A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

Issues such as the status quo, traditions, mindset , fear, apathy, funding, infrastructure, and time seem to consistently rear their ugly heads. If not, then human nature will take over and you will make an excuse. It’s not just advancements in technology that have to be addressed in our schools.

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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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Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

I was trying to understand how humans and wildlifeparticularly javelinaslive together in messy, contested landscapes, shaped as much by perception and politics as by biology. Instead, Jon turned his deep grounding in genetics into a sharp critique of how science makes claims about human difference. By the time I left for a Ph.D.

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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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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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C3 Teachers

MAY 5, 2025

Ive always defined myself as a human rights educator, centering that theme throughout my 23 years of teaching. Nick Taras experience shaped the inquiry we eventually developed together: How do individuals and communities keep the memory of traumatic events alive across generations? Why should we?

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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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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 20, 2020

The events of the last nine months have launched the phrase “blended learning” into the mainstream. Most of the schools and districts I work with are focusing on the rotation models because they work well in a traditional school setting. It is that human side of teaching that is so rewarding. The Playlist Model.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 3, 2021

UDL is a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn.” However, the events of the last year have made it clear that educational landscapes can shift at any time. ” UDL celebrates learner variability as an asset in the classroom.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2025

This podcast episode examines a recent study challenging the traditional understanding of dog domestication. The study used agent-based modeling to explore the possibility of wolf "self-domestication," suggesting that wolves could have evolved into dogs much faster than previously thought, potentially without direct human intervention.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 12, 2025

Moving Beyond the "Brain in a Bucket" Theory For too long, traditional education has viewed learning as simply filling an empty vessel with knowledge, as if the brain operated in isolation from emotions and the body. This might come as a surprise, but humans actually have fewer genes than most plants, and about the same number as goldfish!

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Established learning theories, like behaviorism, cognitivism, and constructivism, are grounded in the idea that learning occurs inside the human brain. The explosion of artificial intelligence is a testament to the reality that knowledge can be created and stored outside of the human mind.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 2, 2025

The approach allows archaeologists to pinpoint events within the span of a single human life—offering a more intimate view of history. “On a generation scale, you can tell a human story,” said Erik Marsh, a radiocarbon expert based in Argentina. But this precision comes at a cost.

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Anthropology for Beginners

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Application of Archaeology Archaeology is the study of human past through material remains. archaeologists study past humans and societies primarily through their material remains – the buildings, tools, and other artifacts that constitute what is known as the material culture left over from former societies. How were those pots used?

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Mr and Mrs Social Studies

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Simulations have the opportunity to bring a historical topic to life in a way that more traditional activities cannot. Simulations can also present information in a new way that can be more exciting and engaging than traditional teaching methods. Therefore, we do not recommend using simulations in these contexts.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Bake & Bond Events: Host community baking events where passionate bakers can come together to bake and connect. Cultural Baking Kits: Develop themed baking kits that introduce children to various cultural traditions through baking. Human Organization. References McCabe, Maryann and Timothy de Waal Malefyt.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

However, after listening to a TED Talk featuring Sal Khan, the founder of Khan Academy , demonstrating the use of AI tutors in his school, I realized that my days of teaching traditional math content and language arts skills are numbered. We need human connection to develop, and schools are integral to growing those abilities in every child.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

President Jokowi Widodo, more commonly known as ”Jokowi,” and Vice President Jusuf Kalla surprised the public when attending Indonesia’s 2017 State of the Union Address (SOTU) by wearing traditional attire. Consequently, any traditional ethnic attire he wears inherently signifies Indonesian identity.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Johnsrud In this sense, traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Understanding context is a crucial human skill that is best taught through storytelling and real-world applications.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 29, 2024

Issued: January 29, 2024 Response deadline: February 23, 2024 Pitch responses: February 29, 2024 First drafts due: March 27, 2024 For our third issue of 2024, Anthropology News is delving into the burgeoning field of artificial intelligence (AI) and its intricate relationship with human reality. And is humanity shaping AI?

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

Maybe you believe gender fluidity has always been a part of human existence and that those statistics only exist because we are just now getting around to naming and measuring it. There are wonderful single stall restroom designs that cost about the same as regular, traditional binary restrooms.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

It turns out my skillset helps map places and histories that are significant in Wajãpi Oral Traditions. Just like an archaeological explanation, his account connected the material traces to events that formed them. Eventually tiring of humans’ complaints and requests, he left Earth to live in the sky.

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ED Surge

JUNE 25, 2024

And they’re often alerting parents to family-friendly events in the community, such as free days at the zoo. It is a life-changing event,” says Dr. Michael Warren, associate administrator of the Maternal and Child Health Bureau at the Health Resources and Services Administration, an agency within the U.S.

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Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 17, 2023

On the other hand, ethnography also designated the aspiration to collect systematically, and according to rigorous procedures, facts about human languages, customs, arts, and achievements. Approaches: Ethnographic fieldwork tradition has a long history and it is rooted from the 19 th century enlightenment philosophy.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

But Native American and Muslim leaders say they believe rates have increased in their communities as well, after the pandemic gave families the time and space to reflect on whether traditional schools were really serving their needs. Related: Schools provide stability for refugees. Covid-19 upended that.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2020

” I have taught online courses in introductory biology and in-person human anatomy and physiology courses, both for biology majors and non-majors. Online classes are great for non-traditional students, students with mobility issues and students who are geographically tied to family or jobs. higher education.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

The school typically holds similar events in person each year, but tailored this year’s online content in response to parents’ questions that arose with virtual learning. “We And 127 can be thought of as a bundle of 12 units of 10 and seven ones, or “12 tens and 7 ones,” or even “10 tens and 27 ones.”. Take 4 x 27. The answer is 108.).

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

For example, in January of this year, Elon Musk announced that one of his companies had successfully implanted a chip into the brain of a human subject. While the implications for medicine and science are vast, educators have a vested interest in the outcome of events like this, too.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Every fundraiser we did this year, every school event, every time one of my commitments needed something, I was there.”. Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. Events and professional development moved to a virtual setting. We felt that was ideal for our organization in this moment.”

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Zinn Education Project

JUNE 11, 2024

This beautiful tradition of Black freedom should be taught in school. Background on Juneteenth Here are key points from scholars Greg Carr, Christopher Wilson, and Clint Smith on the history beyond the traditional textbook narrative about Juneteenth. But We Can’t Teach?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Ahead of Saturday’s event , Warren appears to dismiss a decade of results when she insists that these publicly funded but privately run campuses, serving 3.2 Los Angeles is home to nearly 300 charter schools, more than any other school system in the nation, drawing one-fifth of all kids out of its traditional public schools.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

In what has become an annual tradition, we’re sharing your favorite episodes of the year, as determined by the number of listens to the 44 fresh episodes we produced. We also did some live podcast events last year, including tapings of podcasts in front of audiences at SXSW EDU in Austin and at the ISTE Live conference in Philadelphia.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Of course, there were challenging moments brought about by remote learning, but there were also promising moments that could not have occurred in a traditional classroom. Because so many families in Navapanich’s district are working class, few parents could attend in-person events, even those scheduled in the evenings, she says.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

This past year was eventful in education – we saw new measures to connect schools around the country , concepts like maker spaces, design thinking, and coding make their way into the mainstream, and teachers become more tech-savvy and connected. As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Dobbins then led his students in a discussion about how current events like the pandemic are shaping the nation’s workforce, and why Dallas’ economy is booming (a fact that surprised some students). We don’t want kids who have goals other than a traditional college to feel like ‘this has nothing to do with me.’ ”.

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ED Surge

APRIL 17, 2024

Inconsistencies in story events are also very common: In a story I recently created on one of these tools, the main character, Natalia, who I named after myself of course, suddenly was interacting with a new character, “Remi’s dog,” with no prior reference to how Remi or the dog got into the story.

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