Sat.Jan 13, 2024 - Fri.Jan 19, 2024

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Encounters with Archetypes

HistoryRewriter

Adam Moler and I will kick off the second season of The Social Studies Show on Thursday, January 18, 2024 at 6 PT/9 ET. We are excited to work with our EduProtocols Plus members to better understand the role of Archetypes in understanding historical events. The Archetype Foursquare EduProtocol (Chapter 13) helps students at all levels demonstrate that they can transfer their learning from one subject (English) to another (History).

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Is French Common in Dubai?

TeachThought

From education to commerce, the French language, in its niche, contributes to the rich linguistic and cultural tapestry of Dubai. The post Is French Common in Dubai? appeared first on TeachThought.

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5 Ways To Create Positive Parent-Teacher Relationships

Passion for Social Studies

It is crucial to have a positive parent-teacher relationship with our students and staff when becoming a teacher. They are not the only ones we have these relationships with. When I stepped foot into the classroom for the first time, I quickly realized how important it was to keep a positive teacher parent relationship with the parents and guardians of the students.

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Smartphones Have Changed Student Attention, Even When Students Aren’t Using Them

ED Surge

When teachers think their students aren’t paying attention in class, they’re probably right. And that’s true even when instructors force students to put away their smartphones. That’s what Georgetown University professor Jeanine Turner found in her research about how tech has shaped social relationships. Her argument is that our internet-connected devices have changed the way people relate to others, even when devices are temporarily removed.

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PROOF POINTS: How to get teachers to talk less and students more

The Hechinger Report

Example of the talk meter shown to Cuemath tutors at the end of the tutoring session. Source: Figure 2 of Demszky et. al. “ Does Feedback on Talk Time Increase Student Engagement? Evidence from a Randomized Controlled Trial on a Math Tutoring Platform.” Silence may be golden, but when it comes to learning with a tutor, talking is pure gold. It’s audible proof that a student is paying attention and not drifting off, research suggests.

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5 Ways to Meet Students Where They Are

Heinemann Blog

One of the greatest benefits of using a workshop approach toward the teaching of mathematics is the consistent ability for a teacher to meet students where they are. But what does that mean?

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World War II Lessons

Passion for Social Studies

While World War II may have ended long ago, it left a resounding impact on the world. The war from 1939 to 1945 involved most countries, civilian and military resources, and world capabilities. Sadly, this also resulted in millions of fatalities. Due to how impactful this time was, students must learn about it. Thankfully, there are amazing World War II lessons to ensure students understand key aspects of the war, including the causes and turning points.

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OPINION: A hopeful note for early childhood education in 2024 — Some states are stepping up investment

The Hechinger Report

Millions of families may now face a lack of child care following the recent expiration of pandemic-era federal funding. The child care “stabilization” funds included in the American Rescue Plan Act were just that — emergency funding to stabilize the sector amid a pandemic. As vital as that funding was, it was insufficient to address the many systemic problems impacting early childhood education and its workforce, including inequitable wages.

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In Newark, 16-Year-Olds Win the Right to Vote in School Board Races

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The post In Newark, 16-Year-Olds Win the Right to Vote in School Board Races appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

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Explanations for Crime and Deviance: 1. Functionalism

ShortCutsTV

A short set of Notes covering a range of Functionalist explanations for crime and deviance, largely based around the concepts of anomie (both the Durkheimian and Mertonian interpretations) and Strain (Merton again plus Agnew’s General Strain Theory). There’s also a little bit of subcultural stuff thrown-in for good measure.

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Are Preschools as Segregated as the Rest of American Life?

ED Surge

Sociologist Casey Stockstill spent two years observing “all the richness happening” inside a Head Start preschool in Madison, Wisconsin. Then, she figured, she ought to look at one other early learning program, for good measure. The Madison preschools shared much in common. Though one was funded by the federal Head Start program and the other was private, they both had five-star quality ratings from the state, hired experienced educators, used play-based curricula and followed similar routines.

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STUDENT VOICE: The end of affirmative action is slamming doors for students like me

The Hechinger Report

I cried the day I gained acceptance to Wesleyan University in 2018. My tears signified relief, joy and excitement. I viewed my acceptance into this elite private institution as a dooropening, a new opportunity for young Black students like me. As a Sierra Leonean American, I had felt constrained by my public education in the United States. I had to fight against low expectations and conditions that devalued my potential, including “accidentally” being placed into English as a Second Language in

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Call for Pitches: Deception

Anthropology News

Issued: January 19, 2024 Response deadline: February 2, 2024 Pitch responses: February 7, 2024 First drafts due: February 21, 2024 For our second issue of 2024, Anthropology News invites you to explore the anatomy of deception and dissect the truths and untruths that form our understanding of reality. What forms do these deceptions take? What lies do people tell themselves?

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Crime Trends and Patterns in England and Wales

ShortCutsTV

A short set of Notes looking at crime trends and patterns in England and Wales over the past 50-odd years. While students don’t require a detailed factual knowledge of trends and patterns they do provide a useful introduction to the next set of Notes covering theoretical explanations for crime and deviance.

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Anthropomorphism of AI in Learning Environments: Risks of Humanizing the Machine

ED Surge

Definitions of Artificial Intelligence and Generative AI The Executive Order defines AI as: “a machine-based system that can, for a given set of human-defined objectives, make predictions, recommendations or decisions influencing real or virtual environments.” And Generative AI as: “The term generative AI means the class of AI models that emulate the structure and characteristics of input data in order to generate derived synthetic content.

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Who feels the pinch of status competition?

Marginal Revolution

Here is one interesting hypothesis: Despite the persistence of anti-Black racism, White Americans report feeling worse off than Black Americans. We suggest that some White Americans may report low well-being despite high group-level status because of perceptions that they are falling behind their in-group. Using census-based quota sampling, we measured status comparisons and health among Black ( N = 452, Wave 1) and White ( N = 439, Wave 1) American adults over a period of 6 to 7 weeks.

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Building Connection: Youth Mental Health and Civic Engagement

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The work of addressing youth mental health and well-being does not stand apart from the work of preparing young people for life as citizens.

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Defining and Measuring Crime

ShortCutsTV

Some Notes that have been hanging around on my hard drive doing nothing useful that I’ve finally got around to posting. There are plenty more where these came from but whether or not I’ll ever get around to digging them out is anyone’s guess.

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Despite Challenges, Here’s Why These Black Women Educators Stay in the Classroom

ED Surge

Last year, the U.S. Department of Education reported that Black educators make up approximately 9 percent of the teacher workforce , of which a majority are Black women. A group that is often studied but left out of conversations, we wanted to intentionally facilitate spaces for Black women across and outside the gender spectrum and learn more about their experiences in this climate, as much recent research covers pre-pandemic educator experiences.

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Instructional Leadership Teams: Driving Student Success through Feedback Loops

Digital Promise

The post Instructional Leadership Teams: Driving Student Success through Feedback Loops appeared first on Digital Promise.

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How This State Is Creating an Asian American Curriculum—and Why It’s Doing So

Education Week - Social Studies

In Connecticut, students and teachers worked together to develop model lesson plans for K-8 Asian American and Pacific Islander curriculum.

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What I’ve been reading

Marginal Revolution

1. Hannah Ritchie, Not the End of the World: How We Can be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet. An excellent book with sound conclusions, think of it as moderate Julian Simon-like optimism on environmental issues, but with left-coded rhetoric. 2. Colin Elliott, Pox Romana: The Plague that Shook the Roman World. Think of this as a sequel to Kyle Harper’s tract on Roman plagues and their political import , this look at the Antonine plague and its impact has both good history

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How My Students and I Are Redefining the American Dream

ED Surge

My grandparents were migrant farm workers, cherry pickers and hops harvesters. Though both were born in Texas, their Mexican identity and socioeconomic status determined their day-to-day lives, but not their future. I’ve come to realize there is an unspoken pride in our family that is rooted in the Latine experience of the American Dream. My grandparents knew education was the pathway out of low wages and difficult working conditions, hence why my grandfather decided to work as a janitor at a pu

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Europe’s busiest airport? Heathrow and Istanbul battle for the title

Strange Maps

Squint at this map and you’ll see the Blue Banana : the European megalopolis that stretches from Manchester to Milan. It’s home to 100 million people and represents the developed world’s largest concentration of wealth, population, and international airports. Six of Europe’s 10 busiest international airports are in or near the Blue Banana, including two of London’s six: Heathrow (LHR) and Gatwick (LGW).

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Ghosts Everywhere

Ben Newmark

On Christmas Eve in the village of Willerby, the children sing carols door-to-door. The adults and older children lead the littler ones down the only street, past the old pub, past the barrows, past the hardly ever open post office and the church. Then, pools of light falling from open doors, they sing. At the end of the evening the singers gather at the green and then on to a kindly house for mince pies, hot cocoa and mulled ribena in front of an open fire.

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Nurturing Teacher Well-Being: Advocating for Time and Energy

Digital Promise

The post Nurturing Teacher Well-Being: Advocating for Time and Energy appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Unveiling Today’s Student Motivations

ED Surge

Students have different reasons for enrolling in university and in pushing to complete their degree. A deeper understanding of their motivating factors can help universities adjust communications with future prospective students, as well as inform additional services they can provide to ensure that students are successful while in university through to graduation.

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Tackling the Wreckage of War

Sapiens

An archaeologist traces how rubble from World War II bombings helped turn London marshlands into a footballing utopia. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ DURING WORLD WAR II, German forces dropped 28,000 bombs and almost 3,000 V1 flying bombs and V2 rockets on London. Nearly 30,000 people were killed.

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Developing Skilled Readers with The Reading Strategies Book 2.0

Heinemann Blog

Are you looking for engaging lessons for whole-class teaching, need to supplement your core curriculum with small-group instruction, or need ideas for intervention?

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Did the Black Death Shape the Human Genome? New Study Casts Doubt

Anthropology.net

The devastating Black Death of 1349, while taking a significant toll on medieval Cambridge, might not have left a lasting imprint on the genomes of its people, as suggested by a recent study published in Science Advances 1. This challenges a high-profile 2022 Nature paper 2 that claimed variants in immune genes enriched in Black Death survivors had a protective effect.

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Surrounding™ The Great Saltpetre Cave!

Life and Landscapes

SURROUNDING THE GREAT SALTPETRE CAVE There is another way to penetrate the mountains of Kentucky and reach its river’s beginnings. A flank attack, rugged as all get-out, but a route that follows the path that the Long Hunters took to get in. The first was Skaggs Trace, and it was cut by the brothers who would explore the Upper Green River and the Barren Rivers below.

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Oswald Werner

Anthropology News

(1928–2023) Oswald Werner, who was with the Department of Anthropology at Northwestern University for over 30 years, died at the age of 95 in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on March 26, 2023. Known simply as “Ossy” to his family and friends, as well as to generations of colleagues and students, he was a linguistic anthropologist who specialized in Navajo semantics through an approach to the study of cultural knowledge that he called “ethnoscience.

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Why the Writing Workshop is More Important Now Than Ever

Heinemann Blog

The writing workshop is an opportunity to ensure every student feels safe and welcomed into your classroom community and empowers students by inviting them to be all-in on learning. And when students know that they are seen and heard—that they have a voice in your classroom—then everything in a school year can change for the better.

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Unveiling East Asia's Ancient Marvels: Shiyu's Cultural Tapestry from 45,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

In a groundbreaking revelation, an international team of researchers, spanning China, Australia, France, Spain, and Germany, has unveiled a sophisticated material culture in East Asia dating back an astonishing 45,000 years. This revelation stems from a meticulous examination of the archaeological collection at the Shiyu site in Shanxi Province, North China, as detailed in the latest publication in Nature Ecology & Evolution 1.

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The 2024 David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship

Society for Classical Studies

The 2024 David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship kskordal Thu, 01/18/2024 - 13:06 Image In 2024 the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) will again award the David D. and Rosemary H. Coffin Fellowship for study and travel in classical lands. The Fellowship was established in 2004 by the friends and students of David and Rosemary Coffin to honor the skill, devotion, learning, and kindness with which they educated students at Phillips Exeter Academy for more than thirty years.

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Anthropology Training and Career Preparation: Key Takeaways from Focus Groups

Anthropology News

Recommendations for anthropology programs from the Anthropology Career Readiness Network In January 2023, the Anthropology Career Readiness Network conducted two illuminating focus groups with undergraduate and graduate anthropology students to gain insight into their perspectives on career preparation and the transition from school to work. The conversations revealed several common themes and concerns that led to recommendations for enhancing anthropology education, thereby setting up students

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A Great Summer School Fit: Math in Practice

Heinemann Blog

What makes an effective summer school program? With limited time for instruction, it is critical that the focus be on priority standards and be developed around the needs of the learners.