A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

Humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety. Create a virtual option as many students flourished in this environment Utilize blended pedagogies that focus on path, pace, and place while developing a more equitable culture. Use gender-neutral colors to create a culture of respect and understanding.

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APSA Educate

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Call for Proposals| APSA Teaching & Learning Symposium: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy | Submit your proposal here → APSA Headquarters, Washington, DC | June 19-21, 2025 | Application Deadline: February 24, 2025 The American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Teaching … The post Call for Proposals: Approaches to Human Rights Pedagogy (..)

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Pedagogy and Formation

MARCH 5, 2025

Formation as the Practice of many Practices I write in my book 'Pedagogy and Education for Life' that: Education is the whole of life of a community, and the experience of its members learning to live this life, from the standpoint of a specific goal. a school), we have human imagination at work (p.99).

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2017

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. Traditional measures of success often blind us from the truth.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 23, 2017

The evidence of such connections came from the medical understanding of how human sensory perception affects cognitive calculations. As such, Barrett and Zang (2009) identify three key design principles: Naturalness : Hardwired into our brains, humans have the basic need for light, air, and safety.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

Pursuing improvement is a never-ending process because the landscape of knowledge, technology, and human understanding is in a perpetual state of evolution. Furthermore, the human capacity for growth and learning is boundless. Whether at the individual or system level, the fact remains that there is always room for growth.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2025

Novels are powerful pedagogy because they are hard and time-consuming to teach. If we want students to invest in the great, global conversation of the humanities, its going to take a bit of salespersonship. 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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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. One of my favorite outcomes of this project, however, was how I was able to show a side of teachers that we almost never get to see, the side that is authentic, vulnerable, and human. Now, it’s your turn.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Look no further than using AI to conduct queries on any aspect of educational practice, such as grading, pedagogy, professional learning communities, virtual learning, or the use of technology. Personalized feedback AI can generate human-like responses tailored to individuals' specific needs and preferences.

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Political Science Now

DECEMBER 18, 2024

An Examination of the Transformative Effect of Learning by Teaching Method in Human Rights Education By Defne Gnay , and Zahide Melis zn llolu , Yaar University, This study aims to examine the impact of participatory methodologies employed in human rights education on enhancing individuals learning and awareness regarding human rights issues.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Her area of expertise is human learning and memory, and applying the science of learning in educational contexts. The post How Metacognition Can Optimize Learning first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

The human brain processes images 60,000 times faster than text. Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo. Images Here is where you can really begin to leverage digital assets. Many of the shortcomings associated with just sharing through text can be overcome using images.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective? The post A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. Example 1: A Classroom in a Competency-Based School One unit Messer teaches is a 9-week seminar called Global Zoo.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 23, 2025

Math As Humanities? Robinson is inspired by Francis Su, former president of the Mathematical Association of America and author of Mathematics for Human Flourishing (2020). The ability to calculate equations quickly is not that important for humans anymore, even for mathematicians, he says. Computers now handle a lot of that.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Marilyn Price Mitchell shared the following in an article for Edutopia: Research has since established resilience as essential for human thriving and an ability necessary for the development of healthy, adaptable young people.

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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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

My answer is simple: the failure occurs because when we introduce edtech into our classrooms, we continue to focus on things rather than on the process -- on devices instead of on good pedagogy. Successful and sustained edtech implementation requires that good pedagogy must first be in play within the classroom.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

I study human skeletal remains of the past, how burial contexts were constructed, and what they revealed about communities. My work sits at the nexus of human biology and archaeology, two disciplines known for being deeply positivist and scientific, valuing numbers, models, and testable hypotheses as a gold standard.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. These ideas have revived interest in E.D. Hirschs Core Knowledge curriculum, which gained popularity in the late 1980s.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

The novel being annotated is The Human Origins of Beatrice Porter and Other Essential Ghosts by Soraya Palmer Discussion and Feedback Students wrap up and review their annotations. The post The Art of Annotation: Teaching Readers To Process Texts first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy. A group annotation poster at the end of the process.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Teachers were burnt out, the national turnover rate was high and our school didn’t have the capacity to train staff to facilitate community-building circles and implement socio-emotional pedagogy. Considering these adverse factors, the school leaders decided to invest in our students’ well-being and purchase a packaged curriculum.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

Teaching is more than delivering contentits about modeling humanity, and my apology that day reshaped my understanding of educations deeper purpose. Education as a Humanizing Practice In Pedagogy of the Oppressed , Paulo Freire argues that education should make students more human.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. 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.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an educator, her key interests lie in experiential and situated learning; research-based education; critical pedagogies in HE and student partnership in curriculum reform.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 3, 2024

Editor Caroline is Professor of Human Ecology at the department of Anthropology, UCL. As an educator, her key interests lie in experiential and situated learning; research-based education; critical pedagogies in HE and student partnership in curriculum reform.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Next semester, my students will spend time working with prompt writing, reflecting on LLM output and reflecting on when knowledge and learning matter versus when human-AI hybrid writing makes sense. For many faculty, that last question is causing the most friction around campuses.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

So this is a brutally narrow take on how people gather and cohort and manifest their vision of what it means to be human, but the point remains: As educators, we suffer that same reductionism when we see the masses the same way Nielsen does television ratings. student needing knowledge), and there is distinction (e.g., This never stops.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 16, 2023

In preparation for a class based my 2022 article in Teaching Anthropology, Toward a Pedagogy for Consumer Anthropology: Method, Theory, Marketing , I provided ChatGPT with the following prompt: Use the research findings below to create 12 marketing ideas for Duncan Hines cake mix. Human Organization. 69 (3): 252-262. Morais, Robert J.

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Digital Promise

MAY 6, 2019

With support and collaborative input from the LEGO Foundation, Project Zero embarked on an exploration of the pedagogy of play in 2015, in partnership with the International School of Billund in Denmark, which has made play a key part of its approach to learning. Project Zero has a dedicated blog to Pedagogy of Play.

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ED Surge

MARCH 17, 2022

Literature transforms human experience and reflects it back to us, and in that reflection, we can see our own lives and experiences as part of a larger human experience. When lighting conditions are just right, however, a window can also be a mirror. In the book, she discusses the best way to teach Black children.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

This is human nature. It's a pedagogy, it's a framework for helping teachers enact whatever curriculum that they have to work with. Curriculum is mandated, pedagogy is professional. I don't want to mandate this because I don't believe that mandating pedagogy is an effective way to change pedagogy.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

AI isn't just a new tool; it is a shift in pedagogy. Michael Trucano from the Brookings Institution commented that the divide we will see is where some kids get taught just by AI, and other kids get taught by AI plus a human, which is obviously way better. AI can’t replace teachers; it lacks the human connection.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 17, 2024

I’m not talking about the kind of crying that happens when you’re moved to tears by a poignant story or you react to upsetting personal news; those human moments can actually bond you to your students. The post Some Thoughts on Teachers Crying in the Classroom first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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Anthropology News

JULY 17, 2024

In addition to academic requirements like high-level mathematics and science courses (required for many tertiary tracks but not always available or required at township schools ), Launch accomplishes its mission through unique pedagogies intended to expand students’ aspirations and propel them toward “fulfilling futures.”

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

As such, we have to establish standards that differentiate strong and weak pedagogy in edtech tools and help us decipher between real innovation and snake oil. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions. However, where edtech attempts to replace human interaction, it will likely fail.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

Even our pedagogies model this thinking. According to Papert: “The content for human development is always a culture, never an isolated technology.” The potential of technology is significantly affected by the humans that use it and their context. It’s a perspective shared so widely it travels as common sense.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

It seems that our recent (timid) interest in cultivating multiliteracies in anthropological work follows directly from his early 20 th -century view that human communication involves not only linguistic or verbal exchanges, but also non-verbal cues and gestures, such as tone of voice, facial expressions, and body language.

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