Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 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 121

Leadership Classroom Management Elementary School Tradition 121

Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

And then there is the 2020–2021 school year, where nothing is normal, and we have had five “first days of school.” What are some things that we, as an instructional leadership team, could focus on to help teachers keep students engaged, without increasing teacher workload?

Professional Development 140

Professional Development Lesson Plan Classroom Management Middle School 140

Digital Promise

MARCH 27, 2019

The full paid program offers many more supports, including individualized program consultancy and activation events at Google’s campuses to help school leadership teams get the most impact from our program and transform every classroom in their buildings. Click here to learn how to join for the 2019-2020 school year.

Classroom Management 97

Classroom Management EdTech Pedagogy Professional Development 97

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Parachuting In, Unprepared for Duty During the first quarter of the 2020-2021 academic year, I needed to make my first-ever parent call. As TFA cuts a quarter of its staff after reporting its lowest recruitment numbers in 15 years , I feel angry.

Teaching 107

Teaching Social Justice Pedagogy Cultures 107

ED Surge

JULY 24, 2023

percent of American school teachers, according to a widely cited federal survey of the 2020-2021 school year. And then number two is usually something very similar that we hear from all teachers: just the lack of respect, not being listened to, leadership and autonomy being eroded, lack of community. So that's the number one reason.

K-12 19

K-12 Classroom Management Economics History 19

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

In August 2020, she signed up for a new program designed to provide people working in school settings the chance to turn their job into an undergraduate degree in education, at a low cost. It then expanded to offer credentials to teachers who wanted to move into administration as well as graduate degrees in teaching and leadership.

Elementary School 96

Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 96

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 9, 2019

In 2017, a group of four educational nonprofits partnered with two local universities, Xavier and Loyola, to land a $13 million federal grant that will produce 900 “highly effective, culturally competent teachers from diverse backgrounds” by the year 2020, according to one of the partners, New Schools for New Orleans. It’s not a stop.

Elementary School 109

Elementary School Public School Teaching Cultures 109