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School Leadership in the Common Core Era

A Principal's Reflections

Check out their book titled Beyond Core Expectations: A Schoolwide Framework for Serving the Not-So-Common Learner published by Corwin. Leaders who have deeper and more lasting impact provide more comprehensive leadership than focusing just on higher standards. Educational Leadership, 59(8), 16-21. Dove, and Dr. Audrey Cohan.

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OPINION: Black principals play a key role in transforming education. We need more of them

The Hechinger Report

Horace Tate, for example, featured in Vanessa Siddle Walker’s book, “The Lost Education of Horace Tate, ” was a hero who, beginning in the 1940s, aggressively recruited undergraduate students from historically Black colleges and universities to teach in rural Georgia. Related: How to hire more black principals In the wake of Brown, Leslie T.

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OPINION: Educators must be on the frontline of social activism

The Hechinger Report

Calls for book banning and censorship have become common. We must do this through teaching, learning and advocacy — as well as social activism and civic engagement. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. I have trained in, taught and led educator preparation programs.

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DLEMS 00: Deeper learning in elementary and middle schools

Dangerously Irrelevant

EL , Design39 , or EPiC ), most of the schools that are featured in deeper learning research, advocacy, and publicity conversations often are at the secondary level (e.g., Related Posts Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! However, with some exceptions (e.g., The Met or High Tech High ). Stay tuned!

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Yes, Schools Need to Hire More Counselors. But They Also Need to Work on Themselves.

ED Surge

As trauma-informed education expert Alex Shevrin Venet points out in her recent book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education : This is the uncomfortable truth: schools cause trauma and harm. However, when it comes to sources of mental health struggles, schools themselves are not blameless.

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Retraining an entire state’s elementary teachers in the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Educators can be good at teaching and bad at teaching reading, said Kate Walsh, president of the National Council on Teacher Quality (NCTQ), an advocacy group that studies teacher preparation. She pointed to the “p” again. Puh,” he enunciated. It sounds complicated because it is.

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STUDENT VOICES: Kids bring into school what they’re dealing with at home. Teachers don’t get that

The Hechinger Report

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership.