A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The now annual Digital Learning Day was set for Wednesday February 5, 2014. Most schools and educators that suffered the same fate as us were probably demoralized by the fact that all of their planning was for naught. So what did you do on Digital Learning Day 2014? The only problem was that no one told the weather gods this.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Pillar #5: Student Engagement and Learning Many of us firmly believe in technology’s potential to transform the teaching and learning cultures of schools. This is pivotal if we are to truly begin to reform education in a way that is meaningful to our students.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Pillar #7 - Opportunity The interconnectedness of the Pillars of Digital Leadership leads to continuous improvements in school culture and professional practice. All of this can be done in a relatively cost-effective fashion while improving all facets of education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

They can be a part of society, said Maureen McGuire-Kuletz, co-director of the George Washington University Center for Rehabilitation Counseling Research and Education. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. That was the hope.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Students with Disabilities.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2014

Image credit: [link] Fast forward to 2014 and my district, like many others, now uses an automated notification service. Education and schools have been notoriously slow when it comes to adjusting to changes in society. Thankfully technology came to the rescue and I wised up by saving it on my computer. Talk about convenience.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

High-quality educational content is for everyone. And, everyone needs the opportunity to collaborate and communicate as part of the educational experience. Let’s add one more item to the above list: international education is for everyone. International, or global, education can take many forms.

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Human societies are built on layers of culture, law, and technology, yet beneath it all, some of the oldest instincts in the animal kingdom continue to shape our world. “Without conscious intervention through education and universal values, humanity risks perpetuating cycles of dominance, inequality, and ecological collapse.”

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

For me, the ultimate goal I establish when taking on a book project is to try to write a unique piece that either greatly enhances existing work in the education and leadership space or creates an entirely new niche. I eventually settled on branding in education, but not for the reason you might think. Order your copy TODAY!

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 15, 2014

As we all take time to reflect on 2014, now is also a good time to look forward to 2015. This past year was eventful in education – we saw new measures to connect schools around the country , concepts like maker spaces, design thinking, and coding make their way into the mainstream, and teachers become more tech-savvy and connected.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

A 10th grader, above, answers a question in one of those classes, which offers black history and culture along with social-emotional lessons and academic and college advice. Higher Education. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose from our newsletters.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

In 2014, the district pushed algebra to ninth grade from eighth grade, in an attempt to eliminate the tracking, or grouping, of students into lower and upper math paths. Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. Higher education has to get comfortable with trial and error. Taken together, our experiences over the past seven years show that real change is possible in higher education.

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Digital Promise

JULY 31, 2019

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning schools initiative has reached more than 86,000 students and nearly 6,000 teachers in 100 middle schools across the country. It’s amazing; it’s just changed education altogether,” said Cynthia Fields, an English/language arts teacher at Newburg.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2017

Board of Education , that mandated desegregation in schools, and after 25 years of education reform, white families aren’t flocking to neighborhood schools or charters with black children. There are 11,900 at-risk 0- to 4-year-olds in New Orleans who do not have access to a publicly funded, early childhood education program.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

But it wasn’t that wall of degrees that most strongly informed her passion for teaching: It was the support she received growing up as a Black child taught by Black educators in her Mississippi hometown, and at her alma mater, a historically Black college. Cassandra Herring, CEO of Branch Alliance for Educator Diversity.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Having high expectations for all learners is a core value in education.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 7, 2014

When Digital Promise and EdSurge considered which educator award categories to include in the 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards , we wanted to highlight five areas where exemplary teachers around the world are using innovative strategies to engage and empower students.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

could learn a lot about early education from our international counterparts. That’s the conclusion of a comprehensive, multi-year study of six early education systems that are beating the U.S. Instead, these countries offer near-universal systems that guarantee some level of education for children age 3 and older. PISA Medium.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Across the hall, Beth Schefelker and Claire Madden, two other math education specialists, led a group of teachers and principals in adding fractions. Huinker, a professor who advised Hedges’ doctorate in math education at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, is a legend among Milwaukee’s math teachers.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 22, 2019

In this series we explore Powerful Learning, a set of principles to guide educators designing learning experiences that engage the hearts and minds of learners, and incorporate technology in ways that contribute to closing the Digital Learning Gap. Knowledge is built through social interactions 1 in a collaborative culture 2.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

A Pennsylvania court case that’s been dragging along for the past seven years is finally being heard in the Commonwealth court — and the decision will either ameliorate or exacerbate educational inequities for generations to come. After all, Pennsylvania has a long history of refusing to fund public schools adequately. I know this firsthand.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2016

By 2014, for lower-income students (those eligible for a federal Pell grant), it reached 51 percent — nearly the same as for non-Pell students. Its graduation rate for first-generation students went up 32 percent between 2010 and 2014. We have a culture that supports you,’ ” said Holloman. Photo: Terrell Clark. That’s huge.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Felecia Commodore came into her job search armed with a University of Pennsylvania doctorate in higher education and published research papers. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 percent of education doctorates are awarded to blacks , they receive just 3.5 percent of U.S.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

The administrator winners of our 2014 Digital Innovation in Learning Awards are inspiring examples of change managers, showing what it means to both lead and learn at the same time. The comprehensive program empowers students to be designers and creators from their first day in school and throughout their educational experience.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

A year ago, the American Rescue Plan provided billions of dollars in federal relief for K-12 education. Verizon Innovative Learning Schools have been doing just that since 2014. Many districts used these funds to purchase devices for every student.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

As a teacher, I strive to treat all of my students fairly and equitably, as I hope all educators around the country strive to do. In 2014, the U.S. Department of Education released guidance to help schools improve disciplinary practices and policies and to promote positive school cultures. Hearing them was devastating.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 11, 2019

In the field of engineering, for example, women earned fewer than 20 percent of doctorates in 2014. If girls have the smarts needed for success in STEM , then what factors explain why they don’t pursue education and careers in these fields? Such gaps, however, are not the result of differences in intellectual ability.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

So many here-today, gone-tomorrow models in education don’t stick around, but P-TECH’s model, now in its 10th year, directly links students from historically underserved backgrounds to colleges and careers, with paid internships and intensive mentoring. Rashid Ferrod Davis, principal, P-TECH Brooklyn. That’s what happened to Oscar.”.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

With interest in the teaching profession waning and enrollment in teacher preparation programs reaching historic lows, all eyes are on the next crop of students — tomorrow’s prospective educators — to make up the deficit. Some of those characteristics are consistent with careers in education.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 17, 2018

A ‘grand challenge’ for building-level leaders might be a leadership issue such as: turning around a low-achieving school; repairing a dysfunctional school staff culture; preparing future-ready graduates; meeting the needs of students with unique needs (including ELL/ESL, special education, gifted, transitory; etc.);

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2016

It’s part of a little-noticed but surprising shift under way that suggests new resolve in some places to improve the efficiency and productivity of stubbornly labor-intensive higher education. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Surprising because statistics suggest the opposite is happening.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

While I’ve always enjoyed helping others learn informally, I’d never given a serious thought to a career in education before tutoring. The grads can also seek out new communities, learning about cultures they might not be familiar with. The inequities in our education system have only grown more apparent during the pandemic.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 26, 2015

For the 2014-15 school year, Piedmont Middle School, in rural northeast Alabama, reimagined how its students learn by letting them progress based on their mastery of skills and standards. . Changing the culture. In 2014-15, 95 percent of Piedmont students graduated, putting it in the top 5 percent in the state. Lessons learned.

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