A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 28, 2024

In the ever-evolving landscape of education, the role of leadership is pivotal. The notion of educational leadership extends beyond administrative responsibilities; it embodies the vision, direction, and ethos of a learner-centric environment. Building capacity is not just an individual pursuit but a collective journey towards excellence. It is vital because it directly impacts the quality and effectiveness of teaching and learning environments.

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TeachThought

JANUARY 27, 2024

We’ve gathered 25 of the top math resources for 2020–a mix of established and all-new tools to support the building of math skills and the grasp of important mathematical concepts. The post 25 Of The Best Math Resources [Updated] appeared first on TeachThought.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JANUARY 31, 2024

A challenge that sometimes presents itself when giving feedback to students is that their work is already of a pretty high standard, and it feels like we’re really nitpicking with our improvement points. The reality is that what they’ve produced is probably already near the top of the mark bands, and one or two small tweaks might not necessarily make much difference.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

Navigating school spaces is a journey and students’ needs are ever changing. While educators are leaving the field at unprecedented rates , many districts are scrambling to meet the needs of all their students. As a parent, I felt the impact of the departures when I had to guide my then seventh-grader through math without a consistent teacher after a mid-year exit.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

Sitakunda, Bangladesh, is one of the world’s largest sites for shipbreaking. The industry is a motor of national development, but once dismantled, ships release hazardous materials that affect everyone in the area. Camelia Dewan writes about the life and labor of workers and fishermen on the beaches where ships are sent to die. Bangladeshi workers “cut” through ships run aground on intertidal beaches with hand-held gas torches.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

The pandemic not only disrupted education temporarily; it also triggered permanent changes. One that is quietly taking place at colleges and universities is a major, expedited shift to online learning. Even after campuses reopened and the health threat diminished, colleges and universities continued to offer more online courses and added more online degrees and programs.

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TeachThought

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Offering almost infinite options, the digital era offers a range of resources designed to enrich the education of healthcare students. The post Navigating The Digital Landscape: 11 Essential Tools For Healthcare Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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Education 130

Passion for Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

Sociology is such a fun class to teach in high school. Since students love to be social, they love learning the reason behind interactions. No matter the topic, they are often eager to share and talk about their experiences. So, it is essential to have exciting lessons and activities to support this eagerness to learn. Similarly, it is important to have a strong Sociology review to ensure all students understand the content.

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Sociology Lesson Plan Social Studies High School 130

Strange Maps

JANUARY 31, 2024

For almost 20 years, “Green Boots” was a creepy landmark near the summit of Mount Everest. Mountaineers ascending via the north face would invariably pass by this frozen body, huddled into a limestone alcove some 1,150 feet (350 m) below the top. To the live climbers who passed the body, the corpse, still clothed in brightly colored climbing apparel, must have seemed a grim exemplar of the saying that “every corpse on Everest was once a highly motivated individual.

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Geography Humanities History 121

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The post How to Support Student Design Skills Using Technology appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

A few years on from district-wide remote learning spurred by the coronavirus pandemic, Principal Darren A. Cole-Ochoa has observed the students at Truan Junior High re-adapting to in-person schooling fall along a spectrum. “When we got into the classroom, the students were shy. They didn't want to work in groups. They had a wall,” Cole-Ochoa says of the students in the small town of Elsa, Texas.

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Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities is co-hosting an in-person event with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veterans and clips from the documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power. Through first person accounts and searing archival footage, Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power tells the story of the local movement and young Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) organizers who fought not just for voting rights, but for Black Powe

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Sapiens

JANUARY 31, 2024

An evolutionary anthropologist draws lessons from paleogenetic’s journey from Jurassic Park fiction to Nobel Prize reality. ✽ The morning of my 26th birthday, I woke up to incredible news for my field of evolutionary anthropology: For the first time, the study of human evolution won a Nobel Prize. Geneticist Svante Päabo had, according to the awarding group, made a “ seemingly impossible task ” possible: extracting DNA from the remains of individuals who lived long ago.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Today, we'll hear author Andrea Honigsfeld in conversation with Pam Schwallier, the director of EL and Bilingual Programs at West Ottawa Public Schools in Michigan. Andrea is the author of Growing Language and Literacy: Strategies for English Learners. The deep respect they have for their profession and for the population of students who bring rich linguistic heritages to the classroom is powerful.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Teachers may spend their days confidently addressing a room full of squirming or distracted students. But when it comes to having a chat with parents, these same teachers may get so nervous they avoid the interactions. “Many teachers that I have talked to don't like to call parents,” says Crystal Frommert, a middle school math teacher at a private school in Houston.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2024

Listen to the audio version of this story, by Liam Elder-Connors at Vermont Public. BRISTOL, Vt. — The mobile home park in this rural village seemed to be hibernating on a subfreezing, snowy day. But there was evidence of damage from an earlier storm that had brought high winds and freezing rain — another in an unusual number of weather events that have battered this state with flooding and other natural disasters.

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Economics Cultures Community Engagement Research 108

Digital Promise

JANUARY 30, 2024

The post Announcing Digital Promise’s New Edtech and Emerging Technologies Initiative appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech 108

Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 31, 2024

Here are some books, documentaries, websites, and social media accounts to help you teach Black history in all its complexity.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

“Okay! Let’s wrap up our conversations and get back together!” As the small group discussion portion of the PD session I was attending ended, an overwhelming feeling of relief came over me. Had I stayed in the session any longer, I might’ve had to slip out of the meeting room and find a hidden spot to cry; not tears of joy, per se, but frustration — frustration I often feel when squeezed out of conversations.

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Cultures Humanities High School Education 130

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

I’m principal of a high school with a well-known name, only because it’s the site of one of the most devastating school shootings in recent American history: Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. I’m also a mother, a neighbor and a witness to the enduring scars left by gun violence in our schools. As a member of the National Association of Secondary School Principals’ Recovery Network, I participated in a congressional roundtable on gun violence following October’s deadly massacre in Lewiston, M

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Civics American History High School Professional Development 101

Digital Promise

JANUARY 31, 2024

The post How Can Districts Determine if an Edtech Product is High Quality? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Psychology Sorted

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

And here is another Psychology Sorted review sheet. This Abnormal Psychology review sheet on major depressive disorder will help you to match the studies and arguments to the questions, in time for your May 2024 revision.

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Psychology 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2024

Last month, business leaders and child care advocates from a handful of states convened on Zoom. Representing Michigan, Kentucky, North Carolina and Virginia, they had come together to discuss a new child care model, called “Tri-Share,” that has gained traction across the country, including in their respective regions. The cost-sharing model, in which the state government, the employer and the employee each pay for one-third of the cost of child care, first launched in 2021 in Michigan , where i

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! Students from historically marginalized backgrounds are more likely than their advantaged peers to be treated as passive users of technology.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. AI is a complex field that appears poised to impact nearly every aspect of human life, from work to interpersonal relationships, education, mental health, and beyond.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 29, 2024

Short set of Notes on a kind of complementary, albeit less revolutionary, approach to understanding crime and deviance that you can either lump-in with Critical Criminology or treat as a separate, neo-critical, perspective. Your choice. But let’s just hope it’s the right one, for everyone’s sake… Left Realism: A Young Man’s Game?

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Sociology 98

ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

How do we get insights to the people who need them the most? This statement has guided the Feedback Loops work at Digital Promise over the last two years as we’ve explored ways different communities can collaborate to improve education. Looking forward, this will become even more important as the speed of edtech product life cycles increase, as evidenced by the recent release and adoption of generative AI tools across the landscape.

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Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

This year’s special Education Week Opinion project celebrating Black History Month focuses on what is going well in Black history education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

Since the Supreme Court abolished affirmative action last June, selective colleges and universities have had to dismantle their most effective tools for pursuing racially and ethnically diverse student bodies. Some institutions have even preemptively eliminated race-based scholarships and special academic programs for historically marginalized groups, fearing litigation.

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ShortCutsTV

JANUARY 27, 2024

A broad overview of a range of different Marxist interpretations of crime and deviance in words and pictures Or, if you want to be picky, film. Marxist (or critical) theories of crime assume that no behaviour is inherently deviant.

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Sociology 98

Heinemann Blog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Small-group reading instruction is an invaluable tool in a teacher's arsenal for targeted, personalized literacy teaching and learning. However, choosing the right students for these groups is essential to ensure that each learner receives the targeted support they need. Let’s dive into three tips to consider when selecting students for small-group reading instruction.

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Teaching 92

Education Week - Social Studies

JANUARY 30, 2024

Decades before AP African American Studies came along, Black women were the driving force behind an unprecedented education reform.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2024

By 2017, however, new houses starting in the mid-$200,000s were everywhere, and white students were now outnumbered inside Jones Middle. There were a handful of other Black kids in Corey Robinson’s seventh-grade social studies class, including a friend whom Corey considered his ride or die. The following is an adapted excerpt from DISILLUSIONED: FIVE FAMILIES AND THE UNRAVELING OF AMERICA’S SUBURBS, published by Penguin Press, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC.

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Education Social Studies Library Private School 94

Digital Promise

JANUARY 30, 2024

The post Micro-credentials Set New Milestones and Horizons for 2024 appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Heinemann Blog

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a Math Coach/Specialist, you support the teaching and learning of math within your building. Undeniably, your responsibilities are varied and challenging. You may be asked to conduct professional development workshops, facilitate data meetings, lead book study groups, facilitate collaborative planning meetings, provide demonstration lessons, or organize schoolwide math events.

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Ben Newmark

JANUARY 28, 2024

This is part 3 in a series of 5. Part 1 can be found here , and Part 2 here. Designing any system perfectly meeting everyone’s needs is impossible because the interests and preferences of individuals are often opposed to each other. Attempting to meet them all often means nobody getting what they need. The most able and knowledgeable children may prefer to learn independently but given how children are organised into classes, allowing this for them means allowing it for all, and this would have

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Perspectives in Anthropology

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Written by Jehron Muhammad “If this war (in Sudan) last for several years… the country that we knew as Sudan, (once Africa’s largest nation state, divided by a referendum) a sort of regional linchpin, between the Red Sea, the Horn of Africa, the Sahel and Central Africa will no longer exist,” said Sudan policy and…

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Anthropology 85