A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan - Teacher of English at Tenafly Middle School and candidate for New Jersey principal’s certification through NJ EXCEL, currently interning with Principal Eric Sheninger at New Milford High School. Thank you, Steve, for your wonderful leadership (and the delicious breakfast)!

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In 2012, then-headmaster Sammy Henderson a dmitted to The Atlantic magazinethat the school only enrolled nine Black students, but added that “we also have Hispanic, Indian, and Oriental students.” The post At this summer school, students learn about liberation and leadership appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. The proportion of high school graduates going on to college has been rising, but the proportion who stay once they get there is flat or down, new federal data show.

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OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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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. Are you looking to start or expand a maker learning program for your learners?

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OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. But even in districts and states that include student board representatives, students rarely have voting power.

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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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APRIL 28, 2024

We need to earmark funds to hire more advisers because no matter how much we prepare students in high school to succeed academically at the next level, they also need someone trained in the intersection of immigration and education to get them there. Related: OPINION: I’m a college access professional. I only wish more could join me.

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MAY 19, 2024

The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Since then, the numbers have slipped to the single digits, with just 5 percent of the class of 2016 finishing within six years, according to a data analysis from the charter school network. Emmet Yepa Jr.,

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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. Before Hurricane Katrina, just half of New Orleans public school students earned a high school diploma , and few went on to succeed at a university.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

MILWAUKEE — On a muggy afternoon in late June, about 20 kindergarten through second-grade teachers sat in a classroom on the third floor of Milwaukee’s North Division High School. That rate for eighth graders peaked in 2012, with about 16 percent reaching proficiency or advanced status.

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APRIL 16, 2025

So every kid in a public high school in Idaho gets a letter. You’re either in everywhere in the state if your GPA is high enough, or you’re into all the open-access institutions, which is every community college plus two public four-years. Jon] Kirk, that’s just one small private college.

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AUGUST 29, 2017

The skills being taught here are in high demand. That’s in part because so much effort has been put into encouraging high school graduates to go to college for academic degrees rather than for training in industrial and other trades that many fields like his face worker shortages. It’s a pretty safe bet.

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APRIL 19, 2019

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. This past fall, Ragan Toppan, 16, walked out of her Algebra II class at Deering High School to protest her school’s recent switch to standards-based grading.

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OCTOBER 15, 2018

Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends. She lacked mentors in high school and college. Before that, she worked as a packer in various warehouses in the Midwest.

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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: More Latino students earning high school diplomas wrestle stubborn equity gap.

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MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school. “I

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JUNE 6, 2022

Yet students at Collins Elementary join the increasingly isolated ranks of those legally paddled at school. One is in college and two are in high school in another district. His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district.

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OCTOBER 10, 2021

Other students confront the challenge of having had inadequate high school preparation. It’s mostly not just one obstacle or one incident that makes a student decide to leave school, researchers and educators say. We give students that chance that other schools won’t give them.

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AUGUST 5, 2021

Seeing that “things could literally end in a split moment” pushed her to revisit an old goal: going to college, maybe to become a high school English teacher. Free college” or “promise” programs have long focused on recent high school grads. She finished while helping her son attend school remotely.

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APRIL 25, 2023

She would also lead an upcoming meeting on the school’s finances, including how to spend federal pandemic relief dollars. And she was running for the school’s governing board. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school.

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DECEMBER 6, 2016

Julian Ambriz (left), a teacher joining PUC Schools through the Alumni Teach Project this year, works with his mentor, Justin Gutierrez (right), a physical education teacher, during a training session in July. LOS ANGELES — When students at one California charter network graduate from high school, they get more than just a diploma.

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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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AUGUST 11, 2017

Community High School. million students — is that the 40-plus schools using the method are doing so voluntarily, as part of a grassroots movement. In communities where the shift has been mandated – high schools in and around Portland, Me., In late 2012, educators at the school were trying to think big.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2022

A separate survey by the College Board and the consulting firm Art & Science Group found that more than half of high school students ruled out colleges because of the published price. Robert Kelchen, head of the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville.

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JUNE 10, 2017

Freshman Kylee Elderkin works on an assignment in English class at Nokomis High School in Newport on Friday, June 2, 2017. The Nokomis Regional High School ninth grader said she used to routinely miss key skills and do poorly on tests. Kylee Elderkin, student, Nokomis Regional High School.

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JANUARY 28, 2019

NOME, Alaska — Before they got down to business for the day, students in Devin Tatro’s social studies class were offered a quiet moment of self-reflection: On this golden fall afternoon at Nome-Beltz Junior/Senior High School, were they feeling chipper, distressed or somewhere in between? A plan to link Alaska to the world.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Credit: Vanessa Leroy for The Hechinger Report Colby-Sawyer College has added graduate programs in high-demand health fields for which it plans a $15 million School of Nursing and Health Sciences on the site of this old science building. Still, undergraduate enrollment at the school has fallen steadily, from 1,414 in 2012, U.S.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

For Johnson, the school was a bid to cultivate the greatness she saw in these local kids, including her own daughters. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. The surrounding Coahoma schools also began consolidating in March. he Brown v.

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APRIL 18, 2016

That’s because all the kids in this diverse suburb just northwest of Jackson attend the same school for kindergarten and first grade, then move on to the second- and third-grade school and continue together on through high school. Zach Osborn, teacher at Clinton High School.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The school has struggled to stem sliding enrollment and to address poor safety ratings by parents and test scores that were among the worst in the city. In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. It has roughly 225 students; 99 percent are low-income.

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JANUARY 14, 2019

He estimated that nearly one in three new jobs created through 2026 will require education beyond high school. Others have revamped remedial education, a major stumbling block for students who are forced to repeat subjects they should have learned in high school. Related: More Hispanics going to college: The bad news?

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Berry said that consistent leadership and high expectations helped the district improve under state control. A state takeover is looming for Jackson Public Schools. In third-grade math, all five districts showed overall gains after the takeovers, but only two districts saw growth each year in pass rates for high school algebra.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

About half of its students did not complete high school and all seven of its schools were classified by the state as “in need of improvement.” ” To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on.

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

Before, the state already had two voucher programs: the 2012 Dyslexia Therapy Scholarship for Students with Dyslexia Program, and in 2013, the Speech-Language Therapy Scholarship for Students with Speech-Language Impairments. Photo: Imani Khayyam.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2016

About half of its students did not complete high school and all seven of its schools were classified by the state as “in need of improvement.”. Middletown School District, a #DPLIS member, works to erase the look and feel of poverty: https://t.co/OcFbxT9ygG In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. is three years.

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