A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2023

What is the essence of leadership? How do leaders effectively implement, sustain, and scale change? There is no shortage of responses regarding the topic, which is why questions are more important than answers. Narrowing down the most critical competencies can take time and effort. However, let’s look at it from the perspective of debunking what authentic leadership is, not to get at the heart of what it really is when it comes to agents of change.

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History Tech

JULY 13, 2023

I’m spending a few days with some of the amazing staff at the Library of Congress (I’m looking at you, Cheryl), learning more about their super cool primary sources and more ways to use them.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

A growing problem in American classrooms is that teachers don’t resemble the students they teach. Eighty percent of the nation’s 3.8 million public school teachers are white, but over half of their students are Black, Hispanic, Asian, Native American and mixed races. The small slice of Black teachers has actually shrunk slightly over the past decade from 7 percent in 2011–12 to 6 percent in 2020–21, while Black students make up a much larger 15 percent share of the public school student po

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2023

Just because this school year has ended doesn’t mean the crisis facing our nation’s youth is over. In fact, the data suggests the exact opposite. During the 2022-23 school year, suicide skyrocketed to the second leading cause of death among children aged 10 to 14 in the United States. Research shows some youth are more affected than others. Nearly 1 in 3 high school girls said they had considered suicide.

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Education Elements

JULY 11, 2023

I have always aspired to open a new school that cultivates a school atmosphere centered on learning and student achievement. One that recruits and retains the best teachers and staff, meaningfully engages with students, families, and the community, and utilizes research-based and culturally responsive curriculum. I have not yet fulfilled that dream, but I had the opportunity to work alongside James Hopkins, a school principal in Durham, North Carolina, who has done just that.

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History Tech

JULY 10, 2023

Yeah. I’m a little behind schedule. Let’s just say that my May and June did not go as planned and leave it at that.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

As public confidence in the value of higher education wanes, state and national higher education leaders must do more to invest in programs that have demonstrated success at improving college completion rates and helping students find well-paying jobs. A good example is the Accelerated Study in Associate Programs , or ASAP, at the City University of New York (CUNY).

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Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2023

The post How Our Micro-credentials Platform Became a 1EdTech Learning Impact Awards Finalist appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Ben Newmark

JULY 13, 2023

More than five years ago I wrote emails to people I trusted to tell them about Bessie’s diagnosis of Williams Syndrome. Someone from here – the twitter education world – sent a brave reply. She advised me not to have set expectations. To not indulge “what ifs.” Her emails said that just like any parent I did not know and could not know what would happen to my child – that all a diagnosis gave anyone was a vague and uncertain direction, and that the actual journey was too unpredictable to know in

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2023

Sometimes the only choice is to evolve. That was the case for Lorain County Community College in northeastern Ohio, in the heart of the rust belt, when the surrounding manufacturing industry began to crumble in the 1990’s. The college had been founded in part to train workers for automotive and steel manufacturing jobs, and suddenly leaders had to pivot in order to stay relevant and try to keep people in jobs.

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ED Surge

JULY 13, 2023

When VaNessa Thompson wants to truly focus on doing homework for her doctoral classes at Oakland University near Detroit, she gets out her smartphone, props it on her desk, and starts streaming live video of herself on TikTok. “People that follow me on TikTok, they’ll get a push notification, ‘VaNessa’s going live,’” she explains. For the next two hours or so, she says she’ll do whatever reading or paper-writing she has due, occasionally stopping for a break to look at her phone, where text comm

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Strange Maps

JULY 13, 2023

The Big Five personality traits, a.k.a. the CANOE model. There is also a geographic component to their distribution, research suggests. ( Credit : MissLunaRose12 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0 ) Does where you live have any bearing on the kind of personality you have? Science says yes, and these maps show how. But which science is that, exactly? It sounds like something cooked up after hours in the back alley between the geography and psychology departments.

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Edthena

JULY 12, 2023

Designing an experiment is a strategic way to approach improving instructional coaching skills. Whether you’re a teacher coach ready to jump into action or a school leader supporting coaches, it’s important to have a plan. Instructional coaching expert Megan Tschannen-Moran, author of “Evocative Coaching”, recommends taking four steps before making a change in your instructional coaching practices.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2023

This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: When states raise minimum wage, child care centers see less staff turnover, better trained employees, and improved teacher-child interactions, according t

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

As educators, we know the potential that artificial intelligence (AI) has for our profession. Generative AI, a subset of AI that can generate new and original content, serves as a technology that amplifies our capabilities as educators and learners. Its ability to swiftly transform and transfer information surpasses previous boundaries, albeit with some initial apprehension from educators.

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Strange Maps

JULY 11, 2023

It’s hard to miss when you walk around southern Stockholm: the giant white ball known officially as the Avicii Arena , which locals simply call Globen , or “the Globe.” With a diameter of 360 feet (110 m), an inner height of 279 feet (86 m), and a volume of 21.4 million cubic feet (605,000 cubic m), it was until very recently the largest spherical building in the world.* Named after a beloved DJ Inaugurated in 1989 and known until 2021 as the Ericsson Globe, it was renamed after Avicii, a belove

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O-Level Geography

JULY 9, 2023

Why is there a need for cultivated meat? How does cultivated meat help Singapore in achieving food security? Where are lab grown meat available? 3D print meat Reducing reliance on land and livestock for meat production help reduce greenhouse gas emission such as methane (animal waste gas) and carbon dioxide (burning of fossil fuel for energy). However, the advanced technology needed to create cultivated meat is also energy intensive.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2023

Ask any college president, and they will likely tell you the biggest challenge they face — more than the broken business model, the enrollment cliff and even affordability issues — is the mental health crisis. Student mental health is in a fragile and dangerous place on our campuses. Fewer than 40 percent of students say they are flourishing, according to the national Healthy Minds Study.

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ED Surge

JULY 12, 2023

Last fall, Gisela Sance’s landlord approached her family about raising the rent. He wanted $2,000 a month, an astonishing hike over the $1,300 she and her husband were paying for the house they lived in with their young son. The decision to leave was painful but not hard: There was no way they could afford a 50 percent increase in their rent. This story also appeared in The 19th.

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Leah Cleary

JULY 9, 2023

If you’re not using ChatGPT, you should start–here are 4 ways to use ChatGPT to your advantage in the classroom. AI is everywhere. It’s found its way into creation tools and search engines. It’s generating blog posts (not this one–sorry, I like to write), jingles, and images. It’s also generating essays for our students.

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O-Level Geography

JULY 14, 2023

Why does Southwest Monsoon brings heavy rain to India? Where are the areas most affected by the Southwest Monsoon? What are the impacts of the Southwest Monsoon on India?

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Geogramblings

JULY 14, 2023

Given the recent news about the calls from scientists to officially recognise that we’ve moved into a new geological epoch, the ‘Anthropocene’, it seemed like a fitting time to repost this blog and video that I wrote for US-based Odd Salon. It’s quirky, silly, but definitely gives you food for thought! Watch out for the giant zepellinoid, everyone!

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2023

Companies like Amazon and Facebook have systems that continually respond to how users interact with their apps to make the user experience easier. What if educators could use the same strategy of “adaptive experimentation” to regularly improve their teaching materials? That’s the question posed by a group of researchers who developed a free tool they call the Adaptive Experimentation Accelerator.

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All Things Pedagogical

JULY 9, 2023

A lot has happened since my last blog post. In some ways Twitter has imploded even more than it has before and last week has seen people leave to different social media in an attempt to find their communities. It is a move that I have been calling "The Great Siloing," and it has left many, especially in disability community, without a viable place to be in community with others and to get the support that a lot found on disability Twitter.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

JULY 13, 2023

Six Smithsonian educators share techniques to help students creatively intervene and achieve community-based, transformative justice for social good

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Education Week - Social Studies

JULY 14, 2023

A pilot workshop gave teachers an immersive take on Japanese American incarceration during World War II.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

I teach in New Orleans, a city known for its food scene. Like everything else you love about New Orleans, our cuisine only exists because of Black people. From gumbo to grillades, crawfish boils to creole red gravy, New Orleans food is a melange of recipes passed down from generation to generation of Black, Creole and Indigenous people to create one of the only distinctive styles of cuisines of American origin.

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2023

William Quarterman, a student at the University of California at Davis, was accused of cheating. His professor said he’d used ChatGPT to take a history exam, the charge buttressed by GPTZero, one of the many new tools that have emerged to try to detect student use of generative AI systems. Quarterman swore his innocence, though, and he was later let off the hook after he presented the log of changes he made in a Google Doc.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

JULY 14, 2023

A future astronaut headed to Mars could be in your classroom.

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