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Boost Morale with These Simple Strategies

A Principal's Reflections

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. Deci, E. &

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Leading with Clarity: The Power of Transparency in Building Trust and Driving Success

A Principal's Reflections

That's the power of transparent leadership. Being a transparent leader isn’t just a style; it’s a commitment to honesty, openness, and integrity, something I elaborate on in Digital Leadership. Trust is foundational to effective leadership, and transparency serves as a critical enabler (Burke, Sims, Lazzara, & Salas, 2007).

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To increase and maintain teacher diversity, listen to teachers of color

The Hechinger Report

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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When the firing of a principal raises bigger questions than one person’s bigotry

The Hechinger Report

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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Teaching to the student, not the test

The Hechinger Report

The show has everything — sociology, psychology, interpersonal relations, ethics,” says Barile, who is in her 24th year of teaching. “We In 2014, the high school was chosen as the top urban high school in America by the National Center for Urban School Transformation. We watch the show and dissect it.”. percent in 2009 to 87.9

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Not enough students have mentors, and we must change that

The Hechinger Report

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind. And not having a mentor can slow career progression.

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What I Learned From My Students Who Became Teachers

ED Surge

History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. History class during the 2014-2015 academic year. Nick Davis: currently a World Studies, AP Psychology and Black Studies teacher at Von Steuben High School in Chicago. Paula was in my Advanced Placement (AP) U.S. Victoria Kosiba: a current seventh, eighth, and ninth grade U.S.