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Top Posts of 2022

A Principal's Reflections

Below are my top posts from 2022. There is a nice mix of concepts including personalization, educational technology, leadership, and school culture. As I did last year, I am including a hyperlink and the related image. I wish you all a happy and safe holiday season.

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Elevating Innovation 2024: Conference Reflections and Takeaways from Educators

Digital Promise

The event attracted educators from across the country and around the world. However, what I experienced was far different and far better: It put people at the center of the technology and helped me expand my views on how technology can and should be used in school settings as a tool for education and not as a replacement or goal of education.

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

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Getty images A prominent professor of special education is about to ignite a fierce debate over a tenet of his field, that students with disabilities should be educated as much as possible alongside their peers in general education classrooms, a strategy known as inclusion. The evidence is, I dare say, overwhelming.

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A dismal report card in math and reading

The Hechinger Report

In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. The test, the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), is often called the nations report card. More than 450,000 fourth and eighth graders, selected to be representative of the U.S.

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Top Posts of 2021

A Principal's Reflections

Through it all, though, educators found a way to forge ahead in the midst of adversity. On the one hand, I continually empathized with educators as the struggle was, and continues to be, very real. Most people would agree that this was not the case. Writing this past year has been bittersweet for me.

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Hitting Curveballs

A Principal's Reflections

As I write this post on the first day of 2022, I can't help but reflect on the resilience educators showed the year before. While this can be frustrating and challenging, educators have been here before. Just like in the case of remote learning, educators have been there and done that to ensure learning continues.

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As the Teacher Shortage Crisis Deepens in Ohio, Immigrant Educators Could Be the Answer

ED Surge

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. hoping to one day become an educator. In 2016, I moved to the U.S.,