ED Surge

OCTOBER 30, 2024

Our principal also left a couple of months into the year, which prompted a takeover by central office leadership — all of whom were unfamiliar white faces in a school full of Black and Latino children. Motivated to change this conversation and influence policy at the state and local levels, I ran for school board in 2021.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

We recently surveyed League superintendents to learn their hopes for education; the lessons they’re carrying with them; and their insights into practices and ideas that will continue to shape education in 2021 and beyond. What are the most pressing challenges facing school districts at this moment?

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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. Even as of May 2019, there were people pointing out the failure of this prediction.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Thinking about how to support teacher leadership in your school? The two school leaders presented at the Learning Forward 2021 Annual Conference in Dec. 2021 and shared how they use video to build teacher leadership pathways. Climbing the teacher leadership L.A.D.D.E.R. Advice to other teacher leadership programs.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

Read on for the full list of the stories most popular with readers in 2021. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

DUNEDIN, New Zealand When Principal Jen Rodgers took a 10-week sabbatical in 2021, she was on a mission to find a way to improve mathematics instruction at the primary school she leads here in one of the countrys oldest cities. Rodgers, who has led the 420-student St. Clair School since 2016, is hardly alone in worrying about maths.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 29, 2021

“Push” PD , by contrast, is a remnant of old command-and-control models of leadership, in which a few smart people make most decisions and then put systems in place to push people to implement them.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. In 2021, 23 states were spending less on pre-ETS than the 15 percent required by law. That number dropped to 10 states in 2022, the most recent year for which data is available.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

Math literacy often contributes to economic success: A 2021 study of more than 5,500 adults found that participants made $4,062 more per year for each correct answer on an eight-question math test. Havens is still involved in the Prison Mathematics Project, but handed leadership of the program over to Jeffers in October 2023.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Robinson concluded they weren’t and resigned in June 2021. 14, 2021, in Elko, Nevada. The collective scramble for new leadership comes at a tense time for school boards. 28, 2021, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Leadership changes like these can create a ripple effect throughout districts. 15, 2021, in Elko, Nevada.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Black teachers were more than twice as likely as other teachers in the winter of 2021 to say they planned to leave their jobs at the end of the 2020-21 school year, according to a report released by the RAND Corporation. One of Talbott’s daughters graduated from Lusher in 2021; the other still attends the high school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

Surgeon General issued an advisory warning of a youth mental health crisis in December 2021, following a declaration earlier that fall of a “national emergency in child and adolescent mental health” by a coalition of pediatric groups. The report card grades states on eight policies identified by the campaign as solutions to the crisis.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

We have continued to offer our college and career readiness initiative, The Saturday Leadership Program , in a virtual setting in which we expose scholars to different college environments. GBUL continues to remain active on four advisory work groups to advocate for many educational requirements of the 2021 legislative session (i.e.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2024

The flare-up of the education culture wars in 2021 also added to the pressures on districts’ top administrators. Two years ago, the council asked Hinojosa to create an initiative to develop people for district leadership positions. Around the same time, he got a call from Hinojosa encouraging him to apply for the program.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

On March 16, 2021, a 21-year-old white man went on a targeted shooting rampage across Atlanta, driving 30 miles to three massage businesses and killing eight people, the majority of whom were Asian women. A vigil attendee honored the victims of the anti-Asian spa shootings in Atlanta by remembering their names on March 21, 2021.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Among the many changes the commission recommended — which became law in 2021, under the “Blueprint for Maryland’s Future Act,” and will increase state education funding by $3.8 In the 2021-22 school year, Houston ISD offered a starting salary of around $57,000, which put it among the lowest of 12 peer districts in the region, he says.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

We selected Ballard and her peers for our series of focus groups because of their leadership in supporting the effective use of technology in their schools. Even though Ballard is a self-described “early adopter,” she is careful not to recommend the latest, shiniest tools to her teachers outright.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

A Tech Exchange employee works in the nonprofit’s warehouse in May 2021. Credit: Javeria Salman/ The Hechinger Report Boxes of #OaklandUndivided devices wait for student pickup at Castlemont High School in May 2021. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

In the latest State of EdTech Leadership Report from the Consortium for School Network (CoSN), interoperability was identified as one of the largest needs in school districts—second only to cybersecurity. Despite these benefits, school technology leaders across the country struggle to implement data interoperability in their schools.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

In Ohio, for example, state lawmakers passed anti-hazing legislation in 2021 that requires colleges to create an educational program on hazing that students can complete during orientation. Before the pandemic, orientation leaders typically held leadership positions in high school, as a club president, for example, Brister says.

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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.

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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?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

The Board and senior leadership worked out confidential agreements with other institutions to support our students in the event of a closure.” Middle States took Wells off probation in the summer of 2021, despite enrollment having cratered to about 330 that year from about 420 the previous one. The college declined to comment.)

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

Our recent analysis of teacher representation in edtech leadership revealed that former educators held a variety of top roles in the companies we sampled, heading teams that handled pedagogy, curriculum, product, marketing and sales. When Robbins left education in March 2021, it was for a client success specialist job at an edtech company.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 31, 2023

A recent analysis by Chalkbeat found that, between the 2021 and 2022 school years, eight states — Hawaii, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Washington — faced their highest teacher turnover rates in the past five years. And there was significant turnover in the workforce.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 28, 2021

The integrated technology vision was developed according to the needs that have emerged during the process of the 2020-2021 school year. The Visionary Leadership for Technology micro-credential required collaborative work to visualize and plan change initiatives with a focus on technology.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Incomplete data was a common problem The first school district in the pilot group launched its outcome-based contract in the fall of 2021. In the middle of the pilot, school leadership changed, layoffs hit, and the leaders of the tutoring initiative left the district.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2023

According to the most recent report released by the National Institute for Early Education Research (NIEER), a majority of 3- and 4-year-olds received no preschool education in 2021-22. As a result, just 32 percent of America’s 4-year-olds and 6 percent of our 3-year-olds received state-funded pre-K in 2021-22.

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Edthena

MARCH 29, 2022

2021, Asst. To support the many first- and second-year teachers in Lee County, teacher leadership is developed. To learn more about video coaching best practices from Edthena partners, check out this blog post about Keller ISD’s teacher leadership pathway. The School District of Lee County takes professional learning seriously.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2023

Predominantly white legislatures in at least 35 states in 2021 began pursuing policies or laws that would restrict teaching about race and racism. Atnre Alleyne is the co-founder and CEO of TeenSHARP, an organization that prepares students of color for top colleges and leadership.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

For nearly a decade, the New York State Youth Leadership Council (YLC) and Teach Dream , the council’s educator team, have pushed city officials for more support for immigrant students in schools.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2024

In 2021, Gundy recalls, one of her supervisors pulled her aside, and said, “You’re very promising. In 2021, the last year for which there is available data, early childhood education was one of the five fastest-growing occupations for apprenticeship, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. Photo courtesy of Sarkar.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2021, while teaching sixth grade humanities, I united my love of writing and teaching and penned a memoir about my experiences teaching. Despite my hesitance, I recently took on a leadership role at my school for a few reasons. Because of them, I fought hard to merge my passions with teaching over the years.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Coincidentally, the “edtech” industry experienced an unprecedented renaissance in 2020 that was only outpaced by an even bigger boom in 2021. Coming into my new leadership position, I began to untangle what was happening in classrooms and dove deeper into the promise of edtech and why schools considered it “high-quality.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2021

But in states like New Jersey, one of at least nine states around the country that have mandated in-person learning for the 2021-22 school year , parents and teachers who were hoping to continue on the distance-learning track are on their own. An aerial photo of downtown Greensboro, North Carolina, part of Guilford County.

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Edthena

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

Curate spaces for students at all readiness levels to take a leadership role at some point. Letting go of control in your classroom is hard, but students need real and authentic opportunities to lead in the classroom. Focus on care, not skills.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

As districts address unfinished learning, evaluate student growth, and re-engage school communities during the 2021-2022 school year, data equity can highlight where support is needed and help schools better support students’ experiences and needs.

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