A Principal's Reflections

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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A Principal's Reflections

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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 7, 2017

School leaders build a positive brand presence in the name of school improvement, to advance better teaching, learning and leadership, and to develop stronger school communities. The work advanced in the area of servant leadership reinforces the importance of having a brandED strategy. BrandED educators focus strongly on that aspect.

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A Principal's Reflections

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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A Principal's Reflections

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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A Principal's Reflections

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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2024

Tamorris was giving a tour of the Sunflower County Freedom Project, an after-school and summertime educational program where he’d been a student for a little over two years. Other educational programs might prepare students to leave towns like Indianola. In Indianola schools, students do not receive a quality education,” she said.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 20, 2020

Our chief instigators are… Yong Zhao , @yongzhaoed | Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas; Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 21, 2020

Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Education in a digital world [VIDEO]. Digital Leadership Daily now has over 1,000 subscribers. A new adventure: Silver Lining for Learning. Time to find other employment.

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The Hechinger Report

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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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 20, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Episode 001 is below. See also the complete list of episodes. Related Posts. Podcast – A Did You Know?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Starting this week, we are sharing resources and blogging about educational leadership issues in addition to our class sessions. – Leadership Day 2012. – Leadership Day 2008. Our 11th University of Colorado Denver principal licensure cohort for the Jeffco Public Schools is 31 students strong!

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit. The walls and shelves of this 106-year-old building are covered with authentic student learning artifacts.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

Related: ‘Simpler’ FAFSA complicates college plans for students, families This isn’t the only roadblock my students face while attempting to pursue a college education. Finally, in 2021, they launched the Immigrant Liaison pilot program in a collaborative project with CUNY’s Initiative on Immigration and Education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 7, 2022

I served on the initial advisory board for ISTE’s Standards for Education Leaders (back then, they were the NETS-A) and in 2016 I received ISTE’s global Award for Outstanding Leadership. One of our first activities asked us to reflect on some of our understandings, strengths, and challenges related to the ISTE Standards for Educators.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 13, 2015

It is an educational technology conference, after all, and we have lots of needs in the actual topic area of the conference. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Go get ‘em, Josh… [UPDATE: See also Michelle Baldwin’s recent post on this issue ].

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 8, 2018

The Innovation Academy is sponsored by my national center, CASTLE , and the North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders (NDCEL) , with the extremely generous support of Ted Dintersmith, author of the excellent book, What School Could Be, and executive producer of the amazing film, Most Likely to Succeed. South East Education Cooperative.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 24, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. Episode 002 is below.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

In summer 2012, my life changed. After I graduated, fueled by my personal experience as a student, I decided to pursue a career in education. Today, I’m a doctoral candidate in the education leadership program at Rowan University, with a focus on students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Data show there is plenty of room for improvement in leadership ranks: The most recent survey of 1,662 U.S. The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., Related: Why more black students are enrolling in historically black colleges.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

“One out of 10 Black students in the eighth grade math scores were scoring basic or above,” saidKristen Hengtgen, a senior policy analyst at the nonprofit advocacy group EdTrust, referring to last year’s National Assessment of Educational Progress, known as the Nation’s Report Card. Related: Widen your perspective.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Across the hall, Beth Schefelker and Claire Madden, two other math education specialists, led a group of teachers and principals in adding fractions. Huinker, a professor who advised Hedges’ doctorate in math education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a legend among Milwaukee’s math teachers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Right now we are doing a poor job of helping educators with these tasks.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 28, 2015

When we do educator PD / conference workshops, what principles of effective adult learning do we routinely violate? Connected Educator Month launches today. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. ETCoaches #edtech. ETCoaches #edtech. Are they really helpful?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 25, 2020

I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. I am talking with schools to see how they’re responding in the wake of this global pandemic. Episode 003 is below.

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Public School Leadership Education 78

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2017

The switch to a proficiency-based education, which focuses on making sure students can demonstrate what they know, has helped students like Elderkin. That’s due to a new teaching approach here called “proficiency-based education,” that was inspired by a 2012 state law. Photo: Gregory Rec/Portland Press Herald.

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Education High School K-12 Economics 0

Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Jeff Utecht grabbed me for a podcast interview when I was in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia a few weeks ago for the EARCOS Leadership Conference. Tony Wagner speaks to Iowa educators, Part 3. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Happy listening! Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. They are also seeking to use this moment to educate teens about elections and voting and turn them into lifelong voters. “The Andrew Brennen, National Geographic education fellow. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

She watched from the backseat in August 2012 as the city gave way to the causeway, miles and miles of concrete bridge she hoped would ferry her to the future she’d been promised. She’d been one of the first graduates in a new charter school landscape that many in New Orleans believed could fix a broken education system.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 27, 2016

I was given ISTE’s Award for Outstanding Leadership this afternoon. Bitter Vision Award for outstanding PK-2 educator. . Denise Schmidt-Crawford received the Award for Excellence in Teacher Education. . Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

With declining birth rates and growing skepticism about the value of a degree, higher education is facing an enrollment cliff, set to hit hard in 2026. In this season, we’re standing on the precipice of the demographic cliff and exploring the changing higher education landscape. Applying to schools is really stressful.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

How are political science educators bringing the 2024 U.S. What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. Join APSA for our third webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. election into their classrooms?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

Higher Education. “For the first time, we know that there are benefits for kids,” said Jody Spiro, director of education leadership at the Wallace Foundation. Gates said the biggest factor in how much bang a district got for its buck depended upon how much work it had previously done in improving school leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

Data drawn from the PISA 2012 database, graph adapted from Foley et al, 2017.). New research shows that levels of math anxiety have a.75 75 correlation with students’ enjoyment of math, and.64 64 correlation with motivation to take more math or do well in math. These are shockingly high proportions.

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