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.

Leadership 110

Leadership Tutoring Tradition Social Studies 110

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

Leadership Tradition Teaching Research 110

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

Leadership High School Tradition Cultures 113

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?

Leadership 127

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

A new Texas study , published June 2020 in the peer-reviewed journal of the American Educational Research Association AERA Open found that Black principal candidates were 18 percent less likely to be promoted to principal than equally qualified whites. High school principal positions are a traditional pathway to district superintendent.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2021

In May 2020, Digital Promise and Global Education Exchange Opportunities (GEEO), a Puerto Rico-based education nonprofit, established a partnership to support and expand educator professional learning and use of technology in Puerto Rico through coaching and micro-credentials. Technology as a Tool for Professional Learning.

Cultures 127

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. In addition, I worried about whether we would meet our students' academic, emotional, and social needs, especially for students that attend a non-traditional school.

Education 102

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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. Yet, traditional ESOL teacher certification processes are often burdensome, inflexible and financially onerous. These students made up 10.3 percent of U.S. percent in 2000.

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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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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. 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.

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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.

Charter School 136

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. Spring 2020 Submission Window Open. Create More! Consume Less?

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Library Artifacts Advocacy Tradition 117

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

Dintersmith points to North Dakota as a place where the people at the top of the state leadership hierarchy are making room for schools to innovate at the local level. The law allows districts to apply for freedom from state education requirements, such as seat time and traditional course sequencing, through an innovation plan.

K-12 107

K-12 Leadership Tradition Humanities 107

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Senior James Lopes, wearing a green sweatshirt, listens to William Frey teach a lesson on polynomials, rational trigonometrics, exponential and logarithmic functions at the Calculus Project’s summer leadership academy program at Boston University.

High School 145

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

We know that education reform is far from simple: Charter schools modestly accelerate the learning of students from poor and working-class families, relative to their peers who attend traditional campuses. Related: COLUMN: Support for charters in 2020 elections comes at a price. as well, thanks in part to high-quality charter schools.

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Charter School Tradition Public School Private School 90

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 5, 2021

But now a convergence of factors — a dwindling pool of traditional-age students, the call for more educated workers and a pandemic that highlighted economic disparities and scrambled habits and jobs — is putting adults in the spotlight. In May 2020, White earned an associate degree in business administration, with a 3.84

Economics 144

Economics Sociology Social Justice High School 144

Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

After all, framed that way, teachers give hundreds of standardized tests a year, even those who do learner-centered assessment, project-based learning, or otherwise collect evidence of student learning in ways that are considered alternative or non-traditional. Harvard University Press. Kamenetz, A. PublicAffairs. link] Reese, W.

Pedagogy 244

Pedagogy Project-Based Learning Library Research 244

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Each elementary school focuses on a specific area — engineering, math and science, the arts, leadership, or foreign languages, among others. Those programs will change based on demand, said program director Katie Porter; the more popular offerings are likely to get rolled out to the district’s traditional career centers. Whittenberg.

Elementary School 138

Elementary School Education Middle School K-12 138

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

In Afterschool Alliance’s “America After 3PM” report released last year, the organization found that between 2014 and 2020, participation in after-school programming decreased and barriers to participation and unmet demand grew. Today’s offerings are rife with game design, sound engineering, culinary classes, coding and more.

Tutoring 111

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

But after most schools shifted their classes online in early 2020, remote learning caught on with some families, including those who preferred to give their children the flexibility of learning from home, or whose children struggled with social anxiety in school buildings or hadn’t found success in traditional learning environments.

Charter School 109

Charter School K-12 Middle School Elementary School 109

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

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2022

The university departs from traditional practice by involving all its faculty and staff in recruiting students. The good thing for us,” he said, “is that our leadership hasn’t existed in a vacuum of false reality.”. Incoming freshmen at the University of Maine pick up information about student clubs.

High School 123

High School Tradition Leadership Economics 123

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. The traditional definition of literacy only includes reading and writing. Department of Labor, one million jobs in computing will go unfilled by 2020. According to the U.S.

K-12 73

K-12 Human Rights Tradition Leadership 73

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

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. If parents weren’t taught that it’s important then their kids are not going to be taught that.”.

Elementary School 100

Elementary School Public School Cultures Leadership 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 22, 2021

And the disparity is even greater for students of color, according to a study by McKinsey & Company published in December 2020. Children like Lonnie and Lincoln, who are Latino, who have disabilities, and who live with immigrant parents, could experience a setback in their academic performance averaging six months to a year.

Leadership 130

Leadership Government Education Tradition 130

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2021

Traditional bachelor’s degrees — or any degrees — are often overvalued, McCarthy said. Chris Krampe, co-owner of MacLaff, said the franchisee’s leaders promote the benefits constantly and celebrate graduates, bringing them onstage at quarterly leadership meetings. It makes a difference,” Krampe said. “It

Education 137

Education Government High School Economics 137

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government.

Civics 143

Civics Civic Engagement High School Government 143

ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

American University Pays Tutors American University’s School of Education established the Future Teacher Tutors Program in fall 2020. The residency is similar to traditional student teaching experiences, except it lasts a full year and pays about $30,000.

Tutoring 145

Tutoring K-12 Education Pedagogy 145

Studies Weekly

MARCH 15, 2024

Preschool programs are also not subject to the same limitations as the traditional public school system, so some states can fund private or faith-based pre-K programs. Preschool prepares children for the structured learning programs, social interactions, and schedules of traditional K-12 schooling. 2020, September 7).

K-12 52

K-12 Professional Development Economics Tradition 52

Zinn Education Project

MAY 9, 2024

This political tradition of independent politics comes from Lowndes County, Alabama.” Then think about fast forwarding another couple of years to 2020, 2021, 2022, when we get this pushback, this anti Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, DEI, the anti-CRT. It’s one thing to say, “Hey, the Black Panther comes from Lowndes County, Alabama.

K-12 52

K-12 Cultures History Tradition 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 31, 2021

Now is the time to redefine learning – not recreate traditional school online. Tragically, we continue to see traditional systems of education being shoehorned into virtual or blended delivery systems (tip: having kids complete electronic worksheets from home is not systemic ’transformation’). I’m guilty of this too. References.

Leadership 145

Leadership Tradition Teaching Research 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. A 2020 report for the U.S. What does Monarch School's leadership think?

K-12 126

K-12 Advocacy Leadership Tradition 126

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

It was the first election since the leadership shakeup. Despite some vocal opposition from community members who wanted a faster return to traditional instruction, the board voted 4-3 to support Superintendent Christina Melton’s cautious approach to school reopening for the 2020-21 school year.

Political Science 127

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Sapiens

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Taskmasters” (such as some middle managers or leadership professionals) are people who supervise people who don’t need supervision. Traditional models of the market economy, he writes, are centered on the “production” of material goods and their “consumption.” Graeber died suddenly in Italy in 2020 at the age of 59.

Anthropology 132

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Related: COLUMN: Endangered public schools need federal leadership more than ever. First, we have had a total failure of federal and state leadership on education. Of course, our leadership problems are exacerbated by our wildly decentralized, 13,000-district, every-leader-for-herself approach to school governance.

Leadership 144

Leadership K-12 Government Education Policy 144

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 17, 2022

” As we all know, the end of the 2020 school year and the entire 2020-21 school year were an incredible challenge. Most schools here in the U.S. now have been back for a month or two. And I’m hearing from educators that things are … ‘better.’ Which has me wondering, “How are we defining better ?” Schools shut down.

Tradition 93

Tradition Teaching Education Leadership 93

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2018

With their actions, they grabbed headlines in national papers, prodded Republican leadership to action, and in some cases won long overdue concessions in their contracts. In the right-to-work states of West Virginia, Kentucky, Arizona, and Oklahoma, teachers have organized quite dramatically in regional and statewide strikes.

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Charter School Leadership Library Government 84