A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 9, 2020

A few district administrators and I visited classrooms in March 2019. Fast forward to January 2019. However, the principal at the time advocated fiercely that she wanted me to visit, and arrangements were made. You can read more in detail about what this looks like HERE.

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TeachThought

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Help Students Think Critically About News With These 20 Questions This post was originally published in 2019 and updated in 2024 by Terrell Heick 1. In the article, headline, or social share, ‘who’ is saying ‘what’? That is, what specific author and publication are making what kind of claim about what topic or ideas?

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

You can see the tweet below. What specific challenges do you face in education? Please share as I am looking for topics to focus my writing on.

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Catlin Tucker

JULY 19, 2020

Research has established a clear connection between teachers’ feelings of self-efficacy, their level of engagement at work, and their job satisfaction (Granziera & Perera, 2019).

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HistoryRewriter

JANUARY 17, 2024

One of my students doing a project for AP Environmental Science used archetypes when analyzing who was the worst villain or shadow in the history of fracking which was well laid out in Rachel Maddow’s 2019 book Blowout. Was it George P. Mitchell, Aubrey McClendon, Rex Tillerson, or Vladimir Putin?

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TeachThought

AUGUST 29, 2024

2019) discusses students’ lack of effort if they think failure or low performance is likely. Having low expectations of students regardless of their ability allows students to be satisfied with the current performance rather than continuing to strive for growth and improvement. Williams et al. Williams, Greenleaf, A. Barnes, E.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Here’s to a fantastic 2019! A question or two as a means to help self-assess where you are and if improvements can be made follows each of these areas. Thanks to everyone who has made the time to visit my blog, read posts, and provide comments.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

In 2019, just over one-third of students in the U.S. Results from the fall 2020 assessment showed that students in grades 1-8 “lost” an extra 1 percent in reading compared to fall 2019, with high-poverty students “losing” more. In 2019, Mississippi was the only state in the nation to post significant gains on NAEP assessments.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

It is paying off: Over a five-year span ending in 2019, the number of students reading at grade level in the district grew at a rate that outpaced the state as a whole. In North Carolina, reading scores barely budged in the five years between 2015 and 2019. READ THE SERIES. 1 in the nation for growth in reading.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. Students in grades 3 through 8 slid 6 percentage points in reading on state tests in the spring of 2021 compared to 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2021

A Gallup poll found that the proportion of Americans who consider college to be very important had fallen from 70 percent in 2013 to 51 percent by 2019. billion in 2019, according to the brand consulting company Kantar, which monitors this. billion in 2019. Nonprofit Western Governors University spent $127 million that year.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 10, 2023

Novak and I highlight how teachers who regularly engage students in making their own review materials and study guides can incorporate the powerful evidence-based learning strategies of retrieval practice, spacing, interleaving, and feedback-driven metacognition (Agarwal & Bain, 2019).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2024

Tennessee’s teacher shortages are worse in math, foreign languages and special education A 2019–2020 survey of Tennessee school districts showed staffing challenges for each subject. Nearly every district struggled to find high school math teachers. Tech = technology; CTE = career and technical education; ESL = English as a second language.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

The average sixth grader knows more today in 2024 than he or she did in first grade in 2019. Sixth graders in 2024, on average, know far less than sixth graders did back in 2019. At the end of the 2023-24 school year, nearly as many kindergarteners were on grade level for phonics skills as kindergarteners in 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

But there are far more students regularly logging into their computers for their classes now than in 2019, according to the latest federal data. million more students were taking at least one course online — even as the total number of college students fell by more than a million between 2019 and 2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

Stanford professor emeritus and former public district superintendent Larry Cuban described in a 2019 blog the stark reality that AltSchool was “ spending $40 million a year and taking in $7 million in revenue … a recipe for financial disaster.” Yet, fast forward to 2022, and AltSchool no longer exists.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 4, 2023

The data covers 10 years, starting with 2010-11 through the 2019-20 school year. The paper notes that the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic may have caused difficulties for some states in collecting and reporting graduation data for the 2019-20 school year. Texas and Illinois did not provide information that year.

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My AP Life

AUGUST 1, 2022

When DeAnna Miller became assistant principal in 2019, she could never have anticipated the challenges pandemic schooling would bring. Looking back now, she identifies her most important lesson learned: “Real leadership is recognizing that we must serve the people we lead.”.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 13, 2021

The development of a social presence in a class has been shown to positively impact both engagement and learning outcomes (Richardson, Maeda, Lv & Caskurlu, 2017; Swan, 2019). This work developing the social presence in our courses and helping students feel valued as members of a learning community must be ongoing.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Copur-Gencturk and colleagues (2019) explored the impact of teachers’ biases on their perceptions of students’ math abilities. 2019; Kleekamp & Zapata, 2018). When educators understand more about their implicit and explicit biases , it helps us to identify and address how these biases impact practice. 2016; Harmon et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2023

Since 2019 there’s been a growing number of attacks — both verbal and physical — against teachers, administrators, school board officials, librarians and even students, particularly those who are LGBTQ+, Black, Hispanic or Asian. Roy Cooper created a task force in 2019 to add more teachers of color across the state.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Source: Nature Ecology & Evolution, 2019. Source: Sustainability Science, 2019. Source: Science, 2019. Diverse Values of Nature and the IPBES Conceptual Framework Examines the incorporation of diverse cultural, spiritual, and economic values of nature within the IPBES framework.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2021

The National Student Clearinghouse reports a 13 percent decline in freshman enrollment since 2019, including a 32 percent decline for Black students and a 20 percent decline for Latinx students in public two-year colleges. Congress may just find a way to prevent another lost generation. Sadly, these trends will likely continue.

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NCHE

JUNE 12, 2023

Our last strategic plan was completed in 2019, which means it is time to reflect and reevaluate with an eye toward the next three to five years. NCHE is embarking on a Strategic Visioning process, and we need your feedback!

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2022

England’s program in Indiana in 2019. England’s training program in 2019 and lives in Southern Illinois, said she felt unprepared to drive, despite earning her commercial driver’s license at the end of the training. England said his company’s pay was $560 a week in 2019 and is about $784 today. Amy Jeschke attended C.R.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

Natalie Wexler’s 2019 best-selling book, The Knowledge Gap , championed knowledge-building curricula and more schools around the country, from Baltimore to Michigan to Colorado , are adopting these content-filled lesson plans to teach geography, astronomy and even art history. It’s an indirect way of teaching reading comprehension.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

On the 2022 National Assessment of Educational Progress, average eighth grade math scores declined eight points from 2019, hitting a level not seen since the early 2000s. At Northside, the share of eighth graders passing the state math standards test fell by 19 percentage points from 2019 to 2021, to 68 percent.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2024

Here are some of the racial realities of American public education today: 25: That’s the percentage increase in Black-white school segregation between 1991 and 2019, according to an analysis of 533 districts by sociologists Sean Reardon at Stanford University and Ann Owens at the University of Southern California.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

A survey published in November 2021 shows that 90 percent of humanities graduates are generally satisfied with their lives and careers in 2019, even if their earnings, on average, slightly trail those of other majors ($58,000 compared to $63,000). Still, the signs ahead don’t look good. English majors seem to be sliding faster still.

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Teaching Anthropology

MAY 8, 2023

2019) and at raising learner satisfaction as they enjoy their courses more (Lumpkin et al., Learners’ engagement, active participation, and reflection are situated at the core of active learning. Previous studies have shown that this strategy has been successful at reducing failure rates in STEM courses at university (Talbert et al.,

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Related Studies These studies provide broader perspectives on Neanderthal fire management, tar production, and behavioral complexity. Kozowyk, P. Poulis, J. A., & Langejans, G. A new experimental methodology for assessing adhesive properties shows that Neanderthals used the most suitable material available. DOI:10.1016/j.jhevol.2019.102671

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 10, 2022

A 2019 report from the Stanford History Education Group found that high school students had “difficulty discerning fact from fiction online.”. Washington State has been the leader in that area, Spikes said, having passed legislation in 2019 that set aside funds for media literacy education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

After Green Mountain College in rural Vermont shut down in 2019, its 155-acre campus was put up for sale for $20 million; the campus eventually sold at auction for $4.5 The most recent scores are from 2019-20. and running a deficit in 2018 and 2019, the most recent years for which tax documents are available.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2024

Still, these neediest children were projected to be one third of a grade level behind low-income students in 2019, before the pandemic disrupted education. Researchers explained that these students are on track to approach 2019 achievement levels because they didn’t suffer as much learning loss.

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Teaching Anthropology

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Gesturing to multimodality as “a politics of invention” for an anthropology that might be “multisensorial rather than text based, performative rather than representational, and inventive rather than descriptive” (Dattatreyan & Marrero-Guillamón, 2019) here is an open-access example on poetic autoethnography and digital textuality.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Journal : Journal of Anthropological Archaeology , 2019. Journal : Nature Ecology & Evolution , 2019. Hounds Follow Those Who Feed Them: What the Ethnographic Record Reveals About Early Human-Canid Partnerships Authors : Lupo, K. DOI : 10.1016/j.jaa.2019.101081 DOI : 10.1016/j.cub.2015.10.008

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

The 2019 program in Virginia “placed graduate students in school district positions and provided 200 trainees with financial incentives to work in schools,” according to her report, and Ohio has a similar, decades-old program for school psychologist interns.

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