A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Hattie and Timperley (2017) shared the following. While I presented the concept in my book, it wasn’t until recently that I saw an exemplary feedback log during a coaching cycle with Quest Academy Junior High School in Utah. It was found that feedback ranked among the highest of hundreds of education practices he studied.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 19, 2017

According to Ken Montgomery, Executive Director of Design Tech High School (“d.tech”), a charter school in Northern California, “The world is going to change quickly and unpredictably, so the best thing that we can do for kids is give them a mindset and skillset that whatever the world is like, they can succeed and find their path.”.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Millions of students are leaving high school unprepared for college-level coursework. At the same time, millions of students are reporting that high school is too easy. Most high schools today will look familiar even to folks like me who are losing (or just starting to lose) the battle with gray hair.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

A student in a high school just outside of New York City. A similar pattern seemed to be emerging among the state’s high school students, who are required to pass a series of exams, called Regents, to earn a diploma. But in New York, the exams are necessary for high school graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

I wouldn’t put my parents through this just to go to school in the United States.” SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico — Desirée Morales Díaz didn’t choke up when she recounted how her high school counselor hadn’t heard of the common application, the form widely used by college admission offices on the mainland. And that’s when I said no.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 4, 2021

Kirabo Jackson believes two additional elements point to an effective school: social and emotional skills and student behavior. He argues that schools that boost those two plus test scores propel more students to graduate high school, go to college and reduce the number of students who get arrested. “We’re

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

2014: That’s the year that Wilcox County High School, in rural Georgia, held its first school-sponsored, racially integrated prom. The next year, the school made it official, finally holding an integrated event. Related: Become a lifelong learner.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Agua Fria Union High School District had just 6 percent of in-school suspension days assigned because of attendance problems in 2021-22, compared with 40 percent in 2017-18. Take, for instance, Glendale Union High School District. Bajah Ali, principal of El Dorado High School.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 18, 2016

I’ve been teaching 9th and 10th grade English at Windsor High School for the last 13 years. I’m beyond excited to bring all of my ideas to fruition as I work to make my perfect teaching position a reality for the 2016-2017 school year.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Now years later I have four published books and two more on the way in 2017. Through the sharing of our work at New Milford High School I began to receive many invitations to present on our many evidence-based change initiatives. The process of writing was always a struggle for me.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2020

High school students comfort each other on Chicago’s South Side. A new Chicago study shows that students who attend schools that foster soft skills do better in high school and beyond. We hear the phrase “failing schools” a lot but what really defines a failing school? Proof Points.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Across the country, schools have shifted toward career-focused education in recent years, reviving a long-running debate on whether the purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs or to be well-rounded citizens. But you want them to have a kind of better, more full understanding of careers.”. Overall, yes, certifications are good.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Photos of the class of 2018 are shown on May 15, 2018, on the Onalaska High School front office wall in Onalaska, Washington. The vast majority of the school’s students — and in 2017, all of them — are accepted into at least one college. 43 — The number of students in Onalaska High School’s 2017 graduating class.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

Colleges are embracing the need for students to get out of the classroom, says LaDale Winling, a history professor at Virginia Tech and author of the book Building the Ivory Tower: Universities and Metropolitan Development in the Twentieth Century, which came out in 2017. The acoustics in there are pretty insane, she adds.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Since 2017, Evans has led a special interest section of the New Zealand Mathematical Society Education Group focused on improving math teaching. Clair School students in Years 3 and 4, equivalent to second and third grade in the United States, practice a math lesson in Brigid Fyfes classroom in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

Researchers have consistently found that some high-achieving high school students – the ones with straight A’s and SAT scores above 1200 – don’t bother to apply to top colleges despite the likelihood of admission and a free ride. To address this, the university staged an experiment in 2019 involving 1,800 high school students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

The study tracked a group of 4,700 assistant principals, who constitute the main recruiting ground for principals, from 2001 to 2017 in Texas. Women were also much less likely to get promoted to principal at high schools, the authors found. High school principal positions are a traditional pathway to district superintendent.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

remember as a young reporter for The State newspaper in South Carolina’s capital, Columbia, driving with a colleague in 1999 to the old Bishopville High School in rural Lee County. The school was still in operation, despite having been condemned. But the school recently saw its state report card rating tumble.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

DeAndre Arnold has attended the Barbers Hill Independent School District his entire life; in high school, he grew his hair into locs. Mystic Valley Regional Charter School gave multiple detentions to twin sisters Deanna and Mya Cook for their hair extensions and prevented them from attending their junior prom in 2017.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The League of Innovative Schools, Digital Promise’s flagship network of forward-thinking leaders of our nation’s school districts, is honored to welcome 13 districts into the 2017-2018 cohort, bringing the League’s membership to 93 districts in 33 states.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

Dixie Ross has taught every level of math offered in Texas public high schools and trained hundreds of AP calculus teachers in summer institutes. So did worries that high schools are placing too much emphasis on calculus and not enough on practical skills like data analysis and statistics for an increasingly high-tech world.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

It was terrible for me in high school. In high school, I dreaded math class,” she said. The tiered placement method considers ACT scores, then a student’s high school GPA and appropriate grades, with a placement test as a final option, Fricks said. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 I hated math.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2022

which we published last Monday in partnership with the Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting, focuses on Collins Elementary School in the Covington County Public Schools in southeastern Mississippi. The fact is, most schools don’t use it. Even in districts that allowed it, many school principals chose not to.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2021

Between 1995 and 2018, the percentage of Latinos with a high school diploma rose from 53 percent to 72 percent. And between 1976 and 2017, the Latino proportion of all students enrolled in college rose from 4 to 19 percent. Unfortunately, the pandemic has set us back several years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2020

Brian Stack is principal of Sanborn Regional High School in Kingston, New Hampshire, and co-author of Breaking With Tradition: The Shift to Competency-Based Learning in PLCs at Work (2017). Jonathan Vander Els is director of innovative projects for the New Hampshire Learning Initiative and a former school principal.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 7, 2017

The district provides opportunities to its students through its emphasis on the fundamental ABCs – adapting, balancing, and collaborating – which they will highlight at the spring 2017 League of Innovative Schools meeting in late April. Adapting to create innovative environments. Collaborating for greater impact.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2020

Kent State Ashtabula is in a rural county near Cleveland, where black and Latino students make up about a third of the local high school. Among full-time, first-time students at Kent State University Salem, which is 4 percent black, two black students received an associate degree and one received a bachelor’s degree in 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2021

In the best of times, graduation rates at many of these schools are dismal : 13 percent after two years. To ensure that more students, especially first-generation college students, graduate, high schools, colleges, universities and college-access organizations must create and provide a host of supports.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

What if you gathered a group of high school students, gave them fancy microphones and some training, and challenged them to make an investigative podcast about the issues they cared about the most?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2021

They looked at student achievement in math and reading as well as high school graduation rates and college enrollment in 44 states that adopted teacher evaluation systems by 2017. The answer: In most states, teacher evaluation systems didn’t do anything for students. In a half-dozen states, it worked very well.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2024

Since 2017, 93 percent of students taking it have passed, and 83 percent have achieved all the course’s learning goals, including the ability to use arithmetic, geometry, algebra and trigonometry to solve welding problems, school data show. I absolutely hated math in high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2021

The number of eighth graders who said they read 30 minutes or more a day, besides homework, declined by 4 percentage points between 2017 and 2019. In survey questions that accompany the NAEP test, eighth graders reported how much time they spent reading outside of school. Credit: Photo by Allison Shelley for EDUimages.

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