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. When reflecting back on the quote at the beginning of this post I can see quite clearly about the downsides of traditional resumes.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Traditional means, such as newsletters and email, no longer suffice as cornerstones to a communications strategy. This is not to say that traditional means are no longer important elements of an effective communications plan.

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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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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

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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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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Strange Maps

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Apart from its golden-domed headquarters, the campus also includes tyrbes (holy tombs of previous Debedabas); extensive archives on the Order’s history, including audio recordings of Bektashi musical traditions; and a museum and a library. On a visit in 2014, Pope Francis praised Albania’s religious tolerance as an example for the world.

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Political Science Now

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Meet Dr. Timothy Lewis APSA Member since 2014-Present Associate Professor Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Dr. Timothy E. I first joined APSA around 2014-2015, during my doctoral studies at the University of Missouri-St. I am a social justice activist in the traditions of W.E.B.

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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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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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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2013

It is set to be published by Corwin Press on January 14, 2014. Clark Hall at GAHANNA LINCOLN HIGH SCHOOL (Columbus, OH) Digital leadership drives school leaders to look past traditional constructs and incorporate trends embraced by Fortune 500 companies to transform learning spaces and environments.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

There is a dire need to support educators in the areas of digital leadership and learning while exposing them to non-traditional learning pathways. 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

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

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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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

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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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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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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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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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

When Alexandra Logue served as the chief academic officer of the City University of New York (CUNY) from 2008 to 2014, she discovered that her 25-college system was spending over $20 million a year on remedial classes. These students haven’t yet matriculated at the college and don’t pay tuition, and so CUNY doesn’t count them as students.

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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

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

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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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

APRIL 4, 2023

Even more disciplinary transfers likely occur when students are counseled to voluntarily switch from one traditional school to another. In 2014, a state law prohibited districts from forcing students to transfer if they were recommended for expulsion but won their expulsion hearing.

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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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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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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

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

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university departs from traditional practice by involving all its faculty and staff in recruiting students. That’s up from 83 percent in 2014 , the earliest year for which the figure is available from the U.S. Incoming freshmen at the University of Maine pick up information about student clubs. Department of Education.

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CORE Econ

OCTOBER 23, 2024

It reflects a departure from traditional economics textbooks, but also manages to integrate perspectives from different schools of thought. On one hand, it retains traditional themes like scarcity, preferences, supply and demand, and competitive markets. However, I find The Economy 2.0 to be an extremely useful textbook.

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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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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

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

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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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Low-income, Black and Latino households were also more likely to note these barriers, the report found.

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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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