A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2014

The now annual Digital Learning Day was set for Wednesday February 5, 2014. This monstrosity brought more sleet and ice, which necessitated yet another day off from school. So what did you do on Digital Learning Day 2014? Digital Learning Day educational technology New Milford High School'

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JUNE 28, 2015

During my tenure as New Milford High School Principal our district cut wood and metal shop. Over the years I have also seen recess time dwindle for my own kids and others who attend the New York City Public School System. The solution for all schools comes in the form of makerspaces.

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DECEMBER 11, 2016

Sheryl Javier graduated from Bronx Arena in July 2016, after 8 years of high school. This story is part of a Hechinger reporting series about how “last chance” high schools are pioneering some of the latest trends in high school reform. Sheryl Javier, Bronx Arena High School transfer student.

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JULY 5, 2015

As a former high school principal I was really intrigued by the concept. InvolvEdu is free web and mobile app for high school and university students that allows them to get credit for what they do outside of class. For the past few months he has been working on a tech start-up called InvolvEdu. Why InvolvEdu?

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

Back in 2009 when we began to transform teaching and learning at New Milford High School we were extremely fortunate at the time to have wireless Internet access throughout the school. Obviously I was extremely naive to think this.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 10, 2014

Earlier this year I shared the amazing work of New Milford High School student Sarah Almeda in a post titled Students Yearn For Creativity, Not Tests. Above is a picture of her entry into the 2014 Cover Contest held by Creative Outlook, a free magazine distributed to high school teachers and students immersed in art and music.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 21, 2013

This past Saturday (10/19) marked the fourth annual Edscape Conference held at New Milford High School in NJ. Planning for Edscape 2014 for next October is now under way so mark your calendars for Saturday 10/18/14. Edscape George Couros Learning New Milford High School Teq'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. I will be the first one to admit that the learning environments and spaces at New Milford High School looked nothing like this prior to 2009. Currently there is a pre-publication discount of 15% for any orders before this date.

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OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Their best shot at earning one is passing a high-school equivalency exam, what was known as the GED before 2014 but has now splintered into three exam options: the new GED , the TASC and the HiSET.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

High School design team members check out ideas written on post-it notes during a brainstorming session. Editor’s note: For more than a year, The Hechinger Report has been spending time in high schools across the U.S. Indeed, communities across the country are talking about how to reimagine high schools.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2015

.” - Shara Senderoff via Dell Tech Page One I started to think about the value of resumes for today’s high school students after a Twitter conversation I had with New Milford High School junior Sarah Almeda.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. The Connecticut school is part of a new generation of inclusive science and technology high schools that have become more popular in the last decade. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Students attend classes at Brooklyn LAB school Submitted photo. If kids designed high schools, the classrooms would be full of computer screens, books, games and holograms — and there would be no tests. Related: (Opinion) Throw the cookie cutters away: Remaking high schools for the 21 st century.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. For starters, I have now been going on four years since transitioning from high school principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE). What would you like to see emphasized in this new edition?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. This chapter will also provide numerous examples of how I have leveraged social media to discover opportunities for the New Milford High School community as well as myself professionally.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 10, 2017

Rogers High School, two weeks before graduation last spring. In Spokane, 48 percent of 2014 graduates who received free or reduced-price lunch — a typical indicator of poverty — went on to higher education the following year, compared to 65 percent of those who didn’t receive subsidized meals, according to state data.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2016

The nation’s colleges and universities will soon face a demographic reckoning: A new report projects that the total number of high school graduates will decline in the next two decades, while the percentage of lower-income and nonwhite students will increase. The Topic: Composition of future high school classes.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But he’s never seen anything like the volume of recruiting materials pouring in since his fourth child reached her senior year in high school this fall. “If That’s up from 68 percent and 65 percent, respectively, since 2014. Nathan Smith has already sent three kids to college.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 15, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. This becomes a reality when school cultures are transformed to meet and anticipate the needs of learners in the Digital Age. Chapter 9 showcases the work of Patrick Larkin and teachers at New Milford High School who have become change agents in this area.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 24, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. I began to generate our own news related to New Milford High School and quickly learned of the many tools available that could be used at anytime from anywhere to tell our story. Currently there is a pre-publication discount of 15% for any orders before this date.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 3, 2013

In September of 2013, interested New Milford High School students will have an opportunity to participate in the IWitness Challenge during the 20th Anniversary of Steven Spielberg’s Oscar winning film, Schindler’s List, through the USC Shoah Foundation. educational technology IWitness New Milford High School video'

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. A similar pattern seemed to be emerging among the state’s high school students, who are required to pass a series of exams, called Regents, to earn a diploma. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation.

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Read the whole series, “ Willing, able and forgotten: How high schools fail special ed students,” here. But instead of graduating from Bartlett High School in Anchorage, Alaska, in four years, he took six. After high school, he did odd jobs for several years. Sign up for our newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

Independence Academy is one of 33 so-called recovery schools in the United States, public high schools that serve students whose lives and educations have been derailed by drug abuse. Schools like Independence Academy have been called “sober high schools,” but while abstinence is the goal, the reality is more complex.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Enrollment at the beginning of the academic year just ended was up 13 percent from 2014 , to 2,038. In a trend that has been widely lauded, the proportion of high school graduates who go straight to college has increased from 63 percent in 2000 to 70 percent now, the Department of Education says.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2012

With that being said please welcome Paul Vieira , Principal of East Bridgewater High School (MA), to the blogosphere. We hope to roll out a 1:1 initiative during the 2013-2014 school year. Below is his first blog post as an educator. Currently we are piloting the iPad with a small group of teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2021

Many of those students are middle school age, a time when they can easily just disappear and start to fail. Catching and addressing that in sixth or seventh grade is essential; any later and they may not be ready for high school — and many won’t graduate. After-school programs can keep them on track. million in 2014.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Even years later, San Francisco Unified School District casts a shadow over attempts to quash long-standing disparities in math. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2017

This story is the third in an occasional series looking at six members of the senior class at Match High School, a college preparatory charter school in Boston. BOSTON — Every April, Match High School principal Hannah Larkin and the staff celebrate a few major college admission victories in the senior class.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2024

View of the Tennessee State Capitol, where lawmakers were the first in the nation to pass a law in 2014 to make community college tuition free for future high school graduates. The report highlights that more than 90 percent of all Tennessee high school seniors apply for the free college program. First the numbers.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

As a result we embarked on a journey to delve into how a brandED mindset could help promote, sustain, and amplify the great work taking place every day in schools across the world. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

2014: That’s the year that Wilcox County High School, in rural Georgia, held its first school-sponsored, racially integrated prom. Yet research suggests that more Black teachers in the classroom can help boost Black student outcomes such as college enrollment. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

About 85 percent of high school graduates in 2019 had taken at least one course in career and technical education, or CTE. Students suit up for medical assistant class at Walker High School in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. Until then, students’ post-high school employment outcomes remain a mystery.

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Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I vaguely remember the same practice from back when I was in high school. The XQ High School Math Badging Initiative seeks to upend some of the existing high school systems and structures that create barriers in the very places where students should get to see opportunities. Enter badging. What is badging?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2021

A March 2021 study found that high school students learned two to three times as much math as their peers from a daily dose of tutoring at school. This week marks a full year since many school buildings around the country closed and the pandemic changed the way our children learn. That’s ambitious.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Hope Reed saw stark disparities in math classes at Blythewood High School about a decade ago. This story also appeared in Post and Courier and The Associated Press At the school, in suburban Columbia, South Carolina, nearly half of students were white. Many of those in the remedial classes came from lower-income families.

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APRIL 26, 2021

In 2014, the American Pediatric Association recommended an 8:30 a.m. start time for high schools and middle schools so that teens can get sufficient sleep. Schools have been slow to heed the doctors’ advice. high schools start the day at 8:30 a.m. high schools start the day at 8:30 a.m.

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