A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 8, 2024

That's the power of transparent leadership. Leading with clarity is not just about providing direction—it's about creating a culture where trust thrives, decisions are transparent, and every voice is empowered to contribute to the bigger vision. Leadership: Current theories, research, and future directions. & Weber, T.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is my contribution to Leadership Day 2014. The more I learned in digital spaces the more I began to take risks to improve the culture at NMHS. Over the past few years my work has been aligned to digital leadership and has ultimately defined me as an educator, leader, and person.

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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. I now, like everyone else in the district, receive a pushed out call with a message that district leadership develops. Change Communication Digital Leadership Opinion Social Media' Talk about convenience.

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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 showed that embracing innovative practices aligned to a sound pedagogical foundation could create a learning culture rooted in meaningful learning and relationships. Order your copy TODAY!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report Before 2014, state vocational rehabilitation agencies primarily worked with adults. For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. It’s just dysfunctional.

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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 11, 2024

Credit: Manuel Orbegozo for The Hechinger Report California has been a leader in prison education programs, starting with a 2014 rule authorizing state funding for community colleges to set up programs for students who are incarcerated. Because of the involvement of senior leadership,” she said, “Cal Poly Humboldt’s was the easiest by far.”

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

The story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. Those feelings may have led to the murder of Silas Soule. It is a story of attack, retaliation, and revenge. Courage comes in many forms.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

Verizon Innovative Learning Schools have been doing just that since 2014. Rollout should set the stage for a whole year of learning with technology, and when these three goals are achieved, you create a culture of learning with technology that promotes participation by all parties.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Huinker led a math education revolution in the district when, between 2004 and 2014, almost every teacher in Milwaukee Public Schools received this type of training. After the partnership ended in 2014, standardized test scores in math continued to rise incrementally. We had such a strong leadership base,” she said.

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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

JUNE 26, 2017

On May 25, the Nevada-based management group of the New Orleans charter school, Crescent Leadership Academy, announced the firing of its principal, Nicholas Dean. Rite of Passage , the chain that manages Crescent Leadership Academy, then determined he wasn’t a good fit for the job. Eighty-four percent of its population is black.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

She finally toned down racial references in her cover letter — using the term “cultural communities” rather than “African-American communities,” for instance, to refer to one of her areas of study — and things took a turn for the better. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5

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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. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. District leadership nominated William F.

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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. With the UIA’s work, for example, we now understand what an idea looks like when applied in 11 different cultures, with 11 different student populations.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Her research agenda focuses on political science pedagogy, campus-based civic engagement, and pop culture & politics. She is the recipient of the Barbara Burch Award for Faculty Leadership in Civic Engagement (American Democracy Project, June 2024) and the Stand Out Faculty Award (ALL IN Campus Democracy Challenge, November 2019).

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

percent in fall 2014 to 26 percent today. 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. Census Bureau. Now there’s also Pollo Tropical and Gringos Locos.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A joint effort between the City of New Orleans and the Orleans Parish School District replaced the Youth Study School – a school in name only – with the Travis Hill School , which has real teachers, legitimate educational leadership and academic lessons that help students make sense of the world. It simply exposes them to jail culture.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

In the Henry County Schools district, individual schools have been applying to be part of a personalized learning initiative since 2014. Aaryn Schmuhl, assistant superintendent for learning and leadership at Henry County Schools, said the district’s path to personalized learning is built around a philosophy rather than a model.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2018

Ninth-graders at the Science Leadership Academy work on a group project in science class. Tamir Harper, 18-year-old senior at Science Leadership Academy and founder of a nonprofit that advocates for quality urban education. James Thomas wrote and published a novel for his senior year Capstone project at the Science Leadership Academy.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

The Verizon Innovative Learning Schools Initiative directed by Digital Promise has provided 50,000 4G LTE iPads to middle school students and teachers since 2014. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership. Empowering 50,000 Students by Deploying 1-1 iPads.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2017

In 2014, the U.S. In 2014, the U.S. Connecticut’s Department of Education reports that preschool through second-grade suspensions and expulsions dropped by nearly one third since the 2014-15 school year — from 2,365 children then, to 1,674 last school year. Photo: Sarah Gonser. It’s a question he can’t get out of his mind.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If At the first tier, schools are supposed to be fostering a positive culture of attendance for all students and collecting consistent data to track absenteeism. The culture of attendance is huge. Danielle Burnett, truancy prevention social worker at Alamosa Elementary School.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

The courage and bravery that shamanic plants offer—succinctly captured by the Spanish word valor—are prized qualities within Shuar conceptions of personhood and leadership. In 2014, José Isidro Tendetza Antún, a vocal critic of the industry, was found dead with signs of torture. He dismissed my worries. Hesitantly, I agreed to help.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. These segregated schools uphold the values, racial hierarchies and cultural norms of the people who created them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

In 2014, the labor market analysis firm Burning Glass Technologies tried to capture the extent of degree inflation. Rainville had to persuade 10 people from the sales leadership team before she could make the change. economy by helping businesses hold onto workers and by boosting the middle class. Degree inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 25, 2023

Today, Junge’s group, which coined the term “teacher-powered” in 2014, identifies roughly 300 schools nationwide that follow the model. Meanwhile, teachers help make decisions about the school’s future in their roles on the different committees — personnel, instructional leadership, scheduling, budget and finance — that meet monthly.

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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. When he taught at Castlemont in 2014, the school had only one Chromebook cart. “To It was literally survival for Oakland families.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

Making the admissions process seem welcoming instead of intimidating and confusing is a surprisingly big culture shift in higher education. That’s up from 83 percent in 2014 , the earliest year for which the figure is available from the U.S. They’ve flipped the script on college admission,” said Lucido. Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

We’re not trying to force anyone into teaching,” said Kristyna Jones, who co-founded BE2T in 2014. Parents and advocates have also called for more teachers who can relate culturally to black New Orleans children and make connections with the communities they serve. For Albert, shifting to this new school culture was a challenge.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. In 2014 the FCC modernized the E-Rate program to make it more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their internet connection speeds. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

Now, many worry that the district won’t rebound — and will head back into the cycle of rotating leadership, low performance and lack of public trust that existed before the turnaround. Morgan isn’t new to the district, having worked in Cleveland’s school system from 2014 to 2016 as a network leader overseeing a subset of its schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

Last year, 23 percent of the school’s third-graders passed the state reading test, up from 0 percent in 2014. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them,” said Jackson. We have been able to develop a culture where they learn that there are people here to support them.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

In their 2016 Workforce-Skills Preparedness Report, PayScale and the executive development firm Future Workplace found that CEOs and human resources professionals seek recent college graduates who possess writing and public speaking proficiency, critical thinking and leadership skills, interpersonal skills and the ability to work as part of a team.

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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. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.

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