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Building Trust: Five Research-Backed Strategies for Meaningful Relationships

A Principal's Reflections

" Trust isn't built through grand gesturesit's earned in the quiet moments where consistency, honesty, and empathy align." Writers block is real, especially if you have been blogging for as long as I have (15 years). Going back and reflecting on past posts through my podcast has enabled me to explore new angles on, in my mind, very important topics and concepts.

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Retrieval in Action: Creative Strategies from Real Teachers

Cult of Pedagogy

Listen to the interview ( transcript ): Sponsored by Zearn and EVERFI 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? If there is one learning strategy I’ve probably talked the most about on this platform, it’s retrieval practice.

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Where To Find Sensory Teaching Tools For Your Classroom

TeachThought

Where To Find Sensory Teaching Tools For Your Classroom In a world full of stimuli, sensory rooms are becoming an essential tool for schools looking to better s

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As ‘bot’ students continue to flood in, community colleges struggle to respond

The Hechinger Report

This story was first published by Voice of San Diego and is reprinted with permission. Community colleges have been dealing with an unprecedented phenomenon: fake students bent on stealing financial aid funds. While it has caused chaos at many colleges, some Southwestern College faculty feel their leaders havent done enough to curb the crisis. When the spring semester began, Southwestern College professor Elizabeth Smith felt good.

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Majority of Parents Rely on Friends and Family for Child Care, Report Finds

ED Surge

A new study shows trust is the most important factor for parents when choosing child care, with many leaning toward at-home programs or relying on their families, friends and neighbors. But researchers are concerned there is not adequate support in place for those systems to flourish, with the majority of legislation focused on bolstering child care centers.

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The Week That Was In 234

Moler's Musing

This week in 234, we stacked a lot of learning into five daysFast & Curious, Frayer Models, Mini Reports, Short Answer Battle Royales, and even a Netflix-themed summative. We used Thin Slides and AI tools like MagicSchool to keep thinking sharp and feedback immediate. Students worked through compromises, created empathy maps, asked hard questions, and wrapped it all up with creative final products.

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The Foundational 4 Cs of Critical Thinking in K-12 Education

TeachThought

The 4 Cs of Critical Thinking: Critical Thinking, Communication. Collaboration, and Creativity.

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One District’s Approach to Successful AI Integration

ED Surge

Schools across the country are racing to integrate artificial intelligence into classrooms, but the real challenge isnt just adopting the technology its making sure it works for all students. Will AI be a tool for innovation or yet another factor widening educational gaps? As districts explore AIs potential, they must also confront critical questions about equity, algorithmic bias and access.

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Honoring the Life of Lincoln with His Last Speech

Teaching American History

This blog was first posted on April 15, 2014. We rerun it today in honor of theanniversaryof Abraham Lincoln’s assassination onApril 15th, 1865. “The latest photograph of President Lincoln – taken on the balcony at the White House, March 6, 1865,” Henry F. Warren. Library of Congress, LC-DIG-ppmsca-19192. Today, April 15th , is the anniversary of Lincolns assassination.

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How To Play The ‘Count To Ten’ Team-Building Game

TeachThought

Understanding how to play the 'count to 10' team-building game is about rules, timing, and sequence. Engaged students pick it up quickly.

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“We Have Always Been Here”: How DNA and Oral Tradition Aligned to Tell the Picuris Pueblo’s Deep Past

Anthropology.net

Science at the Request of the People The sweeping desert of north-central New Mexico carries centuries of memory in its sandstone, canyons, and wind. In this landscape stands Picuris Pueblo—a small, sovereign tribal nation whose history has long been narrated in stories passed down through generations. These stories speak of migration, of belonging, of origins tied to Chaco Canyon, one of the great ceremonial and cultural centers of the ancient Puebloan world.

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Ceasefire From the Earth and Sky

Sapiens

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) along the border of North and South Korea is the site of the longest ceasefire in the world. In this region, the effects of a never-ending war linger in the skies and beneath the earth. In existence for more than 70 years, the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) is the site of the longest ceasefire in the world. What can this region teach us about the long, intendedand unintendedconsequences of this form of a truce?

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Meet the 2025 Scholars of the APSA Ralph Bunche Summer Institute Program

Political Science Now

APSA is pleased to announce the 2025 Ralph Bunche Summer Institute (RBSI) Class. This year, 14 undergraduate students will participate in the annual, intensive five-week program hosted by Duke University. The 2025 institute is being held May 25 June 26, 2025, under the direction of Dr. Paula D. McClain. This is the 39th year of the program. RBSI is designed to introduce aspiring political scientists to the world of doctoral study.Named in honor of the 1950 Nobel Peace Prize winner, former APSA

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Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs

TeachThought

Teaching Strategies For Maslow’s Hierarchy Of Needs by TeachThought Staff Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs, developed by psychologist Abraham Maslow in […] Source

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Painting Through Change: How Aboriginal Artists Reimagined Animal Life in a Shifting Holocene Landscape

Anthropology.net

At first glance, the animal figures painted on rock shelters in the northeast Kimberley look deceptively simple—thin outlines of kangaroos, some barely adorned, others stylized into abstract form. For decades, they were thought to be remnants of an earlier, Ice Age aesthetic, part of a vast visual tradition called the Irregular Infill Animal Period (IIAP).

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OPINION: Arts education must move beyond traditional models and embrace practical skills and hands-on learning

The Hechinger Report

Arts graduates, both undergraduate and postgraduate, are highly educated yet often unprepared for careers beyond academia. Traditional arts education frequently leaves them struggling to enter commercial sectors like galleries, auction houses and publishing. Art history students in particular face growing difficulty in securing employment outside academic circles.

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How One District Built Coherent Systems for Digital Equity

Digital Promise

Wichita Public Schools demonstrates whats possible when vision, strategy, and systems align to support digital equity

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Beyond the Science of Reading: What Montessori Can Teach Us About Early Literacy

Maitri Learning

For decades, the United States has invested billions in reading research, yet nearly two-thirds of fourth graders still cannot read proficiently according to national assessments (National Assessment for Educational Progress [NAEP], 2022; Weasler, 2024). As a literacy educator and researcher, I've been fascinated by a recent dissertation that sheds light on a potential blind spot in our approach to reading instruction.

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Echoes of Movement: How the Grammar of Indigenous Languages Maps the Peopling of the Americas

Anthropology.net

By the time Europeans arrived in the Americas, thousands of distinct Indigenous languages had already shaped the way people described landscapes, kinship, time, and the cosmos. These languages, many of which still survive today, are more than means of communication—they are archaeological strata encoded in speech. A new study in Scientific Reports 1 argues that their grammar preserves a faint but measurable imprint of the first humans to populate the continent.

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AI: risky business

Living Geography

Tim Price Walker has produced a nice piece on LinkedIn exploring the use of AI in Geography. The core strengths of geographythe ability to analyse, connect, and synthesise information across places and spacesare more essential than ever. These foundational skills empower us to engage with a changing world, and, importantly, they remain our anchor as new dimensions of reality emerge.

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Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings

Political Science Now

Gender, Race, and Interruptions at Supreme Court Confirmation Hearings By Christina L. Boyd , University of Georgia ; Paul M. Collins Jr. , University of Massachusetts Amherst ; Lori A. Ringhand , University of Georgia. In this research letter, we examine whether gender and racial bias affect interruption rates at one of the most visible events in American politics: US Supreme Court confirmation hearings.

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5 Key Insights for Sustainable School Change, According to Superintendents and Researchers

Education Elements

In today's rapidly evolving world, change feels like the only constanta paradox highlighting the relentless pace confronting educational leaders. In our recently launched podcast, The K-12 Change Equation , conversations with educational leaders consistently underscore a crucial theme: meaningful, systemic change rooted deeply in historical context, student voice , visionary leadership, and sustained community advocacy is not just beneficial, its essential.

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Yeast in the Trees: How a Tiny Organism Traces the Footsteps of Ancient Humans

Anthropology.net

The Forgotten Migrant When thinking about humanity’s migrations across continents, yeast is probably the last traveler that comes to mind. Yet new research led by Jacqueline Peña and her colleagues at the University of Georgia has revealed that wild strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae —the same species that leavens bread and ferments wine—carry silent records of ancient human journeys.

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GA Blog: Creative Fieldwork

Living Geography

It's been nice to see little elements of the importance of the everyday making their way into other resources and blogs. Creative Fieldwork 2 was produced by the Field Studies Council in partnership with the Geographical Association and Newcastle University. The book can be purchased from the GA Shop. I have a copy. The book contains a range of creative fieldwork approaches, which engage students with questions that they think are important and worthwhile, often in their local area where they li

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CORE praised in The Atlantic article

CORE Econ

Were proud to see the CORE Econ project mentioned by Harvard University Professor Danielle Allen in an article for The Atlantic: America and its universities need a new social contract. Danielle commended our efforts to make the teaching of economics more relevant to present day economic realities and the concerns of students: “An example of a valuable initiative is University College Londons CORE Econ project.

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Things That Shaped Me: The Conference That Woke Me Up

Moler's Musing

In 2018, I went to a summer Education and Technology Conference put on by Cincinnati Public Schools. I was excited. It was my first real conference. A well-known educator and author was the keynote. I signed up for my sessions. I filled my notes with new ideas. I sat there ready to learn. But somewhere in the middle of it all, a different thought started creeping in: “Why am I not up there?

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Stone, Silence, and Sand: New Evidence of Pleistocene Life in Iran’s Central Desert

Anthropology.net

Tracing Human Movement Across the Iranian Heartland In the northern reaches of Iran’s Central Desert, nestled between the rugged Alborz Mountains and the flat, wind-worn claylands to the south, archaeologists have uncovered eight scattered landscapes rich in Paleolithic stone tools. These findings 1 from Eyvanekey, Semnan Province, represent the first direct evidence of Pleistocene hominin activity in the central corridor of this harsh, often overlooked region. “The archaeological re

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Heathrow Expansion

Living Geography

Rachel Reeves announced in February 2025 that the Government will be going ahead with planning for a 3rd runway at Heathrow Airport despite the obvious impact that will have on speeding us to 2 degrees and more of warming. The Standard has now published a map of the immediate area affected by the plans. Sipson is mentioned here The third runway project really began to take shape in 2006 when the Department for Transport published a report mooting the possibility.

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Dynamic Learning: Mindmaps

ShortCutsTV

The next in our popular Dynamic Learning series of Study Skills films is Mindmapping, a note-taking technique originally popularised by Tony Buzan in the 1970s.

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Navigating Disability During the Job Market: A Joint APSA Status Committee Virtual Workshop

Political Science Now

Join APSA for a virtual workshop discussing disability and the academic job market. Tuesday, May 13, 2025 12:30-2 PM Eastern | Register Here While the academic job market presents numerous challenges to all candidates, it features unique challenges to disabled scholars or scholars with disability. Guided by a commitment to disability justice and equity, this virtual workshop provides reflections and offers a space for co-generating advice for navigating disability during the job market process.

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Faces from the Deep Past: How Europe's Skulls Record 30,000 Years of Upheaval

Anthropology.net

The Bone Archive of Human History If genes are blueprints, skulls are blueprints weathered by time. Across millennia, Europe’s crania have silently recorded the toll of famine, climate, warfare, and migration. A new study 1 by Pavel Grasgruber of Masaryk University traces the sweeping changes in male cranial morphology from the Upper Paleolithic to the cusp of the Bronze Age, offering a rare skeletal counterpoint to the genetic narratives that often dominate prehistoric discourse.

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Ocean - with David Attenborough

Living Geography

A trailer has been released for the new film Ocean. OCEAN WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH takes viewers on a breathtaking journey showing there is nowhere more vital for our survival, more full of life, wonder, or surprise, than theocean. The celebrated broadcaster and filmmaker reveals how his lifetime has coincided with the great age of ocean discovery. Through spectacular sequences featuring coral reefs, kelp forests and the open ocean, Attenborough shares why a healthy ocean keeps the entire planet

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The Evolving Landscape of CTE

ED Surge

Career and Technical Education (CTE) programs are evolving, becoming more deeply integrated into mainstream high school curricula. Alongside this transition is an expanded perspective on career exploration, and a stronger emphasis on student agency and well-being. In this first episode of a new series, The Idea Spark podcast, host Carl Hooker speaks with Elyse Monahan, a former CTE educator and current National Product Sales Specialist at Pearson.

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For Example: How to Use Examples in Political Science

Political Science Now

For Example: How to Use Examples in Political Science By John S. Dryzek , University of Canberra. There is a large literature on the use of cases, hardly anything on examples. They are different: cases get analyzed, examples get deployed. Examples can perform clarifying, didactic, persuasive, universalizing, critical, and cogitative functions. These six functions all have their own logic, and a set of guidelines for how to perform each of them well is developed.

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Hunter-Gatherers at the Edge of the Ice: Tracing the Ahrensburgian in Scotland’s Far Northwest

Anthropology.net

When the last Ice Age released its grip on northern Europe, vast landscapes emerged from the ice. Among them was a rugged, newly exposed frontier—the British Isles. While the southern lowlands began to host reindeer hunters and mobile foragers, the highlands and islands of Scotland remained largely uncharted in the archaeological record. Until now.

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Fischer Farms

Living Geography

As I drive to Norwich from where I live I pass a large complex to the right, up on the hill as I approach Easton, on the western edge of the city. It has become more visible in the last few months as due to ongoing work to dual the A47 as it approaches the city, thousands of trees have been felled. Not everyone's happy about that as you can imagine.

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How VC3 Is Advancing Video Coaching for Teacher Learning (via ET Magazine)

Edthena

In the news In a recent article from ET Magazine , Edthena’s VC3 platform was highlighted as the next evolution in video coaching, designed to elevate teacher learning through deeper collaboration and smart, time-saving tools. According to the article, drawing on more than a decade of innovation, VC3 combines asynchronous video-based coaching with new layers of AI-driven insight.