A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2013

This past weekend I was fortunate enough to present at the 2013 Annual ASCD Conference in Chicago. This conference is one of my must attend events of the year and I use it as an opportunity to develop new presentations based on my leadership experiences at New Milford High School.

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JANUARY 4, 2015

In 2013 I was fortunate enough to hire media specialist/teacher librarian Laura Fleming , who took the initiative to create a makerspace in our school. For a maker culture to succeed and thrive in a school, leadership matters. Change Digital Leadership Laura Fleming Maker Movement Makerspace Opinion'

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ No great answer to this is apparent other than a cultural reframing, one that is already underway.

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In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Graeber’s book is conversational in style, drawing on history, literature, sociology, anthropology, and pop culture to support his arguments. titled “ On the Phenomenon of B t Jobs.” He had no inkling it was about to cause something of a minor sensation.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 8, 2017

We had a vibrant conversation on the topic of Digital Leadership with a focus on school culture, embracing change, strategic use of social media, the Model Schools Conference , and innovation. I recently had the honor of being a guest on Dr. Will Deyamport’s podcast called the Dr. Will Show. You can view the Google Hangout video HERE.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 28, 2014

The best part of this new world were the endless possibilities to improving professional practice and school culture. Here are some professional highlights from 2014: Digital Leadership was published by Corwin on January 14, 2014. This was the hardest professional decision I ever had to make.

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NOVEMBER 17, 2024

In 2013, GeoCapabilities became an EU funded programme as a 3 year Comenius project (539079-LLP-1-2013-1-UK-COMENIUS-CMP). This is part of what is called curriculum leadership. This was with Michael Solem and John Lyon, and was an interesting experience, and led to me getting involved ultimately with Michael Solem's work.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2013

Steve visited New Milford High School on Thursday February 28, 2013. Today I had the opportunity to meet with Eric Sheninger before he headed off to the 2013 NASSP Conference. As we navigated the hallways and classrooms, I was able to experience firsthand the school culture that is fostered at New Milford High School.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

By committing to systematic integration of the model, we transformed the culture, the conversation, as well as the results in our district. A Common Language = A Connected Culture An additional benefit of deep integration of the Framework into common language was the elevated levels of effectiveness of the PLTs (Professional Learning Teams).

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

The first schools to implement what Public Impact calls an “Opportunity Culture,” did so during the 2013-14 school year, and Edgecombe County Public Schools is set to become the first district to bring the model systemwide. Each school that embarks on creating an Opportunity Culture does so in a unique way, based on its needs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

Ninety-six percent of children at the Walton Avenue School, a K-5 school in the Bronx he’d founded in 2013, face economic hardship, and about a third are homeless. Russo himself has embodied the sixth: “effective school leadership.” In 2013, the administration of former mayor Michael Bloomberg began phasing out the school.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

In the semester-long course, volunteers from employer partners coach and mentor a small cohort of students on career skills, including leadership, problem-solving and communication. The experience “changed my life,” she said, opening her eyes to new career possibilities as well as a new culture.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Director of Hispanic student services Teri Mora regularly accompanies members of the school’s Hispanic American Leadership Organization student group to the United States Hispanic Leadership Institute conference. For Title III Part F — the STEM grant — the appropriation was nearly $95 million in 2013.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. In 2013, Senator Inouye was awarded posthumously with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This is especially remarkable in our current cultural moment — a post-Parkland world in which school districts are pressured to purchase weapons, grant law enforcement access to student records, and spend limited education dollars on high-tech surveillance. The new MOU seeks to close the book on this culture. million students.

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JANUARY 21, 2024

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392. link] Reese, W. Stewart, A.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2018

He enrolled in the fall of 2013, but soon after he arrived, he began to have concerns. He said that he felt that faculty members were more attentive to white students, and he didn’t get any of the leadership positions for which he applied. Other problems were subtler. He eventually transferred to a historically black university. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

But when it comes to selecting ed-tech products or figuring out how to use them in the classroom, they could still learn something from the successful partnership between Leadership Public Schools (LPS), a charter network that serves the San Francisco Bay area, and Gooru , an ed-tech nonprofit.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. And from 2013 to 2016, the number of its graduates enrolling in associate or bachelor’s degree programs rose dramatically, from 28 percent to 47 percent, according to school officials.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Segregating public school children on the basis of race or ethnicity is inherently suspect,” he wrote in his 2013 decision. Judge Robert Gettleman, a Clinton appointee, didn’t buy the district’s contention that the Hispanic students needed a separate class. He ruled that the gifted program was discriminatory.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

The number of college students with one or more mental health problems has doubled since 2013 , according to a study by researchers at Boston University and elsewhere. If it’s a grade, you have to average those two,” said Rogoff, who specializes in cultural variations in learning. “It The Covid-19 pandemic made things even worse.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. It also added parent and student liaisons who would have a voice in the leadership of the project. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

It’s a cultural rebuild,” said Randy Emery, a welding instructor at the College of the Sequoias in California’s Central Valley. While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.” Casco Bay’s principal, Derek Pierce, credits much of the school’s success to the way Crew culture personalizes each student’s journey over four years. “We And how to listen to each other.”. How am I doing?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2020

While the district has done social-emotional work in a piecemeal way in the past, all schools will now ask students to spend 30 minutes greeting each other and talking through their feelings each day, said Abigail Gray, deputy chief of school climate and culture. Three months is a long time to say, ‘Deal with it the best you can,’ ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In some schools [student/teacher conflict] would come down to … ‘This white lady doesn’t like me,’ and a cultural disconnect, but in this school absolutely not.”. According to 2013 statistics from the Cowen Institute, 26,000 youth between the ages of 16 and 24 were neither working nor in school. Over and over and over,” Lee says. “In

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2017

Baker is introduced as new Northern Illinois University president on April 2, 2013. About two-thirds are guaranteed positions on the faculty, often with the help of graduate assistants, and get free admission to campus sports and cultural events, VIP parking and continued paid-for memberships to country clubs and social organizations.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2018

Over the years it expanded to seven locations before consolidating into its three current sites, which include a new campus, Belmont Cragin, built in 2013. Beyond attending parenting classes, parents are encouraged to participate in school events, serve on the parent council, and take on leadership roles.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Overall, the campus has attracted nearly 60 percent more students from Newark since 2013, the result of a concerted effort by Rutgers and other local groups to boost college-going rates in the city, university officials said. “We percent in 2000 to 25 percent by 2025. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Academic failure doesn’t happen in a vacuum… Students don’t fail by themselves, it’s a whole culture of failure that happens,” said the New York City Schools Chancellor Carmen Fariña, explaining why she mandated that all Renewals had to become community schools. “I I wouldn’t have imagined doing this without community schools as a model.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. We underestimated the cultural gaps between the communities our students come from and the more elite highly selective institutions that a lot of people got placed into.”. We underestimated the importance of social integration.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

She knows what’s possible with the right combination of support and school culture. The leader, Mary Beth Bonaventura, said she was responding to budget cuts, leadership changes and complacency over outmoded technology. But this one not,” said Walker in a meeting with his teachers in May. That’s why she doesn’t lose hope.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. When they go home, they may not have that.”. The majority of K-12 students in the U.S.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. “Our children, because they come from homes of poverty, are cultured into avoiding anything that costs money,” Eastwood says. When they go home, they may not have that.” is three years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

The program was designed to place workers at Stinger Welding, an Arizona-based bridge building company that brought 70 jobs to Libby before its closure in 2013. The places where our schools are situated — the communities are a wealth of knowledge and resources, of history and culture, of science and technology. It surrounds them.”

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2013

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 19, 2013. Hundreds of educators from over ten different states and Canada descended upon my school last year to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path.

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