A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 9, 2024

The rest is now history. Here is the synopsis: Not Just One Way Are you an educator stuck in the traditional teaching or leadership mold, yearning for a spark to reignite your passion? Where the rigid structures of traditional education give way to flexible, student-centered learning environments.

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Sapiens

MARCH 11, 2025

Partway through our conversation on Indigenous history, music, and language, Calfunao lit up when he discovered that we were both metalheads. Mapuche shamans, or machis , play the traditional kultrun drum in 1900. The band name Werken, for example, refers to a traditional messenger and spokesperson role in Mapuche society.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

It was a moment she’d been waiting for since her freshman year — not just to graduate from high school, but also to wear her traditional Yup’ik headdress and mukluks. The traditional Yup’ik headdress Andrew wore at graduation is made of sealskin, beaver and wolf fur and trimmed with black and gold beads.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2023

In today's fast-paced world, traditional one-size-fits-all educational approaches need to be updated. AI's ability to analyze student data, such as their learning history and performance, allows for creating adaptive learning paths.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2021

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. Last year, we had our largest recruitment class and one of the highest retention rates in our 120-year history.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 6, 2025

Make visible the history that we are defending the right to teach with mini-lessons. Mini-lessons also serve as an affirmation that we defy censorship by teaching this “banned history” in a public space. history who have resisted injustice and to learn from the range of strategies they have used.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

The question itself highlighted the limitations of traditional grading, a system that has been shown to be problematic by so many people in education circles but still remains as the most common way schools manage and assess student learning. This video shows how these work: What About Content? “They’re really respectful.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 31, 2024

My task set me on a path to understanding the history and craft of counting languages. Take, for example, the 1986 Men’s FIFA World Cup in Mexico, which featured the most amazing goal in the history of football (or “soccer,” depending on which variety of English you speak). But even this gets convoluted.

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Society for Classical Studies

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The 1st Lost In Time interdisciplinary intellectual history conference offers a platform for scholars from a variety of disciplines who are interested in concepts and their contexts, which have not traditionally predominated within intellectual history.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

However, the scale of ochre extraction and the evident skill involved at Lion Cavern marks this site as a unique focal point in the history of human creativity and ritual. This extensive ochre extraction reveals not a simple, one-time usage, but a complex tradition of quarrying, refining, and transporting the mineral across great distances.

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Anthropology News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Through these practices, they could not only evoke the flavors of home and pass down traditions but also begin mending wounds left by separation. Nala: Care as Reconceptualizing Tradition Payasam is the sweet, so it has to be sweet, Nala says of this creamy tapioca dessert, traditionally made for celebrations.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Schonfeld, co-author of the new book, “Along Came Google: A History of Library Digitization.” We came away wondering why people don’t talk more about this bit of recent edtech history, and what lessons could still be learned from it. Listen to the entire interview on this week’s EdSurge Podcast.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Researchers from the University of São Paulo (USP) and the Brazilian Agricultural Research Corporation (EMBRAPA) have identified semi-domesticated maize specimens from caves in Brazil’s Peruaçu Valley, revealing a unique chapter in the crop’s evolutionary history. The history and evolution of maize. Goodman, M.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Understanding AI Concepts Start by helping students grasp core AI ideas like algorithms, data analysis, and pattern recognition through traditional teaching methods Analogies and Stories: Compare an algorithm to a recipe a chef follows, highlighting the step-by-step process.

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Students of History

MAY 24, 2024

We're excited to announce that Toyosi Dada, a graduating senior at Towson High School, has been awarded the 2024 Students of History Scholarship. This prestigious scholarship, which has been awarded each year since 2017, recognizes a college-bound senior who has excelled in history education.

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Anthropology.net

JANUARY 27, 2025

Yet, could these stories also encode the history of humanity’s migrations and interactions? “Our results reveal that correlations between mythemes and genetic patterns can be traced back to population movements that pre-date the Last Glacial Maximum,” the authors write, situating storytelling at the core of human history.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

One just has to refer to the history books to see how this has played out across the world since the beginning of time. It does not rely on someone being in a leadership position in a traditional sense, but more so on a desire to want to change professional practice. This is a great example of forced change. Forced change rarely works.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 27, 2025

​ These findings challenge the traditional timeline, which places the advent of copper metallurgy in the Chalcolithic period, around 4000 BCE. ​ Implications for the History of Metallurgy The discoveries at Gre Fılla necessitate a reevaluation of the origins of metallurgy. c) Chisel axe.

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History Tech

JULY 10, 2023

And one consequence of the altered agenda is that my summer reading list, a treasured tradition dating back to the summer following my first year of teaching middle school, is now […] Let’s just say that my May and June did not go as planned and leave it at that.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

A groundbreaking study 1 of ancient human DNA from the Oakhurst rock shelter in South Africa is shedding new light on population history in one of the world’s earliest regions of modern human activity. These new results from southernmost Africa are quite different, and suggest a long history of relative genetic stability.”

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! What’s the name of that young lady who did a history project about Dickson Mounds? These are just a few interactions I’ve had since my students and I shared our public history project, “The Oral History of Forgottonia.”

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

A Window Into Humanity’s Past Hunter-gatherer societies represent the foundation of human history, defining how humans lived for 99% of our existence. These findings deepen our understanding of humanity’s shared history and highlight the enduring adaptability that has defined human societies for millennia. 1 Hewlett, B.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 30, 2025

For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP). Of the 151 rock art sites identified, 22 preserved animal depictions that broke stylistically with the earlier IIAP tradition. Antiquity, 90(354), 126–143.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Their findings upend traditional assumptions. A Complex, Ongoing Story The history of European pigmentation is far more intricate than previously thought. If nothing else, it reminds us that the past was not a monochrome progression toward modernity, but a kaleidoscope of changing traits shaped by history, environment, and chance.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

A New Way to Study Ancient Artifacts For decades, archaeologists have relied on traditional methods to analyze artifacts and architectural remains. A Breakthrough in Armenia The HKU team tested their innovative approach at a field site in Armenia, a region with a rich Early Bronze Age history. 1 Cobb, P. J., & Azizbekyan, H.

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Anthropology.net

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

” Rethinking Easter Island’s History The traditional narrative of Easter Island has long been used as a cautionary tale, an example of how human societies can cause their own destruction by depleting natural resources. 1 Davis, D. DiNapoli, R. Pakarati, G., Hunt, T.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

But beneath its frozen surface lies a complex history of human migration, isolation, and adaptation. Their findings not only rewrite the history of Inuit migration but also challenge the Eurocentric lens of modern genetics and medicine. “Genetics is increasingly important for diagnosis, risk assessment, and treatment of disease.

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Anthropology 365

APRIL 23, 2025

What He Wrote and Why it Matters Jons first book, Human Biodiversity: Genes, Race, and History (1995), came out of a simple but transformative observation: the science of human difference had changed dramatically over the twentieth century, and most people, including many scientists, hadnt caught up. Jon wasnt rejecting science.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 23, 2024

A New Chapter in the Alphabet's History Previously, scholars believed the alphabet emerged in or near Egypt as a tool for simplifying the complex hieroglyphic and cuneiform systems of the time. What Was the Purpose of the Cylinders?

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Ancient Mud Unlocks 130,000 Years of Australia’s Fire Management History Australia’s relationship with fire extends back thousands of years, with Indigenous land management practices deeply shaping the continent’s ecology.

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Teaching American History

DECEMBER 10, 2024

True, the Bill of Rights incorporated much of the English common law and the colonial due process tradition, but it also shed much of this traditions feudal and monarchical features. The post The Bill of Rights appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

Cultural artifacts, traditions, and knowledge do not simply move; they shift, adapt, and sometimes disappear in the process. When MySpace lost 50 million songs during a server migration , it wasnt just a glitchit was a reshaping of independent music history, determined by infrastructure choices rather than cultural value.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 7, 2025

But many species have traveled across the globe throughout human history, including as part of human trade and migration patterns, and not all of them are seen as problematic. Especially when we broaden the historical scale of our question, the idea of species nativeness gets murkier. The red-ringed parakeet (a.k.a.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. Youngbear and her colleagues work to connect with families in a way that acknowledges the history and needs of Native communities. 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla. government boarding schools.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2025

These instruments, linked to the Umm an-Nar culture, provide compelling evidence of a shared musical tradition between the ancient civilizations of the Arabian Peninsula and the Indus Valley.​ The discovery of these well-preserved cymbals offers a rare glimpse into the auditory traditions of Bronze Age communities.​

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 4, 2025

This discovery does more than just fill a gap—it forces a reassessment of Mediterranean history itself. Rather than being overrun by an external culture, the people of Kach Kouch were actively adapting and integrating new influences into their own traditions. This is a crucial detail. But the site’s legacy is profound.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Social studies and history classes weren't just academic discourse, they were social and emotional experiences. Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. So many people are unable to conceptualize a full picture of Black history until adulthood.

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