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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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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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. Traditional models of the market economy, he writes, are centered on the “production” of material goods and their “consumption.”

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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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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2024

But traditional internships are not universally accessible. “At Not everybody is a traditional 18- to 22-year-old student,” Churches said. 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.

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Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Preschool prepares children for the structured learning programs, social interactions, and schedules of traditional K-12 schooling. 2013, May 2). 2023, May 23).

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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 1, 2022

Critics respond that replacing traditional A to F grades with new forms of assessments is like a college-level version of participation trophies. 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.

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Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

We hope students of Asian or Pacific Islander heritage share their experiences and their cultural traditions with their peers, and teachers include the contributions of Asian and Pacific Americans to our collective history in lessons this month. They helped shape our country into what it is today. He lost his right arm in the war.

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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.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis , 42 (3), 375–392. link] Reese, W.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

With 106 years of classroom leadership among them, seven educators over the next two years grappled with a key question: Could you keep the same 6 ½-hour school day, and the same school personnel, but design a radically different learning experience for students? Even those who need more time, she said, “are like, ‘Wow, I can do this.’

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

But after most schools shifted their classes online in early 2020, remote learning caught on with some families, including those who preferred to give their children the flexibility of learning from home, or whose children struggled with social anxiety in school buildings or hadn’t found success in traditional learning environments.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

Kids in traditional schools sometimes act like they’re on a cruise ship, where they sit on deck and teachers bring them stuff to do,” Berger said. “We As a prelude to discussing leadership, peer pressure and conflict, a Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, played a game called “Instigator.”

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Since its launch in the fall of 2013, more than 80,000 edTPA portfolios have been submitted by teacher candidates and scored by trained professional educators from higher education and P-12 schools, including a significant pool of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards. There is much work to do.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

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. As with a lot of education challenges, money is also a big problem.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2017

Moheeb is part of a new program that is challenging the way teachers and students think about academics, and his school is one of hundreds that have done away with traditional letter grades inside their classrooms. 442 moved away from the traditional system, it lost seven teachers. The year M.S.

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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. That’s held true in Takoma Park, a Maryland town of 18,000 near Washington, D.C.

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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. In this poster, the association highlights the fact that traditional methods of finding gifted children often miss children who are low-income, nonwhite or do not speak English at home.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 5, 2016

STR is one of 658 alternative teacher prep programs nationwide according to a 2013 U.S. But in short order, a whirlwind of leadership turnover — four superintendents in four years — led the partnership to a very public impasse that pitted the school district against its fundraising partner, the alliance. “We

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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 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. In 2015, the University of Washington’s District Leadership Design Lab helped developed the nation’s first research-based standards for principal supervisors.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

In fully integrated Clinton, black students’ and white students’ scores on the seventh-grade ELA exams rose from 2009 to 2013, while the black-white gap shrank from 33 to 11 percentage points. 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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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. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

Between 1989 and 2013, the percentage of students with disabilities who were in a general education class for 80 percent or more of the school day increased from about 32 percent to nearly 62 percent. At the very least, “You should have a special education class, and an English language learner class,” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

New Orleans schools that have embraced some element of restorative justice include Akili Academy, Langston Hughes Academy, Andrew Wilson, KIPP McDonogh 15, Edna Karr, Crescent Leadership Academy and Sci Academy. There are no traditional grade levels at the Net and students may attend class at any time from 8 in the morning to 6:30 at night.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

The leader, Mary Beth Bonaventura, said she was responding to budget cuts, leadership changes and complacency over outmoded technology. In this job, she has seen traditional family structures turned upside down. In response, Indiana Gov. None applies in most cases,” Wexler said. those that are inevitably falling through the cracks.

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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. ” To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. When they go home, they may not have that.”

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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. To turn things around, Middletown decided to go beyond the school district’s traditional role in addressing poverty, and tackle it head-on. When they go home, they may not have that.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. Instead, in August 2013, she transferred to New Orleans’s Delgado Community College. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them. Another three earned degrees this year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 3, 2016

” Helmick believes charter schools are “businesses getting taxpayers’ money” that aren’t subject to the same operational regulations as traditional public schools. per student in the 2013-2014 school year. If charter schools are public, then why not just invest more money in traditional public schools?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

According to local reporting, the campus’ “bread and butter” was non-traditional college students, including those who were looking for job changes, facing career-altering injuries or rebounding from layoffs. So, too, was the idea of becoming a non-traditional student in a traditional classroom setting.

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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. And Seamons weaves strengths into the sixth-grade curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Alonzo attended Russellville schools from 2008 to 2013. Whenever we need something, we simply ask for it and they do their best to get it for us,” Martínez said of his district’s leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Protecting core principles matters — but so does leadership. Rasmusen’s boss, Lauren Robel, provost at Indiana University Bloomington, sets a fine example of the leadership we need. Compare Robel’s actions to those of another university leader in the same state, and you’ll see why leadership is so important.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Many educators began voicing concerns about the direction principal Lisa Mars was taking the school not long after her 2013 arrival. Her leadership soon heralded a volatile era marked by cuts in arts programming, from shortened rehearsal times for musicals to less investment in trained arts staff and proper equipment.

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