Cult of Pedagogy

DECEMBER 8, 2024

Listen to my interview with Claire English ( transcript ) Sponsored by Alpaca and Scholastic Magazines+ This page contains Amazon Affiliate and 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? The year started off beautifully: You had your routines in place, made your expectations clear, and for a while, your students were behaving just fine.

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NCHE

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Jen Jacobs on Multidimensionality, Memorability, and Making History Come Alive A member of our EPiC grant in Michigan, Jen Jacobs, shared her journey into teaching and the impact that journey has left on her since. Sometimes teaching isnt a first job or even a first calling. For Jen Jacobs, middle school teacher and a member of our EPiC grant, the calling of teaching came later in life.

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HistoryRewriter

DECEMBER 5, 2024

This month on The Social Studies Show Adam and I will talk about How to Talk Bridgey a report that shares lessons for using civic terms without alienating segments of your audience. The guide summarizes five years of research on civic language and can help teachers facilitate more productive classroom dialogue. Do your students know the coded and loaded words that influencers weaponize to push their buttons?

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World History Teachers Blog

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Here is one of my favorite clips to show students when discussing revolutions. Max Fisher explains the origins of national identity in this excellent five-minute clip for the New York Times. He notes that the idea of a national identity is relatively new. Just before the French Revolution, for example, France was not really a nation. Half the people could not even speak French.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 4, 2024

In early 2024, Spain’s culture minister announced that the nation would overhaul its state museum collections, igniting a wave of anticipation—and controversy. ✽ WHEN SPAIN’S CULTURE MINISTER, Ernest Urtasun, announced his intention to overhaul the nation’s state museum collections earlier this year, his plan “to move beyond a colonial framework” reopened old wounds and sparked heated debates about national identity and historical representation.

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 27, 2024

One topic that is always popular when teaching any government course is the presidency. Honestly, students are always so engaged to learn about the person who is the leader of the United States. They want to know everything they can about the role once the person officially enters the White House. So, teaching the executive branch is always fun and exciting!

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Country-level corruption is a tough KPI to quantify. So how do organizations like Transparency International and the World Bank do it? Not by comparing the fiscal, economic, and financial data of each country theyd only end up comparing (rotten) apples to (spoiled) oranges. Instead, to arrive at their Corruption Perceptions Index and Control of Corruption Indicator (respectively), they aggregate the opinions of experts in governance and corruption.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2024

More than 7 million students nationwide are entitled to special education services in K-12 schools. Services can include access to assistive technology, small-group instruction, extra time to take tests and a range of therapies. In most states, graduation rates for students with disabilities are lower than their peers and the quality of the education they receive varies greatly.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 27, 2024

The origins of Indo-European languages, which today stretch from Ireland to India, have long fascinated archaeologists and linguists. A new study 1 adds clarity to this enduring mystery by examining ancient genomes across the Mediterranean. Researchers have discovered a genetic divide during the Bronze Age, which correlates with linguistic patterns between Eastern and Western Indo-European populations.

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 3, 2024

A team of archaeologists working in Southeast Asia is pushing toward a deeper understanding of history that amplifies Indigenous and local perspectives to challenge traditional archaeological timelines. ✽ When you think of “prehistory,” what images come to mind? Dinosaurs roaming ancient landscapes? Saber-toothed tigers on the hunt? Humans huddled in caves.

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Passion for Social Studies

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Teachers are always looking for creative ways to freshen up their lessons. Since student needs are constantly changing and evolving, it is essential learning does as well. One tried and true method that offers amazing engagement and interest involves projects. These allow students to express their knowledge through tons of creative outlets. For some, this may mean making a presentation.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Only six weeks had passed since the start of this school year, and I was already feeling exhausted. On a Friday during one of those long, exhausting days, two birds flew into my classroom. It was comical and absurd — for sixty minutes, I watched my high schoolers run around the room, trying to catch these birds. I had to run after my students a couple of times when I saw them doing crazy things like standing on desks and chairs and window sills trying to catch them.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 27, 2024

As a strategy for the beginning of class, it's hard to beat surveys to answer the question, Whats this got to do with me?

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. teachers now report self-censoring discussions on race, gender identity, and sexuality in their classrooms. But there is another story about teachers buried beneath the headlines of doom and despair that must be told to fully understand this era of education; this is a story about solidarity, community, hope and resistance.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Deep within Cantabria, Spain, the Las Monedas cave offers a stunning glimpse into the lives of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors. While much of the art attributed to this era has been studied through the lens of adult craftsmanship, a recent study shifts the focus to children. By integrating insights from developmental psychology, researchers have identified playful and imaginative marks made by young artists, fundamentally rethinking prehistoric creativity.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Country rankings of eighth graders on the 2023 TIMSS Click the list to expand. Standard errors are in parentheses. The larger the number, the more the actual average score in the countrys population could deviate from the sample of students who took the TIMSS assessment. Source: 2023 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) An abysmal showing by U.S. students on a recent international math test flabbergasted typically restrained education researchers.It looks like student ac

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Sapiens

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Anthropologists from around the globe brought dazzling insights and deeply reported concerns to the digital pages of SAPIENS magazine. We are honored to have collaborated with dozens of anthropologists this year who shared compelling essays, opinion pieces, poems, and podcast episodes at SAPIENS. It is no small task for academics to transform their research and experiences into pieces that are evocative, insightful, and persuasive.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. The district hoped that scrapping honors math classes and eighth grade algebra courses would reduce disparities in math learning in the district.

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Moler's Musing

DECEMBER 6, 2024

This week in 8th-grade social studies, we dove deep into the Constitutional Convention and the ratification debates, using a variety of EduProtocols to engage students and build understanding. From Frayer Models to define key terms and concepts, to Sketch and Tell-O and 8Parts Sourcing for visual analysis and critical thinking, each day offered a structured and interactive way for students to connect with history.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 12, 2024

The 2024 election revealed a troubling reality: Widespread miseducation and fear-mongering continue to shape political outcomes at the expense of people of color and marginalized communities. This is why the right launched a nationwide anti-CRT campaign and book bans restricting teaching about systemic racism, and erasing the histories of immigrant and LGBTQ+ communities.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 5, 2024

A recent study led by researchers from London’s Natural History Museum and the KU Leuven Institute of Philosophy reignites the debate over whether Homo sapiens and Neanderthals ( Homo neanderthalensis ) should be classified as separate species. Published in the Evolutionary Journal of the Linnean Society 1 , the study argues that distinctions in morphology, genetics, ecology, and evolutionary timing justify categorizing Neanderthals as a distinct species.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Happy holidays, and to those of you who are celebrating today, Merry Christmas! I am so grateful for your readership this year. Reporting on early childhood is an immense privilege, and I appreciate the conversations and story ideas you send my way, as well as the many early educators, experts and parents who have welcomed me into their classrooms and lives.

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C3 Teachers

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Engaging with inquiry in the social studies classroom can feel like stepping onto a tightropebalancing time, standards, and student needs all at once. But heres the thing: you dont have to dive headfirst into a full-scale investigation to get students curious and thinking critically. Small, manageable inquiry moments can transform your lessons, building student confidence and sparking their love for exploring big questions.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Several times a week, teachers at Tiny Images, an early learning program in Fairmont, Nebraska, load up babies and toddlers into four- and six-seater carts and take the children on buggy rides through the building. They stop first to visit residents in the assisted living wing before continuing on to those in the nursing home. Just walking down the hall and seeing kids faces light up or residents faces light up it makes your whole day, says Kaci Brandt, director of Tiny Images, which is locate

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 18, 2024

In the digital age, branding has evolved into an art and a science, requiring businesses to craft unique visual identities […] Source The post Revolutionizing Branding: Creative Applications of AI in Design appeared first on TeachThought.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The fear of retribution for teaching the truth has created such a chilling effect that an astounding two-thirds of U.S. teachers now report self-censoring discussions on race, gender identity, and sexuality in their classrooms. But there is another story about teachers buried beneath the headlines of doom and despair that must be told to fully understand this era of education; this is a story about solidarity, community, hope and resistance.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 17, 2024

At a site known as Charterhouse Warren in Somerset, England, archaeologists have uncovered a haunting scene from Britain’s Early Bronze Age. The remains of at least 37 individuals—men, women, and children—were found deep within a 15-meter shaft, their bones telling a story of violent death, butchery, and likely cannibalism. This new analysis, published in the journal Antiquity 1 , sheds unsettling light on the darker side of prehistoric human behavior.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This story is part of a collaboration on chronic absenteeism among Native American students between The Associated Press and ICT, a news outlet that covers Indigenous issues. It is reprinted with permission. SAN CARLOS, Ariz. — After missing 40 days of school last year, Tommy Betom, 10, is on track this year for much better attendance. The importance of showing up has been stressed repeatedly at school — and at home.

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Teaching Anthropology

DECEMBER 13, 2024

MerrillSinger, PhD, University of Connecticut The COVID-19 pandemic brought enhanced global attention to the anthropological concept of syndemics. A pivotal moment occurred when Richard Horton, Editor-in-Chief of The Lancet , one of the worlds highest-impact academic journals, declared: COVID-19 is not a pandemic. It is a syndemic. When this assertion by an eminent health scholar appeared in the midst of the global spread of a deadly disease, it garnered widespread interest.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The results are in and theyre not great. Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. International data on math and science released earlier this month gave the globe its first chance to compare progress since the pandemic. For the United States, it appears that the COVID-19 pandemic reversed more than 20 years of progress in math scores, based on results from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 18, 2024

CapCut's desktop video editor and its Background Removal Tool can change how creators approach Instagram Reels. Source The post Polish Your Instagram Reels With CapCut Background Removal Tool appeared first on TeachThought.

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Zinn Education Project

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Every Zinn Education Project session not only impacts my teaching, but unravels the damage done by whitewashed histories. You give me more tools to educate my students and make me a better teacher today. Tara Micham, social studies teacher, Kansas City, Kansas Tara Micham is one of thousands of teachers learning the history missing from their own education in our Teach the Black Freedom Struggle classes.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Engraved slate plaques from the Late Neolithic and Copper Age (3200–2200 BCE) Iberian Peninsula have long intrigued archaeologists. Found in tombs scattered across the region, these delicately carved, hand-sized artifacts bear geometric designs whose purpose has sparked debate for centuries. A recent study, published in the European Journal of Archaeology 1 , suggests these plaques may represent one of humanity's earliest attempts at recording genealogy—a non-verbal precursor to mode

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

This story is part of a collaboration on chronic absenteeism among Native American students between The Associated Press and ICT, a news outlet that covers Indigenous issues. It is reprinted with permission. WATONGA, Okla. — As the Watonga school system’s Indian education director, Hollie Youngbear works to help Native American students succeed — a job that begins with getting them to school.

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Anthropology News

DECEMBER 3, 2024

1932–2024 Credit: David Plowden Photo of David Sapir in New Hampshire by David Plowden J. David Sapir, a cultural and linguistic anthropologist, West Africanist, and scholar of folklore and ethnographic photography, died August 31, 2024, at the age of 91. He was the son of Jean McClenaghan, a psychiatric social worker, and Edward Sapir. After his father’s death in 1939 when he was 6, the family moved to Greenwich Village, New York City, where he attended public school PS 81.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2024

AI has the potential to transform every aspect of our lives and it is already doing so. According to Microsofts 2024 Work Trend Index , 75 percent of knowledge workers use AI, double the percentage of just six months before. Its clear that the ways we communicate, make decisions and solve problems are changing as we embrace this new technology. Education is no exception.

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TeachThought

DECEMBER 12, 2024

Harnessing Kairos: Balancing Structured Time and Learning Velocity in K-12 Classrooms Time in education is about more than minutes on the clock or adhering to rigid schedules. Its about how students experience time cognitively and emotionally in the learning process. A deeper dive into these ideas reveals actionable ways to create meaningful learning experiences for students.

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