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A New Era of Educational Leadership: The AI Advantage

A Principal's Reflections

A few weeks back, my friend Monica Burns reached out and asked to share some insight on my favorite artificial intelligence (AI) tool for a blog post she was writing. Since she was gathering perspectives from numerous educators, I wanted to avoid the well-known tools such as ChatGPT and Gemini. Thus, my decision was easy as I was able to zero in on one that I use routinely, which not only helps me when coaching, but also can be invaluable to practicing school leaders.

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When Your Classroom Management Goes Off the Rails

Cult of Pedagogy

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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Teaching Syndemics

Teaching Anthropology

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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The Difference Between Chronos And Kairos In The Classroom

TeachThought

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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Best of SAPIENS 2024

Sapiens

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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Revisiting the Legacy of San Francisco’s Detracking Experiment

ED Surge

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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Miseducation Shaped the 2024 Election

Zinn Education Project

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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How Frugal Innovation Inspires Students’ Resourcefulness and Creativity

Digital Promise

The post How Frugal Innovation Inspires Students Resourcefulness and Creativity appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Building Inquiry Capacity in Social Studies: Small Steps Toward Big Thinking

C3 Teachers

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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Blog: What I Learned at Coin Camp

Society for Classical Studies

Blog: What I Learned at Coin Camp Patricia Hatcher Thu, 12/12/2024 - 11:10

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Neanderthals and Modern Humans: A Shared Past Revealed Through DNA

Anthropology.net

The genetic legacy of Neanderthals persists in modern humans, with 1-2% of non-African genomes composed of Neanderthal DNA—a determination made through comprehensive sequencing and comparison of ancient and modern genomes. By analyzing distinctive genetic markers, researchers quantified this percentage, shedding light on the enduring impact of interbreeding events in human evolutionary history.

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6 Strategies for Schools to Maximize Learning by Minimizing Device Repairs

Digital Promise

The post 6 Strategies for Schools to Maximize Learning by Minimizing Device Repairs appeared first on Digital Promise.

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California prohibió la educación bilingüe durante casi 20 años y aún no se ha recuperado del daño

The Hechinger Report

Esta historia fue publicada originalmente en ingls por CalMatters. Suscrbete a los boletines de noticias This story was translated by CalMatters. Read in English. En 1953, Brbara Flores entr al knder en la Escuela Primaria Washington en Madera, California, una pequea ciudad en el Valle Central rodeada de campos agrcolas. Su madre y su abuela le haban dicho que iba “a aprender mucho y que le iba a gustar” Flores, una nia que algn da se convertira en maestra, estaba emocionada y les cr

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2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level

Society for Classical Studies

2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level kskordal Fri, 12/13/2024 - 09:40 Image The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level: Kathleen R. Durkin James T. Stark Please click each name above to read the full award citations. To learn more about the awards and to see a list of previous recipients, visit the SCS Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level page.

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The First Europeans: Ancient Genomes Reveal Complex Histories of Human Expansion and Neanderthal Interactions

Anthropology.net

A Glimpse into Europe’s Earliest Settlers Over 45,000 years ago, small groups of modern humans roamed the icy expanse of Ice Age Europe. Among these pioneers were individuals whose lives and genetic histories have now been reconstructed from the oldest modern human genomes yet sequenced. Researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology have decoded 1 the DNA of seven individuals found at sites in Germany and Czechia, revealing a lineage that carried traces of Neander

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Giving Voice to Students is the Missing Link in Education Research

Digital Promise

After attending a convening hosted by the Center for Inclusion Innovation in 2023, an education researcher transformed her practice to center student voice and leadership.

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Why I Spend My Lunch Hour with Students

ED Surge

My favorite part of my job is not actually part of my job. As a public high school teacher in a state and district with a teachers union, my contract entitles me to a duty-free lunch. Over the years, however, I have willingly and somewhat proudly developed a lunch crew. Many teachers have a lunch crew that same group of students who choose to make their classroom a home base during the week.

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Navigating “Female” Identity: The Role of 19th-Century Missionary Wives – Katherine Hsu

Women's History Network

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, American Protestant churches prohibited women from preaching or becoming ordained ministers.

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States say, forget FAFSA. We got you

The Hechinger Report

Isela Guadalupe Bonilla pored over cryptic instructions and what felt like an endless series of questions about her familys income as she struggled to fill out the notorious federal form that students are required to complete to unlock college financial aid. Several of her classmates just gave up. It was always because of money, said Bonilla, now a 20-year-old junior at Washington State Universitys Vancouver campus.

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District to District Collaboration Drives Innovation for Computational Thinking Pathways

Digital Promise

The post District to District Collaboration Drives Innovation for Computational Thinking Pathways appeared first on Digital Promise.

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What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready? [Infographic]

ED Surge

Artificial intelligence is rapidly changing society, workplace and education. To be prepared for the college and career opportunities of today and the future, students must learn to be AI Ready. AI readiness ensures that students can thrive in the future as informed users and developers of emerging technologies, including AI. Gwinnett County Public Schools (GCPS) embraced AI technology by launching a K-12 AI Ready pilot in 2019, embedding AI Ready learning across content areas through the lens o

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Attention Contagion in the Virtual Classroom

The Effortful Educator

Attention Contagion in the Virtual Classroom Attention contagion is the spread of attentive and/or inattentive behaviors among students in a learning environment (1). Classroom teachers are very familiar with this phenomenon; especially when its the spread of inattentive behaviors. It looks like one student feeling and hearing the buzz of their cellphone in their backpack and those around losing focus on the lesson.

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Anna and Harlan Hubbard Living in Payne Hollow

Life and Landscapes

Harlan (1900-1988) and Anna ( 1902-1986) Hubbard were interested in what was really out there, and how to live more fully within it. Painters, writers, musicians, and shanty boat river warriors, these two lived their natural lives as close to the river as a salamander might do near its home pond waters. They married in 1943, immediately building a shanty boat and commencing an eight year voyage down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers.

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Digital Promise Launches First-Ever Regional Cohort for Computational Thinking Pathways

Digital Promise

The post Digital Promise Launches First-Ever Regional Cohort for Computational Thinking Pathways appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Survival Notes

Sapiens

Black African women in former colonial centers such as London gesture to subversive ways of communicating with those imprisoned in archives across generations. despite the Maangamizi,( Maangamizi is a Kiswahili term that means the intentional destruction and dispossession of peoplehood, nationhood, and relationships to Ancestral Lands that has occurred as a result of the continuum of Afrikan chattel enslavement, colonialism, and neocolonialism.) you survive. no paraffin lamps, no sizzling meat

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From Laughter to Learning: Teaching Methods through Engaging Narrative Workshops

Political Science Now

From Laughter to Learning: Teaching Methods through Engaging Narrative Workshops By Joel Martinsson , and Emma Ricknell , Linnaeus University Can we increase students grasp and integration of research methods in political science, and do so in a fun way? We believe the answer is yes. In this article, we introduce the workshop-based narrative framework The Tale of Folke Folkesson, where students role-play as the methods expert group Linnaeus Opinion Laboratory (LOL).

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Fun & Engaging Executive Branch Activity Ideas

Let's Cultivate Greatness

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. With a few targeted activities, though, you can cover the president and the operations of the whole branch in just a couple of weeks. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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Redefining Citizenship: Gen Z Voices

Institute for Citizens & Scholars

The final blog in this series examines how we can redefine citizenship in a modern context through a pilot survey of Gen Z.

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Melting out

Living Geography

Thanks to Brendan Conway for sending me a link to a BBC Future page. Some years ago, I wrote a book about tzi the Ice Man. I've since posted regular blogs when a story appears which updates the knowledge that we have about him. The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers. There is even an Alpine German word for the process of things emerging from glaciers: "ausgeapert", meaning something is exposed by melting snow or ice.

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Enhanced Outcomes, Improved Feedback: Maximizing Success Through Collaborative Final Projects in Quantitative Methods Courses

Political Science Now

Enhanced Outcomes, Improved Feedback: Maximizing Success Through Collaborative Final Projects in Quantitative Methods Courses By Michael A. Hansen , University of Turku Teaching quantitative methods in political science often presents challenges due to student apprehensions, the complexity of the material, and the time demands on instructors. This study advocates for incorporating collaborative final projects to address these issues.

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CFP: Vergil and the Greeks

Society for Classical Studies

CFP: Vergil and the Greeks kskordal Thu, 12/12/2024 - 12:28 Image Vergil and the Greeks Tuesday 24 June Saturday 28 June 2025, Villa Vergiliana, Bacoli Timeo Danaos et dona ferentes ( Aen. 2.49) . However, the dona Vergil owes to Homeric and Hesiodic epic, tragedy, and the Hellenistic poetry of Apollonius, Callimachus, and Theocritus are well known.

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Post-Election Reflection: An Experts Roundtable

APSA Educate

December 4, 2024 | How are political science experts reflecting upon the results and administration of the 2024 election? What can we learn about U.S. electoral behavior and American politics from this election? What should we expect from the incoming … The post Post-Election Reflection: An Experts Roundtable appeared first on APSA.

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Tim Marshall and the 'Future of Geography'

Living Geography

The final Monday night lecture for this term was held at the RGS on Monday night this week. The speaker was Tim Marshall - best-selling author of 'Prisoners of Geography' - and a fellow Leeds United fan. The Ondaatje Theatre was packed out and there were a similar number joining online. He told us that 'Prisoners of Geography' had now passed the three million mark in terms of sales.

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How Do Simulations Affect Career Decision Making? The Case of “Model Turkish Diplomacy”

Political Science Now

How Do Simulations Affect Career Decision Making? The Case of Model Turkish Diplomacy By usta Carranza Ko and Michael Shochet , University of Baltimore Diplomacy is undeniably one of the best-known IR degree jobs. What do IR students think about the challenges associated with the diplomacy profession? What is their perception of diplomatic skills? Lacin Idil Oztigs article titled How do Simulations Affect Career Decision Making?

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A Top 10 of Psychological Myths

ShortCutsTV

In which Ben Ambridge takes 15 minutes out of his very busy life (probably. Im speculating. I dont actually know.

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Long Island Singapore

O-Level Geography

How can the long island project help to protect our coast? Why are structural adaptation necessary against climate change? What are the limitations of structural adaptation? What Singapore's East Coast could face without coastal protection measures in place. (Animation: CNA/Rafa Estrada) How Long Island might work against sea level rise.

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Dr. Rip's Science of the Surf

Living Geography

Australian site 'Science of the Surf' contains some useful information on coastal processes.

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