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5 Clear Ways Digital Benefits Learners

A Principal's Reflections

The education landscape is undergoing a continuous transformation, something I elaborate on in detail in Disruptive Thinking in Our Classrooms. While not new in any sense, digital tools continue to play an immense role as they are constantly evolving. By understanding how these tools impact teaching and learning, educators can determine which ones to use and how to implement them effectively.

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Stay on top of online learning: A game

Pedagogy to Share

Here is a game I made for my undergraduate students during the pandemic. As we moved rapidly to online teaching and learning, we spoke explicitly about independent learning strategies. I feel a need to return to this game now in my online courses. I made the game on the free LearningApps.org site. You can access the game here with the QR code. I’d love to hear your thoughts if you play or share the game with students.

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Unpacking Trauma-Informed Teaching

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview with Alex Shevrin Venet ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Giant Steps This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? My understanding of the word “trauma” has evolved over the last few years.

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Lake Tulare Reemerging

Geography Education

FIGURE 1: The Central Valley is a highly modified agricultural landscape. SOURCE: Big Think A few years ago, I was delighted to see an geographer’s rendition of what a satellite image of California would have looked if such a thing existed in the 1800s (figure 1). Back then the southern San Joaquin Valley was swampy wetland surrounding Lake Tulare, the largest freshwater lake west of the Mississippi River.

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Teaching Was My Dream. Now I Wonder If It Is Stunting My Other Passions.

ED Surge

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. It’s about more than tests and grades. It’s about helping kids discover themselves and the world around them. The work of a teacher, at its core, is to model and reflect back what it means to live. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society.

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Trade programs — unlike other areas of higher education — are in hot demand

The Hechinger Report

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Most of the guys come straight to the shop each afternoon. After long shifts at supermarkets and home improvement stores, they make their way to southwest Nashville just before 4 p.m., sometimes still in uniform, and pull into a massive parking lot shared by the local community college and the Nashville branch of the Tennessee College of Applied Technology, or TCAT.

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The NCHE Board of Directors Statement Regarding the South Dakota Social Studies Standards

NCHE

The NCHE Board of Directors, by a vote of 13-1, approved this statement. The National Council for History Education stands by history teachers in South Dakota. Teachers are professionals and experts in their field, and their perspective is critical to the creation of standards, resources, or curriculum that directly impact their classroom instruction.

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What Does Gen Z Want From Education?

ED Surge

This article is a partial transcript of an episode of the EdSurge Podcast. For the full interview, listen here. Students are looking for something different from teachers and professors as they prepare to enter political and civic life, and that means educators need to change the way they support students when it comes to political engagement. That’s the argument made by Timothy Law Snyder, president of Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, who has been writing and speaking about the issue

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In Japan, plummeting university enrollment forecasts what’s ahead for the U.S.

The Hechinger Report

TOKYO — The campus of International Christian University is an oasis of quiet in the final week of the winter term, with a handful of undergraduates studying beneath the newly sprouting plum trees that bloom a few weeks before Japan’s familiar cherry blossoms. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times The colors of nature are abundant in this nation in the spring.

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NCHE Email Addresses are Changing!

NCHE

As of May 30, 2023 , all NCHE staff members will have a new email address. This is an exciting and important upgrade to our communication abilities, but it does require all of our constituents and supporters to update their address books. Please reach out to us at these new addresses: Jessica Ellison, Executive Director: Jessica@ncheteach.org John Csepegi, Director of Operations: John@ncheteach.org Kathleen Barker, Education Coordinator & Director of EPiC Histories : Kathleen@ncheteach.org R

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#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power Of Geography Voice)

Geogramblings

A piece of poetry performed at the Geographical Association Annual Conference 2023 TeachMeet titled ‘#NothingAboutUsWithoutUs (The Power of Geography Voice)’ The full TeachMeet recording with a range of teaching ideas and thoughts for the Geography teacher can be found on YouTube here. With thanks to the Geographical Association ( [link] ) and the media team at Sheffield Hallam University.

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COVID-19 Hit Schools Unequally, But Data Shows Learning Recovery Is Equally Slow

ED Surge

When schools were forced to go remote during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, it shone a spotlight on inequities that had long plagued education. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. For example, teachers serving schools with high levels of student poverty were far more likely to report that their students lacked appropriate remote-learning workspaces free of distractions during the pandemic, according to research from the U.S.

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OPINION: Black male teachers were my father figures. They changed my life, and we need more of them

The Hechinger Report

With the spring semester upon us, districts across the nation are still struggling with teacher shortages. In New Jersey, it’s a crisis that is making it harder to hire and retain Black and Latino teachers. Teacher shortages continue to disproportionately affect historically underserved communities. Black educators are leaving the profession in high numbers, and this reality harms an often vulnerable school population.

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The elephant in the room: Why the subject specific training of beginning teachers matters

Becoming a History Teacher

Photo by cottonbro studio on Pexels.com A number of years ago, I watched a lesson where the beginning teacher had been schooled in a set of systematised generic teaching strategies. They had diligently practised and tried to implement these strategies in their lessons, but they were struggling. They were also frustrated. They felt like no one was really able to help them work out what the problem was.

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Of Accountability and Interdependence

All Things Pedagogical

This week I have been thinking A LOT about accountability and who we are accountable to in our day-to-day lives and who should be accountable to us. I am thinking about this of course because it is the end of the semester and final assignments are due and final grades will be posted. I am also thinking about this because there has been a lot of discourse on academic Twitter that leans so much on individualism which is of no surprise (if you have ever met most academic types) and because of the s

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What Happens When You Give Child Care Providers Money — With No Strings Attached?

ED Surge

Last year, Olivia Hernandez was weighing a difficult decision. Her family’s financial situation had deteriorated considerably, due to her husband’s partial loss of income and rising costs that forced them to agonize over every dollar. It was bad enough that she and her husband agreed she would need to give up her eight-year career as an in-home child care provider for a higher-paying job that could help keep the family afloat.

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COLUMN: How student school board members are driving climate action

The Hechinger Report

“ Idaho really is the state where we can solve climate change,” Shiva Rajbhandari tells me over bagels and lox at Russ & Daughters Cafe in New York City. “It’s got sun and it’s got wind and these beautiful natural spaces. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem. ” This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high scho

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Equity and Access in Math Education

ED Surge

Historically, underserved communities of Black and Latino students experiencing poverty underperform in mathematics as measured by various academic indicators. The emergence of the coronavirus pandemic exacerbated this phenomenon, impacting teaching and learning for all students, especially students from underserved communities. Overnight, the modality of remote learning became necessary, and these underserved communities encountered the most difficulties.

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How Learning a New Language Is Helping Me Connect With My Students

ED Surge

As a newcomer specialist, I teach students who have been in the United States for less than a year. There are at least four languages spoken by the students I currently teach, so people are often surprised to learn that I’m monolingual. I spend a lot of time thinking about how monolingual teachers can support multilingual students and I am actively searching for ways to reduce the isolation my students experience as they begin learning English, and to build a sense of belonging for students in m

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Building Back Better: How K-12 Schools Can Use COVID Relief Funds for Learning Loss

ED Surge

As schools across the country look to recover from the disruptions of the COVID-19 pandemic’s disruptions, federal relief funds can go a long way toward supporting students and building a brighter future for education. The $190 billion provided through the Coronavirus Response and Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act (CRRSA) and the American Rescue Plan Act (ARPA) present an unprecedented opportunity for schools to make strategic investments that support student success and long-term growth.

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Student Privacy Is at More Risk Than Ever Before. Can K-12 Schools Keep It Safe?

ED Surge

Edtech has become inseparable from the education system. But how prepared are K-12 districts to handle the thorny privacy and security issues that these tools raise? Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University.

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STUDENT VOICES: ‘Dreamers’ like us need our own resource centers on college campuses

The Hechinger Report

Among the multiple groups of struggling students in America, the undocumented live in the shadows, awaiting recognition and assistance. They are not easy to spot, and often face far more challenges than many other groups, left to navigate a difficult path to higher education without adequate assistance. Nationwide, just 2 percent of undocumented students are enrolled in postsecondary education.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

ED Surge

For more than 100 years, high schools and colleges have relied on the same stalwart tool to measure teaching and learning: the clock. That’s because earning credit toward a diploma or degree typically requires students to spend a minimum number of hours receiving instruction in the classroom. Now, the institution that developed the time-based standard more than a century ago that is used throughout education is calling for the creation of a different way to quantify academic progress.

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PROOF POINTS: No-limits borrowing for graduate school pushed prices up for all

The Hechinger Report

Economists calculated that unlimited federal loans contributed to rising graduate school prices in a Texas study, which included the University of Texas at Austin, pictured here. In a 1987 opinion piece in The New York Times, William Bennett, former President Ronald Reagan’s Secretary of Education, explained how he thought federal policy was partly to blame for rising college tuition.

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With emergency funding drying up, child care is once again on the precipice

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: 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 the pandemic threatened to shutter child care centers and their enrollment was sporadic and unreliable, many used federal emergency fu

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