A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 7, 2024

It goes without saying that AI is a hot topic of conversation in education circles and beyond. In the beginning, I was a skeptic myself, but now I use it to support my professional work, especially when I coach leaders. While there are legitimate concerns and anything generated by AI needs to be fully vetted, the most profound benefit is how it can save educators precious time.

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HistoryRewriter

APRIL 8, 2024

Please join us on April 18, 2024, at 6 PT/9ET on The Social Studies Show when we talk about writing instruction with Josie Wozniak, the host of the ELA EduProtocols show and creator of the 3XPOV & 3XGENRE EduProtocols. Bring some student work examples, and your favorite templates, and be ready to learn a new writing strategy with some friendly teachers.

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Passion for Social Studies

APRIL 12, 2024

President Kennedy was a remarkable individual. While he intended to attend Yale Law School, his decision changed after realizing the US would enter World War II. After this, he worked in the US House of Representatives and the US Senate. This helped lead him to the US Presidency, which he won in the 1960 election. During all of his government roles, Kenedy executed significant decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

School leaders nationwide often complain about how hard it is to hire teachers and how teaching job vacancies have mushroomed. Fixing the problem is not easy because those shortages aren’t universal. Wealthy suburbs can have a surplus of qualified applicants for elementary schools at the same time that a remote, rural school cannot find anyone to teach high school physics.

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Elementary School Social Studies Middle School Research 138

ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. A great deal of edtech purchases went unused , equity gaps widened , and teachers and students were burned out. Combined with sobering reports on the persistent lack of strong evidence for edtech , it’s no wonder why the notion of using technology to “fix broken schools” has fallen out of most startup pitch decks and education TED Talks.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 8, 2024

Carl Anderson and Matt Glover are the authors of How to Become a Better Writing Teacher r eleased in Fall 2023. Join them this summer for a two-day virtual institute on How to Become a Better Writing Teacher. Register here !

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Professional Development 136

Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2024

The post Recommendations for Supporting Safe Teacher Exploration of AI and New Technologies appeared first on Digital Promise.

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ED Surge

APRIL 9, 2024

A VR experience created by students at The New School in New York City is designed to take viewers to an almond farm in California and illustrate the effects of pesticides on bee colonies. At first, participants wearing a VR headset can walk around the virtual stands of trees, and hear the sounds of rustling leaves and buzzing bees. Then, with the push of a button, users can choose a different perspective.

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Education Educational Technology Teaching 121

Anthropology.net

APRIL 7, 2024

The evolution of dogs from their wild ancestors, the grey wolves, stands as one of the enduring mysteries of human prehistory. While the broad strokes of this transformation are understood—dogs emerged from wolves during the last Ice Age, roughly 15,000 years ago—the finer details, such as where and how this domestication occurred, continue to elude researchers.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 11, 2024

The post Celebrating Students’ Commitment to Sustainability at Compton Unified School District appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Imagine waking up each morning with no hope for the day ahead, navigating a minefield of potential conflicts with your body on high alert. That was my reality as a marginalized youth — misunderstood, labeled as a troublemaker and cast out without a chance to reconcile and evolve. Growing up with anxiety in school is an all-too-common experience that perpetuates a cycle of fear and resentment.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 11, 2024

Welcome to Writing as Healing, a Heinemann podcast series focused on writing as a tool to increase healing in students and educators. We know that academic learning doesn’t happen without social and emotional support, and writing, as a key literacy, is uniquely positioned in every classroom to do both. This week Liz is joined by David Rockower, a freelance writer and Pennsylvania middle school teacher, to talk about writing with students as an act of community and vulnerability and using patienc

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Ben Newmark

APRIL 8, 2024

We all know teachers should have high expectations of pupils. Teachers who think their pupils can learn and do lots set more challenging work than those doubting their capacities and this leads to more progress. Nobody – quite rightly – argues against high expectations. Officially you can’t even be a teacher if you don’t have them – they’re in the Teacher Standards.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 9, 2024

The post How Do Education Leaders Know if an Edtech Tool is Likely to Work? appeared first on Digital Promise.

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EdTech Education 136

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

MINNEAPOLIS — At a late August meeting in a windowless room at Minneapolis College, a handful of students barely a week into classes sat back on couches, took a breath and marveled that they were there at all. “Gifting myself with an education is a part of my recovery,” said Nomi Badboy, 43, one of three students attending this week’s meeting of the school’s collegiate recovery program.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2024

It’s 5 a.m. and Tiffany Gale is up, as she is every morning, and the first thing she does is check to see if any of her child care staff have called out sick. “They each have kids of their own, and someone is always sick,” she explains. If indeed someone is out, Gale will be the one to step in and take over that classroom at the child care center she owns and runs.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Picture this: a classroom buzzing with the energy of discovery—where each lesson leads to new learning and every discussion contributes to deeper understanding. Content-rich classrooms making learning irresistible. Kids are asking questions, inferring, discussing, debating, creating, and generating new ideas.

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Institute for Citizens & Scholars

APRIL 10, 2024

Citizens & Scholars President Raj Vinnakota is a guest on The Daily Bolster podcast, which provides insight for startup leaders scaling their businesses.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. There’s an idea about how children learn to read that’s held sway in schools for more than a generation – even though it was proven wrong by cognitive scientists decades ago. Teaching methods based on this idea can make it harder for children to learn how to read.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2024

This year's spring cohort is embarking on a journey of collaboration, creativity, and community impact to transform education.

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Education 102

Education Elements

APRIL 9, 2024

At Education Elements, Personalized Learning reflects many of our core beliefs about how people and organizations grow. This is why we continuously improve our services in this area to support schools and districts in their efforts to personalize learning for students. We know that in and outside the classroom, learning is rarely one-size-fits-all. Every individual can thrive if their unique needs are met.

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Leadership Education Teaching 91

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Education has had a wobbly relationship with the still-evolving presence of generative AI in schools — with some school districts banning it only to reverse course. It can save teachers time by automating tasks , while also causing headaches as an accomplice to cheating students. So how much work would it take to come up with guidelines to help educators manage the challenges of using generative AI tools for their work?

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Smithsonian Voices | Smithsonian Education

APRIL 7, 2024

A new Smithsonian guide features tips for exploring objects in the sky, examines technology that helps us better understand the universe, and explores ways culture and the arts have used the cosmos to stimulate our imaginations

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

The world is loud. Grant Faulkner, coauthor with Kim Culbertson of 100-Word Stories, makes a case for turning the volume off.

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Strange Maps

APRIL 10, 2024

Earthquakes in New York are even rarer than snowfall in Los Angeles. The one that struck the East Coast last Friday was one of the largest in the region in a century. And yet on the grand scale of things — no longer the Richter scale, by the way, but the Moment Magnitude Scale — it was relatively minor, with a magnitude of 4.8. The MMS is exponential: A 5.0-magnitude quake is the equivalent of 475 tons of TNT exploding, while 6.0 equals 15,000 tons, and 7.0 is 475,000 tons.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 10, 2024

CFP: 3rd International Classics Conference in Ghana kskordal Wed, 04/10/2024 - 12:11 Image 3rd International Classics Conference in Ghana (ICCG) Classics Beyond Borders University of Ghana 18th to 20th September 2024 Keynote Speakers Professor Kofi Ackah (University of Ghana) Professor Rachel Barney (University of Toronto) Professor Daniel Orrells (King’s College London) The Classical Association of Ghana, in collaboration with the Department of Philosophy and Classics, University of Ghana, the

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Living Geography

APRIL 9, 2024

Despite being at it for over 20 years now , a lot of people may not be aware of more of the geo(graphical) blogs that I write than this one. I've actually written quite a few more than these. but these are the ones I maintain the most, many of them on specific themes. You can see a bigger list from my Blogger profile - although I also have a few Wordpress ones as well.

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ShortCutsTV

APRIL 12, 2024

You know that thing they say about buses – you wait ages for one and then two arrive at once? Well, by what some might call a mysterious and inexplicable coincidence, the same seems to be true of PowerPoint Presentations on religion.

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Sociology 76

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Data-driven decisions are increasingly recognized as a critical component of K-12 education, enhancing personalized learning, improving assessment and feedback, optimizing resource allocation and fostering early intervention. These decisions are informed by analyzing various types of data, such as academic achievement, non-academic factors, program and systems data, and perception data.

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K-12 Professional Development Middle School Leadership 74

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

APRIL 12, 2024

The post Gen Z’s Take: Election Year Voter Roundtable appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 9, 2024

Writing workshop minilessons are meant as intervals for explicit, brief instruction in skills and strategies that then become part of a writer’s ongoing repertoire.

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Society for Classical Studies

APRIL 11, 2024

CFP: Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation kskordal Thu, 04/11/2024 - 09:54 Image Call for Papers Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation An international conference at the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies (Innsbruck, Austria) September 26-27, 2024 organized by James McNamara, Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Neo-Latin Studies, Innsbruck Victoria E.

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Living Geography

APRIL 9, 2024

If you missed yesterday's Guardian (as I do out of term time), here's the letter from Steve Brace on the importance of fieldwork.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 11, 2024

The post Unlocking the Benefits: 5 Key Reasons for Earning Micro-credentials appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Heinemann Blog

APRIL 10, 2024

Center student voices through collaboration. Learn about a variety of tools that enable everyone to be included.

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Anthropology.net

APRIL 12, 2024

In the rugged terrain of Paraíba, Brazil, lies a site of immense archaeological significance – Serrote do Letreiro. Here, etched into the stone, are enigmatic carvings that hint at a profound connection between prehistoric humans and the ancient creatures that once roamed the Earth. Recent studies 1 have unearthed a fascinating revelation: petroglyphs adorning the rock face, intricately intertwined with the fossilized footprints of dinosaurs.

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Living Geography

APRIL 12, 2024

Earlier, I presented my session for GeoNight. It was attended by a small international group of attendees. Thanks to everyone who came. Particular thanks to Massimiliano Tabusi from EUGEO, one of the people behind the event. I was really grateful that he chose to attend my session out of all the ones that are going on. I presented an amended version of my presentation from the GA Conference 2024.

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Geography 52