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. In the event that the meeting begins to veer out of control, table it for another time. The second thing they have in common is you.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 30, 2023

Humans crave a deep connection when it comes to learning something new, especially if they initially don't see any value in what's being taught or facilitated. We expect this as adult learners, so it goes without saying that our students both want and need this as well.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

One that sticks out to me as the most critical is how resilience got us through one of the most disruptive events we have ever experienced. The pandemic leveled down an array of lessons that should pave the way for future success. While the path was fraught with obstacles, we learned to overcome them together through innovative means.

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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. However, this was not always my strength. In all honesty, though, I was just doing what I was taught, and thought were the best ways to grow.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The event attracted educators from across the country and around the world. We learn from trial and error; to err is human, after all, so why not learn that way? We learn from trial and error; to err is human, after all, so why not learn that way? We use technology as a tool to teach and learn.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

Even events that are not focused on digital have sessions dedicated to the topic. Concerns center on its potential to replace human interaction and critical thinking skills. AI, while a powerful tool, can only partially replace the role of human leadership in schools. Let’s begin with the shortcomings. Prompt all you want.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 18, 2020

Humans Crave Social Interaction Social distancing and remote learning shined a light on the importance of interaction. We must also look for opportunities to increase human interaction in face-to-face settings. It is the foundation of which relationships are built and sustained.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2022

While you might not be able to control the actions of others fully, you can work to ensure that you are fully present during conversations, meetings, and professional learning events. Being human is more important than being right all the time. An engaged leader is one who empowers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2023

Own Mistakes Mistakes are inherent to being human , and admitting and owning them is crucial for establishing a culture of trust. Patience Leadership is not an isolated event but an ongoing process. Although an individual can initiate the process, it requires a collective effort to make change stick. The result is scalability.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 30, 2016

This is equivalent to a human-generated search engine that never shuts down and is powered by the knowledge of world-renowned experts and practitioners alike. It is through these opportunities that time, applicability, and relationships intersect resulting in a powerful experience. Please share your thoughts below.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2019

One-and-done events might get everyone pumped up and excited, but what comes next? Like change, learning is a process, not an event. It is like a human-generated search engine on steroids that is at your beck and call. The same can be said about drive-by professional development. Herein lies the power of a PLN.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2025

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. He shares this example to illustrate how the district marries technology-related monitoring with human-led threat assessment. That’s the truth, right?

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Simulation and Role-Playing Simulate AI processes with hands-on activities Human Algorithms: Students can act as parts of an algorithm by sorting themselves by height or birth month. Pattern Recognition: Engage students in activities that require them to recognize patterns, such as trends in historical events or sequences of numbers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 1, 2018

So why is it a part of human nature to make excuses? It is through this line of thinking that we start viewing these external situations or events as excuses for why we can’t do what we want to do. They most certainly are, and we have to work even harder and more diligently to find workable solutions to overcome them.

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Sapiens

MARCH 5, 2024

An archaeologist explains how remains recently recovered from a cave in present-day Germany suggest that Neanderthals and modern humans populated Europe together for at least 10,000 years. An international, multidisciplinary team has identified human ( H. However, there are many challenges to exploring this distant time.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Humanities professors across the country have ceaselessly lamented the precipitous decline in undergraduate humanities majors in recent years. During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

If not, then human nature will take over and you will make an excuse. The ability to initiate, manage, and sustain change relies on a leader’s ability to think of it as a process as opposed to an event. Every single school on this planet deals with these challenges and many others on a daily basis.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 25, 2021

Learning is a process, not an event. Pink , New York Times bestselling author of WHEN, DRIVE, and TO SELL IS HUMAN My hope is that anyone reading this book will walk away both inspired and with practical strategies to empower learners to think disruptively in any classroom or school. Improvement in all we do is a never-ending journey.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Virginia History, AP Human Geography, AP Macroeconomics, AP Microeconomics, and AP U.S. It’s about understanding humanity.” Dalton’s students in Oklahoma were equally stunned when they learned about the Tulsa Race Massacre, an event that occurred just an hour and a half from their homes. He taught U.S.

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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

MARCH 8, 2023

How can teachers learn from the practices and principles of youth organizing to create more humanizing, engaging and empowering classrooms? The process of asking questions, listening and building campaigns around these stories is what makes youth organizing such a humanizing experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 15, 2013

Students that participate in this experience travel to Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic as they learn firsthand about one of the most traumatic events in human history. I am proud to say that this unparalleled learning experience, under the direction of Colleen Tambuscio, has taken place for the last twelve years at NMHS.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 8, 2020

I now had access to a human-generated search engine where I gleaned the best resources, ideas, supports, and advice. In the event that you are not satisfied with what is provided to you through your organization, district, or school, then there is a myriad of options that you can pursue.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2011

Last year we launched a blog where the students in Europe chronicled and reflected on essential questions, focusing on a dark time in human history. At our District Open House this Thursday, I plan to Skype the group in from Europe to kick off the event. Some teachers even have their students respond to the posts each day.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 30, 2017

" The purpose of human life is to serve, and to show compassion and the will to help others." - Albert Schweitzer A major Category 4 Hurricane hit the Corpus Christie area in South Texas last Friday leaving a path of destruction. People are rising up to face this monumental challenge.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Mountainous regions have long attracted early human populations, but the reasons behind this preference are becoming clearer thanks to new research. The results suggest that these rugged environments were key to human evolution, shedding light on why early human species chose such challenging terrains.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

In our tech-driven world, the value of human connection can’t be overstated. Their national conferences and competitions, such as the SkillsUSA event in Atlanta with 10,000 students competing in about 100 different areas, provide tangible examples of what students with well-developed soft skills look like.

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Anthropology.net

JUNE 11, 2024

Neanderthal genes present in modern humans may have been introduced through an extended period of interbreeding starting around 47,000 years ago and lasting nearly 7,000 years, according to new research. Consequently, the genomes of contemporary human populations outside Africa contain about 1% to 2% Neanderthal DNA.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 21, 2024

A new study 1 challenges long-held beliefs about the origins of horseback riding, casting doubt on the Kurgan hypothesis, which claims that humans first began domesticating horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C. Horseback riding can indeed leave subtle marks on the human body. Can Horseback Riding Change Your Skeleton?

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. “These beneficial traits spread rapidly in early human populations.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

That’s because “English AI Anchor,” as “he” is named, isn’t human. We are now living in a world in which robots do many of the jobs we once thought the preserve of humans. The future will leave room for human teachers. The event brought more than a hundred people to Seattle, Wash., Related: Go vote.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 13, 2024

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced.

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NCHE

MARCH 25, 2024

Implicit in these sessions is an unstated assumption: we need to revisit events and issues because we have learned new things about them, because historical knowledge is continually refreshed, reframed, and rethought. Teachers and students can see themselves within this history, can see their own communities and identities.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2019

Being human means that you will screw up once in a while. Be prepared for a long journey Leadership is not a race or event. And it had an unmistakable impact: Their teams and organizations were some of the highest-performing in their sectors. Admit mistakes Everyone makes mistakes. Own your mistakes, but don’t let them own you.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The big danger, he argues in his book, is that autocorrect and other AI algorithms are altering our lives so much that humans will act more like, say, Twitter bots, rather than Twitter bots acting more like humans. And then, he worries, we don’t really know what other people believe, even though we’re all typing constantly online.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 11, 2024

Recent archaeological studies in Sicily reveal crucial information about early human migration into the Mediterranean islands. This research offers fresh perspectives on the expansion routes and adaptive behaviors of early human communities. It allows us to reconsider routes of migration of these earliest modern human ancestors.”

Humanities 98

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia.

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