what they want training in, they often say either fieldwork / NEAs or GIS. This has been the case for quite some time now. It's also important to say that the GIS skills acquired need to be introduced to students in a co-ordinated way, with progression from the Early Years up to 'A' level (and beyond).

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Education 91

The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2024

Why do so many young children struggle with word problems in math? Researchers believe one reason is that students often learn to interpret word problems by focusing on key words such as “and” or “total.” Relying too much on key words can lead students astray, particularly because word problems get more complex as students go through school. Because these types of math problems require so many skills beyond number manipulation – like reading and executive function, for example – excelling at wor

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Digital Promise

JULY 9, 2024

The post Can AI Be Ethical? Understanding What This Means for the Education Sector appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 9, 2024

Recent archaeological findings 1 challenge the long-held stereotypes of ancient societies, revealing evidence of a Neolithic community where men, women, and immigrants enjoyed equal access to food. This discovery, based on the remains of a society in what is now Valais, Switzerland, offers a glimpse into a community practicing dietary equality, a stark contrast to other known Neolithic societies.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 8, 2024

What do we want students to get out of math class? Proficiency? A love of math? Job prospects? Kent and Steve discuss.

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Psychology Sorted

JULY 11, 2024

26-28 July. Recommended for IB Diploma Psychology teachers – all levels of experience.

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Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2024

The post How Text-to-Speech Technology is Breaking Barriers for Math Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Geogramblings

JULY 6, 2024

The Climate Ambassadors scheme, a national initiative empowering young people to tackle climate change, has nine regional hubs across England. Leading the London hub is Annie Risner, a true Londoner with a diverse background and a deep-rooted passion for community engagement and creative expression. Annie’s journey, from growing up in Hackney and Kent to living in five different countries, has instilled in her a unique perspective on the interconnectedness of people and the environment.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 10, 2024

Understanding how children learn to read is pivotal in designing effective literacy instruction. Dr. Hollis Scarborough’s Reading Rope metaphorically illustrates this intricate process, depicting reading proficiency as a result of intertwining strands rather than a single leap.

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Anthropology.net

JULY 11, 2024

A remarkable study has brought to light the most ancient human genome sequenced to date, belonging to a Denisovan male from 200,000 years ago. This significant find, presented by population geneticist Stéphane Peyrégne at the annual meeting of the Society for Molecular Biology and Evolution in Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, has profound implications for understanding our extinct cousins and their interactions with other archaic humans.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

JULY 12, 2024

The first interview in this series features top takeaways from the College Presidents for Civic Preparedness Faculty Institute at Rutgers University.

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Civics 69

Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Join APSA for our third webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. How are political science educators bringing the 2024 U.S. election into their classrooms? What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. election? What tools can faculty use to address campaign and election mis- and disinformation?

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 10, 2024

Thanks to a generous donation of books by Haymarket Books , we can offer you a copy of Our History Is the Future: Standing Rock Versus the Dakota Access Pipeline, and the Long Tradition of Indigenous Resistance for your story on teaching about a related lesson. It could be a story about using one of these three lessons: Standing with Standing Rock: A Role Play on the Dakota Access Pipeline , ‘Don’t Take Our Voices Away’: A Role Play on the Indigenous Peoples’ Global Summit on Climate Change , or

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Anthropology.net

JULY 12, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 has revealed that modern humans and Neanderthals engaged in repeated episodes of interbreeding over a span of 200,000 years. This discovery, spearheaded by researchers from Southeast University and Princeton University, sheds new light on the complex history of human evolution and interaction. Unveiling a History of Interaction Professor Liming Li of Southeast University stated, "This is the first time that geneticists have identified multiple waves of modern human-Neand

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Living Geography

JULY 12, 2024

Several exam specifications are making a real shift towards including some alternative types of knowledge, which in some areas has real power, but tends to be ignored in favour of knowledge from a 'Western' perspective. Indigenous knowledge is particularly important in this respect. A new series on Vox is exploring these knowledge s - particularly in relation to extreme weather.

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Learn for Living

JULY 11, 2024

Last week I was chatting with a friend whose daughter was just about to start second grade. She opened the red folder that lives in her daughters backpack on a daily basis and revealed a series of letters and notes from her daughters new teacher. Inside the folder was a list of classroom responsibilities, a volunteer form, and a little package of confetti she was encouraged to sprinkle on her pillow the night before class to bring fun dreams of their year together.

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Heinemann Blog

JULY 11, 2024

Whole-group literacy often involves the whole group of students, sitting on a rug, engaging with a story read aloud by the teacher. During this time, students ask questions, think deeply about the text, and participate in purposeful conversation as they turn-and-talk with their peers. What takes this learning further are curated, authentic, and meaningful text sets with a theme that is meant to build knowledge around a certain topic.

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