A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

There is a great deal of content out there about maker education. Laura also collaborated with Steven and Debby Kurti from Tabletop Inventing to publish a series of articles featured in Teacher Librarian magazine that not only discuss the philosophy of makerspaces, but also provide practical implementation tips.

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FEBRUARY 1, 2012

was, and adamantly believed social media had absolutely no place in education. The video below details my thoughts on this game-changing resource that is available for free to all educators. Finally, how can we move more schools to embrace social media in general as a valuable educational tool?

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Bertrand Russell’s 10 Essential Rules Of Critical Thinking by Terry Heick For a field of study that explores the nature of knowledge, Philosophy has had a surprisingly small impact on education. John Dewey is one of the central figures in modern Western education. There are exceptions, of course.

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Edthena

MARCH 10, 2022

” According to Language Magazine , it’s the AI Coach platform by Edthena. Language Magazine provides news and resources for language learners, educators, and professionals and recently wrote about the AI Coach platform. Read the full article at Language Magazine or see the excerpt below: AI Coach to Support Teachers.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

That’s what EdSurge senior reporter Emily Tate Sullivan found when she spent months researching the recent boom in smartwatches for kids, for a feature story that EdSurge co-published with WIRED magazine last week. The worst case scenario in the minds of the parents I talked to is just always looming,” she says.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 10, 2014

She has capitalized on the concept of student voice, taken ownership of her learning, and become an inspiration for me and countless other educators and students across the world. Her passion for the arts and creativity serve as an catalyst for her learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 15, 2011

In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation. I am really interested to learn what other schools and educators are doing with their students over the summer to reduce and/or prevent learning loss.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2018

Educators and schools across the globe have embraced the concept of student agency. Adam Fletcher writes: Student advocacy has a long history going back to at least the 1930s when a youth-led group called the American Youth Congress presented a list of grievances to the US Congress including public education.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

In an article for SEEN Magazine Dr. Daggett provides some nice working definitions for these two terms: Rigor - Academic rigor refers to learning in which students demonstrate a thorough in-depth mastery of challenging tasks to develop cognitive skills through reflective thought, analysis, problem solving, evaluation or creativity.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Listen to my interview with Kim Marshall and Jenn David-Lang ( transcript ): Sponsored by Listenwise and Scholastic Magazines+ 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.

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Edthena

MARCH 4, 2021

In this article from Langauge Magazine, Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena, details how video coaching can provide English learner educators with the specific feedback that they need. Read more at: Language Magazine: The Importance of Feedback.

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ED Surge

JULY 15, 2024

But last month, just a few months after the fanfare of the public launch event, the district abruptly shut down its Ed chatbot, after the company it contracted to build the system, AllHere Education, suddenly furloughed most of its staff citing financial difficulties. Related document: Contract between LAUSD and AllHere Education.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons. Still, some Shuar are appreciative of the education they received from the Salesians, especially for what it helped the community achieve when mediating relations with the state. This article was originally published at YES!

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 6, 2019

I was honored to have been interviewed for Educational Leadership, ASCD's flagship magazine, on the power of Twitter as part of a Personal Learning Network (PLN). Thus, the biggest challenge I had to overcome was a fixed mindset regarding how I could use a tool like this to improve my capacity as an educational leader.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

In terms of my own education, I always felt that I was provided with the knowledge and skills to succeed in life. The bottom line, however, was that I had passionate and caring educators who pushed me to be the best student that I could be regardless of the deficiencies inherent in an industrialized model of education.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Ryan, Director of Photography for The New York Times Magazine , picked up her cell phone one day and started taking “artsy” photos of her office and of the people in it. So recently, I invested in an iPhone photography course because I was interested in learning more about the capabilities of my phone’s camera.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

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: About 20 years ago, I had a transformative reporting experience when I was assigned to “shadow” a 4-year-old named Jaylen at a Milwaukee preschool.

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Edthena

MARCH 5, 2024

In the news A recent article from Language Magazine featured reporting on how Keller Independent School District is using the AI Coach platform to help teachers improve specific areas of their instructional practice. “AI

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Laskas is a longtime magazine journalist with an expertise in immersing herself in unfamiliar settings to document them. Education turns out to be a theme of the towns story. Listen to the episode on Spotify , Apple Podcasts or on the player below.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 15, 2023

One way to lessen the global digital divide is to provide affordable and accessible computing education to all, regardless of socioeconomic background. Philip Colligan Chief Executive Officer, Raspberry Pi Foundation The Foundation is on a mission to democratize access to computing education. That's the easier step.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2023

This chatbot was released in late November, but it’s already sparking an existential crisis for educators at all levels. A headline in the Atlantic magazine put it bluntly: “Will ChatGPT Kill the Student Essay?” If you haven’t fully understood why this might be a big deal, this episode might bring it to life a bit.

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Edthena

MAY 3, 2021

In this article from District Administration Magazine, Adam Geller, founder and CEO of Edthena, outlines five ways ed tech will revolutionize educator professional development post-pandemic, including more flexible PD.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 7, 2024

A free online webinar by SAPIENS Editor-in-Chief Chip Colwell to learn about how to write for the magazine and its peer publications. Ask SAPIENS is a series that offers a glimpse into the magazine’s inner workings. ✽ My name is Chip Colwell, a SAPIENS anthropology magazine, part of Wenner-Gren Foundation.

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Geography Education

APRIL 17, 2024

SOURCE: Knowable Magazine How do we know where we are, and why can some people find their way in the world, better than others? Though there’s still much to learn, the research suggests that to some extent, navigation skills are shaped by upbringing.

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ED Surge

MARCH 3, 2025

A longtime instructional coach, presenter and education consultant, Creekmore has returned to the classroom as a fifth-grade teacher. In this interview with Educational Leadership magazine, Creekmore discussed how she approaches each day with joy and purpose. Everything in education is so fast. Reflect on that.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 8, 2024

When Robert Ubell first applied for a job at a university's online program back in the late ’90s, he had no experience with online education. Ubell’s experience was in academic publishing, and he had recently finished a stint as the editor of Nature magazine and was looking for something different.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

So when the 18-year-old began the summer Educational Opportunity Program at the New Jersey Institute of Technology, she thought she knew what she was in for. This story is familiar to Laurence “Tony” Howell, the executive director of NJIT’s Educational Opportunity Program. . — By most measures, Sabrina Vasquez is smart. She was wrong.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

"We all get caught up in the business of doing, and sometimes lose our place in the flow” (O Magazine, August 2011). Recently, we were spinning in circles trying to figure out a new process for an internal role we stepped into when Jason shared a way we might reframe our conversation.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2010

Filip was recently featured in the April 2010 edition of Honor Student Magazine. True teaching extends beyond indoctrination and into the facilitation of educational discussion. This is where the true skill of teachers and their own leadership abilities are left to give us the most meaningful high school education possible.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

They also recognised their mentee’s strengths and the need to give them time to develop aspects of their practice , understanding how important it is for the education ecosystem to attract and nurture new entrants into the profession. Judgementoring and other threats to realizing the potential of school-based mentoring in teacher education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2018

One theory is that gifted educators are particularly drawn to Montessori philosophy and study for the extra certifications. The Hartford study follows her 2006 Milwaukee study , published in Science magazine, which also found better results for children who won a lottery to attend a public Montessori school.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A report from Bethesda Magazine states that 40 percent fewer minority and low-income MCPS students met standards last year, something our interim superintendent, Monifa McKnight , acknowledged: “It is clear that the pandemic has resulted in a significant learning disruption over the past eighteen months,” she told the magazine.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 7, 2015

This year, I’ve been invited to write my own column for ASCD’s Educational Leadership magazine. My column is called “The Techy Teacher” and explores issues ranging from questioning for learning to promoting emotional health to using data in the classroom.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

It’s typically given prominence in the bios for authors, speakers, facilitators, trainers etc, and publishers of subject magazines, journals or textbooks looking for contributors may also privilege those with examining experience.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Box tickers” (such as survey administrators, corporate compliance officers, in-house magazine journalists) are meant to make a firm appear to be doing something it’s not actually doing. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.”

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Living Geography

APRIL 16, 2024

The Economist has an Educational Foundation which shares ideas for how teachers can engage with selected articles from the magazines's output. It's also worth following the magaine on various social media accounts for all updates on content and useful articles. Topical Talk resources are a new feature.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

There are a number of excellent online learning opportunities designed specifically for educators. include: Computational Thinking for Educators from Google (15-30 hours). Introduction to Programming with Scratch in Education from University of Northern Iowa (20-30 hours). Read a book, blog, or magazine.

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