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The Role of a Leader in Building Capacity

A Principal's Reflections

Not only was I not in classrooms enough, but also the level of feedback provided through the lens of a narrative report did very little to improve teaching and learning both in and out of the classroom. Even though I tried, the frequency of which I observed teachers rarely extended beyond the minimum expectation.

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Best of SAPIENS 2024

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Dwelling A Freediver Finds Belonging Without Breath By Sally Montgomery An anthropologist takes us on a journey down the line to explore what freediving can teach us about ourselves and kinship with the sea. Human Rights Archived Haints By Alma Simba SAPIENS 2024 poet-in-residence conjures the voices of those imprisoned in archives.

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Recognizing the Digital Assets You Have at Your Disposal

A Principal's Reflections

It begins with a focus on improving teaching, learning, and leadership followed by utilizing an array of digital assets at every educator’s disposal to share and amplify. Links to your resources and work can be archived and annotated using a social bookmarking tool such as Diigo. The link is then shared across LinkedIn and Facebook.

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How Academic Historians can be Useful to K-12 Teachers

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The two needs are related, for there is simply not enough time for those who teach multiple classes, often in multiple disciplines, to stay on top of the flood of specialized writing, to be confident that they are teaching the best that scholars have learned. The answers were clear: time and confidence, they said.

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Learning Never Stops

A Principal's Reflections

When it is all said and done, the best experiences are ongoing and job-embedded so that the needed support, application into practice, feedback, and accountability for growth lead to actual changes to teaching, learning, and leadership. The other is ensuring what has been learned leads to improvements in teaching, learning, and leadership.

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Measuring Impact with the Digital Practice Assessment (DPA)

A Principal's Reflections

As Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE), I have worked with a fantastic team to develop services and tools to help districts, schools, and organizations across the world transform teaching, learning, and leadership. Additional data is collected and archived in the PLP during classroom observations.

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Small Changes, Huge Results

A Principal's Reflections

You can view the archive of the event here. Refer to the archive mentioned above to see some of the amazing things my teachers are now doing. These small changes, combined with many others, are beginning to have a huge impact on the teaching, learning, and community culture of my school.

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