A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

The speakers were phenomenal and I truly learned greatly from the seminars. The different seminars focused on specific aspects of business such as business law, accounting, finance, public speaking, and economics. The actual experience of creating a business plan was unforgettable.

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Women's History Network

JUNE 22, 2024

Summer Seminar Series A reminder to all that our Summer Seminar Series will be taking place in July, comprised of three seminars. Each of these seminars was originally due to take place earlier in the year but unfortunately had to be rescheduled due to speaker illness or other unavoidable absence.

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Teaching American History

AUGUST 27, 2024

Applications open soon for our Spring 2025 Multi Day Seminars! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. TAH Teachers at a Multi Day Seminar in Kansas City, MO at the WWI Museum Each Multi-Day seminar runs for three days and brings together a small group of teachers from around the country.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

Go here for more details on an IoE seminar that is taking place in December. Organised by Alex Standish. I was asked to go along and speak but I can't make it. However, you can hear some GA speakers and also Catherine Souch from the RGS.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2010

I was also fortunate enough to be selected as NMHS’s delegate for New Jersey’s Hugh O’Brien Youth Leadership Seminar my sophomore year. All of these experiences have taught me what it means to be a leader. Through all of these opportunities I learned that a good leader must be dedicated to inspire positive change.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life. And how do we do that?

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Today, we’re going to pivot a bit to something equally revolutionary yet rooted in ancient tradition (somewhat)–Socratic Seminars. I’ve got 5 transformative strategies you can use to update Socratic Seminars for today’s learners. What is a Socratic Seminar? Socratic Seminars bring history to life. And how do we do that?

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Women's History Network

JULY 16, 2024

Don’t miss the final seminar of our summer series next Wednesday 24 July at 4 pm BST. We will be hosting Chandrica Barua from the University of Michigan who will be speaking on ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor Little Princesses”’ Sign up here.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

One-Day seminars are the easiest way to engage with Teaching American History in person. Faculty member Dan Monroe at a One-Day seminar in Spring 2022 Although One-Days are designed to fit around a teacher’s busy schedule, it is important to spend some time preparing for the day. Complete as much of the readings as possible.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Lastly, I used Poll Everywhere in my senior seminar the next day and it was a big hit. Lastly, it is very important to point out that Principal Sheninger provides his teachers with the proper support (i.e. In addition, he makes sure to provide training to NMHS students on how to use technology responsibly.

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Women's History Network

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Registration is now open for the one day seminar ‘Sayers in the 21st Century’ Programme: Sayers in the 21st Century – One-Day Seminar Friday, 11th October, 2024 Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL IAS Common Ground G11, Ground Floor, South Wing UCL, Gower St, London WC1E 6BT A joint programme between IAS and the Dorothy L […]

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 24, 2012

All activities and seminars proved to be appropriate for high school students interested in business and especially beneficial to those preparing to take business-related courses in high school and college.

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Economics High School Education 177

Women's History Network

JUNE 26, 2024

One week to go until we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with a fantastic paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner entitled ‘Transnational Collective Action by Women in Engineering and Applied Science in the 1960s and 70s’ To sign up for the seminar please visit the following paper: sign up here We hope to see as […]

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Women's History Network

JULY 3, 2024

Wednesday, 10 July 2024, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Postcards from the Smock Colony: Jessie Tarbox Beals’ photographs of Bohemian Greenwich Village In 1917, Vanity Fair christened New York’s vibrant bohemian Greenwich Village neighbourhood ‘the smock colony’.

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ED Surge

MARCH 22, 2023

I prepared a few Socratic Seminars about their impressions of AI and its potential implications for the future of writing and education. Look,” a student pointed out in one seminar. “It As we moved through these seminars, my students helped me realize I was focusing on the wrong tensions in the debate around ChatGPT.

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Zinn Education Project

JULY 15, 2024

Schedule Prairie View A&M University Gathering, Sept. 15, 5:00-6:30 pm ET: Freedom Teaching in the Movement Roundtable Discussion (in-person and livestreamed ) Nov. 16, 10:00 am-12:00 pm ET: Organizing Tradition Roundtable Discussion Workshop (in-person only) Nov.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Preservice teachers take an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct. The seminar aimed to help prepare prospective teachers for real-world issues in the education workplace. Preservice teachers listen closely at an ethics seminar provided by the Athens State college of education, Tuesday, Oct.

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Women's History Network

JULY 2, 2024

Join us TOMORROW at 4pm BST as we kick off our Summer Seminar Series with an exciting paper from Dr Emily Rees Koerner.

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Women's History Network

MARCH 3, 2024

Wednesday, 6 March, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. Articulating Syrian Women Refugees’ Education in an Age of Uncertainty Political conflicts propelled a wave of refugees that are seen as a force that threatens the stability of the UK and Western Europe.

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Education 92

Women's History Network

JULY 22, 2024

T-minus two days until we finish off our Summer Seminar Series with a fascinating paper from Chandrica Barua entitled ‘Subaltern Victorias: The Queen and Her “Poor Little Princesses”’ In her paper, Chandrica will illuminate the elusive and messy archives of unusual presences in the Victorian court, particularly dwelling upon the story of (..)

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

However, during the seminar, the facilitators jumped directly into piloting GBL activities with attendees. I had hoped the seminar would address the tendency to ignore the impact of Indigenous practices in teaching; instead, it was just another example of appropriation.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

Students were required to attend college full time, participate in a first-year seminar and meet frequently with an adviser. Meanwhile, CUNY has cut some costs from its $14,000 program by eliminating the first-year seminar and has expanded it to 25,000 students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Other such practices include first-year seminars, writing-intensive courses, service learning, internships and study abroad. These practices are linked to higher student GPAs and higher retention and graduation rates , research has shown.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

The morning began with Collen providing an overview of our school''s comprehensive Holocaust education program; highlighting the course curriculum, the study seminar to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and the overseas trip to Germany, Czech Republic, and Poland.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

One key component to Reed’s detracking program was the math seminar, an additional class period required for students who would have otherwise been placed in lower-level math classes. The math seminar also ensured that, for students who would have regularly been placed in a higher-level class, lessons did not slow down their learning.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

These connections can also be made in course catalogs, on department websites and through student seminars. A Senior Year Seminar can further promote workforce readiness and tie together the career skills gained throughout one’s time on campus. Raise awareness of realistic careers.

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NCHE

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

The For 2026 conference includes two specialized conference tracks focusing on the history and interpretation of the American Revolutionary era: RevEd (a series of workshops and panels of special interest to K-12 and museum educators) and the Slate Seminar (a series of sessions organized by the W&M Bray School Lab).

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Museum Education Museum K-12 American History 130

HistoryRewriter

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Plus, the interactive transcripts can give even your most introverted students a chance to demonstrate what they learned from a Socratic Seminar where they remained silent. Reflecting on these talk ratios is a powerful reflection point for teachers. Class Companion.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 5, 2024

She learned about MAHG in 2018, at a one-day TAH seminar offered in Tulsa on the American Founding. At the end of the seminar, a TAH representative told participants about Ashland’s Master’s program and the possibility of funding MAHG studies through a James Madison Foundation Fellowship in constitutional studies.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 22, 2010

With this program I was able to comfort frightened incoming freshmen during orientation, raise money to assist victims of the genocide in Darfur, and attend inspirational seminars about leadership and ethical issues. One of my most rewarding experiences was my involvement in the Peer Leadership Program.

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Leadership High School History Cultures 161

Women's History Network

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

Wednesday, 21 February, at 4pm GMT Sign-up now for our online-only zoom webinar here. LGBT History Month Special: ‘A BullDyke in a Queen City’: Queer Women in the U.S. Urban South This paper will discuss the significant differences between gay men’s and lesbian women’s lived experiences.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

When I was a full-time history teacher at Stella Middle Charter Academy in Los Angeles, my eighth graders had just finished a Socratic seminar discussing several questions about race and immigration in 19th-century America.

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Teaching American History

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Lindblom based it on a summer seminar she attended in the early 2000s: the Presidential Academy, a forerunner of Teaching American History’s current programs. This inspired Lindblom to design an elective sophomore course on the same three periods, using many of the primary documents she’d studied in the TAH seminar.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Two teachers, known as “academic advisors,” were on call to field questions and ensure everybody stayed on task (the teachers also lead weekly seminars or labs to bolster the computer work). Still, it has been hard enough to schedule just one weekly seminar, he said.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Since 2013, it has required all students taking less than a full load of classes to also take a seminar that provides them with mentors and success coaches — a package of supports for which many didn’t otherwise have time. The seminar covers themes relevant to students’ lives, with topics including hip hop and “The Immigrant Experience.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2020

“It’s bad with the potential of getting worse,” said Michael Griffith, an analyst at the Education Commission of the States, during a session of the Education Writers Association’s national seminar. The last time that schools had to slash spending was after the 2008 recession.

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Society for Classical Studies

MARCH 15, 2024

We look forward to reading your proposals for panels, seminars, workshops, and roundtables as well as for individual abstracts, lightning talks, and poster sessions. Please note that all submissions are now due by the end of Sunday, April 7th 11.59pm EDT.

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