A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 20, 2024

" Leadership clarity is the light that cuts through the fog of uncertainty, guiding others toward a clear and purposeful path." During my early years as a principal, I was literally flying by the seat of my pants. No one person or program can adequately prepare you for the realities of the job, as things are coming at you from every direction. While putting out fires comes with the territory, the real work lies in developing a learning culture prioritizing relationships and student outcomes.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 21, 2024

The post Student Guest Post: Shifting our Mindsets about AI: Reframing AI as the Sidekick Rather than the Villain appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Society for Classical Studies

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Introducing the First Annual SCS Census kskordal Tue, 10/15/2024 - 11:56 Image This 10-minute survey, developed by the SCS Data Committee, aims to provide a picture of the field of Classical Studies in 2024—because we can’t know where we are going until we know where we are. Like the US Census, the SCS Census has the mission to provide timely, accurate, and actionable information about the field to its members, including decision-makers at all levels.

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Geogramblings

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In this article: Climate and Nature Action in Education launch events across England Teachers and School Staff: Request a Climate Ambassador and support from Sister Projects Individuals and Organisations: Onboard as a Climate Ambassador Networking opportunities for Climate Action in the East of England Climate and Nature Action in Education launch events across England This section is adapted text from “UEA hosts education conference as part of national climate scheme turning ambition into

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The Reality of Ancient European Appearance A fascinating look into Europe’s prehistoric past is challenging modern perceptions of skin pigmentation. Ancient DNA analyses indicate that prehistoric Europeans possessed a phenotype that contrasts sharply with today’s northern European populations. The discovery of this information, however, has sparked controversy, as some struggle to reconcile the scientific evidence with contemporary understandings of race and identity.

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The Effortful Educator

OCTOBER 15, 2024

For the past six or seven years I have started my class (almost) every day the same way…with retrieval practice. This is usually a quick review of information covered from the last class meeting or of information we’ve covered in past lessons that directly relate to what we will discussing today. Four or five multiple-choice questions, a short-answer question or two, labeling a diagram…the type of questions posed change from time to time, but the idea that students need to retr

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 16, 2024

The 33rd annual conference, which will take place on 4-5 September, 2025 will explore and celebrate women in the archives, libraries and museums and the challenge of uncovering their presence. We encourage approaches that foreground marginalised voices and imaginative approaches. Papers which address aspects from all nations and time periods are welcomed.

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Teaching Anthropology

OCTOBER 15, 2024

A journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute

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Anthropology 130

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post 5 Engaging Ways to Celebrate Digital Citizenship Week appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Sometimes, the demands of teaching and life outside the classroom can be overwhelming. This week, I felt the weight of it all. Trying to balance lesson planning, teaching, and taking care of my own well-being hasn’t been easy, but I’m doing my best to carve out moments for myself to stay sane. Still, Tuesday’s lesson reminded me that, despite all the challenges, we’re making progress—one step at a time.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

On the spectrum of professional experience for K-12 teachers, I am decidedly on the greener side. Although I knew I had a passion for teaching before entering college, I always had this idea in my head that teaching K-12 education wasn’t a real or appropriate profession for an Ivy League, engineering graduate like myself. Instead of industry or academia, however, I joined the stream of my peers entering the world of business management consulting.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Imagine sending your 4-year-old to preschool knowing they will spend nearly all day happily traipsing through the woods, climbing trees and resting in hammocks. Imagine that they also take part in what most of us would view as risky activities for a preschooler, like building fires and using knives to whittle figures out of sticks. For children growing up in Norway, this is a daily reality in the country’s “barnehagen”: child care programs designed for children ages 1 through 6.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 19, 2024

In the 1920s, the search for humanity’s origins was centered on Europe and Asia, despite Charles Darwin's suggestion that Africa might be the cradle of humankind. The discovery of a primate fossil skull in South Africa would soon challenge these assumptions. The skull, initially displayed as a curiosity on a mantelpiece, was brought to the attention of Raymond Dart, an anatomy professor at the University of Witwatersrand in Johannesburg.

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Humanities 77

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2024

The post Empowering Change at Coretta Scott King Young Women’s Leadership Academy appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A rising tide, in the phrase popularized by JFK, lifts all boats. It’s a vivid allegory for the president’s preferred path to general prosperity. But its sunny optimism hides a more sinister aspect of the ebb and flow of the open seas. If you’re caught out on the foreshore of a place where the difference between low and high water is big enough to drown you — and you’re boatless and on foot — a rising tide can turn menacing, even deadly.

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Education 72

ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

One of Shane Woods’ favorite memories as executive director of Girlstart, a nonprofit that aims to empower girls in the sciences, was as a participant taking her own goddaughter to the organization’s back-to-school extravaganza. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. They zipped through activities with rockets and robots, and Woods asked her goddaughter — named Sailor — what she thought of it all when they were heading home.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Data is now everywhere in our lives, informing our decisions about which new show to watch, what path to take or whether to grab an umbrella. But it’s practically absent from the way our kids learn. Our approach to teaching data science and data literacy has hardly evolved since I started my teaching career in 1995. Yet now more than ever, K-12 students need basic modern data science skills.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A 5,000-year-old stone-paved cellar has been uncovered beneath a Neolithic dwelling during an excavation on Falster Island, Denmark. This significant find occurred during construction work for a railway and offers new insights into Middle Neolithic life in Scandinavia. The root cellar, measuring about 6.5 by 5 feet, represents an important addition to our understanding of early agricultural societies in the region.

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Anthropologist David Graeber’s celebrated theory of “b t jobs” continues to provide a critical window into why modern work is often so useless, soul-sucking, and absurd. This article was originally published at The Conversation and has been republished under Creative Commons. ✽ The late David Graeber was an American professor of anthropology at the London School of Economics.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 20, 2024

Another cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. I shall be heading out there on Tuesday next week so there will be some fresh activity there, and plenty of Threads and Instagram posts and new Flickr additions as well. Grindavik will reopen to the public tomorrow. By public that means locals particularly. I doubt that school groups will be visiting for a while.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 15, 2024

When Gina Petersen graduated with her associate degree from Kirkwood Community College two years ago, she described it as “the biggest accomplishment I have ever done.” As a returning adult college student, she had struggled to fit her studies in part time, online, while working as a trainer for a tech company. She had gotten that job through connections, and she hoped that a college degree would be a big help if she ever needed to find a new job in the future.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This story was produced by Grist and reprinted with permission. Three years ago, Erin Primer had an idea for a new summer program for her school district: She wanted students to learn about where their food comes from. Primer, who has worked in student nutrition within California’s public school system for 10 years, applied for grant funding from the state to kick off the curriculum, and got it.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Mountainous regions have long attracted early human populations, but the reasons behind this preference are becoming clearer thanks to new research. A recent study published in Science Advances 1 by scientists from the IBS Center for Climate Physics (ICCP) at Pusan National University reveals that the diverse ecosystems within these terrains played a crucial role in human evolution.

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 20, 2024

“Surrounding Fort Knox Including Southern Indiana is an extraordinary book. Its brilliant author, Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., is knowledgeable about history, geography, geology, archeology, plants, animals, and much else. A natural storyteller, he shares his knowledge in easily understood friendly conversational writing that conveys his joy in the places, people, and events he writes about.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 19, 2024

A cross-posting from my Fieldnotes from Iceland blog. Paul Berry has been keeping an eye on the recent volcanic activity on the Reykjanes peninsula. 'Reyk' means smoke and there's no smoke without fire. As Paul says, this part of Iceland was last active back in the 1200s, a period that became known as ‘The Reykjanes Fires’, and the name could perhaps be used again for these modern events.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Teigue Linch recalls the email she got from Pine Forest, her daughters’ child care center in Burlington, Vermont, encouraging families to take advantage of the new state law that allows more people to qualify for child care assistance. But Linch, who works full time as an office manager for an engineering company, has twin 17-month-old toddlers, a long to-do list and the heavy mental load shared by all parents of young children.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2024

College enrollment has been declining for more than a decade, and that means that many institutions are struggling to pay their bills. A growing number of them are making the difficult decision to close. In the first nine months of 2024, 28 degree-granting institutions closed, compared with 15 in all of 2023, according to an analysis of federal data provided to The Hechinger Report by the State Higher Education Executive Officers Association or SHEEO.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A groundbreaking genetic study led by Jonghyun Kim and Jun Ohashi at the University of Tokyo has unveiled new insights into the immigration patterns that shaped Japan’s population during the Yayoi (3000 BCE - 300 CE) and Kofun periods (300 - 538 CE). Through the analysis of a complete genome from an individual of the Yayoi period, researchers have provided evidence linking the majority of ancient immigrants to the Japanese Archipelago directly to the Korean Peninsula.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Great news from the Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics ! The Economy 2.0: Microeconomics has been found to devote the highest share of pages to climate change among US introductory economics textbooks. Hugo Charmetant, Marco Casari, and Maria Arvaniti have recently published What do economists teach about climate change? An analysis of introductory economics textbooks.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A cross-posting from my RGS blog : 'At the Home of Geography' - bookmark it now and visit it regularly. I am going to be attending this event as part of the RGS's EXPLORE festival. If you're going along, come and say hi! Details: Join us for a dynamic and interactive evening celebrating the intersection of art and geography, where creativity meets exploration.

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Moler's Musing

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Brain-Book-Buddy-Boss-Link If you’re anything like me, you’re always on the lookout for strategies that actually work in the classroom—ones that not only engage students but also lead to real results. On my way to school last week, I tuned into Gene Tavernetti’s podcast, Better Teaching: Only Stuff That Works , where he had Blake Harvard as a guest.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Raj Vinnakota talks with Sharon McMahon, "America's Government Teacher," about her new book, The Small and The Mighty, combatting misinformation online, and the value of conversations across differences.

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Anthropology.net

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Archaeological discoveries in East Timor’s Laili rock shelter have unveiled evidence 1 of ancient human habitation dating back approximately 44,000 years. This finding, led by an international team of archaeologists, contributes significantly to understanding the migration and adaptation patterns of early humans in Southeast Asia. The evidence gathered from stone tools, animal bones, and sediment analysis paints a picture of human life in this region over 35,000 years before the constructi

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Life and Landscapes

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Dawn of Dusk is a creative combination of the “fiction science” and “magic realism” writings of Ronald R. Van Stockum, Jr., and the lifetime of theatrical production on stages all over the country by Dr. Jack Wann. These three One-Act plays will transform your performance space into other worlds, often surreal, but always provocative and exciting.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 14, 2024

On a bright, sunny day, a group of first-graders eagerly begins a science investigation called “Shadow Town.” The teacher gathers them in a circle and asks, “What causes shadows?” It’s a good question. The students are all familiar with shadows, have had fun with them and no doubt played shadow puppets, but that’s different from being able to explain them.

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Living Geography

OCTOBER 20, 2024

A couple of weeks ago I went to see Tangerine Dream play live at the Barbican Hall. Here's a session of theirs from a couple of years ago.

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TCI

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In today’s classrooms, using technology isn’t just a nice extra—it’s a must-have. With schools facing the challenges of remote learning, different learning styles, and changing dynamics, video activities have become an important tool for teachers. While watching videos can be passive, activities that effectively use video teaching strategies engage students in active learning.

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