Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 23, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

Leadership 113

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 27, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

Leadership 110

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 21, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

Leadership 110

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ED Surge

JANUARY 14, 2025

Because while the primary responsibilities of a classroom teacher involve educating and caring for young children, that work often shifts dramatically at the next level the leadership level to managing staff and operating a small business. Its often so daunting that many educators dont bother to move up.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 25, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Using interactive whiteboards like projectors Teacher-student ratio Principals seem to be regretting their decision to go into leadership as they have too much on their plate and not enough time. 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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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2020

As we wrapped up 2019, we launched three public-facing and 15 private micro-credentials from our partners. Micro-credentials launched in late 2019. The University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee debuted two micro-credentials about Teacher Leadership. The ecosystem is growing every day.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2021

In 2019, federal officials warned that white supremacist violence was a growing threat; 2020 brought widespread attention to the long-standing oppression Black Americans face. At the leadership level, Asian Americans are underrepresented, often to an extreme. But, as always, closer examination reveals a different story.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

With that in mind, we invite you to help us tell our stories at SXSW EDU 2019 to spread the word on topics like learner variability, educator micro-credentials, immersive storytelling with 360° technology, maker learning, edtech pilots, data interoperability, and more. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2018

On Monday, July 9th, teachers and administrators from 10 schools gathered to kick off a year-long journey in the Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. The opportunity to be a part of the Maker Learning Leadership Cohort will provide a platform for this to happen.”. Unfortunately, our schools do not collaborate as much as they should.

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Political Science Now

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

He has authored 50 scholarly publications including five books—the latest on the role of religion in IR, Scriptures, Shrines, Scapegoats and World Politics (2020) and another on the African American liberation struggle of the 1960’s-70’s, The Revolution Will not be Theorized (2019). Watch the full interview series on YouTube.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile. At May Road School in Auckland, students in Years 3 and 4, equivalent to second and third grade in the United States, work on fractions.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. 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. Puh,” he enunciated.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The American Indian College Fund’s 2019-20 Student Ambassador cohort. For the last six years, the American Indian College Fund has selected a group of talented students and alumni for leadership training to speak about education issues impacting Native Americans. Credit: Caitlin Alysse/American Indian College Fund 2019.

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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. In the long run, we need federal leadership to rethink the relationship between high school and higher education.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

We have continued to offer our college and career readiness initiative, The Saturday Leadership Program , in a virtual setting in which we expose scholars to different college environments. In fall 2020, MindCatcher launched Collective Support , an affinity-based leadership and wellness cohort.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Districts are also fostering student leadership and elevating student voices in more meaningful ways. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. Potential for impacting student learning and educational leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

Seventy-seven percent of teachers are women, but only 31 percent of district chiefs are, according to an April 2019 report by Chiefs for Change, a bipartisan nonprofit. Chelsea Kelley explains new legislation to the Los Angeles Unified School District Board of Education in October 2019. Credit: Misty Padilla Feusahrens.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We selected Ballard and her peers for our series of focus groups because of their leadership in supporting the effective use of technology in their schools. Even though Ballard is a self-described “early adopter,” she is careful not to recommend the latest, shiniest tools to her teachers outright.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

These are just a few of the exclamations we heard at our National Leadership Institutes in 2019. “I found my people!” This is like church!” “I I feel so energized!” “Can Can we do this in our district?”

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical. That was a signal from the highest levels of leadership saying that this is important, Corns says.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. A Closer Look at Our 2019 HP Spotlight School. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

During the 2019-20 school year, 10 districts from across the United States—including nine districts from the League of Innovative Schools—joined a learning cohort, convened by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and Digital Promise, to explore this question. Set a clear and explicit vision for equity.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

In 2019, I probably would have heard from parents and students, ‘It's annoying,’ ‘It's hard to get here,’ ‘How could you possibly require this in-person orientation?” Before the pandemic, orientation leaders typically held leadership positions in high school, as a club president, for example, Brister says.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

We’ve taught more than 150,000 students fully online in the last 10 years — including 35,000 students in 2019. Amy Smith, who has a doctorate in educational leadership, is the chief learning officer for StraighterLine, which offers low-priced online courses equivalent to the general courses required for a bachelor’s degree.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I say a few affirmative words aloud to center myself, then I reach into a drawer and pull out a small bottle of lavender aromatherapy that my leadership team gave me as a “wellness gift.” Wellness Efforts Fall Short Our middle school opened its doors to roughly 100 fifth graders in 2019. For a moment, like Calgon, I’m taken away.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Eight more are expected to open before the end of the 2019-20 school year, and 40 more are planned in the next two years. Coles also noted how the lab is bringing out leadership in students, and that skills learned in the lab have translated into other subjects. “I

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s up to those of us in leadership positions to prevent this. Bring all of these data sources to your leadership team, and begin to explore appropriate goals. Then, I followed up with a pledge: “When I am a principal, I am not going to do this to my staff.” The question is, why do we allow it to happen?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 14, 2023

President & Fellows of Harvard College, the Department of Defense submitted a friend-of-the-court brief outlining why the use of affirmative action at the academies and civilian colleges alike helps contribute to diverse military leadership, and why that matters. Military Academy in West Point, New York; the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

For nearly a decade, the New York State Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and Teach Dream , the council’s educator team, have pushed city officials for more support for immigrant students in schools.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In their book, they predicted that by 2019, 50% of all high school courses will be online in some blended learning model. Even as of May 2019, there were people pointing out the failure of this prediction.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2021

For example, the focus of last summer’s global virtual camp was leadership and advocacy through the power of storytelling. Hameed said the format lets teachers engage students in a more meaningful way, even when they have to connect over Zoom. Students produced mini-documentaries and TED-style talks.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2021

At Northeastern Illinois, only 11 percent of Black students graduated within six years in 2019. In some states, the graduation rate gaps are particularly acute: At every four-year public college in Illinois and Missouri with data available, for example, there was a gap of at least 14 percentage points between white and Black students in 2019.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 10, 2019

Via www.forbes.com/sites/petergreene/2019/06/08/dear-teachers-please-dont-make-your-lessons-relevant. New Year Leadership Challenge 2: Curiosity. Podcast – How to take our leadership and teaching to new levels. Related Posts. How long has it been since you were really bothered?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

The Board and senior leadership worked out confidential agreements with other institutions to support our students in the event of a closure.” Wells was put on probation in 2019 by Middle States, requiring that, among other things, it show evidence of “adequate fiscal and human resources” and proper financial planning.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2019

“For the first time, we know that there are benefits for kids,” said Jody Spiro, director of education leadership at the Wallace Foundation. Gates said the biggest factor in how much bang a district got for its buck depended upon how much work it had previously done in improving school leadership.

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