A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

I vividly remember the first World Book Encyclopedia set my parents bought for the house in the early 1980’s. It was a sight to behold as what seemed like an infinite amount of knowledge was alphabetically organized, just waiting to be consumed. Housed in the dining room for ease of access by all, the copper and cream books with gold trim were a staple resource for my brothers and me when we had to do any research for school work.

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TeachThought

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Learning theory isn’t generally high on the list of practicing teachers. For starters, teachers are busy poring over the classic–or […] The post What Is Cognitive Constructivism? appeared first on TeachThought.

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HistoryRewriter

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Adam Moler and I had a ball presenting together during the Catalina Lesson Design Mixer last week. Adam truly excels at simplifying pedagogy and combines it with an instinctive gift for self-reflection at a depth that I am incapable of. Working with him has helped me grow as a teacher in soooo many ways. Our friendship provides a clear example of how EduProtocols gives teachers a common language to discuss instructional practices and helps us focus on identifying instructional misconceptions tog

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Passion for Social Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

September 11th, 2011, can never be forgotten in history. It is a day that changed America and Americans instantly. However, high school students do not remember the day like teachers do due to their age. To ensure students understand the magnitude of this day, teachers must focus on teaching September 11th. With the 9/11 Lesson , students will be sure to understand the tragedy, heroism, and unity that occurred from this day.

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Question of the Day Ideas What is the Question of the Day? Why should I use it? If you are looking for Question of the Day ideas or simply how to incorporate them in your classroom, look no further! Taking five minutes to include the Question of the Day in your classroom’s daily routine can help build meaningful community in your classroom and foster confidence in your students.

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TeachThought

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

Maximize business decisions with applied statistics tips. Learn to leverage data effectively for better business success. The post Tips for Using Applied Statistics to Make Better Business Decisions appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

If you live in Arizona, school choice may be coming to your neighborhood soon. As someone who has had more school choice than I know what to do with, I can tell you what may feel like a shocking surprise: Private schools have the power to choose, not parents. I live inPhoenix, where the nearby town of Paradise Valley is getting ready to offer the privatization movement’s brand of choice to families.

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Strange Maps

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Built inside a 27-kilometer (17-mile) circle-shaped tunnel near Geneva, the Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is the world’s largest and most powerful particle accelerator. But now CERN — the French acronym for the European Organization for Nuclear Research — wants a bigger one. The Future Circular Collider (FCC) would be three times as long as the LHC. Since 2008, the LHC has been smashing together subatomic particles at near-light speed.

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ShortCutsTV

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

While the relationship between social disadvantage and crime has long been known, an important question that’s often ignored is why only a relatively small proportion of the socially disadvantaged seem to engage in persistent criminal offending?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

At the beginning of the school year, each of my 11th grade teachers stated that they would not tolerate students using AI platforms, such as ChatGPT, to complete assignments. They explained that any use of AI would be considered plagiarism and could result in a failing grade. Despite these warnings, I regularly hear my classmates laugh about how they used ChatGPT for the prior night’s homework.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

After transitioning from teaching adolescents to educating adults, I’m challenged to understand people in the context of their identities and workplaces, especially when that context is unclear to me and those I educate. I do this while combating a flattening double consciousness, wrestling with who I am and others’ racialized and gendered perceptions of me.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

In my work helping teachers to shift from whole group, teacher-led lessons to differentiated small group student-centered learning experiences, I am asked questions that seem grounded in the belief that students cannot learn without the teacher. When I work with teachers designing lessons using the station rotation model, for example, some teachers struggle to understand how students can start at a station and complete an activity before they receive instruction.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In Ecuador, Shuar people, an Indigenous group in the region, face increasing threats to their ways of life from industrial mining. But some find strength and courage to resist through knowledge gained by using hallucinogenic plants. ✽ Organizing a labor union is risky business. Even more so if you try to do it in an industrial mine in the middle of the Amazon.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 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! By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that: Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine you are a mountaineer. Nothing excites you more than testing your skill, strength and resilience against some of the most extreme environments on the planet, and now you've decided to take on the greatest challenge of all: Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. You’ll be training for at least a year, slowly building up your endurance. Climbing Everest involves hiking for many hours per day, every day, for several weeks.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Welcome to The Dispatch, a Heinemann podcast series. Over the next several weeks, we'll hear from Heinemann thought leaders as they reflect on the work they do in schools across the country and discuss, from their perspective, the most pressing issues in education today. Today we'll hear from Heinemann math author Sue O'Connell talk about the importance of positive math identities for both students and teachers.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Students who completed Digital Promise’s free online modules on global competence in the workplace reflect on their learnings.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Chronic absenteeism has surged across the country since the pandemic, with more than one out of four students missing at least 18 days of school a year. That’s more than three lost weeks of instruction a year for more than 10 million school children. An even higher percentage of poor students, more than one out of three , are chronically absent. Nat Malkus, a senior fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, a conservative think tank, calls chronic absenteeism – not learning loss – “the greate

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Zachary Jackson thinks a lot about what his students may be learning from him in class. For some of his first graders in Atlanta, that goes beyond the actual academic lessons. They are also practicing how to be a man. For Jackson, the question of how to model manhood is an obsession, something he thinks about all the time. He’s worked with kids since 2018 through Wings for Kids, a nonprofit that operates after-school programs in Georgia and South Carolina.

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Education Week - Social Studies

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Bettina L. Love explains how she struggled to portray Black icons as real people in the early days of her teaching career.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

During speeches in January, several state leaders kicked off the year with strong commitments of money and resources to improve literacy in their schools through the immediate implementation of evidence-based reading instruction, often referred to as the “science of reading.” The governors of New York and Massachusetts offered guidelines, not mandates, for school districts to focus on adopting reading instruction practices and materials that are evidence-based.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The 9-year-old had been drawing images of guns at school and pretending to point the weapons at other students. He’d become more withdrawn, and had stared angrily at a teacher. The principal suspended him for a week. Educators were unsure whether it was safe for him to return to school — and, if so, how best to support him. So, as schools around the country are increasingly inclined to do amid heightened concern over school violence and threats, administrators sent the child to meet with a psych

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

When Alicia Garcia first enrolled at College of the Desert, she felt lost. Her first semester grades at the California community college were not good, she says, and she didn’t know much about financial aid or academic advising. But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Black History Month: 10 scholars who are broadening perspectives by highlighting and examining the experiences of Black Americans and are civic leaders in their communities.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In featuring three SAPIENS poems, students in a digital anthropology seminar infused video reels for Instagram with vivid history and powerful emotions. ✽ For a digital anthropology seminar at the University of Denver, I asked my students: “Why do the pressures of our lived realities demand a response through poetry?” That question launched an assignment in which they were asked to create short videos based on three poems published at SAPIENS.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

This story was produced by The 19th and reprinted with permission. In 2023, Diamond Harriel was looking to make a career switch. She had a 10-month-old daughter and had recently gone back to school for a business administration degree, hoping it could help her earn higher pay than the temporary administrative jobs she had been working. One day, through a program that helps single moms, she saw a flier about a new city initiative in Rochester, Minnesota, that aimed to bring women of color into th

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

When Chat GPT-4 came out, Cory Kohn was itching to bring it into the classroom. A biology laboratory coordinator in an integrated science department at Claremont McKenna, Pitzer and Scripps Colleges, Kohn perceived the tool as useful. It promised to increase efficiency, he argued. But more than that, it would be important to teach his science students how to interact with the tool for their own careers, he first told EdSurge last April.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Matthew Mugo Fields reflects on the past year, and shares his vision for Heinemann in 2024.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 led by researchers at the Nagoya University Museum in Japan offers fresh insights into the cultural evolution of Homo sapiens during their dispersal across Eurasia roughly 50,000 to 40,000 years ago. These findings challenge conventional beliefs about the timing and nature of cultural transitions during this pivotal period in human history.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

The post How We Designed a Community-Centered Model for Racial Equity and Social Justice Conversations appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The latest wave of AI tools like ChatGPT seem certain to disrupt the workplace in the years ahead — and the most-disrupted professions may be ones that require college degrees. That presents an unprecedented challenge for colleges already struggling to prove their value. A study published last year used a sophisticated analysis to try to determine which types of jobs are most at risk of major disruptions and shrinkages due to large-language AI models.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 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! By traditional measures of well-being, America’s children and teens should be doing well. Consider that Over the past two decades, high school graduation rates have gone up.

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Heinemann Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

We created the resource Short Nonfiction for American History: The American Revolution and Constitution because historical events are full of controversies, mysteries, and dramas that engage and excite students of all ages. Many of the articles in the book tell the untold stories of everyday people whose perspectives and experiences may not get top billing in history books.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

2024 Zeph Stewart Latin Teacher Training Award kskordal Fri, 02/16/2024 - 08:36 Image The Zeph Stewart Latin Teacher Training Award is open to those preparing for Latin teacher certification, and SCS membership is not required. The deadline for applications is April 22, 2024. For more information about the award and for complete application instructions, please visit the Zeph Stewart Latin Teacher Training Award page.

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Life and Landscapes

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On this Saturday afternoon, February 17, 2024, from 3-5 pm (CST), I will be playing my music at the Hoosier Junction Music Hall in Sulphur Indiana! It will be a crisp, beautiful day of snow cloaked sunshine. Come on over! One mile south of Interstate 64, about 45 minutes west of Louisville. This is a family friendly atmosphere with snacks and popcorn, no alcohol, no smoking and no cover!

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Living Geography

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

A new StoryMap from Timberland : a company with strong sustainability credentials. This tells the story of the iconic yellow boot. It shows the global reach of this single product, which involves people from several continents, farmers and other industries.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Teaching American History provides various free resources for American history and government teachers, including our popular seminars , multi-day seminars , and extensive database of original source documents. Still, to paraphrase a famous campaign slogan from the 1990s, for TAH, it’s the documents, stupid! Seriously, that’s because we believe the best way to learn about American history and government is by bringing the words of those who lived it into the classroom.

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