Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

Establishing a strong culture of coaching, however, requires structures to be in place in a school or district such as designated time for coaching, and ongoing professional development for coaches and administrators. Popular micro-credentials included: Visionary Leadership for Technology. Creating Digital Citizens.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

In December 2020, Digital Promise convened more than 900 teachers, district leaders, charter leaders, researchers, and Black, Brown, and Indigenous organization leaders to reimagine the recruitment and retention of teachers of color. This report provides a summation of those efforts. What concepts did the teachers present at the convening?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 30, 2021

School systems and institutions of higher education must have both the right people and policies in place to not only curb discrimination, harassment and violence but also nurture and empower a culture that promotes belonging. At the leadership level, Asian Americans are underrepresented, often to an extreme.

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Digital Promise

JULY 6, 2020

The paradigm shift from racist to culturally affirming systems requires that you center the perspectives of leaders and teachers of color and support their efforts to achieve bold outcomes for Black and Brown students. Provide leadership opportunities of value. To be a co-conspirator, you must continually be brave, not safe.

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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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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

Beginning next week, my summer students and I will co-create our Leadership for Social Justice class together, recognizing that none of us has all of the answers but that we all can do something. I am grateful for the willingness of others to share their leadership and resources. Books: School leadership for social justice.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this first blog post, Michigan Virtual shares how they formed a grassroots educational leadership movement to navigate uncertainty. Have you ever found yourself in a leadership position during a time of crisis? Over the 2020 holiday break, a few members even reported missing the group’s camaraderie and support.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

Since March 2020, districts across the country have experienced alarming declines in student achievement in math and reading, a mental health crisis among students and widespread job dissatisfaction among educators. Yet, the significance of the key leadership position in our schools is largely overlooked and under-supported.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., His words helped me develop my position that all kids need a loving environment.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

Leaders shared strategies and learned from the Toronto District School Board, where leadership has explicitly centered and invested in equity. The importance of reimagining education through an equity lens has been amplified through the twin pandemics of COVID-19 and racial injustice of 2020, accelerating the urgency for districts.

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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.” By the end of the 2020-2021 school year we resumed in-person learning with full days. For a moment, like Calgon, I’m taken away. The problem?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Over the last two years, we have interviewed dozens of educators about school leadership. Sonjah was quickly tapped for school leadership, and she apprenticed at her school, where she added leadership tasks to her plate while juggling her core responsibilities. In short, great leadership is essential to student success.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2021

In the spring of 2020, Chelsea Kelley’s second grader received live instruction from his teacher just once a week for 45 minutes. Tanya Lieberman, pictured in May 2020, had to figure out how to hold public hearings on proposed legislation during a pandemic. When there are many of you, you get to shape the culture.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities. We are a family. We are Liberty.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

A September 2020 meta-analysis found that student achievement tended to improve after a school turnaround. Their fresh look at the collective evidence shows that rapid turnarounds aren’t useless, according to a paper published September 2020 in the journal of Educational Evaluation and Policy Analysis. But not always.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

The YARI project is operated by KnowledgeWorks through the Students at the Center Hub with local partners from the Center for Youth and Community Leadership in Education (CYCLE), the Met High School, and the Youth Development Program at Rhode Island College (YDEV@RIC). Laila Ibrahim, high school researcher.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

public school enrollment in 2020, up from 8.1 Spanish was the most-reported home language among English learners in 2020, followed by Arabic. One Alabama town is trying to change that We can help address this problem by creating a highly trained, skilled and culturally competent educator workforce. These students made up 10.3

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. Oakland’s partnership, known as #OaklandUndivided , launched in May 2020. OAKLAND, Calif. It was all hands on deck.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2021

That’s 73,000 additional graduates (above existing stretch goals) between 2014 and 2020, exceeding our 10-year goal of 68,000 in just six years. With the UIA’s work, for example, we now understand what an idea looks like when applied in 11 different cultures, with 11 different student populations.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

School Leaders Take Note: Teacher Care is a Lot More Than Self-Care by Sean Slade “We must stop expecting educators to save themselves and instead start to address the group climate and culture of our schools,” writes school leadership expert Sean Slade. That means calls for teachers to practice self-care are not enough.

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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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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Sports and Culturally Responsive Teaching My school sits just six miles from the border with Mexico, and many of my students cross that border daily to attend school in the United States. Our students have rich, cultural lives and dynamic insight into their passions.

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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. This begs an important question: When schools know that they’re on the receiving end of that supply, what need is there for meaningful, lasting change to the school’s culture or approach?

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

One moment would be 2020, at the start of COVID. I know for my classroom, I want to have books available by authors of all different races, with characters that look like my students, not just one color or culture. I want my students to know and understand other cultures, so they can have a better mindset moving forward in life.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. Early childhood educators are tired and burned out from the onslaught of changes since early 2020.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. A participant at a Black Lives Matter protest in Las Vegas on May 30, 2020. We talked with folks who strongly identify with their heritage ancestry, language and culture and others who navigate the complex nuances of diasporic reality.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

With the escalation of online teaching and learning in 2020, Duolingo leadership noticed that product usage was steadily increasing despite the shakiness of the platform. Having built a culture of collaboration, we’re now able to head into this challenge with confidence.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. but Allen made it through, graduating in December 2020.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

Sitka School District prepares for meals on April 7, 2020. Marlon Styles believes these connections are simply an extension of the “high-quality cultures that exist in school buildings.”. “We’re Students receive four days of meals during distribution. We’re good at this kind of stuff in education,” he said. “I’ve

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

My last live musical experience was in Los Angeles in January 2020, at last year’s Grammy Awards ceremony, which attracted 16.5 We [Oberlin Conservatory leadership and faculty] did not enter the pandemic with the goal of attempting to replicate pre-pandemic norms,” Quillen said. Cultural and social relevance. million viewers.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Off the Mark: How Grades, Ratings, and Rankings Undermine Learning (but Don’t Have To).

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

Now at the end of 2020, I’d estimate that +95% of all K-12 students took some form of an online class, and most likely this trend will continue into 2021. That was a pretty bold prediction in 2008 when the book was published, but their model for cycles of innovation seems pretty accurate now that we have hindsight.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

The culture of attendance is huge,” Burnett said. “If While the overarching goal is for Central New Mexico institutions to award 60,000 new college degrees and certificates by 2020, organizers say improving attendance as early as kindergarten is an important stepping stone to getting there. The culture of attendance is huge.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Schools Have to Work on Themselves When I started therapy in 2020, I quickly learned that simply attending therapy sessions wasn’t enough to improve my mental health. Like so many of my colleagues and friends, I have had to push back against White-centric curriculum to create projects and units that are culturally relevant.

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Digital Promise

JULY 6, 2020

The paradigm shift from racist to culturally affirming systems requires that you center the perspectives of leaders and teachers of color and support their efforts to achieve bold outcomes for Black and Brown students. Provide leadership opportunities of value. To be a co-conspirator, you must continually be brave, not safe.

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