Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 20, 2020

We discussed that this present challenge also is an opportunity to rethink some big ideas around learning, teaching, and schooling. Scott McLeod , @mcleod | Associate Professor of Educational Leadership, University of Colorado Denver; Founding Director, CASTLE. – Leadership Day 2014. Chris Dede , @chrs_dede | Timothy E.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. This is part of what is called curriculum leadership. They need to be experts in the subjects they are teaching." So what knowledge we teach now will retain its power during the students' life time - let alone beyond.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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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. Innovative Learning Spaces. It gives students opportunities they wouldn’t have at other schools.”.

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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. As a university faculty member who tries hard to integrate technology into my teaching, I think I’m doing a decent job with Standards 6a, 6c, and 7a.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

For nearly a decade, the New York State Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and Teach Dream , the council’s educator team, have pushed city officials for more support for immigrant students in schools. Federal and state immigration policies have since changed, and options have multiplied for immigrant students.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. Every teacher wants to learn and do a better job teaching,” Huinker said. Huinker’s proposal was to have math education experts teach teachers more math while getting constant feedback from teachers on obstacles in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

The school also tracks college completion rates, with 59 percent of the class of 2012 finishing within six years. Barraza teaches Native literature at the Native American Community Academy in Albuquerque. The charter school also teaches students in Keres, Lakota, Navajo, Tiwa and Spanish. These teachers weren’t doing that.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 2, 2017

Data drawn from the PISA 2012 database, graph adapted from Foley et al, 2017.). The only way to turn our nation around is to change the way we teach and view math. The fortunate students, whose teachers have learned to teach math as a learning rather than a performance subject, develop a very different relationship with math.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. After 14 years as an Educational Leadership professor, Dr. McLeod currently serves as the Director of Innovation for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa. Scott McLeod, J.D., Register here! Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University. “They rarely had a teacher of color.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift But teaching wasn’t the only thing on Snyder’s plate. The Boston Teachers Union Pilot School, where Snyder has worked since 2012, is a “teacher-powered” school. In other cases, teachers lead the school while also juggling teaching loads. And she was running for the school’s governing board.

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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. After a year of teaching there, he’d come to believe that he could help any student get into college. 1 Photo: Cheryl Gerber for The Hechinger Report.

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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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The Hechinger Report

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. Work-based learning is an instructional approach to classroom teaching that connects it to the workplace. Likewise, schools must adopt more work-based learning programs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2025

Kirk] Jennifer Delaney teaches higher ed policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and she studied the direct admissions program in Idaho, where every public institution in the state participates, as well as two private colleges. Idaho was the first state to create a direct admissions program.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

When Mary Fair became a teacher in 2012, her classes often contained a mix of special education students and general education students. Although she earned a bachelor’s degree and teaching certificate in math instruction for both elementary and middle school, she never had to take a class about students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. After attending the district’s schools and inheriting a love of teaching from her mother, she went to college and put her degree to work in her hometown. Credit: Rory Doyle for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

“It’s not as if the principal had particular tasks taken away from their role,” said Ellen Goldring, professor of education policy and leadership at Vanderbilt University. 75 percent of principals think their job has become “too complex,” according to a 2012 survey. These new tasks were added. Ellen Goldring, Vanderbilt University.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Now 24 years old, he is one of 11 new residents joining the PUC Schools network through the school system’s Alumni Teach Project.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. Portland’s district leadership has said it plans “ to stay the course with its transition to a proficiency-based diploma,” regardless of changes in the law.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

Standing in a cavernous teaching lab full of industrial equipment on the college’s Tulare campus, Emery said the decades-long national push for high school graduates to get bachelor’s degrees left vocational programs with an image problem, and the nation’s factories with far fewer skilled workers than needed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

Recently, she started classes toward a bachelor’s degree in organizational leadership and learning at the University of Louisville. Should you not get college credit just because we don’t teach it here?”. In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84 That degree program is not free.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. “Am And when the chance presented itself to lead Cambridge Street in 2012, he made his intentions clear. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Related: Getting rid of gifted programs: Trying to teach students at all levels together in one class. He hired Wells to overhaul the gifted program in November 2012 even before the judge issued his ruling. If a child needed language support, he said, put them in the general gifted class with language support.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Robert Kelchen, head of the Department of Education Leadership and Policy Studies, University of Tennessee, Knoxville. “It’s going to be difficult for colleges to cover inflation just with tuition increases. They have to look at other ways to cut costs.” Many institutions may, at best, end up largely standing still.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

The Center, which is solely for adult learners, supports SPICE’s mission to teach parents the skills they need so they can teach their children. Since the Center went live in 2012, SPICE has seen an increase of more than 1,000 percent in learner hours, and an increase of more than a 254 percent in the number of students served.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

“Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.” Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”. Unfunded mandate after unfunded mandate is not making teaching a chosen career.”. “It’s the long arm of the state,” she says.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

In 2012, city officials became convinced that the school could not improve and began the process of shutting it down. Jackson was new to the community school model, but having spent 16 years teaching in another high-needs Brooklyn school, she found it made sense to her. “I We take the onus off of them so they can teach.”.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

He completed his dissertation, “Black Elected Officials, Leadership Style and the Politics of Race: Los Angeles, 1963-2003,” under the mentorship of the late Dr. Michael Preston, WPSA’s first African American President. Within the American Political Science Association, Dr. Ricks held a number of leadership and committee positions.

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The Hechinger Report

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. Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

Starting in 2012, an idea floated around Alaska that seemed sort of preposterous. Earlier this fall, Tozier’s instructor had to travel for her other job and was teaching from afar. With greater bandwidth, the September round of testing went smoothly, she said, and teachers were free to “teach as they would normally.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Charter School opened in 2016 on the former campus of the shuttered Randolph Southern School, a private school that had not enrolled a single black student in 2012, the last year for which enrollment numbers are available. Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. Southwest Georgia S.T.E.M.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. When the district won federal Race to the Top funding in 2012, Schauer expanded the strengths program.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example.

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