NCHE

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

Im reaching out today as a fellow educator and historian, and as Executive Director of the National Council for History Education, to affirm your professionalism and the importance of your role as history educators. NCHE will continue to provide access to primary sources, historical scholars, and a community of fellow educators.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Education is no exception. Students are ready for AI, and its time for higher education to foster open discussions on how to integrate AI meaningfully in learning and instruction. Education leaders and faculty recognize the value of AI in idea generation and developing personalized learning.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 28, 2024

It affects human beings and students are human beings. It might be useful to take a quick look at some of the key ideas and underlying assumptions about tone in learning. Tone As A Cause And Effect Of Learning I. Tone matters. Tone can be notable in its ‘tenor’ and value as well as in its abundance or absence.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2025

That happened after a January column I wrote about a prominent scholars critique of the evidence for including children with disabilities in general education classrooms. The director of education at the Learning Disabilities Association of America weighed in, as did the commissioner of special education research at the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

In my career as an arts educator and school administrator, I have met countless families whose children are excited to embark on a college education focused on filmmaking or acting. Given the financial realities regularly confronted by the arts and the high cost of postsecondary education, a bit of hesitation may be natural.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2024

He had a helper: As Thompson paced around the class, peppering them with questions, he frequently turned to a voice-activated AI to summon apps and educational videos onto large-screen smartboards. As AI tools proliferate and their capabilities keep improving, relatively few observers believe education can remain AI free.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

No matter what education circle you are in, AI is likely a topic of conversation. Some see it as the holy grail of education, and this has manifested in countless books and presentations, especially at technology conferences. Concerns center on its potential to replace human interaction and critical thinking skills.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“That’s why good teaching about citizenship involves students in an intentional study of human behavior.” For Little, government class entails “constitutional study and human behavior study side by side.” After Little’s students read an excerpt of Federalist 51, he asks them whether Madison’s view of human nature is correct.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

The Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, is investigating the unintended consequences of AI-powered surveillance at schools. The lack of privacy comes at a cost In Rigby, educators lean toward human interaction. Martin said those are helpful, but must be used in concert with human-led initiatives.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 18, 2024

An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education By Defne Gnay , and Zahide Melis zn llolu , Yaar University, This study aims to examine the impact of participatory methodologies employed in human rights education on enhancing individuals learning and awareness regarding human rights issues.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 24, 2025

The post How Digital Promise Leverages Emerging Technologies that Center Human Agency on International Day of Education appeared first on Digital Promise.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 18, 2020

As educators continue to grapple with these challenges, lessons have materialized that can pave the way for needed change. Education can ill afford to revert back to the way things were done in many districts and schools. We must also look for opportunities to increase human interaction in face-to-face settings.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2022

We are dealing here with human beings. And we know from neuroscience that human beings share very much more in common in what drives them and causes these behaviors. All educators, at some point, find themselves in a situation where issues with colleagues have to be resolved as they represent a challenge to the overall culture.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2024

The landscape of education is constantly evolving, and artificial intelligence (AI) is emerging as a powerful tool for educators. While it won't replace the irreplaceable human touch in the classroom, AI can significantly enhance teaching and learning by offering personalization, efficiency, and insightful data analysis.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

“ Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.” - Brené Brown Change is hard. If growth is an individual as well as a collective goal, which it should be, then embrace vulnerability and be the change you wish to see in education. It is even more challenging to sustain.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

There is no better time than now to rethink education and the practices that are both favored and employed. Change can be a good thing as there is no such thing as perfection in education. Now I am not saying to throw out the baby with the bathwater. This truth presents a constant opportunity to innovate and grow.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 24, 2020

During my years as a teacher and principal, I would spend countless hours planning, researching, and attending professional learning events to hone my craft in order to become a better educator. I established hiring practices that resulted in the hiring of a lot of smart educators. HERE you can access a quick-start guide.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Equity In Education: A Definition by Terry Heick In a profession increasingly full of angst and positioning and corrective policy, there are few ideas as easy to get behind as equity. While progress is being made in sub-Saharan Africa in primary education, gender inequality is in fact widening among older children. Equilibrium.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Humans huddled in caves. This approach to archaeological research places value on the continuous cultural and social development of humans. The pursuit of deep history offers a more inclusive way to understand the full scope of human experience and cultural development. When you think of “prehistory,” what images come to mind?

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 24, 2022

After all, this is human nature. When all of these elements are part of a lesson or educational experience, the result is the development of cognitive flexibility in students. In life, I would wager that the majority of us prefer the path of least resistance. Life is hard.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 23, 2019

Below is a synopsis from the World Economic Forum (WEF): As technological breakthroughs rapidly shift the frontier between the work tasks performed by humans and those performed by machines and algorithms, global labor markets are likely to undergo significant transformations. So, what does this all mean? Skills are not enough, in my opinion.

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TeachThought

MAY 14, 2024

Embracing the Future of Social Work Through Online Education by TeachThought Staff The social work profession is on the cusp of a transformative era. Once viewed with skepticism, online education is rapidly becoming a powerful tool for expanding access to quality social work education and empowering the next generation of social workers.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 27, 2025

Education in the 21st century is obsessed with assessing children, attempting to measure every aspect of their intelligence, learning and growth. In her first book, Love to Learn: The Transformative Power of Care and Connection in Early Education , which comes out on Feb.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

Accomplishing this feat also requires educators to take into account when and where students learn. In the lead-up to a curation of a vast amount of research, UNESCO stated the following: In today’s world, education systems must constantly evolve in order to effectively respond to the rapidly changing demands of the societies they serve.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 29, 2018

It will affect the very essence of the way humans experience the world. To prepare learners for success during the fourth, or even fifth, industrial revolution the notion of education has to change at scale. Known to some as Industry 4.0, In this era, the notion of big data and data analytics will drive decision-making.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 9, 2024

The purpose of this symposium is to share approaches to the teaching of human rights and to develop pedagogical materials for the discipline. The symposium will be led by the Editor-in-Chief of Human Rights Review , George Andreopoulos (CUNY John Jay and Graduate Center), and the Pedagogical Section Editor for Human Rights Review , Steven D.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

But the interviewer asking the questions wasn’t a human researcher — it was an AI chatbot. In the following, you will conduct an interview with a human respondent to find out the participant’s motivations and reasoning regarding their voting choice during the legislative elections on June 30, 2024, in France, a few days after the interview.”

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2020

Throughout the pandemic, educators have embraced new opportunities that have materialized and taken advantage of a clean slate. Support Teachers and administrators need professional learning that aligns with the challenges they currently face and the demands of education in a COVID-19 world. However, this is not all doom and gloom.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

While this has always been a part of human nature, it is interesting to observe how it plays out at an individual level. Thus, it is crucial for all educators to have a plan to address conflict using a proactive approach. And when you have a conflict, then it's an educational process to try to resolve the conflict.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. Whether at the individual or system level, the fact remains that there is always room for growth.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 23, 2024

While this notion challenges the status quo and how things have been done traditionally in education, it is the truth. In a science class studying the human body, a teacher wants students to demonstrate their understanding of the digestive system. The question now becomes, what are we going to do about it?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

If students are required to make clear when and how they’re using AI tools, should educators be too? In open-ended answers, some educators said they see it as a tool akin to a calculator, or like using content from a textbook. No matter what, the thoughts need to start with the human user and end with the human user,” she stresses.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. I was only dimly aware that my father served on the local Human Relations Committee. 2] Before becoming an educator, Charles Reid had to earn his own education. Might those white parents whose children drew black teachers complain?

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

When ChatGPT and other new generative AI tools emerged in late 2022, the major concern for educators was cheating. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue. Teachers in K-12 schools are also beginning to push for similar protections against AI replacing educators.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

This week’s newsletter comes to you from Caroline Preston, Hechinger’s managing editor, who writes our climate and education newsletter. Students can learn about how plants, animals, humans and the planet are interconnected, and how changes to the planet affect those living beings. You can sign up for the newsletter here.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

As educators, we feel differently. If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship. This story about teaching novels was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

For decades, education policy has lurched from one test score panic to the next, diverting resources from what we know matters building students socioemotional skills, fostering strong relationships with teachers and peers and supporting enriched home environments that drive long-term success. What role do families play?

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