A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2023

What is the essence of leadership? How do leaders effectively implement, sustain, and scale change? There is no shortage of responses regarding the topic, which is why questions are more important than answers. Narrowing down the most critical competencies can take time and effort. However, let’s look at it from the perspective of debunking what authentic leadership is, not to get at the heart of what it really is when it comes to agents of change.

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TeachThought

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

One obvious way to promote inquiry learning in your classroom is to design lessons and units that benefit from, promote, or require it. The post 14 Effective Teaching Strategies For Inquiry-Based Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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My AP Life

JUNE 11, 2023

Where can assistant principals turn when they need to find encouragement and renewal in one of education’s toughest jobs? Veteran AP DeAnna Miller has found ways to strengthen her confidence and optimism as a leader through online communities and authors like Baruti Kafele. The post Sustaining a Leadership Mindset in the AP Role first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Why should teachers use rubrics to assess student work? Rubrics are valuable assessment tools that provide clear and transparent expectations about what constitutes quality work. Rubrics identify specific criteria relevant to the assignment, along with corresponding levels of performance that allow for more precise grading. Using rubrics helps teachers stay focused during the grading process and ensures that grading is objective, consistent, and fair.

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Active History Teacher

DECEMBER 31, 2023

We all have those days when we need to change things up a bit and do something fun, still want it to be content related. I have created an engaging and competitive review game for middle school and secondary classrooms that your students will be dying to play! Enter: Swat the Star! I love the Swat the Star game because my students are 100% engaged and their competitive spirit comes out full force!

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The post Proudly Announcing the 2023 Cohort of HP Teaching Fellows appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Some kids appear to learn faster than others. A few years ago, a group of scientists at Carnegie Mellon University decided to study these rapid learners to see what they are doing differently and if their strategies could help the rest of us. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But as the scientists began their study, they stumbled upon a fundamental problem: they could not find faster learners.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

[Disclaimer: Kim Cofino is a friend of mine and I highly respect her work!]. Over the past months I have had the incredible privilege of spending a lot of time with Kim Cofino and her instructional coaching team at Eduro Learning. Not in person – Kim is in Bangkok, Thailand, and her team is all over the globe – but online. Lately I have been leaning into the task of enhancing my instructional coaching knowledge and skillsets, so I signed up for Eduro Learning’s yearlong online course

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 31, 2023

Honestly, it is fascinating to see how far the United States has come throughout its rich history. This is the case for political and social reforms. Many changes during the first two decades of the 20th century have significantly transformed our lives today. Due to this, students are often eager for Progressivism lesson plans. They are always excited to see how the United States advanced and industrialized.

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Here is a terrific list of YouTube channels from a history site called History Skills that specializes in different periods of history. One channel that I particularly like specializes in World War 1. Another channel specializes in Islamic empires like the Mughals and the golden age of the Ummayad empire. Here's a list of the first few channels.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

I have vivid memories of my early days as an assistant principal and principal, where overseeing instruction was just one of many duties that came with the job. Managing budgets, developing memos, attending meetings, responding to emails and phone calls, and other tasks also consumed a significant portion of my time. The advent of social media introduced yet another responsibility into my already packed schedule: digital leadership.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 13, 2023

State and national level resources for the teachers and parents of gifted and talented students inside and outside of the classroom. The post Resources For The Parents And Teachers Of Gifted And Talented Students appeared first on TeachThought.

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My AP Life

APRIL 11, 2023

DeAnna Miller's participation in a national teacher educators' conference after a long personal learning drought energized her and gave her hope for the future of public education. "I had an epiphany," she writes. "I was starved for professional engagement and camaraderie." The post Renewing Our Hope for Teaching and Learning first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Spend less time preparing for tests! Generating high-quality review materials and engaging review games takes time. It is also a cognitively challenging task since it requires thinking about the key concepts in a unit or learning cycle and producing a collection of questions to guide students in recalling information and developing a deeper understanding of the material.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Remediation in Social Studies is always tricky! We have so much content to cover and so little time for review. With a few tried and true strategies and activities, remediation in social studies can be fun for students and painless for the teacher. First things first. Standardized tests stink. Now that that is out of the way. Reviewing for them is critical.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2023

The post How My Passion Project Helped Me Build Social Skills and Give Back appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — Math professor Martin Weissman is rethinking how his university teaches calculus. Over the summer, the professor from the University of California at Santa Cruz, spent a week at Harvard to learn how to redesign the mathematics for life sciences courses his institution offers. Called Math 11 A and B, these classes, which students take as freshmen and sophomores, constitute a “leaky pipeline,” Weissman says.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. I rotate between 7 sites pre-k to 12th grade, but I will be working with 4th grade-12th grade teachers on this date. My boss mostly likes for me to introduce new tools to teachers during these opportunities.

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Anthropology for Beginners

DECEMBER 20, 2023

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

DECEMBER 17, 2023

One of the more challenging topics to teach in Psychology is biopsychology. Students often arrive at A level psychology with not only a wide range of prior knowledge but also a massive variety in expectations about what they’re going to learn. For some, the biological aspects are something of a shock! This can make them tricky to teach because they usually require learning a high level of technical detail which places significant cognitive load on students, as well as often being seemingly abstr

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

Technology has the potential to transform teaching and learning in a number of ways. One way it can be used to transform teaching and learning is by providing students with access to a wealth of information, including multimedia resources, educational apps, and online databases. This means that students can engage with a wide range of material and have access to resources that they might not have been able to access otherwise.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 20, 2023

A micro-goal of the 'Inside-Out' School is a new kind of 'intelligence' where the macro-effect is healthier communities and citizenship. The post The Inside-Out School: A 21st Century Learning Model appeared first on TeachThought.

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My AP Life

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

To help combat negative perceptions that can surround administration, DeAnna Miller offers three ways school leaders can cultivate mutual respect among staff: (1) offering meaningful feedback; (2) being highly visible; and (3) not being led astray by the Good Idea Fairy. The post 3 Leadership Moves Help Grow Mutual Respect first appeared on MiddleWeb.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 28, 2023

In my Art of Blended Learning Online Course this week, we continued our work on the playlist model. I began our synchronous session by addressing frequently asked questions about this model. In this post, I will share answers to some of those questions. Q1: How Long Should Students Work on a Playlist? The length of time required to complete a playlist can vary depending on the scope of the playlist.

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Active History Teacher

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Full confession time. I spend at least an hour a day listening to podcasts. I feel like I need to join some sort of “Podcast Anonymous” meeting or something. To be honest, I listen to many different podcasts. My guilty pleasure type of podcast is anything dealing with true crime. The more mysterious the better! I love listening when I get dressed in the morning, on my drive to work and on the way home from school.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 6, 2023

The post Supporting AI Literacy for Educators: New and Emerging Resources appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

The thing that surprised me most about my teacher preparation program was that we never talked about how kids learn. Instead, we were taught how to structure a lesson and given tips on classroom management. I took “methods” classes that gave me strategies for discussions and activities. I assumed that I would eventually learn how the brain worked because I thought that studying education meant studying how learning happens.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Students can be excellent little actors in a traditional classroom, going through the motions of “ studenting ,” but not learning much. At that critical moment when a teacher chalks a problem on the board and asks everyone to write out an answer, for instance, one kid might stall by sharpening a pencil, another might doodle or feign writing, and another might stare into space — though not thinking about the problem at hand.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Robert J. Morais, Columbia Business School In the fall of 2023, I integrated generative artificial intelligence (AI) into my Columbia Business School course, Market Intelligence: The Art and the Science. The course covers how brand-building insights, strategic planning, and marketing decision making are best served by applying an array of behavioral, social, and mathematical sciences and using them complementarily.

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Government is a challenging class but often a favorite among students. They love to see how people make laws, how the president handles tasks, and how the different branches divide responsibilities. However, the United States has so many complexities, so there is a lot to remember. Thankfully, there are fantastic resources for AP Government review! These will be sure to have students ready and confident when it is time for government unit exams!

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NCHE

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Since 2021, the National Council for History Education has partnered with the Library of Congress’ Teaching with Primary Sources program on a nationwide program, “The Rural Experience in America”. This professional development opportunity for teachers encourages the exploration of students’ local history, immersing them in location-based learning to develop a deeper understanding of their places.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

I vividly remember how frustrating it was to interview for various school administrator positions only to be told that I didn’t have enough practical experience related to the position(s). Well duh, of course I didn’t, as I was an aspiring leader who was just venturing into this space. I am sure virtually everyone reading this post has been in the same situation at some point, whether in the past or currently.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 6, 2023

What are some of the most commonly misspelled words? Harass, tomorrow, accommodate, and Kaleidoscope. And Rhythm, too. The post 40 Of The Most Commonly Misspelled Words appeared first on TeachThought.

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A Lesson Plan for Teachers

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The Teaching Challenge Teaching today is a challenge. Your biggest challenge is finding the time to get everything done. That’s what I hope to help with in this series of posts. Each will address the best websites, strategies, and resources for teaching the Social Studies content areas. In this post, We’ll take a look at […] The post Finding Everything You Need for Teaching U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2023

What barriers make designing for deeper learning in schools challenging? In today’s rapidly changing educational landscape, educators face numerous challenges when designing instruction that promotes deeper learning for all students. Recently, I had the privilege of meeting with a group of international educators in Dubai grappling with these challenges.

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Active History Teacher

MARCH 16, 2023

Have you ever assigned a decades project for your US History class? It’s the end of the year. You’ve finished your US History curriculum and need something engaging for students to go as an end of the year project? It’s time to try a US History end of the year decades project! Are you like me? It’s May and standardized testing season is over.

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