A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 26, 2012

A few weeks back I passed along an Education Week article to administrators in my District that highlighted the many technology challenges that states anticipate with common tests. We need students who can read and write for a variety of purposes, make change and leave a tip without use of their cell phones.

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MARCH 2, 2025

By now, you may have seen the recent spate of articles bemoaning the plight of the novel, that outdated 18th-century technology that adults have long forsaken and that some schools are beginning to shrug off. He is co-author of Love and Literacy: A Practical Guide for Grades 5-12 to Finding the Magic in Literature.

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APRIL 7, 2025

An article in The New York Times in November 2020 suggested the Multnomah County initiative could be a national model and a blueprint for the rest of the United States. Today, nearly halfway between its passage at the ballot box and its deadline to reach universality in 2030, Multnomahs Preschool for All initiative is well underway.

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DECEMBER 9, 2021

Read the full article at District Administration: Rural K-12 leaders need more teachers but rural teachers need more support. “The coach is a person who’s assigned to them to help problem-solve and think through how to create a better set of outcomes for kids.” . Looking for more about supporting rural teachers?

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NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. As Logan wrote in a 2016 American Anthropologist article , “chronic food insecurity is a condition that was made rather than a condition that has always been.”

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MARCH 10, 2015

Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? Many of our teachers have been using the free version of a literacy platform that uses non-fiction articles to engage students in age-appropriate, differentiated content. Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions?

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JULY 19, 2024

That’s particularly the case in K-12 classes, where teaching materials may be hard to parse, according to the preprint of a research article that argues that many of these students have to figure out how to access basic documents on their own, outside of school. For private edtech companies, it’s slightly more complicated.

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JANUARY 24, 2022

Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals. The kinds of pre-K that our poor children are going into are not good for them long term.”.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments.

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JUNE 15, 2022

A version of this article was originally published on Medium. Some of those big names include Google Classroom in K-12, Blackboard and Canvas learning management systems in higher ed, and across education the once-obscure video software named Zoom became ubiquitous during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

This article is the first of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting. Imagine if every student learned how to apply creative thinking to every subject throughout their educational experience, from K-12 through college.

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AUGUST 1, 2024

Article and Lesson This Day in People’s History Below are a few key events in labor history. Order Book Here is a list from Social Justice Books of recommended titles for pre-K—12 and background reading for educators on labor history and labor organizing.

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OCTOBER 17, 2018

Another compared the tone and frequency of New York Times coverage of Harvey Weinstein before and after the emergence of the #MeToo movement, by analyzing every word in every article filed under the Times Topic “Harvey Weinstein.” Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2022

Read on for the highlights, article links, and related content. This article from K-12 Dive outlines four best practices for communicating and engaging with families. Read more at K-12 Dive: 4 best practices school communication experts are embracing to improve family engagement.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2019

The LVP team recently partnered with ReadWorks , a nonprofit literacy organization that provides free resources, including a library of curated nonfiction and literary articles, to K-12 teachers. Implementing Research-based Digital Supports for Students. Teachers also commented on how these features support student autonomy.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

One of my most resourceful students, Sheliya, found an article about the Open Homes project, a program created by Airbnb that offered free emergency housing to displaced people due to natural disasters. This work supplies essential questions to hook K-12 students in thematic instruction.

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FEBRUARY 6, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the four ingredients that allowed us to create a grassroots educational leadership movement in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. I can’t think of four adjectives that more accurately describe the situation that K-12 educators have faced during the COVID-19 pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

A law passed in Idaho in 2021 not only required all districts to teach reading using “evidence-based” instruction, it also required K-12 teacher preparation programs housed at any state institution of higher education to prepare teachers according to that reading plan. It gives me understanding of what’s going on,” Omar said.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

This is part of a three-article series covering key principles to consider when building out computer science programs in your academic setting. Read the other articles here and here. Esports offers incredible benefits for student engagement, community and skill building, and pathways to higher education and job opportunities.

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OCTOBER 28, 2018

On the importance of explicit, systematic phonics instruction , I agree with Emily Hanford’s arguments in her recent article. At a K-12 meeting, I encountered the same problem discussed in Hanford’s article by middle and high school teachers: bright students in advanced classes couldn’t “sound out” new vocabulary.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2019

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. Part of the problem I see is that so few students in the United States – just 20 percent – study a foreign language at the K-12 level. Read the original article. Scarce in Schools.

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JANUARY 26, 2021

Squinting at my 16” laptop screen 12 hours every day while communicating with students and grading their papers was growing painful, so I bought a 34” curved ultra-wide external monitor ($570). Previous articles can be found in The Conversation, History News Network, Inside Higher Ed, Time, and The Washington Post, among others.

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OCTOBER 4, 2023

This article is the second of a two-part series covering key principles to consider when integrating a generative AI creativity tool into your academic setting. Read the first article here. These next three principles provide guidance on what to consider in your AI tool evaluation.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2019

This article originally appeared on The Advocate from the Computer Science Teachers Association. Online communities include: CSforAllTeachers (a virtual community of practice, for all teachers from Pre-K through high school who are interested in teaching CS). Girls Who Code clubs (grades 3-12). Read the original version here.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

The discussion tackled plenty of thorny issues facing K-12 and college instructors these days, including how to respond to pressures to ban books in schools, how to make classrooms a welcoming place for debate as schools and colleges grow more diverse, and how to respond to misinformation that students bring to classroom conversations.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2020

Read the original article here. That’s why we created the Google for Education Certified Coach Program—to help instructional coaches become even more effective as they partner with K-12 educators. This post originally appeared on The Keyword. The Google for Education Certified Coach program.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 17, 2018

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Read the original article. While we focus on different levels of the K-12 span, a common theme across our work is the role of talk in math classrooms – what talk can sound like, how talk impacts student learning, and how teachers can support math talk.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The study , “How Teachers Navigate the Ethical Landscape of AI in Their Classrooms,” interviewed 248 K-12 teachers. He says his students use ChatGPT Plus, OpenAI’s paid version of ChatGPT, to brainstorm research questions, to help digest scientific articles and to simulate datasets. The main findings?

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MAY 29, 2017

Here in Tucson, K-12 teachers get starting annual salaries in the $30,000 to $35,000 range, the same starting wage as city bus drivers, and a wage far below that of most other professions requiring a Bachelor’s Degree and professional licensing. This couldn’t be further from the truth.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Read on for the highlights, article links, and related content. ‘Managing up’ is a form of communication to “influence your supervisor in making decisions or taking action that’s in the best interest of the organization,” according to this article from Edutopia. . Here are our top picks for the Feb.

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AUGUST 25, 2021

Finally, although competition tends not to make much difference in the K-12 space, colleges and universities absolutely react to their peers: If one school adopts three-year degrees, there’s a potential ripple effect. Yet most legislators and educators do not have access to these articles.

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DECEMBER 21, 2023

Tonya Clarke, the coordinator of K-12 mathematics for Clayton County schools, and her colleagues shared the Cardi B lesson at a math convention earlier this fall as an example of a culturally relevant lesson that can lure students into thinking about math in a way that is engaging and exciting.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

Check out the key strategies below, as well as links to the full articles (and related content!). This SmartBrief article outlines five strategies for people supporting teachers to help address and reduce teacher burnout and “bring back the joy of teaching.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Can middle-school students spot “native advertising” (ads masquerading as articles) on a crowded news website? Fortunately, long-neglected civics education seems to be on the rebound in many states, which has helped groups like the Center for News Literacy at Stony Brook University get their message into K-12 classrooms.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

It challenges them – given that they are likely to not have had diversity in their K-12 classroom teachers – to think differently about who produces knowledge. In 2014, for the first time, the nation’s K-12 student population was majority minority. Why do you use it?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 1, 2023

A new analysis of admissions practices of 12 of the nation’s most selective colleges shows that it’s legacy admission that gives large boosts to applicants. Holcomb-McCoy hopes that more will change beyond just legacy admissions, and that officials at K-12 schools and colleges will try new strategies to improve diversity in higher education.

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

From building relationships with parents to supporting students in the return to in-person teaching, we have highlights and article links for you. Read more at K-12 Dive: 4 ways schools are enhancing parent relationships in the return to classrooms. Enhancing Relationships with Parents. Promoting accomplishments and connections.

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