A Principal's Reflections

MAY 11, 2015

You can access a free trial until 12/31/2015 for general use. During the class students answer the questions with “one click”. They can also submit comments and questions during the class, which the class can see and “vote” on. For readers of A Principal's Reflections the trial is free until 3/31/2016 by using a special code.

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JANUARY 27, 2019

When I wrote Uncommon Learning back in 2015, the premise was to set the stage as to how we could create schools that work for kids. A good deal of the strategies presented came from what we successfully implemented at New Milford High School where I was the former principal. To get a better gist of the main focus areas check out my TEDx talk.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2018

Image credit: whitealliesintraining.com/2015/10/05/big-idea-change-narrative/ In today's engaging, digitally empowered school setting, questions arise as to whether schools are best suited for educating their learners. The bottom line is that if you don't tell your story someone else will.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2015

So where do you stand on the usefulness of a traditional resume for a student in 2015 and beyond? In addition to Wix here are some other resources that students can use to create digital resumes and portfolios. Change digital portfolio Innovation resume Sarah Almeda'

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 17, 2017

The SWOT activity is done in the very early stages of development of a mission so that the brand strategy can be assured of success (Armstrong & Kotler, 2015). In conducting a SWOT, the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to brand success are stated and examined. Image credit: www.thirstt.com Cited sources Armstrong, G., &

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TeachThought

AUGUST 27, 2024

2015, [link] Sayre, April Pulley, et al. Verywell Mind , Verywell Mind, 11 Mar. 2023, www.verywellmind.com/gardners-theory-of-multiple-intelligences-279516 Rosier, Lauren. Word Walls and Reading Fluency.” Missouri State University, 1 Jun. Word Walls.” Reading Rockets , www.readingrockets.org/classroom/classroom-strategies/word-walls.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 5, 2015

1 product due out prior to the start of the Fall 2015 semester. They have also just recently launched a Kickstarter in order to raise the funds that are needed in order to expedite the development of their v.1

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 20, 2020

Students also reported being more motivated by audio and video feedback because it was clear and personalized (Voelkel & Mello, 2014; Henderson & Phillips, 2015). Online students who received audio feedback perceived that feedback as more thorough, detailed, and personal than text feedback (Voelkel & Mello, 2014).

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 23, 2022

Effective use of differentiated instruction “has been proven to successfully promote the equity dimension of instructional effectiveness by providing all students with the opportunity to improve their achievement levels” (Valiandes, 2015). and Timperley, H. The power of feedback. 77, 81–112. doi: 10.3102/003465430298487.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

The text of the bill contains the line, “in 2015, a typical American student took 112 mandated standardized tests across the length of their elementary and secondary education years.” Likewise, we’re better served by being as precise as possible when we discuss testing. Stenhouse Publishers. Hutt, E. & & Schneider, J. Kamenetz, A.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 3, 2016

In late 2015 I presented at a national conference after my proposal had been accepted earlier that year. If growth and improvement are the ultimate objective it is imperative to know the difference between the two. This was the fifth time I had presented at this event and I always found the experience to be rewarding.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Journal : Childhood in the Past , 2015. Journal : Cambridge Archaeological Journal , 2015. Journal : International Journal of the Society of Archaeological Science , 2015. Children, Metaphorical Thinking, and Upper Paleolithic Visual Cultures Author : Nowell, A. DOI : 10.1179/1758571615Z.00000000034 DOI : 10.1179/1758571615Z.00000000034

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

The nation’s highest spending school districts tend to be wealthy white suburbs whose education spending increased at a faster rate than other school districts between 2000 and 2015, according to a May 2020 study by a Penn State researcher. Why we should care about high levels of education spending among the rich is a matter of debate.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

That is, recombining specific elements of a particular practice into a different sequence (eg Janssen et al, 2015). Janssen, Grossman & Westbroek (2015). A final consideration that supports the kind of adaptive expertise we want teachers to develop is the addition of recomposition. Teachers College Record. Ryan & Deci (2020).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

In a 2017 study by the American Council on Education, a higher education association, researchers found that individuals who identified as something other than white held just 17 percent of college and university presidencies in 2016, while representing 42 percent of students enrolled in 2015.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, pictured above, was one of 99 colleges that adopted test-optional admissions between 2005-6 and 2015-16. He then compared these diversity gains to what happened at a similar group of colleges that didn’t adopt test-optional policies until after 2015-16. and DePaul University in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

A 2015 survey found only 20 percent of early-career principals in schools with pre-K classrooms felt “well-versed” in early ed. In Alabama, principals can attend a unique leadership academy to learn about how to support teachers working with young children.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

According to Common Sense, between 2015 and 2019, screen use among teenagers (ages 13 to 18) increased by 11 percent. TikTok wasn’t as big a platform in 2019, and it wasn’t even a thing in 2015.” Among tweens (ages 8 to 12), it increased by just 3 percent. One platform in particular stands out. TiKTok is a big force,” he says.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al., 2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Copeland T., & Dengah, F. Involve me and I learn”: Teaching and applying anthropology. Lumpkin, A. &

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Nevertheless, during the 2017-18 school year, the CRDC reported, 69,492 students received corporal punishment, on top of 92,479 students in 2015-16. Before working in education policy, Kostyo taught middle and high school math and science — and was recognized as a high school Teacher of the Year by his peers in 2015.

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Catlin Tucker

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

In 2015, Travis was named TIE Technology Leader of the Year, which recognized his work integrating technology into his classroom. In this episode, I talk with Travis Lape a father, husband, and Innovative Programs Director at Harrisburg School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2021

Since 2015, when the report’s authors, Victoria Rideout, president of VJR Consulting, and Vikki Katz, an associate professor at Rutgers University, first studied the issue, access to non dial-up home internet service among low-income families with children ages 6 to 13 has increased from 64 percent to 84 percent. “The

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Share of new college students in the fall of 2015 who were still in high school and taking a dual enrollment class. Map reprinted from The Postsecondary Outcomes of High School Dual Enrollment Students A National and State-by-State Analysis (October 2024) Community College Research Center. Dual enrollment is exploding.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Current Anthropology , 2015. Source: Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory , 2015. Faunal Resource Exploitation at Clovis Sites Analyzes faunal remains from Clovis sites to understand resource utilization and tool production strategies, including the crafting of utilitarian objects like needles.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Finding out just how significant this was required, unfortunately for one cohort of students, waiting until the exam results, mark schemes and reports from the first round of exams in the 2015 A level specifications were released.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

million public school students were identified as gifted in 2015-16, about 6 percent of the total school population, according to the federal Department of Education. percent, were considered gifted in 2015-16. You need these kinds of talent development programs,” Ford told Hechinger’s Emmanuel Felton in 2015. Nationally, 3.3

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. Hickory’s scores improved from 52 percent of students reading at grade level in 2015 to 59 percent in 2019, compared with an increase from 56 percent to 57 percent for the state as a whole. READ THE SERIES.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2022

The first part of the study of Tennessee’s program was released by the Vanderbilt University researchers in 2015. The team’s past findings surprised early childhood experts and advocates who herald high-quality pre-K as a necessity to help prepare children, especially those from low-income families, for kindergarten.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Between 2003 and 2015, the number of campus child care centers declined precipitously, according to the Institute for Women’s Policy Research. In 2015, 44 percent of community colleges offered on-campus childcare, compared to 53 percent in 2003. The shrinking number of on-campus child care centers was also an issue pre-pandemic.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2023

The day we were awarded the opportunity to participate in this initiative back in 2015 is a day that is forever ingrained in my memory. Before the 2015-16 school year, our school had just two laptop carts with 20 laptops each that were shared among all of our classes.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

million program in 2015 that allows local schools to set their own rules or reimburse teachers who buy their own supplies. States that normally compensate teachers for their expenditures might not have the money to fund those programs. In Nevada, for instance, the state created a $4.5 The budget for that item this year?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 3, 2023

ISTE 2015: (Re)designing tech-infused lessons for deeper thinking. Administrators, standards, and technology. Live blogging Oskaloosa High School’s experiences at the FIRST Championships. My feedback on the draft ISLLC standards.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

The University of Michigan first began experimenting with free tuition guarantees in 2015, creating a HAIL scholarship for high-achieving low-income high school seniors. A 2021 study found that the scholarship offer was even more effective when it was first introduced and randomly offered to low income students in 2015 and 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

For about 29 years, Pell funding had been largely prohibited for individuals who are incarcerated, with the exception of a small federal pilot program that debuted in 2015. The new Pell rules made 767,000 people at state prisons nationwide eligible to pay for college with federal funds — starting with a handful of those at Pelican Bay.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Thirty-five percent of registered voters in a survey last year said they’d had trouble finding a doctor , up from 25 percent in 2015. The bad news for the surge of medical applicants is that medical schools aren’t likely to expand to accommodate them next fall, meaning that the odds of getting in this year will be much lower.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 12, 2019

Since 2015, Ned has contributed to the League of Innovative Schools in powerful and tremendous ways—by asking tough questions, by doing hard work, and by creating joy in places that needed it. We are devastated to share the news that our dear friend Ned Kirsch, superintendent of Franklin West Supervisory Union, has passed away suddenly.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Psychology professor Daniel Willingham and middle school teacher Paul Bruno, working with the organization Deans for Impact, summarized these concepts in a concise 2015 report, “ The Science of Learning.” McDaniel, made an urgent case for these ideas.

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