A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

Both of my parents were public educators; my father an elementary principal in Hackettstown and my mother an elementary teacher in Flemington. They both touched lives and impacted kids like countless other NJ educators. Educators are, and have been, the cultivators of virtually every other profession.

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JUNE 25, 2013

I recently had the honor of traveling to the MIT campus in Boston and participating in a panel discussion on Open Education Resources (OER) at The Sixth Conference of MIT''s Learning International Networks Consortium (LINC) with three illustrious advocates of these open resources: Nicole Allen, Philipp Schmidt, and panel moderator Steve Carson.

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AUGUST 13, 2012

Every year educators create outstanding lesson plans to help students learn, understand and uncover their passions. Starting this week, educators can win great prizes by simply submitting their best projects, lesson plans, curricula and tutorials to the 2012 Educators’ Choice Awards. Get creative and win big!

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2015

al (2012) "The yearlong study by the University of Salford's School of the Built Environment and British architecture firm Nightingale Associates examined 751 students in 34 classrooms across seven primary schools for the 2011-2012 academic year. Kobbacy (2012). "An The Huffington Post summarizes a study by Barrett et.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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OCTOBER 17, 2012

Up unto recently many of the best hands-on, authentic learning opportunities for educators were restricted to large conference events that were out of the financial reach for many to take advantage of. Another glaring void has been the availability of quality opportunities to learn about the latest Web 2.0

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APRIL 24, 2025

Parsing education data into snack-sized servings. The oldest of the cohort born from 1997 to 2012 are in their mid- to late 20s and taking heat for chafing against workplace culture in ways that come off as entitled (sound familiar, millennials?). Gen Z is in an awkward phase. Casey Foundations analysis.

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percentage points higher in 2022 than it was in 2012, AEI found. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education? Subscribe to our free biweekly higher education newsletter. Sign up for our higher education newsletter. Listen to our higher education podcast.

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DECEMBER 2, 2018

Various research studies have revealed how video can serve as a highly effective learning tool (Allen & Smith, 2012; Kay, 2012; Lloyd & Robertson, 2012; Rackaway, 2012; Hsin & Cigas, 2013). Just showing a video in class doesn’t cut it and is dismissive of the potential it can have as an educational tool.

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DECEMBER 3, 2024

It wasn’t the Ifugao who argued that the terraces are 2,000 years old, it was the archaeologists and historians, explains co-author Marlon Martin, chief operating officer of the Save the Ifugao Terraces Movement, a heritage conservation and education organization.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

It also provides me with an opportunity to reflect on what I see and my take on how the field of education can continue to evolve in ways that better support the needs of all learners. The concept of brain breaks got me thinking about a growing trend in education – as kids progress through the K-12 system, there is less and less movement.

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MARCH 24, 2012

I attended a session at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference early on Saturday morning entitled Common Core and Curriculum 21: Global Competency in Literacy, Math, and Science. Some great resources were initially shared that can assist educators and schools develop a 21st Century curriculum while integrating elements of the Common Core Standards.

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JUNE 17, 2018

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012).

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MARCH 18, 2012

This past week I was fortunate to attend the NASSP 2012 Annual Conference as a presenter, 2012 Digital Principal Award recipient, and most importantly a learner. On Friday morning I attended a session facilitated by Dr. Gary Stager , a progressive educator whose work I have come to know over the past couple of years.

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MAY 13, 2012

This was the first of three in a series presented by the 2012 Digital Principal Award winners. The educational landscape is changing thanks to continuous advances in technology. educational leadership NASSP Social Media'

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AUGUST 15, 2012

Social media has become embedded in virtually all facets of my professional practice as an educational leader. It is so gratifying to see more educators locally, nationally, and globally begin to experience what social media has to offer on a professional level.

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MARCH 1, 2012

Greg is the Director of Technology at Matawan-Aberdeen Regional School District and an Adjunct Professor and course developer at the Graduate Schools of Education at Monmouth University and Drew University. Students described their use of devices for educational activities and took personal responsibility for using the devices appropriately.

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News STEM Summit 2012. industry and educators at all levels to undo the stereotypes that could be costing the country some of its best and brightest future innovators. 21st Century Education Guest Blog Post Guest Blogger STEM' And of the women who do earn STEM degrees, the U.S For this reason there is an all-call out to U.S.

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MAY 7, 2017

BrandED educators focus strongly on that aspect. Aren’t educators always building, brokering, and sustaining relationships? Relationship building is a never-ending process, and in education it is not a part of a “sales cycle” (Connick, 2012) but is instead a part of an “awareness cycle.” Image credit: wedesign.la/how-to-tell-your-brands-story/

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JULY 18, 2012

We decided to shoot for the stars and established the following goal: By June 2012 seventy-five percent (75%) of the students taking an Advanced Placement (AP) exam will score a three (3) or better. Many educators asked me specifically about the strategic plan I developed with my administrative team at the high school.

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OCTOBER 29, 2012

Below is an email that I recently received from Amanda Howell, a 2012 graduate of New Milford High School. Amanda''s reflection on her time at NMHS put into perspective what really matters in an educational experience. But beyond all of the experiences, and beyond all of the technology are the educators.

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MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 13, 2012. Hundreds of educators from over seven different states and Canada will once again descend upon my school to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path.

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OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.

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APRIL 6, 2020

One of the peculiar things about higher education is that it runs in the opposite direction of the economy. Ironically, funding for education plummeted. Even after Pell and other grants, inflation-adjusted tuition at public four-year colleges and universities rose 19 percent from 2006 to 2012. Related: Federal data shows 3.9

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JULY 12, 2012

Throughout the entire 2011-2012 school year, we worked to refine our approach, implementation, and learning outcomes for the program. 21st Century Education BYOD BYOT educational leadership educational technology mobile learning Opinion' How do you manage your BYOD program if you have one at your school?

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SEPTEMBER 4, 2013

In the days following December 14th, 2012 school administrators, educators, law enforcement personnel and parents have undertaken the most comprehensive look at school safety since the Columbine massacre of 1999. The following is a guest post by Erik Endress.

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MARCH 24, 2012

I attended another session on the Common Core State Standards today at the 2012 ASCD Annual Conference entitled Educator Readiness for the Common Core: ASCD Findings from Select States. Utah educators were most concerned about the availability of professional development offerings.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Chantal Fulgencio had the bad timing to start as a freshman in the fall of 2012 at public East Stroudsburg University in Pennsylvania. That was just when the state was in the midst of seven straight years of cutting its budget for higher education during and after the recession, or at best keeping spending level.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

I am appreciative of such an incredible opportunity that would not have been possible without Mrs. Vicari, the Board of Education, and you. The Foundation for Free Enterprise 2012 Summer Camp was not only exciting; it provided a new perspective of the world that I lacked before.

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OCTOBER 14, 2012

Two of my Social Studies teachers were recently invited to Washington DC on October 4, 2012, to deliver a model lesson that illustrated the effective use of technology. 21st Century Teaching educational technology New Milford High School Nicolette Perna Rebecca Millan'

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

We talk a lot about student engagement in education. Most educators got into this profession for the students, and, as a result, we want their experience to be as engaging and positive as possible. Given the myriad challenges of the last two years, everyone in education should be concerned about teacher engagement.

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OCTOBER 14, 2020

The Hechinger Report is collaborating with The New York Times to produce Bulletin Board, page 2 of the Times ’ s education supplement, Learning. Her goal was to collect enough learning resources, she said, “that students or parents would be able to find learning sites and lessons that would meet their education needs.”.

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MAY 13, 2024

Board of Education decision that declared racial segregation in schools unconstitutional. This chart shows that young Black students progressed in reading for four decades, from 1971 to 2012, when the scores of Black children peaked. Between 2012 and 2023, 40 years of progress in math vanished.

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DECEMBER 11, 2017

educational system beginning to decay? Education Department considers the 2016 score to be a statistical tie for 13th place because it was so close to those of the three countries ranked immediately ahead of it. educational system is deteriorating appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Jill Barshay/The Hechinger Report.

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JUNE 23, 2024

About a dozen years ago, Linn-Benton’s administration looked at their data and found that many students in career and technical education, or CTE, were getting most of the way toward a degree but were stopped by a math course, said the college’s president, Lisa Avery. Related: Interested in innovations in higher education?

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2012

Mr. Jaworski offered to assist Dr. Asa-Awuku and Mrs. Bergoffen with developing an activity for “Engineering Week” in February of 2012. Technology can also greatly assist educators in bringing in a variety of experts from all over the world in virtually every field.

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