A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

Over the years they have been given more ownership over all aspects of their education experience and have taken advantage of it by helping us to redefine teaching and learning for a new age. I don’t see any better way than building a solution with a foundation of practitioners who are leading and teaching this way in schools.

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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 results in various levels of disengagement during the teaching and learning process.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Nonetheless, we contend that a concentration on the enhancement of teaching skills and strategies is not enough. It appears that much of the focus for improvement has been on creating rigorous classroom instruction to increase student achievement measured by the highly contested standardized tests. & Honigsfeld, A. Honigsfeld, A., &

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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. Teaching, many would argue, is one of the most meaningful jobs available.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2015

Some of you might remember Sarah from a few blog posts I wrote in 2014 where she created an amazing project on creativity that has been viewed close to 10,000 times on YouTube. E_Sheninger Outside of school I''ve been teaching myself Actionscript and I''m so excited to put it to use at @GamesPlusPlus this weekend!

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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. It’s time to make a choice – define or be defined.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 1, 2014

As Eric has mentioned before, you can’t teach in black and white, when they’re learning in color. They felt that the ease of use dovetailed perfectly with teaching requirements they had at school. We are learning about our world through these media, and we are drawn to them because of their quality, color, and creativity.

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Teaching American History

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Ray Tyler Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland UniversitysMasters Program in American History and Government. The post Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: Sorting the Real from the Myth appeared first on Teaching American History.

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Becoming a History Teacher

AUGUST 15, 2024

Photo by Mathias Reding on Pexels.com We both began our teaching careers shortly after the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center in 2001. As always it is helpful to come back to the discipline of history and what it means to teach sensitive histories well. It also constitutes really good history teaching.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Feedback is one of the most powerful tools teachers have in their “teaching toolbelts” for guiding learners toward mastery. Online students who received audio feedback perceived that feedback as more thorough, detailed, and personal than text feedback (Voelkel & Mello, 2014). Henderson, M., & Phillips, M.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

I teach at the only all-girls school in the state of Minnesota. 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. Unfortunately, teaching women’s studies is still seen as antithetical to Catholicism in our wider school community.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2021

Going into student-teaching, I already had a lot of ideas, not only from my own tutoring experiences but from observations and conversations with many teachers during my two years of service. And I knew how the approaches to teaching had evolved since I was a student. I knew the age group I wanted to work with.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 24, 2012

Their number one concern is the technological capacity to teach and assess students. A key question that came out of this analysis was h ow do we know what we b uy today will be compatible in 2014-2015? Rural states like Arkansas don’t have the bandwidth to implement and support the assessments that are required.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. Teaching With a Broken Heart They say teaching is “a work of the heart,” and indeed, it is. In 2014, the teacher pay scale was overhauled, eliminating longevity pay.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Between 1998 and 2014, the percentage of freshmen intending to major in science increased among most ethnic and racial demographics and also among women, according to a study by the National Science Foundation. The post OPINION: Why it’s time to diversify and modernize science teaching appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

In the fall of 2016, increasingly frustrated by his inability to motivate his students despite his energetic teaching style and popularity inside the classroom, he was drawn to the idea that addressing emotional barriers might help them. In 2014, 83 percent of the school’s students graduated within four years; last year, 91 percent did.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Instead of thinking about UDL and blended learning as two separate disconnected approaches to teaching and learning, it is worth exploring the overlap between the two. Design and Deliver: Planning and Teaching Using Universal Design for Learning.

Teaching 218

Teaching Research Education 218

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2019

Since former President Barack Obama launched his My Brother’s Keeper initiative in 2014 to support black and Latino boys and young men, nearly 250 communities across 50 states have launched programs under its umbrella. Ann Hermes/The Christian Science Monitor via Getty Images. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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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. We weren’t always successful, but in the end, we succeeded more than we failed.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

spending on elementary and high school education declined 3 percent from 2010 to 2014 even as its economy prospered and its student population grew slightly by 1 percent, boiling down to a 4 percent decrease in spending per student. education system differs from others is in asking teachers to carry a heavy teaching load.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

When I left the classroom in 2014 after 14 years of teaching in the United States, it was for a variety of reasons. One news outlet reports a total of 8,300 open teaching positions this January, including positions filled by long-term substitutes and others without full teacher certification. I am one of those teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. 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. Every teacher wants to learn and do a better job teaching,” Huinker said.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

Since starting in 2014, Cell-Ed has served more than 1,000 students like Albina and Sylvia, giving them the opportunity to learn English anytime, anywhere. Beside the language skills, Engel points to how the app also teaches students basic digital literacy skills that can be used in the workplace.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

After experiencing teaching with digital tools during the pandemic, they are eager to learn about and adopt digital tools which suit their educational aims and their students’ unique needs. Participants will generate a list of ways to incorporate the tools in their unique teaching contexts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 20, 2020

We discussed that this present challenge also is an opportunity to rethink some big ideas around learning, teaching, and schooling. – Leadership Day 2014. Time to find other employment. Supporting effective technology integration and implementation: 2012 ISTE Leadership Forum #isteLF12. Calling all bloggers!

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Her research and teaching interests include American political development, political history, voting and elections, state politics, political geography, sovereignty, Native American political rights, political parties, partisanship, and political institutions. She specializes in American politics.

Political Science 48

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

And she says the stakes for improving classroom teaching are higher than many people realize. It’s not just about test scores and whether people learn, she argues, but there’s an ethical issue that sometimes gets lost in discussions about teaching. It contains what are essentially recipes for various active-learning techniques.

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Tradition Teaching Research Education 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Over the last several years, many of us have had the uncomfortable realization that there is a gap between how we teach and how scientific findings suggest we should teach. The 2014 bestseller “Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning,” by Peter C. Much of the disinformation stems from training like my own.

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Middle School Psychology Classroom Management Learning Science 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

It’s puzzling why more university professors don’t teach in this more hands-on, interactive way. But he changed his classroom approach after 2014, when Canadian Louis Deslauriers joined the physics department. It’s also more challenging to teach this way. “As McCarty also co-teaches a class with a biologist called “What is Life?

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Teaching Tradition Research Education 140

Digital Promise

AUGUST 12, 2021

This fall, 101 schools will receive a mobile device with up to a four-year 30GB data plan for every student and teacher, as well as extensive professional development that supports powerful teaching and learning with technology in and out of the classroom. 432,812 students impacted by VILS since 2014. 50 school districts in Cohort 8.

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Professional Development Middle School High School Teaching 127

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. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. At Digital Promise, we saw tremendous growth in 2014. ” Paul Nauert. ” Robert Bajor. Project Manager. Educator Micro-credentials. "With " Jennifer Kabaker.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

A lesson in a remedial English course at Baltimore City Community College, focused on teaching students how to combine sentences in a variety of ways to prepare them for writing in college-level classes. Carole Quine teaches the highest-level remedial English course at BCCC. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

— When Sandra Jenkins started teaching at Betty H. Fairfax High School in Phoenix 14 years ago, she had three Master’s degrees and four teaching certificates. And yet, few districts have achieved the goal of building a teaching workforce that looks like its students. PHOENIX, Ariz. He’s listening to us.”.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 1, 2021

Since 2014, the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools initiative has provided every student and teacher at select middle and high schools with a data plan to support learning in and out of the classroom.

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Professional Development Middle School High School Teaching 133

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

Commodore, who is black, couldn’t help but wonder whether race played a part as she was rejected from one college teaching job after another. citizen or permanent resident research doctoral recipients in 2014 were black and 6.5 But after a year of looking, she still didn’t have a job. percent of U.S. percent and 17.6 Sixteen — or 2.9

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