A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2012

There were many times during this early period that I questioned the value of the time I was putting in, or the actual impact any of this was having on teaching, learning, school culture, and leadership. On this Leadership Day 2012 I would like to remind all school leaders and educators that it is never too late to jump on the bandwagon.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Edscape will once again be held at New Milford High School on Saturday October 13, 2012. (A 21st Century Learning 21st Century Teaching Edscape' MARK YOUR CALENDARS NOW!!!! A special thank you goes out to Teq. Without this educational partner, Edcape would not have happened or been a success.).

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 13, 2012

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. The 2012 Educators’ Choice Awards will honor and reward Adobe Education Exchange members who submit the most innovative teaching and learning materials.

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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. 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.”

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 17, 2012

On Thursday May 17, 2012, I was fortunate to attend the Adobe Digital Publishing Summit in New York City. Additionally, features could be added where anyone with the app could touch specific areas of the image and receive detailed information about how certain forms of technology are used to enhance the teaching and learning process.

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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. Edscape will provide attendees with the inspiration, strategies, and the confidence to actively pursue a transformation in teaching and learning practices. Innovation begins with a desire to change.

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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. The challenge then became how to deliver a uniform experience across all devices in order to assist with the teaching and learning process.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 29, 2012

Below is an email that I recently received from Amanda Howell, a 2012 graduate of New Milford High School. His enthusiasm and passion for what he does really shines through in his teaching. Amanda''s reflection on her time at NMHS put into perspective what really matters in an educational experience.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2016

In all, the new regulations completely give up on quality teaching and simply shoot for compliance. This latest change was pushed out on Wednesday, August 31, just days before schools welcomed back students. On Monday, a few days later, Education Commissioner David Hespe resigned. A bit shady, huh?

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A Principal's Reflections

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. Their number one concern is the technological capacity to teach and assess students.

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A Principal's Reflections

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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

The museum also offers a master of arts in Teaching Earth Sciences Residency , the program Jack participated in, which certifies Earth science teachers of grades 7-12. More than 150 teachers have graduated from the program since it started in 2012. “I I found that I spent a lot more time teaching to the test than I’d like,” she said.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 9, 2021

2007; Klassen, Perry & Frenzel, 2012; McIlveen & Perera, 2016; Perera, Granziera, et al., It suggests the importance of relationships and human connection in the teaching profession. Many aspects of a teacher’s work can function to increase or decrease their engagement.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

GeoCapabilities began in 2012 with a pilot project led by the American Association of Geographers. 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. they're teaching particular students rather than that person.

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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. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. I was always completing tasks for other people.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Unfortunately, there’s very little research on test prep and its effect on teaching quality. Teaching quality is a very hard thing to study. Researchers usually don’t know exactly what teachers are teaching behind closed doors. But the teaching quality wasn’t as high to start with.

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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. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati with a degree in Dramatic Performance, Jon was thrilled to teach for two days when Mrs. Collentine asked if he would come into her classes.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

Firstly, that we may be confined to rehearsing only the behavioural aspects of teaching, the visible ‘moves’ that a teacher makes such as how they script their instructions or ask questions to the class. The more we zoom in, the more precise we can be, but the further removed from the context of an actual teaching episode it becomes.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Yes, blended learning can help teachers navigate the challenges of teaching at this moment. My adaptation of Staker and Horn’s (2012) often cited definition is rooted in constructivist principles emphasizing the student’s role as an active participant in the learning process.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

I first trialed active learning strategies while teaching at the University of Oxford, where one of the challenges of teaching anthropology is the diverse background of the students (Bastide, 2012). Three challenges in teaching anthropology. Teaching Anthropology 1 (2), pp. References Bastide, H. Bierema, L.

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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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ED Surge

AUGUST 5, 2024

As professors and researchers in university teaching and learning programs, we’re fascinated by this question. From 2012-2018, nearly 2,800 preservice teachers within one of the largest teacher preparation programs in Texas responded to an essay prompt, “Explain why you decided to become a teacher.”

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2024

As Joshua Eyler was researching a book on what brain science tells us about how to improve teaching , one issue kept coming up as an underlying problem: The way schools and colleges grade student work is at odds with effective teaching. But the track record for such reforms is mixed. “It

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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. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Hope you will join us for some good conversations! Related Posts. Education in a digital world [VIDEO].

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

Earlier this month, California State University, Fullerton, asked its faculty to prepare for teaching all their fall classes online. Its instructors received pleas for help from friends at traditional schools, asking about the basics of teaching over the internet, according to Bob Ludwig, the school’s head of media relations.

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2015

That quest to prove the effectiveness of my own practice started my interest in finding “research-based” teaching practices. My first opportunity to try action research actually came not when teaching students, but when teaching teachers. At first, I was skeptical about research. This is action research!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2016

“However, if they only teach students tips and tricks, how to solve small everyday problems, they know how to solve those problems, but they’re not good at transferring that knowledge to another context.” “We’re teaching a lot of kids to memorize rules, without understanding math concepts,” Briars said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

teaching force is mostly white but the students in our classrooms are now mostly black, Hispanic and Asian. “No, we don’t have parity,” said Richard Ingersoll, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, who has been documenting changes in the teaching labor force. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 19, 2019

Previous studies provided resources and tools that inform teacher practices around students’ 21st century learning competencies (National Education Association, 2012; Hixson, Ravitz, & Whisman, 2012). Extended Professional Development in Project-Based Learning: Impacts on 21st Century Skills Teaching and Student Achievement.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2016

All the while, they were teaching kids to code. If they can download an app, then they can use the robot to help teach coding.”. The answer crystallized when a post-doc in Nagpal’s lab, Michael Rubenstein, entered a 2012 African Robotics Network challenge for a low-cost educational robot. Read more about Blended Learning.

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ED Surge

APRIL 13, 2023

An Unusual Backstory When MIT and Harvard each invested $30 million to start edX back in 2012, it was surprising news. In fact, a New York Times piece declared 2012 “ the year of the MOOC.” The founding came at the height of public excitement around free online courses known as MOOCs, which stands for Massive Open Online Courses.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

The low-income school district near downtown Los Angeles, with a student body that is 84 percent Latino and 14 percent Black, now has a graduation rate of 93 percent, compared with 58 percent when Brawley took the job in 2012. She gets separate data chats with her math specialist that are part performance review, part pep talk.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2021

A 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small. One 2012 review of studies on learning time found that the extra time often didn’t produce academic benefits for students and when it did, the benefits were small.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Several studies showed that teachers build vital professional knowledge and skills when watching and discussing instructional videos with colleagues (Little, 2012; Sherin & Han, 2004). Analyzing their own instruction in real-time while teaching is too much of a juggling act. Tripp & Rich, 2012. Sherin & Han, 2004.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

Since 2012, when the government exhorted more écoles maternelles to open their doors to 2-year-olds, the rate of participation in France’s “priority education networks”—networks of schools that serve heavily low-income, immigrant communities that are targeted for extra social support—has steadily risen.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2016

In 2012 math scores deteriorated a few points. In an online briefing for journalists, he said that higher performing nations structure their math curriculum differently, teaching fewer topics, but in greater depth. Among the 60 nations and regions that took the PISA test in both 2012 and 2015, the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

She was hired as the student voice specialist at Chicago Public Schools in 2012 to oversee the district’s newly created “student voice committees.”. Teaching about civic engagement only once in a while is like teaching someone how to swim without ever putting them in the water.”. In 2012, it became the first U.S.

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