A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 13, 2025

Who doesn't look forward to PD days? While some educators do, I have the feeling that many of you cringe at the thought. Recently, on my podcast Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the pitfalls of professional development (PD) after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2021. Listen on Spotify or wherever you access your favorite podcasts. You can also read the original blog post HERE.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

Listen to the interview with Susie Bell, Beth Blankenship, and Heather Messer ( transcript ): Sponsored by Zearn and EVERFI I was giving a presentation recently on differentiation , specifically about tiered assignments , a strategy that offers different tiers or levels of challenge, and students only work at the level that matches their current readiness.

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Thrive in Grade Five

APRIL 13, 2025

If you need help teaching social studies in 30 minutes or less daily, you’ve come to the right place. Of course, having such limited time to teach social studies is not ideal, but sometimes, this is a teacher’s reality. Social studies is a critical subject that should be given at least an entire class period daily. We all know that social studies instruction provides the essential background knowledge and nonfiction literacy skills that create excellent readers.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 13, 2025

Taking college courses through dual enrollment has been the most rewarding part of my high school experience so far. As a teenager at Lake Nona High School in Orlando, I get to explore my interests in public relations and communications by taking courses at a nearby community college, Valencia. Dual enrollment in college classrooms is helping me save money on college, and it also helped me get an after-school tutoring job at Kumon my mentors in Valencia College s tutoring program inspired me and

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The Effortful Educator

APRIL 13, 2025

I always find it so invigorating to talk with teachers about the craft of teaching. It is quite interesting to pick their brain about their perspective on education and teaching and learn a bit about how and why they do what they do in the classroom. No one celebrates the wins and understands the day to day grind of teaching better than a teacher. And sometimes is it just so nice to experience that mutual admiration society.

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Zinn Education Project

APRIL 13, 2025

Some of us are parents. Some of us are grandparents. All of us have people we love. And all those people are threatened by the ecocidal policies of the current president. This is the first administration in memory that does not even pay lip service to the environmental crisis and instead boasts about policies that make it worse. As Earth Day draws our attention to the existential threat we confront, teachers can resist the billionairesneglect of Mother Nature by teaching critical environmental

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Living Geography

APRIL 13, 2025

A Standard post on the gentrification of neighbourhoods. It suggests that one metric by which an area can be classed as having a Gail's Bakery. Gail's is a bakery. The one I know best is Greggs. They have reached as far as Ely High Street. A new Gail's opened last month - I am yet to visit. There are a few in the NW as well but they are mostly in the SE of England and London, and across into the Midlands.

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Living Geography

APRIL 13, 2025

A piece on David Alcock's blog explores the idea of measuring development within a country, and whether it is the best way to measure the progress being made to improve people's lives. He refers to Max Roser's 'three truths'.

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Living Geography

APRIL 13, 2025

I've been writing a textbook (or seven) this last year. this has led me to do lots of reading, and one of the chapters makes reference to the work of USAID. but all that now changed. USAID was closed down by the Department of Government Efficiency headed by someone who was not elected into such an important role, and would in no way be personally affected by any decision that they would make.

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Living Geography

APRIL 13, 2025

Track my Down is a site which allows people who have purchased a down product which is part of the scheme. Down is made up of breast feathers from a range of birds - including ducks and geese, and used to line nests to insulate the eggs, particular in areas where the temperatures are cold and the egg would otherwise risk becoming too cold, and failing to hatch.

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