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Persuasion as a Catalyst for Change

A Principal's Reflections

His work really made me critically reflect upon my leadership practices. The power of social media then connected the both of us leading to him Skyping with the students at New Milford High School, a personal dialogue over the years, and his endorsement of my new book on Digital Leadership.

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How a Portrait Project Showed Teachers Through a Whole New Lens

Cult of Pedagogy

Dan, Social Science Johanna, Manager of School Facilities Ashley, English Tiffany, Math When I first started shooting, I tried to emulate Kathy Ryan’s style but, as happens with most or all creative projects, the portraits eventually took on a look of their own. Often, they contributed their own concepts or ideas for poses.

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College Writing Centers Worry AI Could Replace Them

ED Surge

I see this as a real opportunity for writing centers to show leadership if they're given an opportunity,” says Sherry Wynn Perdue, president of the International Writing Centers Association. Writing doesn’t have that much meaning without a human audience. AI can serve as a supplement to a human tutor, Mills says.

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Reading, writing and arguing: Can a summer of big questions push students to college?

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Colleges’ promises to diversify face one challenge: finding black faculty

The Hechinger Report

percent of doctorates in the physical sciences. percent of doctorates in both the humanities and social sciences, but just 5.4 percent in the physical sciences. Although 13.3 percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 Hispanic or Latino students, meanwhile receive 7.2

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Psychology as a school subject - what are the benefits?

Jonathan Firth

Learners on most psychology courses engage in the process of designing, carrying out and writing up an independent research project on human participants – for example, simple memory experiments or surveys of sleep habits. The subject is also excellent for cross-curricular learning. This makes it ideal for projects at any age.

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COLUMN: Want teachers to teach climate change? You’ve got to train them

The Hechinger Report

Bang, who is partly of Ojibwe descent, said she looks at different mental models of the relationship between humans and the natural world — do we see ourselves as apart-from nature, or part of nature? Social science does not support that. Kids come in with, ‘Humans harm the earth and the earth is dying,’” she said.