A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Many of my friends, family, and colleagues know that I am routine-oriented. I get up around the same time every morning (5:00 – 6:00 AM), go to the gym, and then have a protein shake. When I am home, I follow up my workout with an elaborate smoothing, take the dogs for a walk, and then head to my office to generate a to-do list for the day. From there, I open up my calendar and get to work.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Pictured from left to right: Bill Weidner, Rob Good, Dalton Savage , and Chelsea Gutierrez This is the first in a series introducing the NCHE staff and giving members a closer look at their experience and current work. Dalton Savage, an Education Coordinator at NCHE, spoke with me about his experiences in the classroom and his current role at NCHE. We sat down on a Monday morning to briefly catch up.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Listen to my interview with Dave Edwards ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and The Wired Classroom This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? According to recent studies , the number of people who identify as nonbinary or transgender has risen steadily over the last 10 years or so.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

10 Interesting Research Projects Shaping Our Future by TeachThought Staff AI-Driven Climate Modeling Researchers use advanced AI models to predict climate changes more precisely. This project integrates machine learning with global climate data to simulate potential outcomes. The goal is to identify key mitigation strategies for climate adaptation. By improving accuracy, policymakers can make better-informed decisions to combat climate change.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an environmental anthropologist, her research interests focus on political ecological approaches to studying livelihoods of small-scale fishers, and fisher/farmer populations in floodplain/estuarine environments, in the Mekong Basin, East Africa and the UK (Thames Estuary).

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Passion for Social Studies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Do your students ever think their rights just appeared without a fight for them? Or, do they not realize the amount of people and hard work it took to create the Constitution? Honestly, these are common trends among students! Until they learn something, they will not just know it! So, they will not realize how power became divided between the federal government and individual states.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The genomes of most modern humans contain up to 4% Neanderthal DNA. Scientists have now determined where much of that exchange likely happened: the Zagros Mountains in Iran. Around 28,000 years ago, give or take a millennium or two, the Neanderthals let out their last breath. The deathbed of our cousin species may have been Gibraltar. The natural fortress, pinned to southern Spain’s Mediterranean coast, was one of the final refuges of the Neanderthals.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an environmental anthropologist, her research interests focus on political ecological approaches to studying livelihoods of small-scale fishers, and fisher/farmer populations in floodplain/estuarine environments, in the Mekong Basin, East Africa and the UK (Thames Estuary).

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 2, 2024

The decades out-of-date genetics taught in most U.S. schools stokes misconceptions about race and human diversity. A biological anthropologist calls for change. ✽ On a lengthy bus ride in the early 1970s, University of Chicago geneticist Richard Lewontin passed the time by doing some novel math. Lewontin usually kept to the laboratory, studying proteins derived from ground-up fruit flies.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Everybody is trying to find ways to help students catch up after the pandemic. One new data analysis suggests some promising ideas. TNTP , a nonprofit based in New York that advocates for improving K-12 education, wanted to identify schools that are the most effective at helping kids recover academically and understand what those schools are doing differently.

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Zinn Education Project

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Thanks to a donation of 25 books from the University of North Carolina Press, we can offer you a copy of historian Kate Masur and illustrator Liz Clarke’s new graphic history, Freedom Was in Sight: A Graphic History of Reconstruction in the Washington, D.C., Region , for your story on teaching about Reconstruction. It could be a story about using one of our lessons for middle and high school on Reconstruction or how you have introduced the report, Erasing the Black Freedom Struggle: How S

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 1, 2024

The post What We’re Learning About AI’s Potential—And Limits—for Personalizing Educational Content appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education 122

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Rural young people who aspire to a higher education have long had fewer choices than their urban and suburban counterparts, contributing to far lower rates of college-going. Now many of the universities that serve them are eliminating large numbers of programs and majors. That means the already limited number of options available to rural students are being squeezed even further, forcing them to travel even greater distances to college than they already do or give up on it altogether.

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Society for Classical Studies

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

2024 Election Results kskordal Mon, 09/30/2024 - 08:31 Image The following members were elected in the ballot held this summer. They take office in January 2025, except for the three new members of the Nominating Committee who take office immediately. Thank you to all SCS members who agreed to stand for election this year. President-Elect Ralph Rosen VP for Professional Matters Antony Augoustakis VP for Program Joel Christensen VP for Publications and Research Sean Gurd Junior Financial Trustee

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 2, 2024

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2024

The post How My Puppetry Project Supports Indigenous Culture, Disabled Students, and the Environment appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

As a special education teacher, I often encountered students who struggled with solving math problems. Many would simply add all the numbers they saw without grasping what the problems were actually asking. To help, I introduced keywords like “all together” for addition and “difference” for subtraction. However, this approach fell short when students focused solely on the keywords, missing the problem’s context.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 3, 2024

LUCIFER IN OUR SKIES ! But not always. And why not? Because that planet moves around! Venus is inferior to us, the second large object from the sun inside our orbit. It is very similar in size and shape to our Earth. But hotter. Very hot. Maybe that is why it was named for the mythical Roman goddess of love, Venus [or Aphrodite in Greece]. Passionate heat.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 1, 2024

NEH Grantees: August 2024 kskordal Tue, 10/01/2024 - 14:52 Image Congratulations to the following National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Grantees, announced in August 2024, for their project in classical studies and adjacent fields: Caitlín Barrett and Kathryn Gleason (Cornell University): Toward an Archaeology of Lived Experience: Modeling Embodied Identities at Pompeii Learn more and view the full list of recent grants awarded by NEH: August 2024 Press Release Image Credits National Endow

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TCI

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Explore these hidden gems in our slideshows, including a new feature for restarting slideshows, best practices for locked slides, and how to assign parts of the slideshow for easy classroom management. Restarting Slideshows: Classroom Activity and Lesson Outline slideshows can now be restarted. This feature clears notebook answers and progress from the slideshow, allowing teachers to start fresh with each new class.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

A much anticipated and highly hoped-for recovery from pandemic learning loss is, disappointingly, not materializing. Instead, grim findings from a recent analysis by three testing companies noted that stagnation is a general trend — with a few isolated exceptions. Those few bright spots hold powerful lessons for schools that are struggling, particularly those serving high percentages of low-income students.

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History Havoc

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

If you are not aware, I am working on my Ph.D. through Liberty University. That is reason #1 why I have been absent here lately. I have so much I want to write about, but very little time. Currently I am taking 2 comprehensive exam courses. One on Early Modern Europe and the other on Early American History. Both are taking the majority of my free time.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 4, 2024

This week, my focus was all about scaling back and simplifying. I realized I’ve been expecting too much from my students in a short amount of time. Instead of overwhelming them, I shifted to teaching them how to work efficiently, meet deadlines, and build confidence with every task. EduProtocols like Thin Slides, Iron Chef, and Sketch and Tell-O became the foundation for helping students succeed.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 1, 2024

I was recently told by one of my students that my class “isn’t necessarily easy, but it’s simple.” And, I’ve got to be honest with you…it made my day. I take that as a huge complement. The simple classroom is something I strive for and is constantly on my mind when I consider both the physical environment and instruction provided during class.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Yet few are likely to grow up and establish careers in technology. For them, there’s obviously a leak somewhere in the school-to-jobs pipeline. Just one in 10 tech workers are Latino, and while Latino college students are choosing STEM fields in college more frequently , they earn only about 12 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2024

From California to South Carolina, these 30 districts are the latest to join the network of 150 forward-thinking education leaders.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2024

A quarter of the children in the U.S. are Hispanic, according to the U.S. Census, yet 60 percent of Hispanic families live in child care deserts, areas with an undersupply of child care. Culturally appropriate and accessible Spanish-language child care is tailored to the needs of Hispanic and Latino families, where Spanish is often the primary language.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Issued: September 30, 2024 Pitches due: rolling until December 1, 2025 First drafts due: 3 weeks after pitch decision Submit Here Anthropology News invites submissions on the theme of migration. We are looking for stories about how people, animals, and things, both tangible and intangible, move or are moved, are guided or routed, are started or stopped.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 1, 2024

There’s a push among AI developers to create an AI tutor , and some see that as a key use case for tools like ChatGPT. But one longtime edtech expert sees an even better fit for new AI chatbots in education: helping educators design course materials for their students. So all year Michael Feldstein has been leading a project to build an AI assistant that’s focused on learning design.

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Perspectives in Anthropology

OCTOBER 1, 2024

Written by Colin Greer & Eric Laursen Editor’s note: This is the second of three articles on the role of social movements in bringing about transformative change. The U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2024

We know that children who attend high quality child care programs and elementary schools get off on a much stronger footing in both learning and life. But what about the impact of various other opportunities, like after school clubs, music lessons and sports? This was the question a team of researchers tried to explore over more than a quarter century: their landmark study followed more than 800 children from infancy into adulthood, across the many settings and activities they engaged in.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 4, 2024

What Can We Learn From Our Teaching Award Winner Colleagues? A Virtual Conversation kskordal Fri, 10/04/2024 - 08:18 Image Friday, October 25th, 2024 8:00pm - 9:00pm EDT (5:00pm - 6:00pm PDT) Virtual (Zoom) The 2022 and 2023 winners of the SCS Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the College Level and at the K-12 Level join John Gruber-Miller for this virtual conversation, to discuss insights into their practice of teaching Classical Studies.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

My colleagues, friends and family often praise my relentless pursuit of excellence, especially in my teaching career. But what they don’t always see is the weight behind that drive — the pressure I feel to prove myself and the deep sense of responsibility I feel to create systemic change for my students. Even after surpassing many of my professional goals, an unsettling feeling lingers — a persistent voice telling me that it’s still not enough.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Recent archaeological fieldwork 1 in Morocco has uncovered a previously unknown Neolithic society, shedding new light on North Africa’s pivotal role in the development of Mediterranean prehistory. This discovery fills a significant gap in understanding the cultural and agricultural evolution of the region between 4000 and 1000 BC. The Maghreb, often overlooked during this dynamic era, is now recognized as a key player in intercontinental exchanges and societal transformations.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2024

This story was produced by Chalkbeat and reprinted with permission. Sign up for Chalkbeat Philadelphia’s free newsletter. Sameerah Abdullah sends her three school-aged kids to a cyber charter school for some of the same familiar reasons that other families across the nation do, including the flexibility and personalization. For financial literacy class, they go to the bank to open an account.

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. I began my commute extra early to avoid traffic. My plan worked until I reached San Diego County, and traffic slowed.

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