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Leading with Clarity: The Power of Transparency in Building Trust and Driving Success

A Principal's Reflections

" In the absence of knowledge, assumptions fill the void—where clarity is lacking, rumors take root, and uncertainty breeds misdirection. " - Eric Sheninger Imagine trying to navigate a maze blindfolded, with no idea where you're going or what obstacles lie ahead. Frustrating, right? Now, picture having a leader who hands you the map, explains the terrain, and guides you step by step.

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An Archaeological Adventure

Teaching Anthropology

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada. Archaeology is a hands-on discipline, but it is very difficult to get 200 students doing anything archaeological in a large lecture hall. When I had small-group tutorials for my courses, students took part in what has become a relatively widely used garbology exercise (Google will turn up several variations of this).

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How Schools Can Implement Mindful Media

TeachThought

Information and Communication Overloading (ICO) and “Mindful Media” contributed by Dr. Domenico Meschino In today’s digital age, children are immersed in many online activities that shape their daily lives. Social media has become integral to their social landscape, with platforms like YouTube capturing their attention. These platforms serve as virtual gathering places where children connect with friends, share photos and videos, and express themselves through posts and stories

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What Happens When a School Closes Its Library?

ED Surge

HOUSTON — On a Saturday morning in August 2023, a crowd gathered outside the Houston Independent School District administration building with protest signs in hand. The brutal, sticky heat of Texas summer already had people wiping sweat from their brows and handing out bottled water from ice-filled coolers. Teachers, parents and politicians took turns at the microphone, united in their criticism of the controversial state takeover of Texas’ largest school district.

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All-charter no more: New Orleans opens its first traditional school in nearly two decades 

The Hechinger Report

In August, more than 300 students started the school year in the first traditional school run directly by the New Orleans school district since 2019. It’s the first time the district has opened its own school since Hurricane Katrina swept through the city nearly two decades ago. The pre-K-8 school, named after New Orleans cultural and civil rights icon Leah Chase , came together in just a handful of months.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto and Susannah Clinker, PhD Student, University of Toronto The Schreiber Wood Project (SWP) field school, led by Professor Michael Brand with assistance from Dr. Trevor Orchard takes place on lands once owned by the Schreiber family, settlers from England who acquired the land in the mid-19th century. This land later became the northern end of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus in the Greater Toronto Area.

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Artificial Intelligence Cannot Plan

Ben Newmark

AI is stalking the world for problems it can present itself as the solution to – problems you did not even know you had. It will organise our calendars and write emails to our bosses and employees. AI will paint our pictures and script our film. It will write our poetry and letters to our lovers. For teachers it brings great news too. AI can plan your lessons – saving you time and easing your workload.

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OPINION: It’s finally time to put pandemic excuses behind us and hold students to higher standards

The Hechinger Report

The pandemic disrupted education in previously unimaginable ways. It limited testing and pushed schools toward remote learning and easier assignments, along with softer grading and a more relaxed attitude around attendance. These accommodations were supposed to be short-term, but most are still with us and are having a negative impact on students. This needs to change.

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Excavation and Education: Lessons Learned as Teaching Assistants in the Schreiber Wood Project Field School

Teaching Anthropology

Mitchell Ma, PhD Candidate, University of Toronto and Susannah Clinker, PhD Student, University of Toronto The Schreiber Wood Project (SWP) field school, led by Professor Michael Brand with assistance from Dr. Trevor Orchard takes place on lands once owned by the Schreiber family, settlers from England who acquired the land in the mid-19th century. This land later became the northern end of the University of Toronto Mississauga (UTM) campus in the Greater Toronto Area.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

Introduction This week in the classroom was packed with diverse activities and learning experiences. Here’s a quick overview of what we covered: Concluded our unit on Native Americans in Ohio Held a commemorative lesson on 9/11 Began a new unit on European exploration Utilized various EduProtocols and tech tools including Gimkit, Blooket, and Storyfile Each day brought its own set of challenges and opportunities as we worked through these topics and experimented with different teaching met

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How Three District Leaders Are Closing the Instructional Leadership Gap

Education Elements

What is the instructional leadership gap and how does it affect the learning outcomes of our students? I recently sat down with three district leaders, Sean Bulson, Superintendent, Hartford, (MD) Public Schools, Jerry Boyd, Superintendent of Washington County (TN) Schools, and Portia Slaughter, Chief Academic Officer at Harrisburg City (PA) School District to discuss these critical questions.

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Katherine Thrailkill’s Mentor Led Her to MAHG

Teaching American History

Katherine Thrailkill considered careers in drama, law, and hi-tech sales before realizing all her interests and experiences pointed her toward teaching social studies. She would help students gain political efficacy—the knowledge and confidence they need to make their voices count in our political system. Once she found her calling, colleagues helped her make her way.

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An Archaeological Adventure

Teaching Anthropology

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada. Archaeology is a hands-on discipline, but it is very difficult to get 200 students doing anything archaeological in a large lecture hall. When I had small-group tutorials for my courses, students took part in what has become a relatively widely used garbology exercise (Google will turn up several variations of this).

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The Evolutionary Importance of Risky Play: Challenging Limits for Childhood Development

Anthropology.net

As children across the United States return to school, playground equipment like jungle gyms and monkey bars once again take center stage. While these fixtures have been playground staples since the 1920s, they have also become symbols of parental concern due to the potential for injuries. Yet, new research from Dartmouth anthropologists suggests that risky play, such as climbing and swinging, fulfills an evolutionary need crucial to child development and resilience.

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Payangko, or Echidna (Zaglossus attenboroughi)

Sapiens

After a 60-year haitus, an Attenborough’s long-beaked echidna was seen in Indonesia’s Cyclops Mountains. A poet-anthropologist reflects on the echidna’s message through the storied lens of the people of Yongsu Sapari. ✽ As a parent of a young child who loves animals, I find myself speaking with her about species extinction and conservation fairly often.

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Effective Tech Integration Strategies: From District to Classroom

ED Surge

Integrating technology into the classroom involves more than just adding gadgets and software; it’s about creating a dynamic learning environment where students are actively engaged and teachers can teach more effectively. This journey requires collaboration among technology teams, instructional coaches and educators. Recently, EdSurge spoke with three educational leaders from Bourbonnais Elementary School District 53 in Illinois about their experiences with and strategies for using technology t

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109 degrees on the first day of school? In some districts, extreme heat is delaying when students go back

The Hechinger Report

With five children aged 11 to 24, Cyd Detiege has sent her kids to Palm Springs Unified School District in Southern California for nearly two decades. “It’s gotten hotter,” she said, noting record-breaking temperatures in the desert city, which hit an all-time high of 124 degrees this July. The first day of school in Palm Springs this year was August 7, when temperatures reached 109 degrees.

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Where Humans and Neanderthals Interbred

Anthropology.net

The interbreeding of Homo sapiens and Neanderthals is a well-established fact, revealing a fascinating chapter in human evolution. While previous studies have focused on when these encounters occurred, recent research has turned its attention to where these interspecies interactions took place. New evidence 1 now suggests a specific geographic location where these two species met and interbred: the Zagros Mountains.

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Transcultural Materiality in the Work of Magdalene Odundo

Anthropology News

A Reflection on the 2023 Ivan Karp Workshop in Museum Anthropology, organized by the Council for Museum Anthropology Spot-lit sweeping ceramic vases made by the artist Dame Magdalene Odundo were the centerpieces of the exhibition Magdalene Odundo: A Dialogue with Objects presented at the Gardiner Museum from October 2023 to April 2024. Organized by Sequoia Miller and Dame Odundo, the presentation was a transhistorical and transcultural journey through Odundo’s methodology and approach to makin

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Why Educator Wellness Matters

ED Surge

“When I present myself in front of students in a positive emotional state, I can increase student cognition, effort and long-term retention of information, Dr. Timothy Kanold excitedly shares. “The brain research on emotional intelligence as it relates to student learning is clear.” Timothy Kanold Co-Creator and Author, Wellness Solutions for Educators As Kanold explains, teacher and administrator mental and emotional well-being is an essential component of student learning.

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Finding Our Way Forward—by Remembering

Sapiens

In a personal essay, a mixed-race and Native anthropologist draws strength from his ancestors. ✽ Who should I be today? I ask myself this question in the mirror of my undergraduate dorm room. Not aloud, of course. That would defeat the whole point. The answer isn’t for me. I leave for class early, saving enough time to sit outside by the anthropology building and watch people go by.

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A Hidden Lineage: New Insights into Neanderthal Evolution

Anthropology.net

In a very groundbreaking, surprising study 1 , researchers have revealed that European Neanderthals consisted of at least two distinct populations, evolving in isolation for tens of thousands of years. Long regarded as a relatively homogenous group, Neanderthals may have had a much more complex evolutionary history, characterized by local extinctions and migrations.

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We Have to Meet in Person to Be Moved by People’s Stories

Anthropology News

Meetings are where people come together in time and space. We meet to heal, to build, to resist, to govern, to share, to change. People who have experienced state torture while in prison often use meetings to share their stories with those who have no such experiences. In order to listen well to them, to be moved, we must meet in person. Anthropology has been quite slow to embrace Helen Schwartzman’s insight in The Meeting: Gatherings in Organizations and Communities (1989) that meetings offer a

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Should High School Students Do Academic Research?

ED Surge

A growing number of high school students are looking for opportunities to do academic research, hoping to add ‘published author’ to their list of achievements when they apply to colleges. Just look on popular Facebook groups and Reddit threads for tips on getting into selective colleges, and you’ll likely find posts recommending that students participate in intensive research or compete in science competitions as a way to stand out on college applications.

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The ‘Secret’ Children’s Books of Marie Stopes – Morgan M. Miller

Women's History Network

Content warning: this blog post includes discussions of eugenics and racism which some readers may find upsetting.

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The Evolutionary Mechanisms of Social Structures Driven by Gift-Giving Practices

Anthropology.net

A recent study, published on September 3, 2024, in the open-access journal PLOS Complex Systems 1 , presents groundbreaking insights into the mechanisms driving social evolution. The research, conducted by Kenji Itao and Kunihiko Kaneko from the University of Tokyo, Copenhagen University, and the RIKEN Center for Brain Science, delves into how competitive gift-giving practices contribute to the emergence of economic and social disparities within human societies.

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Blog: Martha Graham meets Ancient Greece in Philadelphia

Society for Classical Studies

Blog: Martha Graham meets Ancient Greece in Philadelphia James Ker Mon, 09/09/2024 - 10:40

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How Is Axim Collaborative Spending $800 Million From the Sale of EdX?

ED Surge

One of the country’s richest nonprofits focused on online education has been giving out grants for more than a year. But so far, the group, known as Axim Collaborative, has done so slowly — and pretty quietly. “There has been little buzz about them in digital learning circles,” says Russ Poulin, executive director of WCET, a nonprofit focused on digital learning in higher education.

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Announcing the Launch of the HP AI Academy: Empowering Educators with Generative AI

Digital Promise

The post Announcing the Launch of the HP AI Academy: Empowering Educators with Generative AI appeared first on Digital Promise.

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New Findings Rewrite Easter Island’s History

Anthropology.net

For centuries, the narrative of Easter Island (Rapa Nui) has been steeped in stories of environmental collapse and societal downfall. The prevailing theory, widely believed by historians and ecologists alike, suggested that the ancient Rapa Nui people exhausted their natural resources to build massive stone statues, leading to a population crash. This view, largely based on reports from European explorers in the 18th century, painted a grim picture of ecological disaster as the island’s on

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Worldly Wednesday #2: 11.09.24 - a chat with Hermione

Living Geography

The second of my Worldly Wednesdays was a little more successful in terms of getting involved with supporting other geographers. I was in early, and spent the morning with Hermione Miao. I first me her when she had travelled to study at UCL with Professor David Lambert and had become involved in the GeoCapabilities project, which I had also become part of.

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How a Returning College Student Advocated to Improve a Fledgling Online Program

ED Surge

Paul Carr was just one semester shy of finishing his degree at Morehouse College when he found out his girlfriend was pregnant. So he decided to stop out, to get a job to support his budding family. He told himself he’d go back soon to finish. That was more than 25 years ago. Carr always intended to return. In fact, he made a promise to his father on his deathbed that he would finish his college degree.

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5 Research-Backed Strategies to Help Learners Build Spatial Skills

Digital Promise

The post 5 Research-Backed Strategies to Help Learners Build Spatial Skills appeared first on Digital Promise.

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AI-Powered Coaching Boosts Science of Reading Instruction (Via Language Magazine)

Edthena

In the news As reported in the August issue of Language Magazine , a groundbreaking partnership between Digital Promise and Edthena is revolutionizing how teachers implement Science of Reading best practices. Key highlights of this collaboration include: The AI Coach Platform: Edthena’s AI Coach platform offers teachers personalized, on-demand coaching through interactive conversations and guided action planning.

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High Street

Living Geography

A nice reminder of the need to exercise your geographical lens on a daily basis from David Rogers I'm always reminded of Massey's writing when walking down the high street. I've heard at least five different languages, as well as the links around the world. We don't have to go far to see everyday geography and provide fieldwork opportunity pic.twitter.com/y556bjug3r — David Rogers (@davidErogers) September 8, 2024 Reminds me of an activity I do called GlobELY connected where students hunt out gl

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Incorporating R and LaTeX into Political Science Research: APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students in the Profession Virtual Workshop Series

Political Science Now

Join APSA’s Committee on the Status of Graduate Students for a 90-minute virtual workshop introducing best practices and strategies for incorporating these social science research platforms into your scholarship. Wednesday, September 18, 2024 | 3 PM Eastern | Register Here R and LaTex are typesetting and statistical computation tools that assist social science research and manuscript production.

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CFP: Philomathes: An Online Journal of Undergraduate Research in Classics

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: Philomathes: An Online Journal of Undergraduate Research in Classics kskordal Tue, 09/10/2024 - 10:04 Image The Classics program at Austin Peay State University, in Clarksville TN, USA, is pleased to invite submissions for the ninth volume of Philomathes: An Online Journal of Undergraduate Research in Classics. This refereed on-line journal publishes original research projects carried out by undergraduate students in any area of Classics: linguistics, literature, art history, archaeology, c