Metacognitive Competency
Metacognitive Competency
Use culturally competent teaching practices
Use culturally competent teaching practices especially (but not only) when engaging students with diverse or potentially conflicting beliefs with scientific perspectives.
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Focus on interdisciplinary pluralism in curricula design
Focus on interdisciplinary pluralism in curricula design
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Evolving Minds: Learning as Evolution, Evolution as Learning
This article explores the relationship between the scientific and vernacular use of the evolution concept as it relates to individual and social learning processes. We argue that the systematic exploration of learning as an evolutionary process, and evolution as a learning process holds untapped educational potential, a potential that is hampered by systemic conceptual biases among mainstream evolution educators.
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Values clarification
Clarifying values and sense of purpose can be a strategy for improving school culture, academic, and social-emotional learning.
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Develop University-Assisted Community Schools
Develop University-Assisted Community Schools as an outgrowth of Educational Innovation Labs
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Explore possibilities to re-organize the scope or sequence of curriculum delivery to achieve valued improvements
Using an analogy of epi-genetic expression in relation to the cultural genome of the school curriculum, educators and school stakeholders (including students) may explore possibilities to strategically organize the scope or sequence of the curriculum for a give class, subject, grade level or grade band.
Diverse Intelligences Summer Institute
Exploring the origins, nature, and future of intelligences
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Czaczkes, T.J. (2022) Advanced cognition in ants. Myrmecological News.
Interest in the advanced cognitive abilities of insects has grown rapidly over the past decades. However, most studies have taken place on a handful of model organisms: fruit flies, honey bees, and bumblebees. Ants are in many ways ideal models for the study of cognition, offering a wide range of ecologies, often coupled with ease of training and maintenance. This review aims to collate the often disparate research on advanced cognition in ants.
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Students often do not have access to interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on the origins, diversity, and flexibility of human moral reasoning
Students often do not have access to interdisciplinary scientific perspectives on the origins, diversity, and flexibility of human moral reasoning
