A Principal's Reflections
JUNE 28, 2015
To make matters worse many states, districts, and schools made knee-jerk reactions when the budget ax came down a few years and cut traditional hands-on courses such as wood shop, agriculture, metal shop, and cooking. In many cases elementary schools have even taken fun out of school for kids by cutting recess.
ED Surge
JANUARY 21, 2025
Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 18, 2023
And because I could not interview the kids in quite the same way as older ones, I was forced to be a much closer observer of how that learning, and associated teaching, happened, from the way the children explored blocks of different geometric shapes to the way the teacher habitually explained the meaning of different words as she spoke.
Cult of Pedagogy
MAY 29, 2024
Listen to the interview with Sarah Riggs Johnson and Nate Wolkenhauer: Sponsored by Studyo and Scholastic Magazines+ This post was co-written by Nate Wolkenhauer. I teach in a small 6-12 independent school with my colleague and friend, Nate Wolkenhauer. This isn’t really about math.
Digital Promise
JULY 27, 2018
As community makerspaces begin to take root in Ontario’s elementary schools , students are behaving better. They’re creative spaces where students can gather to explore, tinker, discover and create, and they’re making students more enthusiastic about school. Makerspaces in Ontario Schools. Read the original article.
ED Surge
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
In late September, my sophomores were packing up for the day when I noticed a group of boys, heads down, all focusing on what looked to be magazines open on their desks. They lifted each page carefully, with a mix of reverence and deep concentration. Tengo Andres Guardado?” “Sí… Sí… ¿Tengo Mbappe?” The boys burst into rib-busting laughter.
The Hechinger Report
MARCH 17, 2019
square feet that College Planning & Management magazine says on-campus residence halls set aside per bed — aren’t a viable option for students with families. My dad’s a city worker and my mom is a librarian at an elementary school, so there’s not too much to go around for college,” Harden said.
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