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Breaking Barriers: Removing the Stigma of Intervention

A Principal's Reflections

In an ideal world, every student would have access to an education tailored to their unique needs and abilities. Hence the need to personalize learning. However, special education students often face more significant challenges that can impede their academic progress. One of the major hurdles they encounter is the stigma associated with intervention, a key component of personalization.

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Troubleshooting the Flipped Classroom: Dealing with Unprepared Students

Catlin Tucker

Why Would a Teacher Use the Flipped Classroom Model? First, let’s establish the value of the flipped classroom in case you have never used this blended learning model. The flipped classroom was designed to invert the traditional approach to instruction and practice/application. Instead of spending precious class time transferring information live for the whole group in the form of a lecture or mini-lesson, which presents myriad barriers (e.g., auditory processing, attention deficit, lack o

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How a disgraced method of diagnosing learning disabilities persists in our nation’s schools

The Hechinger Report

It pains Tim Odegard that four decades after a misguided approach to diagnosing dyslexia kept him from getting help in school, thousands of children across the U.S. are needlessly suffering for the same reason. This story also appeared in Scientific American During the initial weeks of first grade, Odegard’s struggles with reading went undetected as he memorized words that classmates read aloud before him.

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This Is Your Brain on Math: The Science Behind Culturally Responsive Instruction

ED Surge

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Those “aha” moments were often accompanied with a gleeful, “I get it!” I refer to those epiphanies, when the metaphorical light bulb above a student’s head switches on, as “luminations.

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World War I Activities

Passion for Social Studies

While World War I happened long ago, it left profound effects on the entire globe. With more than 30 countries and 70 million soldiers involved, it is clear to see why. While no one likes to study the tragically lost lives, students love World War I activities. However, the activities need to respect the lives of everyone impacted while teaching the truth behind what led to so much fighting.

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Using AI in Service of Strong Pedagogical Practice

Catlin Tucker

Last week, I participated in a panel discussion with Jay McTighe and Tony Frontier on leading in an era of artificial intelligence. During the conversation, we discussed AI’s potential to transform education. Despite my optimism about the benefits of AI in education, the buzz online is focused on the exciting new AI-powered education tools and not on the transformative impact those tools could have on how we design and facilitate learning experiences to meet the needs of diverse groups of

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PROOF POINTS: Professors say high school math doesn’t prepare most students for their college majors

The Hechinger Report

A survey of college professors indicates that most fields of study don’t require many of the math topics that high school students learn in high school. Credit: Kevin Wolf/ Associated Press The typical ambitious high school student takes advanced algebra, trigonometry, pre-calculus and calculus. None of that math may be necessary for the vast majority of undergraduates who don’t intend to major in science or another STEM field.

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Diving Deeper with ParaFLY

HistoryRewriter

The ParafLY EduProtocol (Chapter 6) helps students paraphrase complex text and simplify it to show a clear understanding of the subject. This post features examples of a 10th-grade World History class practicing interpreting literary criticism. This was a part of a large, interdisciplinary project that required the collaboration of an ELA teacher, a History teacher, and a Spanish teacher.

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Two Books to Help You Hold Healthy Classroom Conversations About Race

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to my interview with Matthew Kay and Jennifer Orr ( transcript ): Sponsored by NoRedInk and The Modern Classrooms Project 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?

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A Classroom Research Project with Lasting Meaning

Teaching Anthropology

ELIZABETH KEATING, Professor of Anthropology & Graduate Faculty, Human Dimensions of Organizations, The University of Texas at Austin Teaching through research is recognized as one of the strengths of anthropology. A few years ago, as I was researching culture change across generations, I brought my research into the classroom by asking students to do some research in their own families.

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OPINION: To solve teacher shortages, let’s open pathways for immigrants so they can become educators and role models

The Hechinger Report

As our country continues to struggle with historic teacher shortages, we ought to consider an untapped pool of aspiring teachers: Young immigrants who want to become educators. They can connect with other newcomers by sharing their stories and serving as role models, like the ones I had when I arrived in Queens from Ecuador at the age of 14. The bustling pace of rush-hour commuters, the tangled mix of languages and the loud rhythm of a sleepless city disoriented me for months.

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I Love Being a Teacher, But I Can’t Survive on Compassion

ED Surge

In 1998, I began my journey as an elementary teacher under the tutelage of my aunt and revered educator, Marva N. Collins. My mother was also a teacher, so I saw firsthand what it meant to be a passionate educator who is deeply committed to students. Their commitment and passion for teaching were the reasons why I chose this profession. After watching them devote time and energy to their craft, I entered the profession with enthusiasm and excitement, not knowing what the next 25 years would brin

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How We’re Boosting Competency-Based Education and Global Collaboration Across Tanzania

Digital Promise

The post How We’re Boosting Competency-Based Education and Global Collaboration Across Tanzania appeared first on Digital Promise.

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When AI Strikes a Chord: The Future of Music is Just a Prompt Away

Dr. Shannon Doak

If you have been reading my blog, you know that I like to experiment with new technology. Recently, AI has been on the top of this list as the advancements in the AI arena just keep on coming! I’ve been tinkering around with something pretty extraordinary, and I think you’ll want to hear about it. It’s about the latest AI advancements that are changing the tune of creative possibilities, especially in making music.

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Six ideas to ease the early intervention staffing crisis

The Hechinger Report

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. 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: Eighty-seven percent of states lack enough speech language pathologists to reach all the infants and toddlers in need.

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Is AI a Pathway to Better Teaching and Learning?

ED Surge

In the evolving landscape of education, one topic has taken center stage: generative AI. As educators, we tend to be on a continuous quest for innovative edtech tools that will enhance the learning experience for students. The potential of generative AI is both promising and profound, but it raises critical questions: How can this transformative technology be harnessed not only to educate but to empower inclusively and equitably?

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Pathways and Portraits: Connecting Computational Thinking to the Future of Work

Digital Promise

The post Pathways and Portraits: Connecting Computational Thinking to the Future of Work appeared first on Digital Promise.

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2 Protocols to Drive Effective Schoolwide Teacher Collaboration

Edthena

If you’re supporting teacher collaboration, you won’t achieve this by adding more PLC blocks or team meetings to teachers’ schedules. This extra time is often unstructured and unproductive for educators. School leaders and administrators can enable more productive collaboration time by having teachers reflect before and after collaborating with colleagues.

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Community college-to-UC pipeline gets a boost as California ‘guarantees’ transfers

The Hechinger Report

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: For every two freshmen enrolled in a college in the University of California system, administrators say they would like to enroll one tra

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Can Interactive Whiteboards Revitalize Online High-Dose Tutoring?

ED Surge

After the pandemic, the nationwide adoption of online high-dose tutoring was expected to address deepening educational disparities. Additionally, it gained attention for its ability to provide high-quality education in regions with inadequate supplies of teachers, especially in higher-grade STEM education. However, as of 2023, the effectiveness of high-dose tutoring has gradually declined due to low student participation rates and skepticism from education authorities regarding the actual educat

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Arkansas Economics Challenge 2024

ACRE

What is Econ Challenge: The National Economics Challenge (NEC) is the country’s only economics competition of its kind for 9-12th grade students. It tests micro and macroeconomic principles as well as knowledge of the world economy. This motivating and fun team learning experience begins with competitions at the state level. The Arkansas competition will be hosted at the University of Central Arkansas College of Business on March 12, 2024.

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Amy Livingston’s Unexpected Vocation: Teaching America’s Story

Teaching American History

Amy Livingston, Chancellor High School, Fredericksburg, VA. Amy Livingston never expected to find a vocation in teaching America’s story. She never expected to teach at all. She was in her late twenties before she discovered her own intellectual gifts. Grade school had bewildered her. Born deaf in one ear and hard of hearing in the other, she had difficulty learning to read and struggled to keep up in class.

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OPINION: Left out: Dreamers miss too may education opportunities that could change their lives

The Hechinger Report

As tuition and related fees skyrocket, finding ways to keep a college degree within reach for anyone willing to work toward one is imperative. Offering every high school student access to college-level courses while in high school is one critical way to do so. Students who are able to take college-level courses, through Advanced Placement or dual enrollment, can get a head start on college — entering with credits in hand that reduce their tuition costs and shorten their path to a degree.

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Top 5: Rebooting the Oral Exam Tops Most-Read List for October 2023

ED Surge

Changing teaching was the biggest theme of our most popular articles in October. Topping our monthly Top 5 list was a look at how professors are rebooting oral exams to respond to concerns that students can now use ChatGPT and other AI tools to cheat on essays. And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech.

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How to Get Results with Your School Improvement Plan

Education Elements

Too often, schools are trapped inside cycles of belief that they are working on school improvement when in reality very little changes year-over-year. Does this sound familiar? It is time to shift this paradigm. School transformation efforts often fail because the typical school improvement playbook does not fully consider and appreciate what levers can actually drive transformational change.

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Re(discovering) Miss Lister: The Rise of Collaborative Research in the Anne Lister Community – Packed With Potential

Women's History Network

When Anne Lister rose to worldwide fame in the summer of 2019, new stories emerged beyond those featured in the BBC series Gentleman Jack, which contributed to a new wave of interest in Lister’s story and those of her contemporaries.

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Silent Trade

Anthroholic

Silent trade, also known as dumb barter or depot trade, is a method of exchange where two trading parties do not have any direct interaction during the trade process.

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On Motivation

All Things Pedagogical

I am sitting here on my couch, on a Sunday at noon writing this blog post. This seems to be the new place where the blog posts are written and not at my desk. Which I guess is appropriate because this post is going to be about change, time (sorry I have been thinking a lot about Bergson this week), and as the title notes- motivation. Sitting on the couch has given me motivation to write this post.

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How AI Could Bring Big Changes to Education — And How to Avoid Worst-Case Scenarios

ED Surge

It has been a year since the release of ChatGPT, and educators are still scrambling to respond to this new kind of AI tool. Much of the conversation has revolved around the double-edged nature of AI chatbots for educators. On the one hand teachers worry that students will suddenly cheat on homework with abandon, since chatbots can write essays in ways that are difficult to detect.

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Why Wyoming doesn’t exist, but Bielefeld does (again)

Strange Maps

Wyoming is right there on the map. It sends two senators to DC. And although it is alphabetically last on the list, you cannot reach the canonical complement of 50 U.S. states without it. Beyond that, however, what evidence do we really have that Wyoming even exists? Have you ever been there? Have you ever met a real live Wyomingite? Wyoming is a distortion of spacetime We didn’t think so.

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Are Local Efforts the Secret to Supporting Early Care and Education in Red States?

ED Surge

In one Idaho town , in the southeastern part of the state, families strive to “read, talk, play” with their children every day while the wider community marches toward its goal of achieving universal preschool. In another , located outside of Boise, a host of once-unavailable services — a food pantry, a Head Start preschool, a health center, and a migrant family liaison — are now housed under a single roof near the center of town, readily accessible to families in need.

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