A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

“ More blood means more energy and oxygen, which makes our brain perform better.” – Justin Rhodes Spending time in schools as a leadership and learning coach has been some of the most gratifying work I have done. 2012; Erwin, Fedewa, & Ahn, 2013; Browning et al., Mathematics Enthusiast, 11 (2), 333–383.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

The summer of 2013 was probably one of the most important hiring years during my seven-year tenure as a high school principal. The summer of 2013 will always stand out because that was the year that I was able to woo Laura Fleming back to not only her Alma Mater, but also where she was originally employed for years.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ALL on instructional redesign (or leadership) for deeper learning. Leadership for Deeper Learning track – April 3 and 10. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. 5 tracks… 10 cohorts… 28 total sessions. Here are the details: Instructional Coaching track – February 13, 20, and 27. Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 1, 2016

I’m pleased to note that Digital Leadership Daily is now reaching over 1,000 daily subscribers via its SMS, Facebook, and Twitter channels. Fifteen months ago I decided to send out one high-quality technology leadership resource per day through this new dissemination channel. – Leadership Day 2013. I bet you do!

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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.’ And we can build on all of that to start implementing new instructional and leadership paradigms in schools and classrooms.

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Becoming a History Teacher

JUNE 11, 2024

While they may have additional responsibilities in school, meaning greater time pressures placed upon them, mentors who are well established in their school setting also understand how to navigate relationships with their leadership, colleagues, pupils and communities. International Journal of Learning. 10.18848/1447-9494/CGP/v16i04/46209.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

In 2013, people incarcerated there staged a two-month hunger strike that spread throughout the state’s prisons to protest the excessive use of solitary confinement. Because of the involvement of senior leadership,” she said, “Cal Poly Humboldt’s was the easiest by far.” Are you sure?” she said she asked them.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

students’ leadership capacity through The Leader in Me framework; competency-based education and student progressions; deeper learning modalities in their schools, classrooms, and external partnerships; and. Workshop 2 (leadership teams) = leadership challenges related to deeper learning. Please don’t hesitate to reach out!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 8, 2016

This is where the concept of digital leadership really comes into play. The following are some specific paradigm shifts in relation to the Pillars of Digital Leadership : Student Engagement, Learning, and Achievement We can ill afford to teach and lead in the same ways we were taught and led. Barrett, P., Moffat,J., &

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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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Political Science Now

AUGUST 30, 2024

“We are delighted to welcome Kim Mealy to this critical leadership role. We are very excited about this new chapter in the APSA’s evolution under Kim’s leadership,” said APSA President, Mark Warren. million dollars in 2021; and serving as the co-Principal Investigator on the National Science Foundation (NSF) $1.4

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Research by Cristol and Gimbert (2013) found that students utilizing mobile learning devices scored, on average, 52.34 At the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) my team and I work with schools and districts to get mobile learning initiatives right before an all out rollout. Cristol, D., & & Gimbert, B.

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A Principal's Reflections

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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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

Building on the success of our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative and with the addition of a new, innovative staff member two noteworthy advancements have been made since September 2013. Change Digital Leadership educational technology Innovation Laura Fleming Makerspace New Milford High School transformation'

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

I had just finished back-to-back projects that resulted in Digital Leadership and Uncommon Learning, which took up a great deal of my time. We scratched the surface in 2013 as I worked with her to include a chapter on branding in Digital Leadership, which later came out early in 2014. However, there was more to this story.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

When I hired Laura Fleming in 2013 to take over the traditional library she was tasked with giving it a reboot and was given complete autonomy to do so. When embarking on this initiative don't discount the importance of leadership during the planning, implementation, and evaluation process.

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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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Living Geography

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

DECEMBER 28, 2014

Here are some professional highlights from 2014: Digital Leadership was published by Corwin on January 14, 2014. Media specialist/teacher librarian Laura Fleming spearheaded this initiative in the fall of 2013 and the makerspace really hit it''s stride around this time. This was my first solo effort at authoring a book.

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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. NMHS routinely hosts visits from outside educators, schools, and organizations in an effort to provide insights on our initiatives.

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Political Science Now

OCTOBER 14, 2024

AAP emerged from the India Against Corruption movement in 2013. A study by Saad Gulzar, Durgesh Pathak, Sarah Thompson, and Aliz Tóth, in collaboration with the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) in India, explores how non-monetary incentives can play an effective role in both attracting and retaining grassroots party activists.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 22, 2013

It is an opportunity to become better at what we do as well as gain knowledge on new pedagogical techniques, learning theories, leadership strategies, technologies, and federal/state mandates. We can all agree that professional development is essential in any profession, especially education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 8, 2018

THIS is my favorite kind of work: long-term investments in leadership capacity-building. – Leadership Day 2012. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Learn about robust, technology-infused learning at the 2013 Iowa 1:1 Institute. Calling all bloggers!

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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. Attending weekly team planning meetings made me anxious, because usually, that’s where we would learn of the latest effort leadership had come up with. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 13, 2016

By the 2013-14 school year, and after three years of total district adoption of the Framework, the significant improvements in collegial conversation and student work were reflected in a rating which had jumped to 92.1%. of total points possible, the equivalent of a C in anyone’s grade book. In the 2014-15 school year, we earned a 97.9%

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

In 2013, Graeber wrote an article for the obscure left-wing magazine STRIKE! Taskmasters” (such as some middle managers or leadership professionals) are people who supervise people who don’t need supervision. He was also known for his political activism, notably as one of the original organizers of the Occupy Wall Street movement.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 28, 2019

Other key players include Gena Keller , Acting Deputy Superintendent for the Virginia Department of Education, and Ted Dintersmith , who once again is lending his generous support to building leadership capacity for future-ready learning, teaching, and schooling in yet another state. Update: North Dakota Innovation Academy.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 26, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. State and local policies need to spur teacher engagement in the design of a more effective system of professional learning which they need and want.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 27, 2019

Generously supported by Ted Dintersmith and in cooperation with the North Dakota Council of Educational Leaders , the goal was to kick off a three-year investment in leadership capacity-building across the state for future-ready learning, teaching, and schooling. Learn about robust, technology-infused learning at the 2013 Iowa 1:1 Institute.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

This keynote focuses on transformative leadership mindsets and features exemplary schools from around the world that are ignoring the ‘yes, buts’ to make amazing things happen for children and youth. – Leadership Day 2013. Two awesome tech leadership webinars for our Connected Educator Month book club.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

Mississippi’s NAEP performance gains accompanied new policies that began at roughly the same time: The Literacy-Based Promotion Act (LBPA) , passed by the Mississippi legislature in 2013, is primarily known as a policy to hold back third graders who have not demonstrated basic reading proficiency on a state assessment. Pallas is the Arthur I.

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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

OCTOBER 18, 2023

In 2013, she took on leading a ninth-grade remedial class and taught nearly 50 students the regular Algebra 1 curriculum. It really allowed me to really own my leadership skills,” she said. Reed, then chair of the school’s math department, intervened. She started with a small test.

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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. Students must apply for internships, ideally completing two in person and for pay before they graduate. “We

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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. The one question I’m asking at ISTE 2013. Register here!

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Her newest book, Arise: The Art of Transformational Coaching ( Amazon | Bookshop.org ), was written to replace 2013’s The Art of Coaching , which is being taken out of circulation now that the new book is published. Elena Aguilar While the new book contains some elements of the original, this one takes a much more humanistic approach.

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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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