A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2023

One of the best and most gratifying aspects of my job is getting into classrooms and providing feedback to leaders, who, in turn, help their teachers grow. Most of my blog ideas materialize during these times of bliss. Without this practical lens, I don’t think I would be able to write anything of value. Over the years, the state of Utah has provided me with a plethora of opportunities to work with schools on Personalized Competency-Based Learning ( PCBL ).

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Pedagogy to Share

JANUARY 11, 2023

It is easy to get depressed by the education provided in Israeli schools. There is a never-ending progression of Education Ministers who do not desire the job and are not interested in solving the long-term challenges. There is, for example, a severe lack of teachers; those that have remained in the system are burnt out and recovering from post-COVID distress.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

SAN MARCOS, Texas — Live lecture classes are back at most colleges after COVID-19 disruptions, but student engagement often hasn’t returned to normal. In the past year, colleges have seen a rise in students skipping lectures , and some reports indicate that students are more prone to staring at TikTok or other distractions on their smartphones and laptops during lecture class.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

GREENVILLE, S.C. — The brown paper bag hit the ground with a smack. A Michelin engineer picked it up off the concrete and opened it, revealing a cracked, leaking egg. The third graders at A.J. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Then, they made way for the next group of students, who were eager to drop their own bag from the staircase in hope of a different result.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JANUARY 8, 2023

ChatGPT has been all the buzz lately and we are putting together an initial PD session at my current school for our teachers. While looking around at the types of things we might cover, I wondered if ChatGPT could tell us about itself in simple terms so that anyone could understand. Below are the questions I asked and the responses it gave. What are you?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 12, 2023

The post Announcing the VITAL Prize Challenge to Support the Next Generation of Equitable Learning Technologies appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. Their Facebook pages contain not just announcements but photos from events on campus—graduations, Christmas band concerts, chess team tournament victories, spirit week—where students take center stage. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for

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Education Elements

JANUARY 9, 2023

Recently I attended an event called, “Synergy in the Sciences to Support Literacy Instruction” hosted by Lexia Learning. It was a small round table discussion, including higher education leaders, researchers, politicians, policymakers, and district administrators. As the Chief Learning Officer of Scholarus Learning , I was there to provide inputs on how change might be implemented since Scholarus works with thousands of schools providing consulting, surveys, and custom curricula.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 9, 2023

The post Launching an OpenSciEd Community to Support Research and Practice appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. After being thrown into the public arena, my image, my story and my classroom were displayed and open for critique. As I traveled across the nation, teachers shared their stories with me. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2023

A new research review finds inconsistent benefits for students with disabilities who learn alongside general education peers. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. For the past 25 years, U.S. policy has urged schools to keep students with disabilities in the same classrooms with their general education peers unless severe disabilities prevent it.

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ASHP CML

JANUARY 12, 2023

Making Queer History Public Episode 1: LGBTQ+ Archives with Steven G. Fullwood Thursday, January 12, 2023 - 10:50 In the first episode of Making Queer History Public, we talk with archivist, writer, and documentarian, Steven G. Fullwood, about his experiences archiving the lives of LGBTQ+ folks at the Schomburg Center. We also discuss the historical exclusion of the LGBTQ+ community in institutional archives and the work that people like Steven have done to bring their stories to light.

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Civics for All of US

JANUARY 11, 2023

Executive Orders and Civil Rights Katie Munn Wed, 01/11/2023 - 14:47 Body During this online workshop with the Truman Presidential Library and Eisenhower Presidential Library, teachers will examine primary sources to discover how and why presidents have issued executive orders to advance civil rights. This workshop is suitable for secondary educators.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2023

If you walked into the classroom of a teacher who was outstanding at serving all of their students—those who might be marginalized, struggling, neurodiverse or recent immigrants—what exactly would you see? What actions distinguish teachers who are especially effective with our most vulnerable students? Over the past four years, I’ve come to immensely enjoy this question, both because it seems so urgently important and because it is a stumper.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2023

I’m not supposed to be alive, much less thriving. When I was 6 years old, my pregnant mom and I became chronically homeless. For almost my entire childhood, we slept in squalid shelters, in abandoned homes infested with rats and without running water, on discarded mattresses in alleyways and on cold, metal bus station benches. I’ve been nearly stuck with a used needle and threatened by men who saw me as prey.

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Steven V. Miller

JANUARY 9, 2023

It's better than bad; it's good. I’m writing this out of necessity so that it may go into a future grad-level course about what logarithmic transformations do to your OLS model. When we are first introduced to logarithmic transformations, we learn they have a nice effect of coercing normality into positive real variables that have some kind of unwelcome skew.

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Students of History

JANUARY 10, 2023

Many teachers avoid bringing current events into the classroom and often for good reason. It's a politically fraught world these days and you don't want to be considered biased or bring up trouble. Some parents are ready to pounce on you for anything. It's understandable to want to stick to your standards. However, current events are a great way to connect your curriculum to the real world and work on social studies skills.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

This past year was a hard one, defined by the exhaustion of trying to return to “normal.” And in the edtech world, normal meant more ed and less tech than in 2020 and 2021. This shift makes sense in a lot of ways—the Zoom classes of the early pandemic stunk. Test scores fell dramatically. Students across the U.S. (and around the world) stopped showing up to school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2023

A new wave of college closures is expected to begin this year. . The colleges won’t be closing solely because of Covid, although it did flip the entire universe of higher education on its head. But many struggling colleges have been able to keep their doors open longer than expected in part because of help from federal and state Covid relief funding.

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Edthena

JANUARY 10, 2023

Artificial intelligence is becoming more common in edtech. This edition of THE Journal’s 7 Questions shared insights about AI Coach by Edthena , a professional learning platform for teachers driven by artificial intelligence. If you’re a school leader providing coaching and PD to teachers, or an educator improving your teaching, a tool featuring autonomy and privacy is key.

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ACRE

JANUARY 9, 2023

How do individuals respond to financial crises? What role do financial institutions play? What can we learn from past financial events to make better choices in the future? The 2022 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences (in Memory of Alfred Nobel) has been awarded to three economists; Ben S. Bernanke, Douglas W. Diamond, & Philip H. Dybvig for their “research on banks and financial crises.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 12, 2023

Alyssa Parks first made an appointment at the counseling center at Marshall University thanks to her roommate. The young woman had mentioned to Parks how comfortable she felt receiving care at the facility and how nice the staff were. So when Parks learned during a conference for student-government leaders about a program that teaches young adults to offer mental health support to their peers, she thought it would work well at Marshall—and even beyond, at colleges throughout West Virginia.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

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. Subscribe today! Over the years, home visiting programs have been proven to improve the health and well-being of children and their parents by providing much-needed support, education and resources during the challenging months after a child’s birth.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JANUARY 7, 2023

Photo by brenoanp on Pexels.com There is an oft repeated adage that, on their deathbed, no one ever wishes they spent more time at work. A few weeks ago a family member who was retiring commented they were sure that within the week they would be ‘yesterday’s news and today’s chip paper’. They said this with a tinge of sadness, perhaps even regret, at the past 25 years they had dedicated to that workplace.

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Leah Cleary

JANUARY 8, 2023

Teaching during the pandemic was no doubt challenging. Over the next few weeks, I’m reflecting on what we learned from that time. In the process, I’m analyzing what we should keep and what we should lose as educators. This week, I’m focusing on one thing that we’ve been doing in education since the one-room schoolhouse faded into history–cookie cutter learning–and one thing that came out of the pandemic–diminishing deadlines.

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Teaching Anthropology

JANUARY 13, 2023

Sherry Fukuzawa, University of Toronto Mississauga, Toronto Canada My post-COVID in-person lectures seem to have significantly less attendance than my pre-pandemic courses and I am wondering if this is a widespread trend? As I treaded through the cold snowy January morning to the first day of the Winter session I was not too surprised to see less than half of the students (primarily sitting in the back half of the room) waiting for my lecture.

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