ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

In 2017, while teaching fifth grade language arts and social studies, I took my love of radio and started a podcast on teaching and education. In 2022, I began traveling across the country, keynoting education conferences, inspiring teachers to see themselves as humans first. Societal woes seeping into our building.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

For the 2022-23 school year, women make up about 28 percent of the American superintendency. In the 2022-23 school year, men with one of 15 first names represented the same share of superintendents in the United States as all women. Women and men are not represented equally in the education field.

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ED Surge

JULY 6, 2022

Source: RAND Corporation State of the American Principal survey (2022) In interviews, a handful of principals put a finer point on what the last couple of years have been like. We are an inch deep and a mile wide in education right now, spread way too thin,” Davis-Vaught said.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. Preparing School Leaders Improved working conditions and community building starts with leadership.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. A lot of people talk about the issue of hiring. It’s not an issue. It’s not an issue.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2022

For 2022, create an “I did it!” Join associate partner and author Adam Drummond and other thought leaders from the International Center for Leadership in Education, and connect with colleagues from around the country to learn strategies you can apply in your own school at the 2022 Model Schools Conference June 26th-29th.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

The first two high schools to win the DC + XQ competition, in 2022, had embraced the themes of Afrofuturism and entrepreneurship. In February 2022, XQ Institute and D.C. For comparison, in its 2022 fiscal year , D.C. spent about $2 billion in local taxpayer dollars on public education.) In these conversations, D.C.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2023

So it’s no surprise that a January 2022 survey by the RAND Corporation showed that 85 percent of principals are experiencing job-related stress. While the pandemic may have raised public awareness of the plight of education and the stress teachers and administrators face, this has always been a reality.

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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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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. As a young Black queer woman in school leadership, embracing vulnerability has felt frightening at times. I was caught off guard. The challenge?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

The teachers wanted to discuss the need for more anti-racist professional development at Lusher and the possibility of increasing diversity among Lusher’s leadership, including on the board of directors, whose seven members include two people of color, according to school administrators. Talbott denied this, as did Gleghorn.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2022

I speak and consult nationally on public education, youth development and child well-being, and since March 2020, I have integrated real-time polling into my speaking events, asking thousands of teachers, counselors and administrators about the well-being of their students, families and school communities. This summer, responses shifted.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. There’s always been a degree of this in education as the pendulum swings back and forth, but last year, it reached a boiling point. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

Tufts’ revamped plans for fall 2022 were to start with a one-month tutoring schedule, followed by check-ins with tutors and teachers to inform the next four weeks. Chicago Public Schools leadership found out that the greatest barrier to effective tutoring was, perhaps unsurprisingly, absenteeism among students.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

It had always been his plan, and he had no reason to doubt it: He’d earned a full scholarship to college and acceptance into a leadership program designed to attract and retain Black male teachers. Everett Anderson was determined to become a teacher. This story also appeared in USA Today. There was just one problem.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022 as part of the Voices of Change project, EdSurge Research convened 80 Asian American K-12 educators in a series of virtual learning circles to listen to their stories. Our conversations spanned the gamut of topics that are top of mind for educators in all corners of the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

These responses—and lack of responses—were deeply troubling to many Asian American educators. The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. If we as teachers are consistently feeling like our identities are not honored, imagine how our students must feel in these spaces. schools in recent years.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As of fall 2022, Stony Brook is one of 33 higher ed institutions where students can apply for money through a local FAST Fund to help cover an education expense or address a basic life need. (The “I was honestly surprised, but I was also really excited because I needed the help. It was honestly pretty awesome.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Join us for a webinar on November 10, 2022 to learn more. The course first supports district leaders in assembling a leadership team. Want to get started on your district’s CT pathway? Then, it guides the teams through the steps of developing a pathway, providing content knowledge and activities to support K-12 development.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Then, during the height of the pandemic and before our return to in-person instruction, an opportunity arose to apply for a school leadership position and I seized it. In July 2022, I became the principal of my high school. How will I make a difference?" I had mixed feelings about it.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

What gives me hope is being in this program, Call Me MISTER , [a leadership development program for teachers in training], and having African American males or just people of color that look like me — whether we have similar or different backgrounds — that are working together to encourage and uplift each other to achieve excellence.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Across the spring, summer and fall semesters of 2022, 50 tutors worked with 116 elementary students. By the time education majors at American University become seniors, most of them will have completed their 40-hour tutoring requirement, usually as part of an upper-level service learning course.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The truth is, all teachers are operating within a broken system and my first few years in education have made me understand just how much it is like the Wild West. In December 2022, I decided to leave the classroom. As TFA cuts a quarter of its staff after reporting its lowest recruitment numbers in 15 years , I feel angry.

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ED Surge

APRIL 23, 2024

I experimented with a few other career paths before I became a district executive for the Boy Scouts of America in September 2022. Since my first year teaching, I’ve earned two degrees — my master’s degree in 2020 and a specialist degree in 2022. As I drove home after sharing with her, I knew it was time for me to step away.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

Last year, I had the privilege of learning and leading as the 2022 Hawaiʻi State Teacher of the Year and a CCSSO National Finalist. One of the most heartfelt stories I heard was from a fellow Asian educator. After being thrown into the public arena, my image, my story and my classroom were displayed and open for critique.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 29, 2021

The word I have chosen for 2022 is harmony. Each year, I participate in the One Word challenge, which is a twist on making a New Year’s resolution. In the One Word challenge, you pick one word that will serve as your North Star throughout the year. This word sums up a shift in my thinking from pre-pandemic to now.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

It had an A rating from the state in 2022. A former superintendent of nearby Spring Branch Independent School District, he is now a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston. Although, it wasn’t labeled as “failing” when Miles was appointed superintendent.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2023

At the first staff meeting of the 2022 academic year, our entire team of coaches and coordinators was exhausted. COVID-19 was surging and our time in the buildings, while mentally and emotionally exhausting, reinforced the difficulties our students and educators were facing as they recovered from the losses of the pandemic.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

“And so providing equal education for people so that they have equal opportunities, so that society isn't shutting them out, I think is really important.” Secretary Cardona and three Austin-area students during a conversation about reimagining education at SXSW EDU on March 9, 2022.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

They were exchanging stickers of sought-after players as they prepared for the 2022 World Cup, which was at least two full months away at that point. I moved closer, trying not to disturb the scene unfolding before me. Their joy was palpable. On each page was a series of partially completed soccer teams.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Christian’s positive enrichment experience is exactly what federal education officials and advocates for after-school programs are hoping to replicate across the country.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 24, 2022

On the morning of August 2, 2022, I woke up to a flood of emotions as I reflected on my one-year anniversary as president of the Community College of Aurora.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress regarding the importance of education. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education,” stated President Kennedy. In his address, the president even spoke to the financial realities of higher education and institutional sustainability.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

It is vital to note that this trend is NOT a blip but the result of a steady decline , and that higher education as a whole must address it. percent in 2022 to 60.4 Census Bureau’s Poverty in the United States: 2022 report, the supplemental poverty measure (SPM) rate in 2022 was 12.4 percent in 2022.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Recently, I was humbled and honored to be named the 2022-23 Teacher of the Year in my county as well as one of seven finalists for the state of Maryland. Throughout his presidency, Kennedy often emphasized arts education and the creative mind as essential components of a free society that promotes equal opportunity for all.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 4, 2023

With over 48 billion dollars earmarked toward internet connectivity and infrastructure needs across all 50 states and territories, state leadership was tasked to build local and regional task forces to develop a five-year plan for addressing the gaps in hopes of reaching 5 million disconnected homes.

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