A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 17, 2024

Imagine a classroom buzzing with engaged students, actively constructing knowledge and diving deep into topics that spark their curiosity. This vibrant learning environment does not just happen by chance. It thrives under the guidance of a passionate, skilled educator who is constantly evolving alongside their students. However, like their students, teachers need personalized growth opportunities to stay engaged, motivated, and effective.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 17, 2024

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Edge•U Badges and EVERFI The day it happened to me was in my fourth year of teaching. I was in a new seventh grade language arts position, one I’d started in January after a teacher retired mid-year, so I hadn’t had enough time yet to build the relationships that are the foundation of my approach to classroom management.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 19, 2024

Written by Noelle Gutierrez Educators know the importance of academic vocabulary instruction. Student knowledge of academic words and phrases has a direct impact on their ability to acquire and comprehend information, which is why it should be a part of every subject area and class. As an instructional coach and administrator, I regularly observed teachers providing direct instruction using explicit vocabulary routines.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Last week the Massachusetts Senate unanimously passed a child care bill that would significantly expand state investment in child care. Less publicized: The bill also includes provisions that could make it harder for private equity-owned child care providers to expand significantly in the state.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Since ChatGPT was released in November 2022 and exploded into public discourse, the emergence of generative AI tools has been met with both excitement and concern, across virtually every industry, ideology and age group. Today, the use of this technology in education settings is underway, and states are even beginning to release guidance on how to navigate AI in schools.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2024

The post How Can Educational Leaders Strengthen Digital Equity in an Age of AI? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 21, 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 this episode, we hear from co-authors and longtime friends, Katie Kelly and Lester Laminack about the importance of treating teachers like the professionals they are and celebrating the incredible work they do.

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

When some students hit an obstacle in school or college, they can take it as a sign that this whole education thing just isn’t for them. That can especially be the case for students who are racial minorities. That can be true with challenges like glitches in the federal financial aid forms or a student registration system, says Greg Walton, a psychology professor at Stanford University.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 21, 2024

The Anthologist’s Workshop kskordal Thu, 03/21/2024 - 12:07 Image The Anthologist’s Workshop: Insights on the Principles, Materials, and Techniques behind the Anthology of John Stobaeus 2-4 May, 2024 Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati For more information, please write to princesn@ucmail.uc.edu Thursday 2 May 4–4.15: Welcome Susan Prince and Christopher Moore 4.15–5.30: Talk 1 Krzysztof Bielawski, Jagiellonian University, Kraków “Searching for order in Stobaeus - Euripides as a bin

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ShortCutsTV

MARCH 18, 2024

This spin-off from the burgeoning Sociological Detectives Universe™ is a vehicle by which you can simply and not-a-little-secretly introduce a soupcon of Study Skills into what we’re contractually obliged to call “The Student eXperience” (sic).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

COLOGNE, Germany — Neriman Raim, a 16-year-old student in this northwestern German city, thought that after finishing school she’d want to work in an office. But two years ago, she did a two-week internship in an architect’s bureau, and it was tedious. Later, a placement working with kindergarteners led her to consider a career as a teacher — but not of kids this young.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Teaching creativity and creative thinking in K-12 has always been valued but often challenging to implement. Many standards and curricula don’t call out creativity explicitly, and teachers aren’t often trained on how to teach and assess creative thinking. As such, many students enter college and the workforce not having enough practice in key critical thinking skills that they need to be innovative problem-solvers and effective communicators.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 18, 2024

The post Shifting Education with Learning Pathways: New White Paper Examines Portrait of a Graduate appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Sapiens

MARCH 19, 2024

The African island nation played a central—but little-known—role in the rise of the global sugar trade based on enslaved labor. To uncover this past, a team launched the country’s first archaeological research. THE FOREST-SHROUDED ESTATE On an island 300 kilometers west of mainland Africa, in 2020, our small team began down a barely visible path flanked by shoulder-high, shimmering capim grass.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Ask the average high school administrator about their biggest worries, and it’s likely they’ll cite serious concerns about learning loss during the Covid-19 pandemic. But their students have a different story to tell. They find school boring. In their own words: “I’ve been learning the same things I have always learned. Nothing new, nothing exciting.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

A few months ago, an assistant principal at my school gave me feedback I wasn’t prepared for. This colleague, who I manage, shared that during a recent meeting I had facilitated, my tone made them feel psychologically unsafe. Their words, and the description of their experience in the meeting left me stunned, confused and disappointed in myself. I kept thinking, “Me?

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APSA Educate

MARCH 21, 2024

Application Deadline: April 28, 2024 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching and Learning program is pleased to announce a call for proposals for a small cohort of political scientists to participate in a three-day teaching and learning symposium June … The post Call for Proposals: Teaching Comparative Politics appeared first on APSA.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 20, 2024

Heinemann announces the latest professional book acquisition from José Luis Vilson.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Higher Education newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Thursday with trends and top stories about higher education. When Carlos Sanchez immigrated to Grand Rapids, Michigan, from Mexico City 25 years ago, he’d already completed two years of college at Universidad Iberoamericana, and he was determined to finish his degree.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Educators often find themselves exploring innovative approaches to enhance student learning, and one particularly creative pathway is integrating games and playfulness into the learning environment. Navigating this terrain requires a delicate balance, ensuring that the joy and engagement of games enhance rather than detract from educational objectives while aiming to foster an inclusive and responsive pedagogy.

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Women's History Network

MARCH 21, 2024

“Right, we have to do something about it!”: Policewomen’s agency against the Royal Ulster Constabulary ‘The Chief Constable at that time […] decided that he didn’t want women working, really, because they weren’t armed.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

March 19, 2024 is release day for Georgia Heard’s Awakening the Heart, 2e! The following is an excerpt from the book, accompanied by a video reading from the author.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2024

I participated in an online completion event recently with the aim of supporting students with the FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid) form so I could gain new insights for the counselors I work with at New Visions for Public Schools. As someone who’s been a college access professional for nearly a quarter century, it was eye-opening. I was painfully aware that the new, “Better FAFSA” launch has been a nightmare , even though Congress passed the law that created it with the intent o

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

These days there’s a wave of new edtech products hitting the market, and teachers and professors are increasingly making teaching videos and other materials for their classes. But one group is often left out of the design process: students. “Many educational products are never shown to students until they have already been designed,” said Elliott Hedman, a consultant who works with edtech companies, in a talk this month at the SXSW EDU festival.

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Education Week - Social Studies

MARCH 22, 2024

Here’s how to teach students household labor into your social studies curriculum (and why you should).

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O-Level Geography

MARCH 22, 2024

This is SE Asia existing maritime highways in which you can see that the Straits of Malacca is still the primary route. You can see that Singapore is still the top handling port now. This is the proposed land bridge for the two Thailand's ports Rangaong and Chumphon. How do you this will impact on Singapore's top position in cargo handling port?

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Living Geography

MARCH 22, 2024

From time to time, discussions over the value of textbooks come back. Many teachers have moved away from textbooks over the last decade or so, except perhaps for exam groups. Fortunately I still get a few royalties each year from ones that I have written, and am also asked to write others which is nice. Many schools have moved towards online learning platforms such as OneDrive to host materials and resources, and track student work and be perhaps more flexible.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2024

After the Virginia Tech shooting in 2007, Virginia became the first state to require colleges to conduct threat assessments , later requiring K-12 schools to do the same. A method for schools to figure out which student threats foreshadow violence, threat assessment was adapted from the Secret Service. When following these methods, a team trained in the model will work to discern the extent to which a threat made by a student is actually menacing.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 22, 2024

Editor's note: This post is an excerpt from, " Research Foundations: Evidence and Efficacy ," a comprehensive report on the impact of diverse intervention strategies with Do The Math from Math@Heinemann. It's been lightly adapted for format. All research citations can be accessed in the linked full report. Since its inception over 15 years ago, Do The Math ® has fostered student engagement in math and provided support for teachers in thousands of classrooms across the United States.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 21, 2024

Access the historical maps of Singapore on [link] Get the students to zoom into a section of the Singapore Map. Enable the view of the selected historical map. Use the slider to control the level of transparency of the historical map over the present map. Students can observe the changes in their neighbourhood - observing the spatial association, distribution and interconnection.

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Living Geography

MARCH 22, 2024

A new tool created by the RMetS. It shows the associations between different climate terms. There is a glossary of topics as well. I've just been introduced to it by Professor Sylvia Knight of the RMetS.

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ED Surge

MARCH 21, 2024

Ask just about anyone what’s behind the downward spiral of youth mental health today, and chances are that social media will be on their list of causes. While it’s true that young people are increasingly struggling with mental health issues at the same time social media usage is ballooning, today’s available research simply hasn’t found one of those to be the driving force behind the other — in sum, correlation does not equal causation.

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Women's History Network

MARCH 20, 2024

Female Printmakers, Printsellers, and Print Publishers in the Eighteenth Century: The Imprint of Women, c. 1700-1830, Cristina S. Martinez & Cynthia E. Roman eds., Cambridge University Press, is now available for purchase in hardcover and digital format. Celebrating the news and sharing the 20% discount code.

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Geography Teacher Sharing

MARCH 21, 2024

Gotten my students to create the sorting game. Purpose is for them to apply what they have learned under the roles of different stakeholders and the different approaches in sustainable development. The game Vortex from classtool is easy to use and free with no need for login. Click on create game @ [link] Create the first game on how effective are stakeholders in sustainable tourism development.

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Living Geography

MARCH 21, 2024

A cross-posting from my GCSE Natural History blog. A new post on the OCR website from Professor Sylvia Knight. She talks about the connections between the proposed specification and climate literacy. "Whilst the Natural History GCSE is not and should not be a ‘climate change GCSE’ (in my opinion, the Statistics GCSE is actually best placed to be delivered entirely within a context of climate change), the inherent and intrinsic links between climate change and the natural world, in terms of impac

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Anthropology News

MARCH 19, 2024

1944–2023 Karen Donne (Kaddee) Vitelli died on September 12, 2013, at the age of 79 in the town of Dresden, Maine, where she had been living since her retirement from Indiana University in 2006. Kaddee attended the College of Wooster in Ohio and spent her junior year at the study abroad program, College Year in Athens, where she would get firsthand experience in the classics and archaeology.

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Heinemann Blog

MARCH 19, 2024

A few lines of poetry can reveal so much about a student's interests, experiences and inner world. Imagine a classroom where poetry isn't just a side activity, but a cornerstone of learning and a tool for building community.

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