A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 20, 2024

" Leadership clarity is the light that cuts through the fog of uncertainty, guiding others toward a clear and purposeful path." During my early years as a principal, I was literally flying by the seat of my pants. No one person or program can adequately prepare you for the realities of the job, as things are coming at you from every direction. While putting out fires comes with the territory, the real work lies in developing a learning culture prioritizing relationships and student outcomes.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2024

WATERVILLE, Maine — For Emily Kayser, the prospect of covering her son’s college tuition on a teacher’s salary is “scary. It’s very stressful.” To pay for it, “I’m thinking, what can I sell?” Kayser, who was touring Colby College with her high school-age son, Matt, is among the many Americans in the middle who earn too much to qualify for need-based financial aid, but not enough to simply write a check to send their kids to college.

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Geogramblings

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In this article: Climate and Nature Action in Education launch events across England Teachers and School Staff: Request a Climate Ambassador and support from Sister Projects Individuals and Organisations: Onboard as a Climate Ambassador Networking opportunities for Climate Action in the East of England Climate and Nature Action in Education launch events across England This section is adapted text from “UEA hosts education conference as part of national climate scheme turning ambition into

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Remains in France found by archaeologists and geneticists suggest at least two lineages—not just one—of late Neanderthals in Europe. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The prevailing narrative of how humanity came about seemed straightforward enough: In what is today Europe, the last Neanderthals bowed out as Homo sapiens began arriving on the continent around 40,000 to 45,000 years ago.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

New federal survey data on the education workforce shows that a majority of schools had a tough time filling at least one fully certified teaching position this fall. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. Public schools reported having six teacher vacancies on average in August, based on responses to the School Pulse Panel by the National Center for Education Statistics.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Data is now everywhere in our lives, informing our decisions about which new show to watch, what path to take or whether to grab an umbrella. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn. Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Yet now more than ever, K-12 students need basic modern data science skills.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2024

A new report shares learnings from a cohort across K-12 education that tested ways to leverage AI toward equitable outcomes for students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

In recent years, a growing body of research has looked at the impact of college ‘deserts’ — sometimes defined as an area where people live more than a 30-minute drive to a campus — and found that those residing close to a college are more likely to attend. But a new study shows that these higher education deserts affect some groups of students much differently than others.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close. In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in all of 2023, according to an analysis of federal data provided to The Hechinger Report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association or SHEEO.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2024

The post Flipping the Status Quo: Outcomes Based Contracting May Ensure Edtech Reaches Its Full Potential appeared first on Digital Promise.

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NCHE

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The post test appeared first on ncheteach.org.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Angela Fleck says this was the typical scene last year in the sixth grade social studies classes she teaches at Glover Middle School in Spokane, Washington: Nearly every student had a smartphone, and many of them would regularly sneak glances at the devices, which they kept tucked behind a book or just under their desks. “They're pretty sneaky, so you wouldn't always know that that was the reason,” says Fleck.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Almost every day at the public elementary school she attended in Montgomery County, Maryland, Stephanie heard comments about her weight. Kids in her fifth grade class called her “fatty” instead of her name, she recalled; others whispered, “Do you want a cupcake?” as she walked by. One classmate spread a rumor that she had diabetes. Stephanie was so incensed by his teasing that she hit him and got suspended, she said.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The post Student Guest Post: Shifting our Mindsets about AI: Reframing AI as the Sidekick Rather than the Villain appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Human evolution continues, driven by the pressure of extreme environments. Among the most compelling examples is the adaptation of populations living in high-altitude areas such as the Tibetan Plateau, where oxygen levels are significantly lower than those at sea level. Over millennia, these communities have developed unique physiological traits that enable them to survive and thrive under conditions that would challenge the health of most people.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teigue Linch recalls the email she got from Pine Forest, her daughters’ child care center in Burlington, Vermont, encouraging families to take advantage of the new state law that allows more people to qualify for child care assistance. But Linch, who works full time as an office manager for an engineering company, has twin 17-month-old toddlers, a long to-do list and the heavy mental load shared by all parents of young children.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2024

When I left home at 17, I knew I wanted to go to college. I knew earning a degree would help me find a path to a more secure future. And I knew that I was interested in pursuing a career focused on social justice. I also had no idea how I could afford college when I was already working multiple jobs just to earn enough money to make ends meet. I had never met my father, and I had a rocky relationship with my mother, so I was largely on my own.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Blog: Pushing Back: Odysseys in Folkestone, U.K.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In the 1920s, the search for humanity’s origins was centered on Europe and Asia, despite Charles Darwin's suggestion that Africa might be the cradle of humankind. The discovery of a primate fossil skull in South Africa would soon challenge these assumptions. The skull, initially displayed as a curiosity on a mantelpiece, was brought to the attention of Raymond Dart, an anatomy professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Social-emotional learning (SEL) has become a primary focus in many school’s strategic plans. Fortunately, there is a long list of literature, articles and research that outline the importance of SEL and the positive impact that it can have on student development. Knowing this, teachers try to fit these lessons into their morning meetings, projects, special classes, birthday celebrations, snack times and lunch hours.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The post Micro-credential Platform: Our 2024 Fall Updates appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Call For Participants: Ancient Music Open Mic Night at the 2025 Annual Meeting kskordal Tue, 10/22/2024 - 09:16 Image The Society for Classical Studies is happy to announce its second Ancient Music Open Mic Night, on Saturday, January 4th, 8:30-10:00, hosted by John Franklin (UVM). We seek performers of 'ancient music', broadly understood: songs and music inspired by ancient history, literature, mythology, or musical techniques originals and covers, modern instruments or ancient replicas-and of

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the year 2000, archaeologists unearthed remarkable evidence of ancient human activity at a site in Pampore, Kashmir Valley, India. They found the remains of three straight-tusked elephants, from the extinct genus Palaeoloxodon , alongside 87 stone tools. Dating back 300,000 to 400,000 years, these findings offer new insights into early hominin behaviors in South Asia.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 24, 2024

This Post Assumes Some Familiarity with {WDI} ⤵️ My undergraduate students reading this post, thinking about potential topics for their quantitative methods course or their C-papers, should read my earlier tutorial on how to use the {WDI} package in R. There's no business like Mr. Jim Business Students in my quantitative methods class are (ideally) having to think about their end-of-the-course short papers and their BA theses that will (ideally!

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 25, 2024

We love hearing how people found us and why they’ve signed up to access people’s history lessons from the Zinn Education Project. Below are a few reasons people shared when they registered at our site recently. I love the resources! — San Lorenzo, California You have cool lessons. — Katy, Texas I believe in the mission of the Zinn Education Project. — Madison, Tennessee I need your amazing resources to teach about resistance and the power we all have in the face of oppression!

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Edthena

OCTOBER 25, 2024

In the news EdTech Digest recently spotlighted Edthena’s latest video coaching innovation in their “Cool Tools” feature , showcasing the newly launched VC3 video coaching platform. This next-generation tool represents a significant advancement in professional development technology for educators, building upon Edthena’s established success in video-based instructional coaching.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 25, 2024

A Tribute to Lois Cronholm on the occasion of Her 90 th Birthday: “The love of science and that of another” When Lois met Stuart, it was more than mere combustion: it was science! We celebrate the achievements of not only the 90 th birthday of this incomparable woman but also the love of her life, the late, revered Dr. Stuart Neff. We offer this tribute with gratitude and admiration as three former students, now dear friends, whose five-decades old association with these scholars changed ou

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 24, 2024

Call for Fellowship Applications: Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History kskordal Thu, 10/24/2024 - 13:59 Image Call for Fellowship Applications Exploring the Assumptions of Cultural History Year 2: Comparative Work Many of the lenses of Western modernity – e.g., capitalism, Christianity, democracy, empirical science – surreptitiously shape the study of past cultures in ways that disregard their own claims about their world in favor of those that align with traditions of the Euro-American

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Another Wednesday means it's time for another Worldly Wednesday. This one is a little different to the others so far. Today I was in Wednesday. It was wet. and the South Coast day. A few gaps in the weather were good e.g. at Skogafoss, but Vik was pouring and we had dry weather for half of our time at Solheimajokull. Fortunately I had my 66 North gear to keep me dry.

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Steven V. Miller

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Ho Chi Minh City, by another name, in another life. (New Naratif) I am teaching a quantitative methods class for students in international relations, which presents its own assorted challenges. Beyond the general apprehension that social science students have to statistics, a class like the one I teach is 1) the last students take before writing their BA theses and 2) by far the most unusual class students will have taken to this point, all things considered.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

What are the pressing issues in accounting education? Why is there a need for a new approach in accounting education? Internationally the providers of accounting education have been consistently criticized for the narrow technical focus of accounting programmes and the unquestioning replication of the syllabus provided by professional accounting bodies without much-needed critical reflection.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Announcing the SCS Award for Outstanding Literary Translation kskordal Wed, 10/23/2024 - 08:39 Image The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the new annual Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The award will honor up to two books each year by SCS members published within the past three calendar years. The translated work shall be a primary text in Ancient Greek or Latin.

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Zinn Education Project

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Donate Today Right wing politicians and media outlets are attacking the very heart of the Zinn Education Project — teaching people’s history in classrooms across the country. Officials in at least 44 states have sought — and in many cases succeeded — to enact restrictions on what teachers can say about history and current events. Meanwhile thousands of classroom teachers refuse to be bullied into lying to children and have pledged to continue to teach the truth.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Another cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. I shall be heading out there on Tuesday next week so there will be some fresh activity there, and plenty of Threads and Instagram posts and new Flickr additions as well. Grindavik will reopen to the public tomorrow. By public that means locals particularly. I doubt that school groups will be visiting for a while.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 20, 2024

“Surrounding Fort Knox Including Southern Indiana is an extraordinary book. Its brilliant author, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., is knowledgeable about history, geography, geology, archeology, plants, animals, and much else. A natural storyteller, he shares his knowledge in easily understood friendly conversational writing that conveys his joy in the places, people, and events he writes about.

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O-Level Geography

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Where is the hydrogen plant located? How will the plant helps Singapore achieve net zero carbon emission?

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All Things Pedagogical

OCTOBER 25, 2024

This week was a hard week. I am not sure how many times I have started this blog with that sentence or some sort of version of that sentence. I changed what I was going to write about in this blog at least 3 times this week. First I was going to write about being annoyed by ed tech bros who don't read LinkedIn posts carefully and think that any response to a post by a mutual about generative AI is an open invitation to be accosted about their cool new product that will make disabled life better

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