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Building Trust: Five Research-Backed Strategies for Meaningful Relationships

A Principal's Reflections

Recently, on Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed research-based ways to build trust after revisiting a blog post I wrote in 2021. Below are some expanded thoughts on the topic, including additional research. Building trust involves intentional practices supported by research to create reliability, openness, and mutual respect.

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Top scholar says evidence for special education inclusion is ‘fundamentally flawed’

The Hechinger Report

A trio of researchers argues that it’s unclear where students with disabilities learn the most and recommends that teachers and parents focus first on interventions students need. Ideally, from a research perspective, youd want to randomly assign students with disabilities to both types of classrooms and see where they learn more.

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Announcing the 2021-2022 League of Innovative Schools Cohort

Digital Promise

Digital Promise is thrilled to announce 37 districts—including 26 new districts and 11 returning districts—will join the ranks of the League of Innovative Schools for the 2021-2022 school year. In April 2021, the district launched monthly parent advocacy meetings focused on restorative justice, literacy, and college and career readiness.

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Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption

Strange Maps

Professor Blavatskyys study on BMI and corruption won him the Economics prize at the 2021 Ig Nobel Awards, the annual celebration of quirky research. The research used an algorithm to estimate the median BMI of entire governments. For the original paper, see Pavlo Blavatskyy, 2021. 29(2), pages 343-356, April.

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Three reasons why so few eighth graders in the poorest schools take algebra

The Hechinger Report

“Algebra in eighth grade is a gateway to a lot of further opportunities,” said Dan Goldhaber, an economist who studies education at the American Institutes for Research, in a recent webinar. Researchers are trying to understand why so few Black and Hispanic students and low-income students of all races are making it through this early gate.

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Why School Leaders Need a Coach: The Critical Role of Job-Embedded and Ongoing Professional Learning

A Principal's Reflections

Recently, on Unpacking the Backpack , I discussed the value of job-embedded and ongoing coaching for administrators backed by research after revisiting blog posts I wrote in 2018 and 2021. Below are some expanded thoughts on the topic, including additional research. Leading and Managing, 22(1), 2638. Sheninger, E. Sheninger, E.

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PROOF POINTS: What research tells us about gifted education

The Hechinger Report

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test. Among Hispanic students, it’s 5 percent.

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