A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2017

This applies not only to K-12, but also higher education. Skills that emphasize the unique abilities specific to human beings will enable not only current, but also future generations of learners to prevail in a world where technology will eventually replace most jobs currently available. Speaking of change.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship. He is co-author of Love and Literacy: A Practical Guide for Grades 5-12 to Finding the Magic in Literature. Its too limiting and laissez-faire to rely on a snappy plot or trendy genre to do this work for us.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2022

As states struggle to keep pace with the economy, some of them are now turning to K-12 credential transparency, in the hopes that it will show them how to give their workforce the leg up. Human capital is what actually matters in the world, Taylor Kendal, president of the nonprofit Learning Economy Foundation, says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

by Dominik Dresel Amazon’s efforts to expand its footprint in K-12 education through digital tools have largely fizzled. We Need to Make Schools Human Again. Her solutions include real listening, real change and learning to recognize one another’s humanity. Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Schools need to tap into the same sense of wonder that led early humans to seek unifying stories to explain their place in the world — and teachers need to do more to incorporate myths, jokes and riddles into curriculum and teaching practices, from the earliest grades up through high school. You can't have a culture without having metaphors.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. Human history on the continent is full of similar stories of resilience through environmental challenges.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. How you teach something depends, obviously, on what you’re teaching.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Developing the human capacity to manage and interpret data is a significant need. School systems that reported having data teams scored significantly higher across all domains. Data teams were defined as “individuals who analyze, explore and interpret data to support program improvement.”

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

There is apprehension and perceived risk around talking about AI in K-12 education and what that means for our students, but honestly, I think the greater risk is not exploring it. But theres also a strong emphasis on what we call human-only skills ethics, creative problem-solving, design thinking and user experience.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

That lack of disturbance makes it an exceptional place to study how humans occupied the region during the final millennia of the Upper Paleolithic. The presence of butchery marks on many of these bones suggests that humans actively hunted and processed animals at the site. Indeterminate bone with a short cut mark; C.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Moreover, this finding contributes to a broader narrative that places Neanderthals as active participants in the cultural evolution of early humans. Their ability to develop and share complex technologies like tar-making illustrates their pivotal role in shaping the trajectory of human development. Anastasakis, K., & Van Hoesel, A.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. But some teaching experts say tutoring should be reserved for humans who can motivate and understand the students they work with.

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Anthropology.net

AUGUST 19, 2024

Cooking is often viewed as a significant turning point in human evolution. It not only provided the extra calories needed to support larger brains 1 but also transformed the way early humans interacted with their environment. Unlike other species, humans are biologically adapted to consume cooked food.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Nilsson is an English teacher by training, but he has embraced the “digital humanities,” teaching students how to code to answer questions about books, speeches, news coverage, rap lyrics and more. Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. Subscribe today! Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The emphasis on a human-centric approach underscores the commitment to cultivating a balanced perspective on AI integration. Educators are encouraged to view AI not merely as a technological advancement but as a tool to enhance and augment the human experience. EdSurge: How have you incorporated the teaching of AI in the classroom?

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

I don't think in two or three years people will be disclosing the use of AI — it’ll be in our workflows — but it's important to learn from each other and tie it back to human involvement in the process. There is still a human element to this, and I think the guidance document mentioning those risks and limitations is kind of a friendly nudge.

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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 post The future includes good (human) teachers appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Unfortunately, there is a scarcity of information on this topic in the context of K-12 education. There are more opportunities for social learning and human interaction. As architects of learning experiences, teachers should focus on providing that human connection to students working remotely. Remind or ClassroomQ ).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2025

We have a crisis in K-12 educational leadership one that receives little attention. Instead, leaders need to prioritize what makes them great, empower others who enhance their leadership and protect their ability to be whole human beings. This begins with helping leaders define success.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Consider that the annual cost of K-12 special education is nearly three times that of “general education”: $26,000 vs. $9,000 per student in California, for example. The value of the human potential unlocked by early education and social and emotional interventions is more difficult to assess: it is arguably limitless.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. The governor tapped into leftover K-12 funds to match New Orleans recent large investments. Now the local investments total about $30 million, Sonnier said. We didnt want to do it overnight, Hume said.

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Society for Classical Studies

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The directors of the institute, Bob Holschuh Simmons of Monmouth College ( rsimmons@monmouthcollege.edu ) and Nathalie Roy of Glasgow Middle School in Baton Rouge, LA ( fabricatrix@gmail.com ), encourage applications from K-12 teachers of any subject that could incorporate hands-on Classics into its curricula.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Some AI developers aim to make systems that can do things, like prepare food better and faster than humans, to replace the work of humans; while others want to make an AI system to work with and help humans. Organization: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for K-12 initiative (AI4K12). Organization: AI4ALL.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We suggest that computational thinking — which applies concepts from computer science — provides a framework for pre-K-12 educators to integrate and apply computational methods to solve interdisciplinary, complex and/or everyday problems. This is a big change and must be prioritized by district leaders.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 1, 2025

A New Look at Lucy’s Locomotion For decades, Australopithecus afarensis has been at the heart of debates surrounding the origins of human bipedalism. Compared to modern humans, Lucy’s top speed was significantly lower, and her ability to sustain a running pace for long distances was extremely limited. The Running Ape?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 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: ATLANTA – As more and more attempts to restrict discussion of gender and race in K-12 schools across the country take hold, where do the ideas go?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

And he says K-12 teachers frequently use materials from a range of sources including curriculum and textbooks from their schools and districts, resources they’ve gotten from colleagues or found on websites, and materials they’ve purchased from marketplaces such as Teachers Pay Teachers. Stuff before involved humans and was static.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 13, 2025

The findings suggest that, while they were competent bipeds, their running capabilities lagged far behind those of later human ancestors. Our simulations revealed that Lucy wasn’t as efficient or as fast at running as modern humans," the researchers explain. While humans today can sprint at speeds exceeding 20 mph, the best A.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 2, 2024

Latino children make up one of the fastest-growing demographics in K-12 education. Just one in 10 tech workers are Latino, and while Latino college students are choosing STEM fields in college more frequently , they earn only about 12 percent of undergraduate degrees awarded in science, technology, engineering and mathematics.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2024

Chris Nelson teaches preschool in rural Vermont, just a few miles from the Canadian border, but not in the school or child care center most people think of when they imagine state or locally funded pre-K. For many rural families especially, the barriers of paying for and getting their children to a pre-K program are just too great.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Before transitioning to EdTech, Levine enjoyed 30 years working in various positions in K-12 and higher ed. It really demonstrates what's possible when we look at connected learning not as a luxury but as a basic human right. is excited about the newest technologies and their impact on the learning experience.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 13, 2023

In addition to disciplinary concepts, it is important to address areas such as the appropriate use and timing of AI, the historical context of AI development, addressing biases, safeguarding the privacy of data shared with AI systems/tools, ensuring equitable access to AI tools, and taking into account environmental and human labor considerations.

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ED Surge

JULY 2, 2024

But these days, when it comes to AI, another concern has come into the spotlight: That the technology could lead to less human interaction in schools and colleges — and that school administrators could one day try to use it to replace teachers. And it's not just educators who are worried, this is becoming an education policy issue.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding. But computer science lessons like the ones at Dzantik’i Heeni Middle School are relatively rare.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

CT pathways are system-wide K-12 programs supporting equitable participation in computational thinking. This past year, district leaders in North Salem worked with teachers and building leaders to articulate their K-12 CT pathway, a progression that has expanded computational thinking to all students within their district.

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