A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

During this school year, I have been working with Stryker Local Schools in Ohio. Like all my implementations where the work is job-embedded and ongoing, learning walks are a core component. In September, the leaders and I conducted walks in every classroom over two days. As a result, I provided them with close to 5000 words of feedback. With the suggestions in hand, the leaders were empowered to review what we had seen and my recommendations to determine the focus for an upcoming professional de

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HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 27, 2023

This multiple award-winning book sat in my teenage daughter’s room for a couple of years before I got around to it. I remember skimming it in Barnes and Noble and putting it down because it starts off with a romantic triangle between Aphrodite, Ares, and Hephaestus in a New York City hotel suite in 1942. I thought it would be too slow and boring for my 10th-grade World History students.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by NoRedInk and The Modern Classrooms Project I was having a conversation this morning with a teacher I’m very close to, someone who trusts me enough to be honest with me, and who does it in a way that is loving and generous. She was talking about how my website and podcast sometimes make her feel like she’s not doing enough, she’s doing it all wrong, her teaching is never quite good enough.

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Passion for Social Studies

OCTOBER 21, 2023

Students face many challenges in high school. While they are excited to grow up, they are also making decisions that impact the rest of their life. As they prepare, they often take stressful courses, such as AP Government. Since teachers understand the stress of high-stakes tests, they do everything they can to make review fun. Thankfully, there are resources ready for an amazing AP Government review!

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I was recently facilitating a training session on the station rotation model when several educators expressed concern about the noise level of the classroom during a station rotation lesson. They asked how I keep the noise level down at the stations that are not teacher-led. Like most classroom expectations, I spend time directly teaching what each type of station should look and sound like.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2023

SEATTLE — Mireya Barrera didn’t want a fight. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times For years, she sat through meetings with her son’s special education teachers, struggling to maintain a smile as she understood little of what they said. On the rare occasions when other teachers who spoke Barrera’s language, Spanish, were asked to help, the conversations still faltered because they weren’t trained interpreters.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Too often, teachers are rapidly elevated from the classroom to school leadership positions, whether to fill an unexpected vacancy, act as an interim administrator or to take on a permanent leadership role. But ushering teachers into administrator roles before they are prepared and without adequate support poses risk of burnout — or worse, opens up the possibility of causing harm to themselves or their school community, out of sheer lack of experience.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The modern classroom is rapidly changing, and it’s not just the use of tablets and online assignments that are making a difference. The integration of Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the educational landscape is opening doors to a wealth of possibilities that were once the stuff of science fiction. While attending the ACAMIS Technology Conference , a plethora of cutting-edge technological applications in education were showcased.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2023

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. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: While the reading and math “wars” have gotten a lot of attention in education in recent years, writing instruction has

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

While I’m not proud to admit it, at the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, I thought teaching remotely would be a dream come true. It wasn’t that I didn't value, cherish and miss the face-to-face interactions I had with my students, but because I naively assumed that my more reluctant colleagues would see the light and finally embrace edtech. As a techie at heart, I envisioned a digital utopia where post-pandemic schools would become fully digitized with students and teachers always remote and onl

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The post Researchers Create a New Model to Help Educators Engage Students appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Education Elements

OCTOBER 23, 2023

In their 2nd year as a campus, South Texas ISD Virtual Academy saw very strong academic results - outperforming both their region and the state of Texas on end-of-year testing. However, they lacked insight into their students' perception of their experiences at school. Did students feel cared for, or academically challenged in their classwork? Reflecting on research that shows more positive student perceptions contribute to continued academic growth, principal Maribel Valdez decided to conduct t

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For many rural students, higher education means waking up before the sun four days a week, then driving an hour through cornfields or pine forests to reach the only college for 100 miles. It’s a far cry from the awkward parental drop-off, search for elusive twin XL sheets and Olivia Rodrigo wall poster most people associate with the back-to-college season.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Emerging technologies have the potential to reshape the educational landscape. From the earliest stages, as Pre-K parents search for activities and resources to nurture their child's growth, to K-12 schools adopting technology to improve student outcomes and operational efficiencies, the impact of modern learning tools is undeniable. The broader post-secondary landscape, including higher education and workforce development, has also quickly embraced online learning and up-skilling opportunities

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The post How to Support Learners to be Successful in Earning Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 23, 2023

I recently attended and spoke at the inaugural USA Festival of Education at St. Andrew’s Episcopal School in Potomac, Maryland. It was a wonderful experience; well organized, incredible speakers ( Dr. Daniel Willingham delivered the opening keynote), and a lovely venue. It was, by my estimation, a perfect example of how any and all conferences of education should be run.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

For as long as Jake Price has been a teacher, Wolfram Alpha — a website that solves algebraic problems online — has threatened to make algebra homework obsolete. This story also appeared in The Associated Press and The Seattle Times Teachers learned to work around and with it, said Price, assistant professor of mathematics and computer science at the University of Puget Sound, in Tacoma, Washington.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Districts, families, communities and youth-supporting organizations all have vested interests in supporting the academic journeys of students, yet their decisions affecting education often occur independently. This disconnect is especially evident for students from communities that have historically and systematically been excluded (HSE) from opportunity and access in education: Black, Brown, Indigenous, those experiencing poverty, multilingual learners and students experiencing learning differe

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The post Meet the K-12 Tech Innovators of the VITAL Prize Challenge appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Igniting Passion for Teaching Science: Overcoming Challenges and Fostering Enthusiasm Oct. 23, 2023 • Studies Weekly Teaching science is a vital part of any elementary curriculum, but it’s not always easy without essential background knowledge, prep time, and supplies. To alleviate these challenges, curriculum directors and administration can take the following research-backed steps to improve science instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

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. Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Choosing a college has always been an excruciating, time-consuming process for prospective students and their families.

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Pedagogy and Formation

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Anyone who has been a teacher will testify that at times there have been children who were hard to like. I was one of those children for a number of my teachers. What about you? Can you recall students who were challenging and difficult to like? Perhaps ask yourself why they were hard to like? Towards the end of my book 'Education and Pedagogy for Life' , I suggest that one of the key marks of the good teacher is they are attentive to all their students.

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Education Week - Social Studies

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The crime epic illuminates hard history in Oklahoma. State restrictions could complicate teachers' efforts to draw on it in class.

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

OCTOBER 25, 2023

The Smithsonian makes learning come alive for visiting field trip groups through memorable and engaging theater performances

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

If you’re a history buff, you may already know that Cleopatra had a substantial amount of rizz. King Henry VIII, on the other hand, could be considered the Tom Sandoval of his time. Meanwhile, Czar Nicholas II struggled to, well, pick a struggle. History teacher Lauren Cella's "Gen Z Teaches History" series has earned about 30 million views on Instagram and TikTok combined.

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Studies Weekly

OCTOBER 26, 2023

The Power of Interactive Notebooks Oct. 26, 2023 • by Debbie Bagley I love the magazine and newspaper style of Studies Weekly, because with its engaging primary and secondary sources, and activities you can do right on the publication, it allows for so much more than just simply reading from a textbook – which tends to take the life out of any subject.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Measuring classroom engagement doesn’t seem complex – anyone can use tally marks to count, and then try to increase the minutes of student talk time or number of hands raised. But having students talk more doesn’t cut it for accurately gauging if they are engaged in productive learning. And without solid insights about student engagement, teachers can’t efficiently improve their instructional practices.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This story was produced by The 19th and republished with permission. This story also appeared in The 19th When Job Mayhue was a first-year student at the University of Michigan, both his girlfriend and best friend revealed within two weeks of each other that they had been sexually assaulted. “I obviously knew that rape and sexual violence was an issue but had not had such clear proximity to it,” he said.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2023

Daniel Lim reads through the resumes of prospective college students with the excited patter of a color commentator at an NFL game. On his popular TikTok channel, the Duke University senior highlights the seemingly endless number of ultra-achieving students who fail to land acceptances at selective colleges, or, more often, who win some bids and lose others.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 24, 2023

You turn on the tap in your kitchen, and without a second thought, you drink a glass of the water that comes out. Where are you? Most probably in one of the countries marked blue on the map. If you can drink tap water without giving it a second thought, you are a member of a very exclusive club, globally speaking. ( Credit : © William Gottlieb / Corbis via Getty Images) Those are the countries where the CDC says the tap water is potable, which means safe to drink, to prepare food and brush

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Back in March of this year, EdSurge published my article outlining the nearly 400-year history of higher education in America, how that past shapes the way the country views colleges today, and why microcredentials , while critical to the future of the U.S. economy, are causing a dilemma for the academy. Since then, I have enjoyed serving on various panels like those with the Colorado Business Roundtable discussing the future of higher education and its intersection with economic and workforce n

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2023

House Republicans recently returned to one of their favorite targets for spending cuts: the country’s most vulnerable youth and the schools that serve them. Their plan would represent a major setback to efforts to achieve racial equity in our nation’s public schools. During the latest battle over preventing a government shutdown, Republicans called for cutting Title 1 education grants earmarked for low-income students by 80 percent, which would mean a loss of nearly $15 billion in funding for sc

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