A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2021

In the lead-up to a curation of a vast amount of research, UNESCO stated the following: In today’s world, education systems must constantly evolve in order to effectively respond to the rapidly changing demands of the societies they serve. In this post, I am going to focus on where learning can and should happen.

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 24, 2024

“When there’s a phone around,” Sumeracki explains, “there’s some research showing that even the notification going off is enough to pull your attention. “There’s some research showing that when you mind wander, sometimes creative problem-solving can fall out of it. ” Come back for more.

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Women's History Network

JANUARY 23, 2025

First Call for Papers Womens History Network 33rd Annual Conference Online via Zoom Thursday 4 & Friday 5 September 2025 Hidden in Plain Sight: Women in Archives, Libraries, Museums and Personal Collections.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. She said, Please don't.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2023

Research consistently underscores the profound impact of physical and virtual learning environments on educational outcomes. Furthermore, research by Hattie (2012) emphasizes the importance of creating a positive classroom climate, asserting that the physical layout plays a crucial role in fostering a conducive atmosphere for learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

As much as this has been a game-changer for so many, we now have better access to research and evidence of improved student outcomes to really hone in on the types of changes that are needed in classrooms, schools, and districts across the world.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

In a past post , I shared how leaders can use AI to provide timely and personalized feedback, create a research-based comment library to use during formal observation or evaluations, and streamline communication. One of my favorite tools to use for this is Consensus AI.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2020

I was curious what lessons we could take from previous research on summer school to guide us during this unprecedented summer. Researchers at RAND, a nonprofit research organization, had designed a sort of ideal summer school experience drawing upon expert opinions and academic theories. The results were disappointing.

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Sapiens

APRIL 1, 2025

Her research explores how archaeology as a discipline has been used in U.S. SAPIENS: A Podcast for Everything Human is part of the American Anthropological Association Podcast Library. Charlotte Williams is a Mellon Democracy and Landscapes Initiative fellow at Dumbarton Oaks, Harvard University (20242025), and a Ph.D.

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Thrive in Grade Five

MARCH 9, 2025

Activity #1 – Allow Students to Complete Independent Research Projects Have you seen the power of choice in action? When students are given the opportunity to research or learn more about something they enjoy, they work soooo much harder. Join my VIP email club for free. No spam, just great ideas, resources, and tips!

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 4, 2025

The HRFP, the only residential fellowship program west of the Mississippi in Hellenic studies, provides opportunities for visiting scholars and writers-in-residence to spend time in Sacramento, CA, conducting research and crafting their creative works using the resources of the Tsakopoulos Hellenic Collection.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Check out this great article from the School Library Journal on this project. This involved using online maps and doing some research. Collaborated with English teachers Mrs. Groff and Mrs. Westbrook on a research project related to CNN Everyday Heroes. Currently she is now working on a similar program for students here.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. That was the hope. If you got in early, then some challenges later on would not exist.

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History Tech

MARCH 15, 2023

I’ve had the chance to meet a lot of people who work at the Library of Congress. And they’ve all been awesome. I’m sure there’s probably one or two who work over there who are Las Vegas Raiders fans or who will tell you that they don’t like Kansas City Joe’s burnt ends. And other […]

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2021

With libraries shuttered and bookstores a nonessential trip, many parents have downloaded book after book on tablets and smartphones to keep their little ones reading. A new analysis of all the research on digital picture books , published in March 2021, helps to answer this question. Photo: Sarah Garland/The Hechinger Report.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

Peer-reviewed research Educators want a compelling why that imparts value when it comes to change. Be sure to specify that you are looking for peer-reviewed research that supports the practice you are trying to implement or change. Observation comment library Writing up observations can be a tedious process.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 27, 2019

Giant-sized Scrabble board on a wall in the library for kids to play the game. I can’t wait to return as a job-embedded coach when the kids are present with the goal of further scaling research and evidence-based practices. Professional TV studio Science classrooms outfitted with dry-erase boards on the walls.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

Out-of-school factors weigh heavily on student success, studies show, and research indicates family engagement can lead to higher grades and test scores, improved attendance and better behavior. Buoyed by promising research, the Flamboyan Foundation, based in Washington, D.C.,

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

Laura had returned to New Milford this past September and is literally constructing a modern day Library Media Center. Within a few minutes of us arriving students flooded the Library, a space for conversation, research, learning and inventing. When we arrived to New Milford High School, Laura Fleming (@NMHS_LMS) greeted us.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

All of (the teachers) are assessing reading artifacts, writing artifacts, research artifacts, Messer explains, with the same rubric across our building. Students begin with content-heavy lessons on Earths spheres, ecosystems, and the habits of research scientists. So you could improve your knowledge within that research summary.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

Each graduate student brings their own specialized research focus to the table, enriching the legacy of the SWP. The SWP field school offers UTM students the opportunity to be trained in archaeological excavation within their campus grounds.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

The three guiding tenets of our BYOD initiative are to enhance learning, increase productivity, and conduct better research. Makerspace added to the library in 2013. Charging stations for the students were purchased this year and placed in all common areas. See what CBS New York had to say. See what CBS New York had to say.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

He told me about his students at a math and science magnet school in northern Virginia, who studied Lise Meitner and the complicated aftermath of her research findings. I got to watch information click for my students in real-time.” The best way to counteract that feeling of isolation is to find people who understand how hard teaching is.”

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ED Surge

MARCH 10, 2025

According to new research from Project Tomorrow and Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, large print books can improve students reading achievement levels and attitudes toward reading. She went on to graduate from college and is now a mother who owns her own business.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

She then utilized a variety of virtual manipulatives (using the SMART tablet ) from the National Library of Virtual Manipulatives. To tie in with their study of the English monarchy in the Elizabethan-Stuart era, they researched websites to find quality information on selected, relevant topics. Students in Ms.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

To give students insight into the work of historians, Czarnecki assigns research projects in all of the courses she teaches at Bishop Seabury Academy in Lawrence, Kansas. She also pursues her own research. Lomax hoped the young men would bring back audio documents for the Archive of American Folk Song at the Library of Congress.

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Sapiens

APRIL 8, 2025

Their doctoral research focuses on trans forms of creative expression in the Puerto Rican ballroom scene. Dozandris research has been supported by a Society for Visual Anthropology/Lemelson Foundation Fellowship, the Duberman-Zal Fellowship from the Center for LGBTQ+ Studies, and grants from the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

Google It As a student, part of my schooling involved library classes, computer classes and English classes, during which I received dedicated instructional time using Mozilla Firefox and Google to do research for school projects. We were taught not to plagiarize and to cite our sources.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Keith Curry Lance of RSL Research Group has been studying school librarian employment for a long time, roughly 30 years since his first study came out. Together, they applied for a grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Sciences, as part of the Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian Program. EdSurge: What is the SLIDE study?

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2020

Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library was one of the book giveaway programs that obtained “impressive” results for early childhood literacy in a May 2020 analysis by international researchers. Imagination Library, launched by American country music star Dolly Parton, mails a new book a month from birth to age 5.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

Research shows that the best instructional videos are short (under 6 minutes) and focused. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading. Far from it! Come back for more.

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ASHP CML

APRIL 10, 2025

.” In keeping with that belief, for sixty years the NEH has served as a vital source of support for the work of humanities organizations, educators and scholars who believe that our world is improved through research and publicly accessible programs that promote a deeper understanding of literature, history, and ideas.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2017

The purposeful use of technology can innovate assessment, transform time frames around learning, increase collaboration, enable learning about information and research thanks to unprecedented access, and provide a level of student ownership like never before. These are all outcomes that any educator would (or should) openly embrace.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 28, 2024

What research has to say about reading instruction. 2022), “Using the annotating strategy to improve students’ academic achievement in social studies,” Journal of Research in Innovative Teaching & Learning , Vol. It takes time to learn, but it seems to be well worth your while. 10.1598/0872071774.10. Doepker, G.M.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 3, 2024

Research by Cowan in 2010 showed evidence that four chunks are about all we can process in working memory at any one time. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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ED Surge

APRIL 25, 2023

But all this raises the question: Isn’t that something libraries do? The project reflects work that libraries have been doing for a long time, says Steven Bell, an associate university librarian at Temple University. Bir’s site may have attracted so many users because traditional library resources aren’t on the top of people’s minds.

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Cult of Pedagogy

AUGUST 18, 2024

Build Awareness of Metacognitive Pitfalls Educate students on the research about our tendency to be overconfident after reading and re-reading. You’ll get access to our members-only library of free downloads, including 20 Ways to Cut Your Grading Time in Half , the e-booklet that has helped thousands of teachers save time on grading.

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