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Leveraging SWOT to Navigate the Winds of Change

A Principal's Reflections

Understanding our current position is like having a detailed map before embarking on a journey. Charting a course toward our desired destination can be difficult without knowing where we stand. This awareness allows us to identify our strengths, recognize the gaps, and make informed decisions about the steps we need to take. In both personal growth and organizational development, clarity about our starting point empowers us to set realistic goals, measure progress, and ultimately reach where we

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Getting Started With Word Walls

TeachThought

contributed by Samantha Saumell , I Have, Not I Am All teachers want to help students become successful readers and writers. Whether students like reading or writing, they are readers and writers, whether they know it or not. Students sometimes think that they only ‘write’ in school. But the truth is they write every time they text a friend, write a list, write a card, or even message a friend on a video game.

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Sociology Gender Projects

Passion for Social Studies

Sociology is often a favorite course for students. They love studying and analyzing the interactions between others. However, they often forget to consider how outside factors influence their lives. So, students need to take some time to see how the media and society shape their thoughts and opinions. Thankfully, the Music and Gender Project and Gender of Toys Project provide personal, impactful ways to do this!

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Practicing Primatology

Teaching Anthropology

By Erin-Lee Halstad McGuire, Department of Anthropology, University of Victoria, Canada My first-year anthropology students are often surprised to learn they will be studying biology as part of their introduction to anthropology. Many students thought they were dodging science by taking a social sciences course. It is, therefore, important for me to get them engaged and my modified flipped classroom approach is key to this.

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Will AI Make Standardized Tests Obsolete?

ED Surge

The SAT is to standardized testing what the floppy disk is to data storage. Providers of some of the most popular standardized tests are rethinking their offerings as new AI tools are challenging traditional techniques for finding out what students know — and allowing new ways to give and score tests. For instance, ETS, one of the oldest and largest players in standardized testing, is moving away from traditional college entrance exams like the SAT to focus on new approaches to measure the skill

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5 Strategies For Setting SMART Goals In The Classroom

TeachThought

Using Goal Setting and Data Tracking to Enhance Student Agency and Achievement contributed by Samantha Lopez As educators, we are often referred to as ‘data-driven decision-makers.’ Even in an upper elementary classroom, students can access their grades and keep track of their assignments. Instead of only using data, how can educators show students how to use their own data to make their own decisions about their learning?

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Queenship, Disability, and Beauty: Queen Alexandra, 1844 – 1925 – Lucy Haigh

Women's History Network

Queen Alexandra of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions and Empress of India (1844 -1925) is a royal figure often disregarded in historical literature. Although studies surrounding Alexandra’s husband, King Edward VII, are plentiful, there is comparatively little written about Alexandra other than a handful of biographies and academic literature surrounding her clothes.

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Building Inclusive Classrooms: How this Culturally Responsive Teaching Framework Transforms Education

Edthena

Research shows that 68% of new teachers feel unprepared to address the cultural needs of their students effectively. Leveraging Edthena’s Video Coaching platform , Dr. Adrian Cortes and Dr. Bryan Carter have developed a practical, research-based framework that addresses this challenge, significantly impacting teachers’ self-awareness of culturally responsive teaching practices.

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Quotes About Living

TeachThought

What Is Life About? The Best Quotes We Could Find by TeachThought Staff What Is Life About? The Best Quotes We Could Find “People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure. They are estranged from their families and their neighbors. It should tell us something that in healthy societies drug use is celebrative, convivial, and occasional, whereas among us it is lonely, shameful, and addictive.

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On the Podcast: Supporting Multilingual Learners

Heinemann Blog

How can we leverage the linguistic and cultural assets that our students bring into the classroom? How can we effectively engage multilingual students and build meaningful connections?

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TEACHER VOICE: Big mistake — Schools are swapping out Shakespeare, Chaucer and Dickens for Kendrick Lamar and Taylor Swift

The Hechinger Report

The other day, one of my students told me that she’d been assigned the lyrics of Kendrick Lamar for her high school English class. It was the first time I had encountered a high school English assignment involving an author with whom I was wholly unfamiliar. But can we even call rapper and songwriter Kendrick Lamar an author, his lyrics literature? Call me a snob, but I would argue that we cannot and should not, especially at a level so introductory to the English literary canon as high school.

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Blog: Culture-Heroism in Vergil’s Eclogue 5 and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian

Society for Classical Studies

Blog: Culture-Heroism in Vergil’s Eclogue 5 and Cormac McCarthy’s Blood Meridian Xander Tyska Tue, 08/27/2024 - 14:17

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Youth Civic Solutions Competition: Empowering the Next Generation of Civic Leaders

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The post Youth Civic Solutions Competition: Empowering the Next Generation of Civic Leaders appeared first on Institute for Citizens & Scholars.

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The Importance of Building and Owning Background Knowledge

Heinemann Blog

How does background knowledge deepen reading? How can students access that knowledge? Learn more in this excerpt from Kelly Gallagher's forthcoming title.

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In 2024, Head Start programs are still funded by a formula set in the 1970s

The Hechinger Report

When Head Start was established in 1965, it was meant to boost outcomes for children from low-income families by offering high-quality early learning and wraparound services, like dentalcare and mental health support. Fifty-nine years later, funding has increased for the program—from about$96 million in the 1960s (about $959 million in today’s dollars) to nearly $12 billion in fiscal year 2023.

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How much do you really know about crime?

ShortCutsTV

The fact students come to Sociology with a certain level of prior knowledge about the areas they’re studying – from families through education to crime – is something teachers can exploit to demonstrate how sociological knowledge and research can be used to question many of the taken-for-granted assumptions we make about the social world.

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New Data Shows Some Improvement in Youth Mental Health, With a Long Way Still to Go

ED Surge

New federal data on youth mental health offers a few silver linings, but experts caution these signs of progress don’t mean U.S. students are out of the storm. The CDC released the results of its biennial Youth Risk Behavior Survey earlier this month, highlighting changes in students’ responses from 2021 compared to 2023. Over those two years, the percentage of students overall who reported feeling persistent sadness fell slightly (by 2 percent).

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Ancient Seafarers of the Pacific: Human Migration Near West Papua 55,000 Years Ago

Anthropology.net

Recent archaeological findings 1 in West Papua have unveiled new insights into one of the most significant migrations in human history—the journey of early Homo sapiens into the Pacific Islands. This migration, which began more than 55,000 years ago, involved highly skilled seafarers who crossed treacherous waters from Asia to the islands of the Pacific, shaping the distribution of our species across the globe.

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Launching Computational Thinking Routines for K-5 ELA

Digital Promise

The post Launching Computational Thinking Routines for K-5 ELA appeared first on Digital Promise.

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5 Strategies to Unlock Multilingual Students’ Background Knowledge

Heinemann Blog

The following is an adapted excerpt from Lindsey Moses’ forthcoming Supporting Multilingual Learners: 50 Strategies for Language and Literacy Instruction. Preorder is now available!

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Teaching Presidential Elections Isn't Easy. How One Teacher Manages

Education Week - Social Studies

Shari Conditt teaches her students about electoral processes through current events including presidential elections.

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Engineering Prowess of Neolithic Builders Revealed in 6,000-Year-Old Dolmen of Menga

Anthropology.net

A groundbreaking study of the Dolmen of Menga, a massive Neolithic stone monument located in southern Spain, has unveiled remarkable evidence of the advanced engineering and scientific understanding possessed by its builders nearly 6,000 years ago. This research, recently published 1 in Science Advances , highlights the technological abilities of the early farmers and herders who constructed the dolmen, suggesting that they had a sophisticated grasp of physics, geometry, geology, and architectur

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The “College Presidents for Civic Preparedness” have an Agenda

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

A LearningWell article features the work of College Presidents for Civic Preparedness in building an informed, engaged citizenry.

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New eBook Supports the Role of Micro-credentials in Lifelong Learning and Development

Digital Promise

The post New eBook Supports the Role of Micro-credentials in Lifelong Learning and Development appeared first on Digital Promise.

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How Teachers Tackle 2024 Election Discussions

Education Week - Social Studies

The 2024 presidential election offers an opportunity to grow civic engagement, teachers say.

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The Influence of Fear on Population Dynamics in Prehistoric Europe

Anthropology.net

The population growth of prehistoric Europe, particularly after the last Ice Age, was characterized by periods of rapid expansion followed by significant declines. The reasons behind these fluctuations have long puzzled researchers. A recent study 1 by the Complexity Science Hub (CSH) adds new insights into the role that fear of conflict may have played in shaping these population dynamics, suggesting that fear itself may have been as influential as actual conflicts.

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Crafting a Standards-Aligned, Skill-Focused Unit with AI Collaboration

Moler's Musing

A Step-by-Step Guide to Designing a 5-6 Day Unit on Native American History: A Collaborative Journey with AI Introduction: As educators, we constantly strive to create units that not only align with educational standards but also address the specific needs and skills of our students—especially those with IEPs. Balancing these demands while keeping lessons engaging and accessible can be challenging.

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LERs and Micro-credentials: The Key to Lifelong Learning & Skills-Based Hiring

Digital Promise

The post LERs and Micro-credentials: The Key to Lifelong Learning & Skills-Based Hiring appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Holding my Breath – for real! Skydiving in January to raise funds for Open Road Visions.

Psychology Sorted

I have just added this post to the ‘Holding my Breath’ area of the blog, so that those who liked the book have a chance to donate to the Open Road charity that supports those with substance abuse. My husband and I were sitting outside the other evening and thinking about fundraising for Open Road who were so supportive of my late brother Colin.

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Unearthing 3,800-Year-Old Burials in Peru’s Viru Valley

Anthropology.net

Archaeologists working in Peru’s Viru Valley have uncovered a significant find: the skeletal remains of four individuals buried nearly 3,800 years ago. The discovery, which includes the remains of two children, a teenager, and an adult, predates the rise of the Inca civilization by millennia and offers new insights into the region’s early societies.

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‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP

Society for Classical Studies

‘REZ Diff’: Indigenous Perspectives CFP kskordal Thu, 08/29/2024 - 08:44 Image REZ Diff: Call for Papers At the 2024 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) annual meeting in Chicago, we held a panel on ‘Indigenous Perspectives: Ancient and Modern,’ with support from the Mountaintop Coalition. The panel explored the role of classical antiquity in the history of the Americas, focusing on the influence of ancient sources and ideologies on modern systems of oppression which have negatively affected Ind

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A New Approach to Classroom Observations in Higher Education Courses

Digital Promise

The post A New Approach to Classroom Observations in Higher Education Courses appeared first on Digital Promise.

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GA gathering thoughts on the forthcoming curriculum review

Living Geography

The GA and the RGS will both be 'in the room' when the curriculum review discussions related to geography take place. The GA is collecting responses from teachers, who may not be in the room, but will be impacted by the decisions made by the review group. The RGS is going to be doing something similar as the picture on the consultation becomes a little clearer.

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Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy Appointed as the Next Executive Director of the American Political Science Association

Political Science Now

WASHINGTON, D.C. – The American Political Science Association (APSA) is very pleased to announce that Dr. Kimberly A. Mealy has been appointed as the next Executive Director of the organization, effective September 16, 2024. Dr. Mealy, an instrumental leader at the association for over seventeen years, previously served as Senior Director, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Strategic Initiatives at APSA.

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Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation

Society for Classical Studies

Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation kskordal Wed, 08/28/2024 - 08:48 Image Reinventing Tacitus: The Dynamics of Reappropriation September 26-27, 2024 This international conference explores how early modern interpretations of Tacitus influence later engagements in the cultural imagination. Rather than attempt to prove unbroken continuity in the reception of Tacitus, this conference examines distinct eruptions of interest in Tacitus.

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Applications Open Soon for Spring Multi Day Seminars

Teaching American History

Discussion of primary documents. A supportive and engaged group of educators. Historic locations. Free professional development. What more could you ask for? Applications open soon for our Spring 2025 Multi Day Seminars! We are hosting seminars on a variety of topics in American history and politics. The application will be open September 9-29, 2024.

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A trip to Manchester

Living Geography

Up to Manchester for a few days and explored several areas of the city (including visits to some of the Quarters). It's now in the news for the reunion of two brothers who fell out. Some personal highlights of our brief visit: - Premier Inn Piccadilly - book a Premier Plus room for a room at the top of the hotel for city/Peak District views - a nice bar area and helpful staff - Afflecks and the Manchester Shop - a warren of independent shops offering vinyl, music, clothing and all sorts of origi

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