A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2025

Professional learning is an embedded element of every district and school, but the focus is usually on teachers. Leaders deserve support as well. Recently, on Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the value of job-embedded and ongoing coaching for administrators backed by research after revisiting blog posts I wrote in 2018 and 2021. Listen on Spotify or wherever you access your favorite podcasts.

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Leadership Professional Development Tutoring Cultures 356

Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 11, 2025

Listen to the interview with Tony Frontier: Sponsored by ExploreLearning and Listenwise This page contains Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? As the potential for students to misuse AI tools raises ongoing questions about accountability, cheating, and academic integrity, a scandal from the past offers insights into the future.

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Pedagogy Tutoring Teaching Library 223

TeachThought

MAY 11, 2025

Do students like going to school here? Do teachers like teaching here? Here are 30 questions teachers can ask at their next job interview.

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Teaching 172

Anthropology.net

MAY 11, 2025

A Subtle Scourge in the Bones In the hills of northern Oman, beneath the collapsed stones of a 4,000-year-old tomb, archaeologists uncovered 1 something that hadn’t been seen before in this part of the world: the unmistakable signs of leprosy. It wasn’t a complete skeleton that told the story. It was fragments—broken jaws, scattered teeth, a porous nasal cavity eroded by years of silent bacterial assault.

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K-12 Archaeology Humanities Economics 53

Moler's Musing

MAY 11, 2025

In 2022, I was named the 2023 District 5 Ohio Teacher of the Year. On paper, it sounds like a dream. A high honor. A moment youd frame. The process was deep and demanding. I had to write five essays about my teaching philosophy, collect samples of student work and lesson plans, and submit three letters of recommendation, one of which came from a student.

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Lesson Plan Teaching Education 52

Living Geography

MAY 11, 2025

A couple of examples of Geography being represented at the Venice Biennale. The first came from the RGS social media feed. Geography and geology lie at the heart of the British Pavilion's theme. The exhibition, GBR Geology of Britannic Repair, will investigate how architecture can reverse the destructive impacts of colonial systems of geological extraction through emergent practices of architectural repair.

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Geography Museum History Research 52

Anthroholic

MAY 11, 2025

Today, May 12, 2025, marks Buddha Purnima-a sacred full-moon commemorating the birth, enlightenment, and Mahaparinirvana of Lord Gautama Buddha. Observed across India and throughout South, Southeast, and East Asia, devotees honor this auspicious day with introspection, ritual offerings, and acts of compassion.

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Anthropology 52

The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2025

President Trumps sweeping dictate to end what he terms unlawful DEI practices is meeting fierce resistance. The National Education Association, the American Federation of Teachers and the ACLU all filed suit in opposition. And last month, three federal judges two appointed by Trump ruled against the administration. One of the justices noted that the government cannot proclaim entire categories of classroom content discriminatory to side-step the bounds of its statutory authority.

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Social Justice Charter School K-12 Education 72

Living Geography

MAY 11, 2025

Thanks to Luc Zwartjes for sharing this article during a meeting earlier in the year. I have very much enjoyed working with Luc on numerous projects over the years, and he is one of the most thoughtful and energetic educators I have the pleasure to know. We most recently worked on a project called D3 which was on the theme of AI. It's an article that has been published in a number of places including the New Yorker magazine.

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Civics Education 52