A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2024

A few weeks back, I shared ideas on ELA stations for primary students after this was brought up during a coaching cycle with one of my schools. Upon reflection, I decided to do the same with math. Creating math stations for primary students can be a fun and effective way to introduce them to basic math concepts through hands-on activities. These stations can help develop their understanding of numbers, shapes, patterns, and measurements in an interactive and engaging manner.

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TeachThought

MARCH 11, 2024

Though it is perhaps not intuitive, Richland et al. (2009) found that error generation is positively correlated to enhanced memory. The post What Is Mistake Literacy? The Research Of Learning Through Failure appeared first on TeachThought.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 11, 2024

At a recent workshop, a teacher posed a compelling question about the effectiveness of small-group versus whole-group instruction. This inquiry always prompts me to reflect: How many educators gather pre-assessment data before crafting their lesson plans? Such preliminary insights, whether through pre-assessments, diagnostics, or activities aimed at accessing prior knowledge, can illuminate the diverse range of skills, abilities, and needs within a classroom.

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Geography Education

MARCH 15, 2024

A lidar image reveals ancient Mayan structures Archaeologists have spent more than a century traipsing through the Guatemalan jungle, Indiana Jones-style, searching through dense vegetation to learn what they could about the Maya civilization. Scientists using high-tech, airplane-based lidar mapping tools have discovered tens of thousands of structures constructed by the Maya: defense works, houses, buildings, industrial-size agricultural fields, even new pyramids.

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Passion for Social Studies

MARCH 14, 2024

Students across the United States often focus on specific events and people during history courses. For instance, learning about World War 1, World War 2, and September 11th are essential topics. Additionally, learning about Martin Luther King Jr, Richard Nixon, and Lyndon B. Johnson is crucial due to their impact. However, creating lessons that ensure students have a deep understanding of vital events and people can be challenging.

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TeachThought

MARCH 11, 2024

Tips for improving family engagement through home-school communication include goal setting and consistent communication. The post Tips For Improving Family Engagement Through School-Home Communication appeared first on TeachThought.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension. The theory is that what we grasp from what we read depends on whether we can hook it to concepts and topics that we already know. Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimo

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Learning Science Charter School Lesson Plan Social Studies 144

ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2024

Given the amount of planning time he has each day, along with the assistance of an AI-powered app, Robert can easily turn a hard copy reading passage and questions into an interactive quiz for the students in his elementary classroom. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. But if he wanted to design something more engaging, where the kids are making cutouts or drawing as part of the lesson, well — there’s just not enough time in his 45-minute conference period to design that.

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Edthena

MARCH 12, 2024

With more than 10 years of experience supporting educators and organizations, our team has encountered several myths regarding instructional coaching. Here are a few common misconceptions and why it’s important to dispel them. Myth 1: Instructional coaching is only for struggling teachers Instructional coaching (and coaching in general) is not something that is only for people who are struggling.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

The cursing came loud and fast from a nearby room, followed by a slamming sound. This was a few years back, and I immediately suspected the culprit: the dreaded FAFSA, or Free Application for Federal Student Aid, with all its glitches and complexities. My husband was losing his cool while attempting to fill it out for the second time in two years. Across America right now, so are millions of parents , students and counselors, frustrated by a failed promise to finally streamline this unwieldy ga

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2024

As Publications Manager at Teaching American History , I frequently hear the following from our teacher partners: I love teaching with primary sources! But which one should I use? Your website is great! But I feel overwhelmed when I look all the documents. My district has dropped our textbook and we are switching to primary sources. Where do I even start?

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Library Primary Sources American History Social Studies 101

ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

The value of college is something that people used to pretty much agree on. In 2013, a little over a decade ago, the number of young people who thought a college degree was very important was 74 percent, according to a Gallup poll. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here? Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college.

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 14, 2024

Another in the “Podcasts with Pictures” series designed to bring to your attention video materials you or your students might find useful. In this instance we have a series of “video lessons” created by The Learning Academy.

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Sociology Education 98

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

OAKLAND, Calif. — Teacher Yasmin Kudrolli sat on a low chair and lit a candle to start the morning meeting in her prekindergarten classroom in Oakland. Speaking quietly to her 4-year-old students, she picked one boy from the group to count his classmates: 22. California mandates one adult for every 12 students in what it calls “transitional kindergarten,” so there’s an aide standing by the door, ready to take any child who needs to use the bathroom into the main building.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 13, 2024

Dorie Ladner, 1968. Photographer: Fred Sweet SNCC veteran and lifelong activist Dorie Ladner died on March 11, in Washington, D.C. Raised in Mississippi, she saw first-hand the white supremacist violence used against anyone advocating for civil rights. As teenagers, Dorie and her sister Joyce were mentored by Clyde Kennard, Vernon Dahmer, and Medgar Evers.

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ED Surge

MARCH 15, 2024

This fall, after a restless night overthinking an assignment for my upcoming class and drinking three cups of not-strong-enough coffee, I added the final touch on my latest assignment for students in my World History II class. I was finally satisfied with the plan I had for my 10th graders, when it hit me: none of this actually matters. To be clear, this assignment would require students to analyze documents and write their own responses using evidence, which are important skills of course, but

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Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2024

The post Insights from NSF-Funded Research During the COVID-19 Pandemic appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Research 118

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2024

When we’re young, playing and learning are inseparable. Simple games like peekaboo and hide-and-seek help us learn crucial lessons about time, anticipation and cause and effect. We discover words, numbers, colors and sounds through toys, puzzles, storybooks and cartoons. Everywhere we turn, there’s something fun to do and something new to learn. Then, somewhere around early elementary school, learning and play officially become separated for life.

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Education Elementary School Interactive Learning Learning Science 118

Anthropology News

MARCH 12, 2024

This piece was selected as a winner of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the middle school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. Students were encouraged to think creatively about the topic and respond to the prompt in a format they see fit. Acknowledgements to the committee: Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware) and Andrea Kim Neighbors (Blue Star Families).

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

When college students think about quitting, it’s most likely because of mental health strain or stress. That’s according to the recent data from the “ State of Higher Education Study ,” conducted by the analytics company Gallup and the private foundation Lumina. For the study, researchers interviewed 6,015 enrolled students, 5,012 formerly enrolled students who never completed their program and 3,005 adults who never enrolled in higher education.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 15, 2024

2025 Annual Meeting: Submission Deadline Extended kskordal Fri, 03/15/2024 - 09:54 Image The SCS Program Committee is happy to announce a slight extension to the deadline for submissions for the Annual Meeting in 2025 (January 2-5, Philadelphia). Please note that all submissions are now due by the end of Sunday, April 7th 11.59pm EDT. We look forward to reading your proposals for panels, seminars, workshops, and roundtables as well as for individual abstracts, lightning talks, and poster session

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I teach from a mindset and lens that I want to make sure my students are becoming activists, and it’s not enough just talking about it,” the science and math teacher said. “ I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.

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Living Geography

MARCH 14, 2024

A cross-posting from my GA Presidents blog. An important announcement from the GA today. Alan Kinder's replacement was announced. The full announcement said: The Geographical Association (GA) is delighted to announce that Steve Brace has been appointed as its new Chief Executive. Steve is already well known to the geography education community having previously been Head of Education and Outdoor Learning at the Royal Geographical Society (with Institute of British Geographers) (RGS (with IBG)).

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Geography Education Policy Teaching Education 75

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

“As educators, we must tell the truth — to ourselves and then to our students,” writes Deaunna Watson, director of diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging at a Montessori school in Cincinnati. Sometimes, though, the truth can be difficult to face and uncomfortable to talk about. Over the past nine months, our editors have had the privilege of collaborating with a group of eight talented educators and school leaders who bravely reflected on their lived experiences and shared their truths throu

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Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 79

Anthropology News

MARCH 12, 2024

This piece was selected as a runner-up of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. Students were encouraged to think creatively about the topic and respond to the prompt in a format they see fit. Acknowledgements to the committee: Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware) and Andrea Kim Neighbors (Blue Star Families).

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Anthropology Humanities High School Cultures 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 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! Last year, I began reporting on the growing interest in teaching young people about data science amid calls that Algebra II and other higher-level math classes are being taught in outdated ways and need to be modernized.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2024

The post Assessment Scholars are Re-envisioning Student Measurement: Here’s Why That’s Important appeared first on Digital Promise.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 14, 2024

One of the most fruitful aspects of using IDM in a school, PLC, or any community of teachers is the ability to develop a similar language about what we are trying to teach in a classroom. My own social studies department made it a soft goal to implement IDM language (questions, tasks, sources, etc.) a few years ago. Many of the best and challenging conversations I have had with colleagues have utilized this language, particularly when it comes to developing and using compelling questions.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2024

A poet-historian from Manipur, India, shapes tensions between violence and beauty into an allegory, calling residents and readers alike to stay awake. “Fishing for Dust” is part of the collection Poems of Witness and Possibility: Inside Zones of Conflict. Read the introduction to the collection here. ✽ They keep knocking, asking her for a ransom for her long hair and the sum of that very gold she lost as a young bride to the fire.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 15, 2024

The following excerpt is from Georgia Heard's forthcoming Awakening the Heart: Teaching Poetry K-8, 2/e.

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Education Elements

MARCH 12, 2024

Picture this: sunrise in Rochester, NH, where the promise of a fantastic day starts with the aroma of fresh coffee and the delightful sight of pastries from the local gem, Potter's House. If you haven’t visited, you're missing out on a slice of Rochester's personality—hard working, welcoming, curious, and determined. During a recent trip, while gearing up for one of our sessions, we made sure to kickstart the day with something sweet.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 14, 2024

The post Leading Education and Technology Communities Announce New Partnership to Advance the Edtech Ecosystem appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Education 62

Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2024

Liver steatosis, characterized by the accumulation of fat in the liver, presents a spectrum of conditions from benign steatosis to inflammatory steatohepatitis. Understanding the genetic underpinnings of this condition is crucial due to its widespread prevalence and potential for severe health consequences, including liver fibrosis and cancer. Recent research 1 conducted by interdisciplinary teams from Würzburg University Hospital (UKW), Homburg University Hospital (UKS), and the Max Planck

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Anthropology News

MARCH 12, 2024

This piece was selected as a winner of the AAA’s AnthroDay Student Unessay Competition in the high school division. This year’s unessay competition focused on the topic of Technology and how it has impacted human life or society. Students were encouraged to think creatively about the topic and respond to the prompt in a format they see fit. Acknowledgements to the committee: Carla Guerron Montero (University of Delaware) and Andrea Kim Neighbors (Blue Star Families).

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Anthropology Humanities High School Cultures 59

Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

What is Universal Pre-K? Mar. 15, 2024 • By Studies Weekly Universal pre-K is a state policy framework to provide every child with a quality, publicly funded preschool education. The National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER) reports that many states still do not have a universal pre-K policy, and some do not have any state-funded preschool at all, but those numbers are quickly changing as the universal pre-K movement catches on across the nation.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 14, 2024

Welcome to The Dispatch, a Heinemann Podcast series. Over the next several weeks, we'll hear from Heinemann thought leaders as they discuss the most pressing issues in education today. In today's episode, Heinemann author Carol Jago speaks to the resilience she sees in both teachers and students. Our conversation begins with her thoughts on the implications of AI.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 14, 2024

Unveiling Climate Change as the Driving Force In a groundbreaking study reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 1 , planetary scientists Giovanni Muttoni from the University of Milan and Dennis Kent from Columbia University delve into the intricacies of the Pleistocene migration, proposing climate change as the pivotal factor shaping hominin dispersal out of Africa over a million years ago.

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