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Top Posts of 2020

A Principal's Reflections

This happened on March 12, 2020. Without further ado, here are my most popular posts of 2020 in no particular order. Personalized learning quickly became a focus area based on impressive outcomes from some of the schools I had been working within in an on-going and job-embedded fashion.

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Farewell, 2020: Lessons Learned

Catlin Tucker

It is a tradition I have continued through the years. Trying to wrap my mind around 2020 to craft my newsletter was no small feat. As I began to write, I realized that 2020 for me was a year of extremes. The most challenging aspect of 2020 has been the toll it has taken on our relationships with others.

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How to Make Learning Stick

A Principal's Reflections

The study shows that, though students felt as if they learned more through traditional lectures, they actually learned more when taking part in classrooms that employed so-called active-learning strategies by scoring higher on tests. A Harvard study suggests it may be important to let students know it. & Mayer, R. & Jeong, H.

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Cognitive Flexibility: Paving the Way For Learner Success

A Principal's Reflections

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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Are Schools Ready for What Comes Next?

A Principal's Reflections

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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Proof Points: Black college enrollment sharply down during Covid summer of 2020

The Hechinger Report

As the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in March 2020, many warned that it would increase educational gaps between the haves and the have-nots. This first report, covering the summer of 2020, is the first time the organization has analyzed summer enrollment. Now the proof is starting to come in. Another puzzle was men.

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OPINION: Let’s change our approach to traditionally overlooked students

The Hechinger Report

To start with, colleges must consider factors other than the traditional standardized scores when recruiting underserved students from communities with few economic, health and educational resources. Dominican launched the Center for Cultural Liberation in 2020 to provide students of color with a place to gain a sense of belonging.

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