A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Students will analyze pieces from the online gallery provided by the Metropolitan Museum of Art and compare the works in terms of perspective, realism, subject matter, imagery, scale, and the use of space. Image credit: [link] These teachers have provided students with writing scaffolds and exemplars to help them achieve this goal.

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TeachThought

JULY 12, 2024

How To Connect Schools And Communities Using Social Media Although itself just a program that translates html code to visual information, the modern web browser has become a vessel that everything else attaches itself to. Parents have always been ‘informed’—but of what? None of this is new, really. There are ways.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Image credit: The Natural History Museum via Alamy Stock Photo) The Role of the Pinky in Early Tool Use The researchers observed that the pinky finger played a significant role in grasping, particularly in early hominins like A. These findings point to a progressive evolution of dexterity and fine motor skills within early hominins.

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Anthropology News

MARCH 27, 2025

When NASAs early satellite data became inaccessible due to obsolete formats , it was not just information that was lost, but a record of human exploration. To remain accessible, information must continuously adapttransferred, reformatted, or reconstructed in ways that often alter its original context. But migration is never neutral.

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Anthropology.net

MAY 1, 2025

It was science requested by the people, designed to protect their past and inform their future. “This research is a landmark project,” said archaeologist David Hurst Thomas of the American Museum of Natural History. . “But it was very moving and powerful to see it validated on paper.”

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Learning must prioritize the application, not retention, of information and skills in a real-world setting. Too often the information students are asked to read and engage with online is abstract and unrelated to their lives. Participation. ” When learning happens in context, it reflects a time, place, and culture.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Anthony Museum and House in Rochester, NY. The West in History and Memory at National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum in Oklahoma City, OK. Anthony & Reform at Susan B. Have more questions?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

Pandemic closures prompted hundreds of museums, art galleries and zoos around the world to launch virtual field trips in the last year. But a program offered through a museum in Utah sought to offer a different kind of virtual science field trip. Subscribe today! They see that this is a real place,” said Larson.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 2, 2024

For more information about our Multi-Day seminars and to see the schedule of events please click here. At the end of each course, teacher participants receive a letter of participation for 15 contact hours and a $600 stipend to help defray travel costs or other expenses. Have more questions? Click here.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In this post, we share how the learnings from these events have informed our approach to a new professional learning opportunity, the Maker Learning @ Home Cohort. . This cohort is open to educators representing schools, out-of-school-time programs, libraries, museums, and other organizations serving youth.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The discovery of this information, however, has sparked controversy, as some struggle to reconcile the scientific evidence with contemporary understandings of race and identity. This image, crafted by Tom Björklund and displayed at Museum Lolland-Falster, sparked intense debate on social media.

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ACRE

JUNE 19, 2023

Student Exploration Students visiting the museum can take a guided tour of both Hemingway’s studio & the Pheiffer home. Curriculum Guide The Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center offers educational programming to all ages!

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2020

Learning sciences research investigates the process of learning in realistic settings, which can include schools, museums, after-school programs, home environments, or anywhere people typically learn. These terms represent distinct research traditions and inform our understanding in different and complementary ways.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

When a lot of people were not taking it seriously, we had basically sourced information from Taiwan,” she said. “We A child enjoys free time at the Museum School after-school program in Greenville, South Carolina. Museum School] was a game changer,” said Adrienne Burris, who enrolled her 6-year-old son, Isaiah, in the fall of 2020. “My

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. Of course, we had no idea the COVID-19 pandemic would happen when we proposed this project, but we thought we needed to include the information we found. Just making people aware is huge.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 16, 2024

The first and second blogs in this series focused on providing meaningful choices when students are acquiring information and making meaning. Application activities also enhance retention and mastery of information, making it more likely that students will retain and effectively use what they have learned in the future.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 10, 2025

2.30pm: Visit to Metropolitan Museum of Art (Optional), (leaving ISAW Lobby at 1:15pm) For more information about the conference, please view the Conference Poster. Greg Woolf, ISAW Director, Strangers and Coercion in the Ancient Mediterranean World" 6-6.30pm: Reception Friday 14th March, 2025 9-10.30am: Panel 5: Means of Movement 10.30-11am:

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Anthropology News

OCTOBER 1, 2024

On an early summer morning, I drove down 100 miles from my home in Altadena, California, to the Oceanside Museum of Art in San Diego County for a public discussion of the exhibition I curated entitled Alexa Vasquez: Undocumented Times/Queer Yearnings. For both of us, this was our first show in a museum. Credit: Oceanside Museum of Art.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

I remember when I was a little girl, you could still go to the museum and see the Native American remains before the governor ordered the museum to cover them up.” Perhaps there are some out there who might think public history is better left to local museums or genealogical societies alone.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Related: As science denial grows, science museums fight back by teaching scientific literacy As parents have become more involved in their children’s education, they deserve to know how and where STEM is coming to life in their schools — and, more importantly, how to make sure that their children can take advantage of opportunities.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2019

Alessandra, a student at Pioneer Elementary School in rural Quincy, Washington, spent part of the fall term in an enrichment class focused on teaching elementary-age students the principles of engineering design through a curriculum designed by educators and scientists at Boston’s Museum of Science. “I Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Eager to build a career out of his interest in social studies, he thought about museum curation, archival work and practicing law. Maybe I could work in a museum or a library. I also explored possibly working in curation or some kind of a museum setting, but always found myself coming back to teaching.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Change it up with brain breaks and physical activity : Alternate schoolwork with physical activity breaks (short walks, exercise), hands-on learning (reading, art, play, home science experiments), educational screen time (virtual museum tours, online activities), and social connections (such as playing games like Roblox or Minecraft).

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2019

By creating an asset map of DMTT-focused informal learning programs in Chicago, CLX also hopes to inspire other cities to do the same. Formal learning gets more press time, study, and funding than its informal counterpart, but that wasn’t the main motivation when CLX mapped Chicago’s DMTT-focused OST programs.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 31, 2021

Events are hosted by a wide range of organizations in each community—from churches to tech companies, rec centers to sewing shops, libraries to schools, makerspaces to barbershops, parks to museums, restaurants to laundromats, and everywhere in between. Host an event if you are in one of the 17 RLDAA regions for 2021. Attend an event.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 4, 2019

Events are hosted by a variety of organizations, such as schools, museums, libraries, community centers, and more. Share information about RLDAA with people and organizations you know in participating regions. Attend an event (see list across the country here ).

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

For more information about or resources on Education Innovation Clusters, email clusters@digitalpromise.org. And they catalyze new partnerships and initiatives that bring communities together in service of next-generation teaching and learning. The post It Takes A Village to Support Education Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Zinn Education Project

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Education censorship is a disservice to young people who need to be informed in order to be responsible community members and voters. Rinderle is working with her union, the Georgia Association of Educators, to fight this unjust termination.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

In addition to enabling the assessment and synthesis of information drawn from a wide variety of sources, humanities practices equip us to diagnose — and devise methods to address — the conditions that hinder the achievement of a fully just and equitable society.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 17, 2024

I’m in a conference room in a Civil War museum in Kenosha, Wisconsin, attending a keynote panel about preventing violence in the lead-up to the U.S. One speaker discusses the danger of social isolation, loneliness, and being stuck in informational and social media “bubbles.” the moderator asks. election in November. I follow up.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

If you’d like more information on this topic, I recommend the following site: Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian – Lessons and Resources The post Teaching About Native American Cultural Groups with Respect and Sensitivity appeared first on Thrive in Grade Five.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2017

We’d also have access to historical documents from the British Museum – such as notes from an English merchant in Syria in 1739 – and to the prisoner of war archives from the Red Cross. We’d examine historical images of Native American life from the Museum of Photographic Arts, other historical photos from the U.K.

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NCHE

MAY 1, 2023

Army Heritage and Education Center (4 times) in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, the Musicians Hall of Fame in Nashville, Tennessee, the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan, and the Museum of History and Innovation in Seattle, Washington have made these colloquia special.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

” Corriveau and Kurkul’s most recent study of more than 100 four and five-year olds at Boston area preschools and a museum found that children who were exposed to more “mechanistic language” learned more than children who received shorter, less detailed explanations.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2020

Many museums offer virtual tours. Costanza said it’s also important for programs and districts to communicate with their families at this time, especially to relay information on where parents can access meals and other essentials if they are in need. This is an event that’s changing at least daily, if not much more quickly than that.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2019

But I also know that how I talk to her about science — and the science we do together — impacts how she feels about the subject, even when that science is informal in nature. More parents are acting as STEM cheerleaders for their daughters, telling them they can be physicists or computer scientists when they grow up.

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Life and Landscapes

MARCH 19, 2025

To fish for relevant information within those circles that tie us together. A legacy that informed many of his students of a higher artistic ambition. The Carriage House at the Howard Steamboat Museum Mansion was available. The treasure chest of human experience! Life is a relational database.

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