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Learning Walks

A Principal's Reflections

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) It’s been a few years now since I left the principalship to pursue my new career as a Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE).

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Want to Humanize Classrooms? Take a Page From Youth Organizers.

ED Surge

We create entire units and lesson plans well before meeting them, let alone take the time to build meaningful connections with our students. The group of students decided they wanted to focus their advocacy on teacher practice. I will take more time to learn my students’ stories.”

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

In dozens of interviews, Summit leadership, education researchers, and the people who teach and learn in schools that use Summit agreed that the platform offers a systematic way to achieve the otherwise complicated, messy objective of personalizing learning. She finds the program gives her extra time to meet individual kids’ needs.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

The Hechinger Report

Much of the advocacy for net-zero buildings has focused on environmental and economic incentives. Meanwhile, at New York City’s first net-zero school, the Kathleen Grimm School for Leadership and Sustainability (P.S. My lesson plan is: Here’s a problem. RELATED: A school district is building a DIY broadband network.

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Is teacher preparation failing students with disabilities?

The Hechinger Report

Mike Flom, a parent and co-founder of the advocacy group New Jersey Parents and Teachers for Appropriate Education, said many factors impact inclusion’s effectiveness. She has learned through experience how to teach students with a variety of disabilities, and works with a veteran special education teacher to modify lesson plans and tests.

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A superintendent made big gains with English learners. His success may have been his downfall

The Hechinger Report

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. Experts, books, videos, detailed lesson plans — to teachers at the time, it felt like a blur of continuous learning. Slowly, educators began sharing strategies and co-teaching classes.

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‘You can’t help but to wonder’: Crumbling schools, less money, and dismal outcomes in the county that was supposed to change everything for black children in the South

The Hechinger Report

In an interview, Mississippi Superintendent of Education Carey Wright said many factors, including financial need, trouble recruiting teachers, school climate and leadership issues, often converge in districts that are underperforming. One ninth grader wondered whether freshmen would still have to take the biology state test.