A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

A great deal has changed since Digital Leadership was published in 2014. What I have described above only accounts for a small subset of the changes we have seen since 2014. I would love your feedback after reading this post. What would you like to see emphasized in this new edition? What should be removed?

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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. Thankfully technology came to the rescue and I wised up by saving it on my computer. I had a bit of a paper addiction that had to be overcome. Talk about convenience.

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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. Her developmental disability prevented her from attending a traditional college, but she took courses online and became a librarians assistant at a public library in Long Island.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2014

Unfortunately this has now become reality for our youngest students in 2014 and the near future in the name of education reform. I can''t even begin to imagine what my life would have been then or become today if these experiences had been ripped from me. Education reform is destroying childhood as we know it at both home and school.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. However, the mounting pressure from ridiculous mandates as a result of the current education reform movement and massive budget cuts across the country, have made it a challenge to learn through traditional pathways.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2016

We don’t have the traditional view that we’re somehow ‘letting these kids in’ to be influenced by us.”. He got his associate’s degree from Essex County Community College and transferred to Rutgers, which he chose for its connection to Newark and so he could study with urban historian Clement Price (who died in 2014).

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Anthropology.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Their findings upend traditional assumptions. Their goal was to infer eye, hair, and skin color from genetic data while accounting for the challenges of working with low-coverage ancient DNA. Dark pigmentation remained dominant across Europe for much longer than previously thought. Related Research Jablonski, N.G., & Chaplin, G.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Buffalo were disappearing from their traditional hunting grounds, and their people were hungry. Ray Tyler was the 2014 James Madison Fellow for South Carolina and a 2016 graduate of Ashland University’s Masters Program in American History and Government. Brady, New York. Other Cheyenne and Arapahos were tired of fighting.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

By 2014, a large-scale study found that students in active learning environments scored 6 percent higher on exams and were 1.5 times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes.

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ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Enrollment in preparation programs began to dip around 2010, but it hit new lows once the first members of Gen Z (colloquially referred to as Zoomers) entered higher education in 2014, researchers found. There’s much more of a tradition of being on your own in your class with your door closed.” Gen Z is looking for flexibility.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Three years after its conception, SNHU was the highlight of a major 2014 New England Board of Higher Education conference on competency education. Meanwhile, SNHU’s enrollment increased from 2,000 students in 2009 to 34,000 by 2014 and continues to climb.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Cathy Davidson: So let me first back up just a little bit and tell your listeners about a wonderful study that Scott Freeman conducted for the Publications of the National Academy of Science in 2014, which is a meta study of 225 separate studies of learning. Active learning wins. He's a huge activist and advocate of active learning.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

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. In 2014, the old GED the exam was revamped and the two new exams, TASC and HiSET, entered the market.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Since the late 1990s, nearly two-thirds of selective public universities reduced the share of traditional-aged students they enrolled from the bottom 40 percent of the income scale. The University of Alabama spent more than $100 million on non-need-based aid in 2014-15, which was the most of any public university that year.

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Pedagogy to Share

AUGUST 21, 2023

Burton, 2019; Buttrey, 2021; Mallinson, 2022; Mattei & Ennis, 2014; Messina et al., Inclusion, engagement, and Nearpod: Providing a digital alternative to traditional instruction. A review of Nearpod – an interactive tool for student engagement. Journal of Applied Learning & Teaching , 2 (2), 95–97. Buttrey, K. Tang & L.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Over time, students who practice design thinking improve their STEM performance. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. Traditionally, design thinking facilitation is not offered to K-12 educators and thus, their students do not build those skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2017

Data from 911 two- and four-year colleges revealed that 96 percent of schools enrolled students who required remediation in the 2014-15 academic year, the most comprehensive recent numbers. In Nevada, for instance, 58 percent of the state’s recent high school graduates were placed in these courses in 2014.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 10, 2019

Another problem with outmoded assumptions about math learning is that they have contributed to a traditional insistence on algebra-intensive course sequences that prepare students for calculus. Here’s the latest research on how. Related: U.S. now ranks near the bottom among 35 industrialized nations in math.

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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

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Other stories in the series look at schools that are recruiting from their own alumni to increase diversity and a traditional teacher education program focused on recruiting Hispanic teachers. By 2014, they made up only 49 percent. By 2014, they made up only 49 percent. Walton thinks her local roots have improved her teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2014, San Francisco heeded that call , mixing different achievement levels in middle school classrooms and delaying algebra until ninth grade. Traditional math proponents worried that the document would water down math instruction in California, hinder advanced students and make it harder to pursue STEM careers.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2019

The idea was to expose our preservice administrators at the University of Colorado Denver to a variety of ways to foster and facilitate adult learning beyond schools’ traditional, moribund professional development sessions. Countdown to ISTE 03: English / language arts blogs (aka THE PUSH 2014).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

The teen birth rate plunged more than 60 percent from 1991 to 2014, the most recent year of data. Nearly a quarter million teenage girls, ages 15 to 19, gave birth to babies in 2014. By contrast, 90 percent of women who did not give birth as teens obtained a traditional high school diploma. But it is hardly a problem solved.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2020

They work with two students at a time in a special class that follows a Saga Education curriculum tailored to the needs of each student and aligned with their school’s curriculum for their traditional math class. Those results will be published in a forthcoming paper.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Often, students struggling in these subjects find ways around taking them in traditional high schools, and, lacking the mandatory prerequisites, are ineligible to take advanced math and science classes in college. Students in traditional schools didn’t have counselors and teachers pushing them into advanced math and science classes, she said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

By 2014 nearly 6,000 students a year were earning their bachelor’s degrees from a community college. Most popular bachelor’s degree programs offered by FL community colleges in 2014. Nationally, more than 17,000 students earned a bachelor’s degree at a community college in 2014, up from roughly 1,700 in 2000.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Since 2014, the initiative—made possible by a partnership between Digital Promise and Verizon—has worked to bridge the Digital Learning Gap by equipping every student and teacher at these select middle schools with devices and up to a four-year data plan. They, too, used their iPads to create their winning designs.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

But the latest national study from a Stanford University research group calculates that students, on average, learned more at charter schools between the years of 2014 and 2019 than similar students did at their traditional local public schools. Raymond, the director of CREDO, recalls the moment in less than scientific terms. “It

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

White students with special needs are far more likely to graduate with a traditional diploma than are their black and brown peers. Nationally, 76 percent of white students in special education who exited high school in 2014-15 earned a traditional diploma. For the next five years, Therapy Thursdays became a family tradition.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Yet, the 2014 bond sale used to buy Chromebooks for James Lick and the rest of the East Side Union High School District schools has a much different structure. By 2014 the district had won approval for $116 million in short-term bonds sales, including the $16.2 Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

And candidates with non-traditional teaching backgrounds are considered. Since 2014, Grubb said, the largely Latino district has boosted teacher diversity by more than 30 percent, to a large extent by hiring Latino teachers to staff dual-language programs. In 2018-19, 45 percent of new teacher hires in Highline were people of color.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 19, 2018

In their study, Goodman, Melkers, and Pallais examined data on spring 2014, fall 2014, and spring 2015 applicants to the OMSCS, alongside fall 2013 and fall 2014 applicants to the MSCS. Their main takeaway: The OMSCS students likely would have had no other way to obtain a master’s in computer science without this online option.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

But he changed his classroom approach after 2014, when Canadian Louis Deslauriers joined the physics department. Half the students in introductory physics classes were randomly assigned to learn the concept of static equilibrium the traditional way through lectures. Frankly, I would listen to him read the phone book.

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Teaching Tradition Research Education 139

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2020

When he was 4 in 2014, I talked to him about how Michael Brown had been killed by the police. Growing up in New Orleans, we taught him the Mardi Gras tradition of extending his arms as the floats go by and shouting, “Throw me something, mister!”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. But since 2014, she says, when the district introduced this new outdoor project-based approach, students’ ambition and sense of identity have dramatically improved. High school is not really working for most kids,” he said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

When a grand jury decided not to charge Darren Wilson for killing Michael Brown in 2014, my mom called me, defeated. Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human. I will never forget that moment.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

A 2015 study by a Columbia Business School professor looked at the expansion of Teach to One into more schools through 2014 and again that study didn’t find clear, positive benefits. A study in 2012 by scholars at New York University of three middle schools that were earlier adopters of Teach to One in 2010-11 found mixed results.

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