A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
All leaders most likely view themselves as jugglers. Who could blame them when there are always multiple areas to address and the fact that the buck stops with them when it comes to making big decisions? Here are just a few: Accountability Morale Meetings Professional learning Stakeholders Achievement Budget Crises The act of juggling requires concentration and focus.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
CHANTILLY, Va. – In Fairfax County, Virginia, thousands of middle school students experience what most of their peers leave behind in elementary school — recess. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The break is only 15 minutes long. But at Rocky Run Middle School, about 25 miles west of the nation’s capital, the seventh and eighth graders make the most of one of the few stretches of time in school that they can truly call their own.
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Mr and Mrs Social Studies
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
President’s Day Activities President’s Day is coming up soon, but how should you celebrate it with your middle school students? As a teacher, celebrating President’s Day with your students is a great way to help them understand the role of the presidency in our government and past presidents’ impact on our country. This post will highlight several President’s Day activities and teaching ideas that you can do with your students that are no-prep or low-prep!
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
ROARING FORK VALLEY, Colo. — In a valley renowned for its world-class ski resorts and unrivaled outdoor recreation, with 14,000-foot peaks that pierce the horizon, five-star hotels, designer storefronts and multimillion-dollar mountainside mansions, there is a fleet of short, white buses stamped with geometric shapes. Parked in the lots of schools, churches and community centers, the buses are inconspicuous.
Education Elements
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The creation of a shared instructional vision brings many benefits to a school or district. An instructional vision can provide a shared understanding of what instructional excellence looks, feels, and sounds like. It aligns classroom practices to a clear set of principles and expectations. It can also bring instructional unity to any district plagued with uncertainty about instructional practices.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
In 1966, when psychiatrist Dr. Stuart Brown was assigned to a commission to investigate what led University of Texas student Charles Whitman to kill 12 people in one of the country’s first mass shootings, Brown and his colleagues considered many different aspects of Whitman’s background. The student had access to firearms at home; he had witnessed abuse while growing up; and he had a difficult relationship with his father.
The Effortful Educator
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
I am a big fan of the multiple choice question. I’ve written multiple articles discussing how to more efficiently and effectively utilize these questions in class. Probably one of my most seen tweets centers around the use of multiple choice questions: Enhancing Multiple Choice Qs Some blogs, some research, & a poster Ranking MC Answers [link] … Maximizing MC Effectiveness [link] … Confidence Weighted MCQs [link] … MCQs as a Learning Experience [link] … pic.twitter.com/TcUEQRcKwS — Bla
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ACRE
NOVEMBER 18, 2022
As you approach those few days of class before Thanksgiving Break, where students’ minds are starting to drift towards turkey and time-off, what topics do you focus on in the classroom? If you’re interested in discussing the holiday season with students, you can use one or all of the articles below to create some fun classroom conversations. As students explore the articles, they will learn how this year compares to holidays past, how prices are determined, and what decisions consumers make duri
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
SEATTLE — On a bright October morning, two dozen 4- and 5-year-olds were scattered around a classroom at Impact Salish Sea Elementary in south Seattle, enthralled by plastic food, dolls, blocks and clay. In the center of the room, four children buzzed around a wooden play kitchen, mixing various pretend food items in pots and pans. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.
History Havoc
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
Hall of Fame baseball player Ty Cobb had an interesting financial life. As one of the best players of his time, Cobb was one of the highest paid. But I want to focus on his financial life as a whole including his investments and even his philanthropy. First of all, let’s take a look at his salary. During his time he was one of the highest paid players in the league.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
We are amidst a Fourth Industrial Revolution. Careers across all fields continue to become more integrated with, and dependent on, rapidly evolving digital technologies. K-12 learning opportunities must prepare students with the necessary skills to succeed in Industry 4.0. This includes developing competency in social-emotional learning, design thinking and computational thinking, whether or not students eventually study computing or engineering or enter the information technology industry.
Maitri Learning
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
I presented this talk at the Montessori Foundation conference in St. Petersburg and participants were asking for my slides. So, I decided to post a video and slides in case they might help. Montessorians need to know more about the science underlying mindfulness because we are engaging children in mindfulness practices all day long! The way we focus our attention fully on a task, limit language on non-verbal tasks, move with precision, aim to perfect our movements, etc.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Earlier this year I visited an empty school in an affluent part of New Jersey. During Hurricane Ida in the summer of 2021, floodwaters had poured into vents set inches above ground level. The water turned the auditorium into “an aquarium,” in the words of one teacher, and destroyed the heating and cooling systems, along with millions of dollars’ worth of computers and audiovisual equipment.
Edthena
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Hard to imagine what using artificial intelligence in teacher professional development could mean? On this episode of the Charter Schools Superstars podcast , Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller broke down what AI can do and what’s science fiction. In fact, artificial intelligence is already all around us in our daily lives. But how can using AI in professional learning and development help support educators ?
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
When my wife was pregnant with our first child, we often had conversations about where we would send our kids to school. These conversations were almost always rooted in fear, with the ever-present threat of gun violence in schools weighing heavy in the back of my mind. Even in moments when I can suspend my fear of school shootings and rationalize their relative rarity, my apprehension about the safety of schools persists.
Maitri Learning
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
I presented this talk at the Montessori Foundation conference in St. Petersburg and participants were asking for my slides. So, I decided to post a video and slides in case they might help. Montessorians need to know more about the science underlying mindfulness because we are engaging children in mindfulness practices all day long! The way we focus our attention fully on a task, limit language on non-verbal tasks, move with precision, aim to perfect our movements, etc.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
The Nation’s Report Card, with its bad news about National Assessment of Education Progress, or NAEP, math and reading scores, drove home a message long hinted at : The pandemic created disastrous academic deficits for U.S. students, especially for young people of color. Math and reading scores dominate our understanding of student success; the current levels of learning loss — and the worrisome downward trend despite the return to “normal” — are unacceptable.
Geography Teacher Sharing
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
360 views at the domes in Gardens by the Bay and Skywalk.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 14, 2022
Districts went into the 2021-2022 school year with plans to help students catch up in the subjects where they had lost ground during the pandemic. Their plans for “accelerated learning” were twofold: Students would continue to advance through the curriculum while getting personalized support for areas where they struggled. But problems stalled those efforts at virtually every step, according to a new report from the Center on Reinventing Public Education at Arizona State University’s Mary Lou Fu
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
One scholar claims that public administration has no generally accepted definition, because the scope of the subject is so great and so debatable that it is easier to explain than define. There is much disagreement about whether the study of public administration can properly be called a discipline, largely because of the debate over whether public administration is a subfield of political science or a subfield of administrative science (Kenneth 2012) [1].From the academic perspective, the Natio
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
This story was produced as part of a collaboration between the Center for Public Integrity , The Seattle Times, Street Sense Media and WAMU/DCist. It was reprinted with permission. For months, Beth Petersen paid acquaintances to take her son to school — money she sorely needed. This story also appeared in Center for Public Integrity. They’d lost their apartment, her son bouncing between relatives and friends while she hotel-hopped.
ASHP CML
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
Please note: All of the assigned readings are tentative. • Pre-institute reading: Louis Masur, The U.S. Civil War: A Very Short Introduction (New York, 2020); Henry Louis Gates, Stony the Road: Reconstruction, White Supremacy, and the Rise of Jim Crow (New York, 2019); James W. Cook, “Seeing the Visual in U.S. History,” Journal of American History 95:2 (September 2008); Michael L.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
Sanaa Sharrieff, a mother based in one of North Carolina’s largest school districts, Guilford County, is certain that where her son was born limited his education. Her son, Kendrick, an 8-year-old in third grade, was diagnosed with autism last year. But she says she’s had her suspicions about his condition since he was 2 or 3. Confirmation took so long, she says, because her area doesn't have as much support for health care as other places.
Anthropology for Beginners
NOVEMBER 13, 2022
DECENTRALISATION and ANTHROPOLOGY Decentralisation is the process of dispersing decision-making governance closer to the people and/or citizen. It includes the dispersal of administration or governance in sectors or areas like engineering, management science, political science, political economy, sociology and economics. Decentralization is also possible in the dispersal of population and employment.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 12, 2022
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! As schools and districts struggle to move beyond the pandemic disruptions, one thing has become abundantly clear — technology will be a permanent fixture in students’ lives, whether students are physically in the classroom or learning from home.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2022
One of the most selective college scholarship programs in the U.S. could wind down in the next few years if it doesn’t raise a substantial sum to shore up its endowment. The program is the Mitchell Scholarship, which sends 12 undergraduates to study at a university in Ireland every year. Run by the nonprofit US-Ireland Alliance created in 1998 to administer the scholarship, the program is more selective than Harvard, and some years it’s harder to win than a Rhodes Scholarship.
The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 16, 2022
OKLAHOMA CITY — Two third-graders sat on the floor of their classroom and lined up a row of dominoes along the edge of a low-lying table. They positioned themselves at each end of the row of rectangles, leaned in, and blew. The dominoes tumbled forward, crashing into each other. The girls flung their heads back and laughed. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 17, 2022
A group of professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology dropped a provocative white paper in September that proposed a new kind of college that would address some of the growing public skepticism of higher education. This week, they took the next step toward bringing their vision from idea to reality. That next step was holding a virtual forum that brought together a who’s who of college innovation leaders, including presidents of experimental colleges, professors known for novel teaching
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