A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2022

The key is to remember pivotal lessons learned during the great remote and hybrid experiment of 2020 and parts of 2021 to power through what I hope is only a couple of weeks. Be realistic (substance over quantity, prioritize standards) There is nothing inherently new in the tips provided above.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 12, 2020

Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger) April 4, 2020 Commitment is a gross understatement. To try to sum up what they are doing through this pandemic, I posted this on Twitter recently. Educators are flying the plane while building it. What we have learned is that a virus cannot stop their commitment to kids.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 22, 2018

The opening two paragraphs sum up the point of the piece nicely: By 2020, the Fourth Industrial Revolution will have brought us advanced robotics and autonomous transport, artificial intelligence and machine learning, advanced materials, biotechnology, and genomics.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2020

At the beginning of 2020, no one could have foreseen the impact of the pandemic. Dwayne Reed (@TeachMrReed) June 1, 2020 Discomfort, as well as ignorance, are no excuses. In the face of a myriad of obstacles, educators have stepped up to implement remote learning to get through the remainder of the academic year.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Below is Sofia's story in her own words: When it was announced that our school district would begin the 2020-2021 school year fully remote, I knew it would be a challenge to engage my Pre-K students remotely while still adhering to developmentally appropriate practices and maintaining fidelity to our curriculum.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 18, 2020

Zywicki (@ZywickiR) March 16, 2020 Suggest lots of independent reading. Your coaching first exposed @MountOliveTSD to #choiceboards which were instrumental in helping us develop our health-related closing plan: [link] @RigorRelevance @DrLRepollet [link] — Dr. Robert R. You really can’t go wrong here.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2020

digilead pic.twitter.com/iJ8afKWb63 — Eric Sheninger (@E_Sheninger) February 16, 2020 When and if IWB’s are purchased, there should be a clear vision for how they will be used in the classroom consisting of a balance between teacher and student use. This represents a sound investment.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 21, 2021

During the spring of 2020, I connected with the Juab School District in Utah and began what would be two years of longitudinal work to help them take personalized learning to the next level. I love visiting classrooms around the country to not only support but to see educators in action.

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TeachThought

JANUARY 27, 2024

We’ve gathered 25 of the top math resources for 2020–a mix of established and all-new tools to support the building of math skills and the grasp of important mathematical concepts. The post 25 Of The Best Math Resources [Updated] appeared first on TeachThought.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 24, 2021

Needless to say, the 2020-2021 school year has been intense. The pandemic of 2020 will likely be something our students tell their children and grandchildren about. As this year winds down, I encourage teachers to take the final weeks of the school year to create closure, collect feedback, and help students look forward.

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Active History Teacher

OCTOBER 8, 2020

Let 2020 be 2020. Check out her Instagram highlights for tons of remote teaching tips! Let things go. We just need to get through this year of remote learning. Do the best you can and move on. YOU are a great teacher. Join The Active History Teacher Community! First name Email address What are you interested in hearing about?

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 25, 2020

We do not know what fall 2020 will look like–in person, online, or a combination of both. As the year comes to a close, I encourage teachers to take a moment and collect feedback from students about their experiences learning online in the last few months.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

That figure grew to nearly one-third of districts during the 2020-21 school year. By 2020, the English learner populations had shifted away from just border states and major cities. California, for instance, had more than 1 million enrolled schools in 2020. percent to 10.7 percent over the 20-year period.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Here's to an amazing 2020 everyone. The Pillars of Digital Leadership represents a framework for all educators to initiate and sustain innovative change that aligns with the core work that already serves as the foundation for every school or district learning culture. Thanks for all that you do for kids.

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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. In the fall of 2020, Hawaii began offering all of its special education teachers an extra $10,000 a year.

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Anthropology News

JANUARY 31, 2024

It was hard to gain access and insight into the ship industry when I first visited in the winter of 2019–2020, just before the COVID-19 pandemic hit. Yet, in 2020, much work remained to be done to improve labor and environmental standards as per the HKC. Credit: Google Maps Google Maps screenshot of Sitakunda shipbreaking yards.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 11, 2024

There are also some benefits in engaging in professional development together, such as building relatedness, a key determinant of motivation according to self-determination theory (Ryan & Deci, 2020). Ryan & Deci (2020). Janssen, Grossman & Westbroek (2015). Teaching & Teacher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2024

With no money coming in from families after mid-March 2020, she was forced to sell her house in Medford, Massachusetts, also home to her daycare, Gummy Bears, to support her family. She was hospitalized in late 2020 with a severe case of Covid and never fully regained her strength. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Between March 2020 and December 2021, 92 state laws were enacted to help youth mental health through efforts in schools, according to a NASHP analysis. Between March 2020 and December 2021, 92 state laws were enacted to help youth mental health through efforts in schools, according to a NASHP analysis.

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NCHE

DECEMBER 2, 2024

When a Pennsylvania school board in 2020 pulled over 300 books and materials from school bookshelves, a student group at the high school, the Panther Anti-Racist Union, took note. All the banned books were by or about people of color or of diverse genders (including even a student PowerPoint on helping minority students take the SAT).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Michael Itzkowitz, education consultant and former director of College Scorecard, an online federal government tool At Brenau, the lowest-income students paid $24,640 out of pocket in 2020-21 after all the discounts, grants, and scholarships. This was over $5,000 more than what the highest-income students had to pay.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

The starkest example is eighth grade students, who were in fourth grade when the pandemic first erupted in March of 2020. But the pace of learning, or rate of academic growth, has been rocky since 2020, with some students missing many months of instruction. This is a crisis moment with middle schoolers,” said Lewis.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2024

It spiked in the fall of 2020, when three quarters of all students were taking classes online. It’s not 100 percent, as it might have been in the spring of 2020, because some states and campuses had reopened by the fall. The green line of online course taking was growing steadily before the pandemic.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Journal : Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , 2020. Steinert Journal : Expression of Emotions in Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia , 2020. Wagner-Durand Journal : Homo Pictor: Image Studies and Archaeology in Dialogue , 2020. PDF Link : Academia.edu Sadness and Grief in Akkadian Texts Author : I.

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Anthropology.net

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

Source: Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports , 2020. Source: Quaternary Science Reviews , 2020. Source: Antiquity , 2020. Bone and Antler Tool Use in Late Pleistocene North America Investigates bone and antler tools, including needles, highlighting manufacturing techniques and the implications for mobility and subsistence.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Armando Montero, an advocate for mental health, began running for the Tempe Union High School District Governing Board in Arizona when he was still in high school and was elected in 2020. Hunter Holt was elected, at age 18, to the Marana Unified School District Governing Board in Arizona in 2020.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. Following interviews and selection, the board member—a middle school student—acts as the voice for the district’s student population.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 2, 2023

A bout with Covid in late 2020 had forced Suka, a single mother of seven, to take time off from her job as a home hospice caregiver. million kids as homeless in 2020-21, the most recent school year for which data was available. VANCOUVER, Wash. Public schools identified 1.1

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Journal : Evolutionary Human Sciences , 2020. Journal : World Archaeology , 2020. DOI : 10.1007/s10816-022-09591-5 Summary : Explores storytelling as a key mode of cultural and artistic knowledge transmission among Upper Paleolithic societies. DOI : 10.1017/ehs.2020.37 Kentridge, R., & Meyering, L. 1 Wisher, I., Matthews, J.,

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Calculus simultaneously to prepare for computer engineering courses in college.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 8, 2022

The rate of teachers quitting and retiring from the profession, according to Goldhaber’s calculations in one state, Washington, was about 11 percent in 2020-21 – actually a smidge lower than it was in 2006-07, another year of high turnover when a strong job market lured educators away. Most departures were filled with new hires.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

Credit: Grace McConnell for The Hechinger Report The nearly abandoned campus of Chatfield University, one of more than a dozen rural colleges that have closed since 2020 or announced that they will close. million, the college lost $373,520 in 2020 and $850,202 in 2021 , tax records show. “We The college has closed permanently.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2022

No tests were administered in 2020.) Terrance Harrelson, an accountant and the father of Northside Middle eighth graders Braylen and Kylin Harrelson, found it tough to help his kids work on math from home during the 2020-21 school year because he didn’t understand the procedures being taught. “I

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 8, 2023

In early 2020, at an academic conference just before the pandemic hit, Powell commiserated with other experts in special education and students who struggle in math. In December 2020, she invited dozens of like-minded education researchers to the first science of math Zoom meeting. I see it as a huge equity issue.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 27, 2022

That changed in the summer of 2020. In 2020, after committee membership reached an all-time high, a white Fairfax mother spoke up at one of the Zoom meetings. The three groups spent the late fall and early winter of 2020 coordinating their efforts, strategizing on messaging and plotting a heavy-handed appeal to the district.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

In 2018 or so Elon Musk said there would be fleets of driverless Teslas everywhere by 2020. “It takes a really long time before technology has these really dramatic changes,” he says. “In But looking out my window at the New York City streets and I just saw a yellow cab go by that’s not a Tesla. I’ve never seen a driverless Tesla.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

At a legislative hearing in 2020, a Louisiana education department official said the reporting lapse could cost the state $21 million in annual federal funding for career education. (A For example, a 2020 analysis found that only 18 percent of the credentials CTE students earn are sought by employers in job postings.

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