A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 7, 2024
As we navigate the shifting currents of the educational landscape, it's clear that transformative change is not just necessary—it's inevitable. To foster an environment where every student thrives, we must reimagine our approach to education from the ground up. This calls for a system that is not just a patchwork of quick fixes but a comprehensive blueprint for enduring change.
TeachThought
JANUARY 7, 2024
How can you teach critical thinking? This framework offers a way to integrate critical thinking in your classroom. The post Levels Of Integration For Critical Thinking appeared first on TeachThought.
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Cult of Pedagogy
JANUARY 10, 2024
Icon from Freepik – Flaticon Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by WeVideo and The Modern Classrooms Project Well, it’s January! And that means it’s the time when I put out a new edition of my Teacher’s Guide to Tech. This is now the TENTH edition of the guide, and as always, because it keeps improving, I’m gonna say this is the best edition yet.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 11, 2024
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. 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: Though college enrollment seems to be stabilizing after the pandemic disruptions, predictions for the next 15 years are grim.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 9, 2024
The post How Students Are Driving Change in Graphic Design Pathways appeared first on Digital Promise.
TeachThought
JANUARY 6, 2024
contributed by James Brazen Imagine: A state-of-the-art educational path that leads to a fulfilling career in nursing, streamlined through the […] The post The Journey To A Bachelor Of Science In Nursing In The Online Fast Lane appeared first on TeachThought.
ED Surge
JANUARY 9, 2024
In 2023, EdSurge sought out bright spots emerging in the early care and education space. In addition to our continued coverage of the challenges of this fragile, fractured system, we wanted to find and tell stories of resilience, innovation, burgeoning solutions and promising programs. Over the course of the past year, we published numerous stories examining some of the efforts underway across the United States to improve learning, development and care for young children and their caregivers.
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Edthena
JANUARY 11, 2024
The world of education technology is expansive. With so many options and tools out there, the challenge for many K-12 leaders and teachers is identifying which tools can actually help enhance the learning experience. AI-Powered Coaching In a session at the National Charter School Conference , presenter Donna McDaniel explored how AI Coach by Edthena , played a critical role in helping Donna (a ninth-grade science teacher with 30 years of experience) evolve her teaching practice.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 10, 2024
Pleasantville is a mostly Black and Hispanic community located between two major freeways, the I-10 and the 610, in Houston, Texas. This placement is no accident, said Bridgette Murray, a retired nurse and local community leader: “The highway plan in the 1950s was used to divide communities of color.” Today, an estimated 300,000 vehicles stream by on a daily basis, she said.
ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2024
“Education is made for students. There is no one who knows what students need more than us.” — Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ) Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools. The distance between the “consumers” (the learners and families) and the “creators” (the product developers) has been wide, contributing to an R&D process large
Anthropology News
JANUARY 12, 2024
The aggregation of discrete ethnic communities into broad categories, subsequently considered as homogenous groups, has prevented the understanding of critical factors contributing to adverse mental health outcomes. This perpetuates the invisibility of large heterogenous ethnic subgroups in the United Kingdom, with serious consequences for developing mental health policy to adequately address these factors in specific ethnic communities.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 10, 2024
The post Exploring World History: Can a Skill-Based Curriculum Help? appeared first on Digital Promise.
Heinemann Blog
JANUARY 11, 2024
Today on the Heinemann Podcast we’re discussing Inquiry Illuminated: Researcher’s Workshop Across the Curriculum, by Anne Goudvis, Stephanie Harvey, and Brad Buhrow.
ED Surge
JANUARY 8, 2024
A couple of years ago, Kelly Spoon decided to experiment with her assessment practices. A number of instructors in the math department at San Diego Mesa College, where she's a professor, had started exploring how to weave standards-based grading — an approach that evaluates students on how effectively they have mastered content — into the way they teach calculus.
Edthena
JANUARY 9, 2024
In an interview with the C3 (Connecting, Coaches, Cognition) podcast , founder and CEO of Edthena Adam Geller discussed the innovative concept and the future of AI coaching, a cornerstone of Edthena’s approach. Click below to listen to the podcast or keep reading for key takeaways. He explained that AI Coach by Edthena , acts more like a facilitative guide than a directive coach, empowering educators to reflect and grow professionally on their own terms.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 11, 2024
The post How Instructor Support Impacts STEM Results at Minority Serving Institutions appeared first on Digital Promise.
Heinemann Blog
JANUARY 10, 2024
The journey to becoming a better writing teacher begins with aligning principles to practice in your classroom. One foundational principle of teaching writing is to immerse students in studying mentor texts: studying what other, more experienced writers do. In this free edWebinar , Carl Anderson and Matt Glover show you what the immersion period of writing workshop looks and sounds like, along with four action steps you can take to implement it in your classroom.
ED Surge
JANUARY 10, 2024
As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work.
Life and Landscapes
JANUARY 11, 2024
DECIPHERMENT It’s a writing thing. I do it all the time. At times, I’ve made a living from it. The reading of words backward. Trying to break the code as to what is really meant, what is left out, and what is the true thinking really going on. Writing is not the science of mathematics. It is the music of sound. The noise of what is said.
Living Geography
JANUARY 12, 2024
One of the best events I've attended and presented at has been the Practical Pedagogies events that were held in 2016 and 2018. The first was held in Toulouse and the second was in Cologne. Russel Tarr is now organising a third running of the event and the call for sessions is now open. I shall definitely be there (assuming my presentation is accepted).
The Effortful Educator
JANUARY 10, 2024
“There’s a lot of failure in success.” -me, obviously paraphrasing someone else that I cannot recall I said this to one of my classes on day two of modeling retrieval practice to learn their names. And, while I’m not big on all encompassing quotes, I do feel as though this represents an important aspect of what we want our students to understand about learning and memory.
ED Surge
JANUARY 8, 2024
Managing student data is a major challenge for districts across the nation. Educational institutions grapple with an overload of edtech products, creating a disjointed landscape where these tools fail to communicate effectively. This not only hampers coordination but also jeopardizes the data privacy of both staff and students. The Ed-Fi standard is a solution to help organize a universe of messy data through interoperability, providing benefits that range from state reporting to preventing over
Anthropology News
JANUARY 11, 2024
Credit: Agnese Bankovska A mixed-media illustration of the summer meadow in an urban garden in Helsinki. It is bright, even though it is a July evening in Helsinki. The warming brightness envelops me. My breathing slows, and my limbs become relaxed. My field of vision has been extended to the multisensorial whole-body experience. I have become a part of the small wild meadow that shimmers almost transcendentally in front of me.
Civics for All of US
JANUARY 11, 2024
Teaching Presidential Elections with the National Archives Katie Munn Thu, 01/11/2024 - 16:02 Body Join education specialists from several Presidential Libraries and Museums for this professional development program for educators on teaching elections with the records of the National Archives. Each participating Presidential Library will share an election story about their President and suggestions for engaging students in learning about this important civic process.
Steven V. Miller
JANUARY 10, 2024
Peru's Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which ran from 2001 to 2003, was tasked with investigating the human rights abuses committed in the country during its armed conflict with Sendero Luminoso. It may have further signaled to investors that Peru was serious about peace. I’m teaching a first-year MA-level quantitative methods course at the moment for which the current topic is linear model diagnostics.
ED Surge
JANUARY 12, 2024
Access to high-quality education is widely recognized as a pivotal tool for alleviating poverty, mitigating the spread of disease and malnutrition, fostering children's overall welfare and empowering women. Unsurprisingly, the United Nations asserts that quality education is not only a fundamental human right but also a crucial catalyst for economic growth and development.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 11, 2024
I. On Moses Sumney’s album græ , Taiye Seyasi says that ,“etymologically, isolation comes from insula , which means island.” The idea of an island is that of isolated land— is-land , a sort of contraction, a body of land insulated by a body of water. When I say island , I think of how the s is silenced into a phonetic i. I don’t know if I want to say, “I’m always contracting parts of my body” or “Parts of my body are always contracting.
Women's History Network
JANUARY 10, 2024
First Call for Papers Women’s History Network Annual Conference Hosted with the Bedford Centre for the History of Women and Gender at Royal Holloway University, 5-6 September 2024 Curating the Female Self One of the exciting developments in women’s history over the last few years is the explosion of different approaches to agency, empowerment and […]
Studies Weekly
JANUARY 10, 2024
Beyond Screens: The Benefits of Paper-Based Learning for Elementary Students Jan. 10, 2024 • Studies Weekly In today’s digital age, technology integration in education helps prepare students for a world of screens. But this cannot be done at the expense of children’s literacy. When students need to read for understanding, comprehension, or retention, research shows that they perform better with print materials rather than a screen.
ED Surge
JANUARY 12, 2024
Last year, ss homecoming and winter holidays were upon us, recent alumni came by the school to check on the place they couldn’t wait to leave six months before. This is one of my favorite phenomena of teaching high school. Whether they are just feeling nostalgic or genuinely miss me, it’s always nice seeing their faces. In the week between Thanksgiving and winter breaks, I had two visits, one from an alum who works near the school and keeps an eye on his brother who will graduate this year, and
Anthropology News
JANUARY 11, 2024
It is the genuine significance of absence. It offers nothing in terms of melodies and harmonies. It is just a moment in the space of time, placing silence at the heart of it. It only offers a meta-structure named “Tacet” to an unknown future musical output. Maybe a way to answer questions like what silence affords and what it sounds like. Maybe more, maybe less… I still remember my initial reflections on 4’33” when I first listened years ago.
Transcending Pedagogy
JANUARY 9, 2024
I’m about a third of the way into reading Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doer , and there’s a passage that keeps reverberating in my mind. It’s pretty early on, in a section where we are with Anna, a young girl living with her sister among nuns. Anna seems to be a source of frustration and disappointment to the nuns as she is unable to recall simple stitches after being taught them, while her sister Maria seems to be somewhat of a prodigy, able to follow and learn quite quickly a
Living Geography
JANUARY 10, 2024
If you don't already follow Oliver Jeffers on Instagram I recommend that you do. He has always shared thought provoking ideas and plenty of his wonderful art, but latterly he has been sharing news about the development of his latest book (which is not for children) It's called 'Begin Again'. It's well worth getting a copy of. With his bold, exquisite artwork, Oliver Jeffers starts at the dawn of humankind following people on their journey from then until now, and then offers the reader a challen
ED Surge
JANUARY 9, 2024
Perhaps it’s no surprise that EdSurge’s most popular podcast episode of 2023 focused on ChatGPT. In fact, three of our top 10 episodes of the year explored various aspects of how new forms of artificial intelligence are impacting teaching and learning. In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 11, 2024
Johnnie Mae Warren was still alive when the police arrived. For hours, her boss, 38-year-old Dr. Russell Carrington Jr., held her hostage in his office with Mrs. Elsie Johnson and a police officer. A month earlier, 23-year-old Johnnie Mae had told Russell that she didn’t want him anymore, and he tried everything he knew to get her back. He had gone around and told everybody that they were engaged; it would have been embarrassing to admit that the beautiful Johnnie Mae no longer wanted him.
Zinn Education Project
JANUARY 8, 2024
While right-wing legislatures restrict the teaching of Black history, we are pleased to support teachers who work to teach truthfully about U.S. history. Thanks to a generous collaboration with Dartmouth College historian Matthew Delmont , the Zinn Education Project sent 14,000 copies of Delmont’s book Half American: The Epic Story of African Americans Fighting World War II at Home and Abroad to public school teachers, school librarians, and teacher educators.
Living Geography
JANUARY 10, 2024
The places that we talk about and look at on maps have been given names at some point in history by a particular group of people. The origin of those names may be problematic depending on which name we use, when more than one may well have been applied to a place during the history of its human occupation, and the Anglicised version may be used on the maps that we tend to use in the UK, rather than those used on a map purchased in the country itself.
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