A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

We blink, and things change. While disruption is not new in any sense, it is happening at a more frenetic pace for a variety of reasons. I shared the following in Disruptive Thinking : With the exponential rate of change taking place in society, it is exciting to think about what the future may hold, despite many unknowns. However, we know that the future will be vastly different than what we are currently experiencing and that these changes will dramatically impact workforce expectations.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

On October 19-21, the League of Innovative Schools convened in Los Angeles, California, for their biannual League meeting, which was hosted alongside Compton Unified School District and El Segundo Unified School District. Over two and a half days, district leaders explored how emerging technologies can support powerful learning, surfaced and shared innovative learnings and leadership practices, and helped us welcome the League of Innovative Schools 2022-2023 cohort.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Commonwealth of Kentucky has leaned hard into the 4 Shifts Protocol to support its schools’ technology integration and instructional redesign work. Over 650(!) Digital Learning Coaches (DLCs) across the state have received a copy of Harnessing Technology for Deeper Learning and are working with their local educators to use the protocol to redesign lessons and units for deeper learning, greater student agency, more authentic work, and rich technology infusion.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

For all that education has changed in recent times—from the disappearance of cursive lessons to the rise of computer science in classrooms to pandemic-forced remote learning—one thing has remained stubbornly unchanged. That’s stress and anxiety over math. Even before worries mounted over “ learning loss ” and the ongoing youth mental health crisis , researchers observed math anxiety in children as young as 6.

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Anthropology for Beginners

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the fall of 2020, educators at Aspire Public Schools – a network of 36 charter schools in California that are privately run but taxpayer funded – were worried. As with other schools around the country, pandemic era learning wasn’t going smoothly. Many of its 7,000 middle and high schoolers, mostly Hispanic and low-income, were struggling in their studies and course failure rates had spiked.

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Education Elements

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

And just like that, summer has ended, and pumpkin spice lattes are back. It’s that time of year: the Winter Holidays are among us! Like other times during the year, this is a great moment to pause and be intentional about centering educational equity in your school and district. Consider these 5 tips as we head into the holiday season.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

If you’re an educator trying to improve teaching, you’ve likely wondered questions like these: “Is my instruction still engaging and fun?” and “Am I really helping my students become independent thinkers?”. Whether you’re a new teacher or have a decade of experience in the classroom, it’s tricky to continually improve teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

In the heart of Louisville, Kentucky, Rikaiya Long recently stood at the front of the courtroom, presenting oral arguments from the law brief she’d authored a week prior. Legal scholars listened intently while she defended her position in the case of strict liability. Rikaiya is not a lawyer, though — she’s a high school student. And the legal scholars were student teachers from the University of Louisville.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

The post How to Engage Students in Science Through Real-World Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

This past spring, I had the opportunity to develop a virtual cybersecurity camp for young women and girls called CompuGirls. CompuGirls was founded in 2006 by Dr. Kim Scott and introduces adolescent girls to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) through culturally responsive practices and social justice. During one of our Saturday classes, I sat in one of the virtual sessions and listened to the group conversation about the dangers of cyber vulnerabilities.

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Maitri Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

When we go to Montessori teacher school we are taught to have gorgeous examples of art throughout our prepared environment. But it's not just meant to look pretty on the walls! It's meant to actually bring culture alive for us and our children. And, I think most importantly, it gives the children inspiration and motives for conversation. Young children are just becoming masters of our language.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

At a cookout this summer, after I shared yet another story about teaching, a friend of mine said to me: “I could never be a teacher. I couldn’t do what you do.”. I put a humble face on, but beamed with pride inside. I couldn’t help it. As a teacher, it’s validating to hear someone else recognize how challenging our work can be, especially looking in from the outside.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The post Leveraging the Village for Community Science Learning appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The community of Orangeburg, South Carolina, is home to two Historically Black Colleges and Universities. Unsurprisingly, these institutions—Claflin University and South Carolina State University—make the internet available to their students and faculty. In fact, earlier this year, the latter institution installed a brand-new, very zippy system. But just off campus in the surrounding neighborhoods, high-speed internet is hard to come by, and it tends to be expensive for folks in a county where C

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Maitri Learning

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

When we go to Montessori teacher school we are taught to have gorgeous examples of art throughout our prepared environment. But it's not just meant to look pretty on the walls! It's meant to actually bring culture alive for us and our children. And, I think most importantly, it gives the children inspiration and motives for conversation. Young children are just becoming masters of our language.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read.

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History Havoc

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Check out my latest YouTube video – just a quick bit about Francis Butler Leigh and her time on her Georgia plantation after the war. You can even see her book online at the link below. Abstract: Francis Butler Leigh was a plantation owner and former slave owner who wrote a book about her experiences after the war. She discusses her life as well as the former slaves lives and what they were going through, and then I take a look at a study on slave owning vs. non-slave owning wealthy famili

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ACRE

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

How do rising and falling interest rates affect people living and working in Arkansas? Recently, Dr. Jeremy Horpedahl, UCA Economics Professor and Director of the Arkansas Center for Research in Economics, wrote a short explainer on the topic of interest rates for the Winter 2022 Issue of Arkansas Flavor by Arkansas Times. He explains how inflation impacts individuals in the U.S. and Arkansans specifically, and discusses actions taken by government to attempt to stabilize the U.S. economy.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

I have been using Google Earth and have written on the use of it earlier. Here I would like to expand more on the use of Voyager in the Google Earth App as many students are using the Google Earth app in their mobile devices such as iPad. The use of Google Earth has been great to understand the concepts of Space, Scale, Place and Environment in Geography Games in Voyager You can click on the wheel like icon to access Voyager.

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Geogramblings

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

This article was co-authored with Catherine Walker and Nerida Jolley. You can read the introduction here, and then continue with the rest of the article, for free, via the University of Manchester’s website here. One of Maisy Summer’s beautiful images for the YPAC creative book How can climate change education address rather than exacerbate eco-anxiety, whilst also valuing and learning from diverse perspectives?

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Dr. Preece

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

One of the real joys of the work that I now do is exploring different pedagogies from disciplines that I’ve never encountered before. Here, I’d like to talk about something that I’ve seen in English pedagogy, and consider if – and how – we might want to conceptualise something similar for Geography. Appleyard (1990) Theory of Reader Development. In this model, Appleyard (1990) is setting out how individuals make progress as readers of literature.

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Leah Cleary

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Struggling to get the powers that be onboard with NON-digital learning? Those copies are expensive, but sometimes you need them! Read on for 5 Simple Ways for Teachers to Save Copies without Going 100% Digital. I was sitting in a faculty meeting the other day and the principal brought up a major issue at our school. It’s a big one. It’s a tough topic to broach with teachers.

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History Havoc

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

What is going on History fans! Today I wanted to talk about a book recommendation called, The Billion Dollar Spy by David E. Hoffman. I am a child of the Cold War, at least the end of the Cold War. I have a lot of memories as a child in school dealing with nuclear bomb drills, especially since I grew up 20 miles from one of the largest military bases in the United States.

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Smithsonian's History Explorer

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Teaser text: How do the stories we tell about our past shape our democracy? URL: [link] Trailing link text: Join us for the 2022–2023 school year!

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Geography Teacher Sharing

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Check out this interactive on the impact of sea level rise on Singapore.

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Stanford History Education Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Lies Spread Faster Than the Truth. Can Communities Change That?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2022

PENNINGTON, N.J. — There was one minute left on Suzanne Horsley’s stopwatch and the atmosphere remained thick with carbon dioxide, despite the energetic efforts of her class of third graders to clear the air. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. Horsley, a wellness teacher at Toll Gate Grammar School, in Pennington, New Jersey, had tasked the kids with tossing balls of yarn representing carbon dioxide molecules to their peers stationed at plastic disks representing forests.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Election season tends to bring big, divisive issues into school buildings and classrooms. Environmental policies, guns, abortion, immigration and racial inequality are all on the ballot this year, and as we near Election Day, tensions are running high. With political topics as polarizing as they are right now, it is understandable for teachers to want to try to avoid them and just stick to the lesson plan.

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Civics U

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

It may surprise some young folks to learn that in the early days of our country not everyone was a citizen, and not everyone had the right to own property, to go to school, or to vote. In different contexts citizenship can refer either to the duties involved in being a good citizen such as contributing to one’s community and country; or it can refer to the legal rights that a person holds by virtue of being a citizen.

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Stanford History Education Group

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Lies Spread Faster Than the Truth. Can Communities Change That?

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

There’s growing interest among schools in looking for evidence of how effective edtech products are before making purchases, but leading advocates for efficacy research say more needs to be done. To help make that push, two nonprofits in the space—Edtech Evidence Exchange and InnovateEDU, which operates Project Unicorn— are merging , arguing they’ll be more powerful together than apart.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

AUSTIN, Texas — You may remember the announcement one year ago today of a new private university here that hoped to better promote civil discourse and viewpoint diversity—to avoid what its leaders see as a “liberal bias” on most campuses that they say leads to groupthink rather than free and open inquiry. The news went viral—it was all over social media, and even cable news.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

More than two years ago, educators around the country began to engage in dialogue regarding the digital divide , as they recognized the reality that many students did not have access and connectivity as once believed. A term originally applied to describe the technology-access split between those living in urban spaces as opposed to rural communities, more recently it’s been used to highlight that only two-thirds of the world’s population has access to the internet, according to the United Natio

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