A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

This post is the fourth in a series that will outline the foundational elements of my new book, Digital Leadership: Changing Paradigms for Changing Times. It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Digital leaders seize the opportunity to grow and learn like never before through a connected model of leadership.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Leaders who have deeper and more lasting impact provide more comprehensive leadership than focusing just on higher standards. First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Students with Interrupted or Limited Formal Education (SIFE). Michael Fullan, 2002, p. Who Are the Not-So-Common Learners?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2022

While the pandemic has undoubtedly played a monumental role in decreasing morale, other factors continuously play a role, such as leadership, mandates, lack of time, systems that are in place, a toxic culture, inadequate pay, or trying to maintain a work-life balance. However, this is easier said than done. & Ryan, R. Newstrom, J.W.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 16, 2014

His work really made me critically reflect upon my leadership practices. The power of social media then connected the both of us leading to him Skyping with the students at New Milford High School, a personal dialogue over the years, and his endorsement of my new book on Digital Leadership. Context drives behavior more than we realize.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

Image credit: [link] Almost ten years ago, I was presented with an opportunity to begin my educational leadership career at NMHS. Little did I know that these ten years would profoundly shape me as a leader, educator, and person. We all go into education to positively impact the life of a child.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 31, 2014

It seems like just yesterday that I was a disconnected nomad working hard to maintain the status quo and conform to a rigid system commonly known as education. When this happens we make excuses not to do something and in education we resort to blocking, banning, or pretending something doesn''t exist. Image credit: [link] ?I

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is my contribution to Leadership Day 2014. Image credit: [link] In education I don''t think anyone sets out to establish a legacy. If there was one profession where individual or group legacy is least prevalent it is education. Legacy is such a deep and meaningful word in my opinion.

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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. Science and research compel all educators to integrate more movement into the school day. Case in point. If not, no sweat.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

Image credit: https://cbsnewyork.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/makerspace.jpg?w=640 There is a great deal of content out there about maker education. When embarking on this initiative don't discount the importance of leadership during the planning, implementation, and evaluation process. Don't just take my word for it.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 7, 2017

Branding matters in the changing world of learning, fueled by powerful digital resources (Sheninger, 2014). School leaders build a positive brand presence in the name of school improvement, to advance better teaching, learning and leadership, and to develop stronger school communities. BrandED educators focus strongly on that aspect.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2015

In a 2014 Forbes article , Richard Tiland makes some significant points when it comes to video and leadership. As a “live video streaming platform”, educators can transmit live recordings of themselves to Persicope and Twitter followers. Users get a notification anytime the educators you’re following do a live transmission.

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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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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

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. I eventually settled on branding in education, but not for the reason you might think. If you want to change education, change the story being told." However, there was more to this story.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2012

One of my goals when I present on leadership, change, and transformation is to inspire other school leaders to begin to blog. Below is his first blog post as an educator. I was able to learn from other educators and ask questions for things that I wanted to learn more about. A few teachers joined Twitter after that session.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2018

When I work with schools, especially in a coaching role, I routinely ask educators to share with me how they are empowering students to own their learning or ways in which they are transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. This, after all, is what being a connected educator is all about.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 20, 2020

Our chief instigators are… Yong Zhao , @yongzhaoed | Foundation Distinguished Professor, School of Education, University of Kansas; Professor in Educational Leadership, Melbourne Graduate School of Education. Wirth Professor in Learning Technologies, Harvard Graduate School of Education. Related Posts.

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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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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. Lastly, leadership transitions are one of the biggest threats to student success. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The binders resemble, to a degree, the individualized education programs, or IEPs, that are at the heart of education for students with disabilities. But Arianna and Alanni aren’t special education students. Personalized learning has, in recent years, become one of the most talked-about trends in education.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 1, 2015

Effective educators focus on adaptation, forward progress, and collective effort and efficacy. 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.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

I hope that you will read the standards yourself and also share some thoughts with CCSSO about whether you feel that they adequately describe an effective school leader for today and tomorrow… — Please list any additional dispositions that you believe educational leaders need that are not listed on page 9 of the ISLLC 2015 standards.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

A small group of teachers in Milwaukee are trying to return to math strategies the district used from 2004-2014. First, there was a hierarchy of university professors, district administrators, teacher leaders and classroom teachers that bridged the needs of educators in the field and the latest research surrounding math pedagogy.

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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. A successful rollout requires detailed coordination across the district, IT teams, and school leadership.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

students began long before the pandemic, but the problem has snowballed into an education crisis. This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress.

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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 27, 2016

Data show there is plenty of room for improvement in leadership ranks: The most recent survey of 1,662 U.S. The 2012 survey from the American Council on Education was sent to public and private colleges and universities across the U.S., Related: Why more black students are enrolling in historically black colleges. percent of the U.S.

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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 Felecia Commodore.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Since they opened in 2014, Brooklyn LAB has embraced the idea of “personalized learning,” a trend in schools intended to tailor learning to students’ individual needs and interests. Department of Education assistant secretary of civil rights, Russlyn Ali, and the board is chaired by Laurene Powell Jobs. XQ is led by former U.S.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

Right now most educators are poor judges of deeper, richer technology usage, which is why we see lots of lower-level technology use instead of schools taking advantage of the rich affordances that digital learning technologies could bring to our classrooms. Right now we are doing a poor job of helping educators with these tasks.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

We are also a devoted Catholic community, founded by the Visitation Sisters to educate young women in virtue, intellect, mind and heart. To build on our founders’ mission, the school began offering a women’s studies elective titled “Women and Society”, which I have proudly taught since 2014.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Educators who design learning experiences that are personal and accessible , authentic and challenging , collaborative and connected , and inquisitive and reflective create deeper, more meaningful learning experiences for their students. District leadership nominated William F. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

How are political science educators bringing the 2024 U.S. What assignments or activities should political science educators use to help undergraduates understand the 2024 U.S. Join APSA for our third webinar in a series exploring the 2024 U.S. campaign and election from multiple perspectives. election into their classrooms?

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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. At every level, education leaders were panicking about the lack of information around student achievement since the pandemic began. It has barely been touched again since then.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2018

Now UCF is on a new mission to excel in enrolling, educating and graduating Latino students, and nothing better sums up its new diversity goal than the phrase on the T-shirts displayed in the front of its bookstore: “¡Vamos Knights!”. percent in fall 2014 to 26 percent today. In 1969, the school established a black student union.

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