A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 9, 2020

A recent Chalkbeat article highlighted the results of some surveys that alluded to this issue: And engagement with schoolwork was relatively low across the board, reflecting the challenges of keeping students engaged in a chaotic time and of teaching from a distance. They sure don't facilitate an engaging learning experience for kids.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2020

Cornelius Minor recently penned an article titled Why #BlackLivesMatter in Your Classroom Too. However, now is the time to examine local and state data to bring to light any inequities that may exist to ensure that all students learn in a space where they feel safe and welcomed and have access to a high-quality education."

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

As I was researching for some solid pedagogical links, I came across this wonderful article that Todd Finley wrote for Edutopia titled Rethinking Whole Class Discussion. As a supplement to traditional discussion strategies technology can serve as a catalyst to increase engagement by getting more learners actively involved during lessons.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 18, 2015

Adapted from an article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools Digital tools are transforming essential elements of the education space. This is true for both online classrooms as well as “blended” classrooms, those integrating online and digital tools into a traditional learning setting.

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Farmers planted grains to make traditional dishes such as starchy, mild fufu and thick, warm tuo zaafi , and households stored surplus tubers in their wattle-and-daub homes to nourish them throughout the year. Logan, now a professor at Northwestern University, started working at Banda as a graduate student in 2007.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Check out this great article from the School Library Journal on this project. Paperlet is an online participatory publishing platform that takes the existing traditional writing process a decisive step further by bringing the readers into the creative process too. Currently she is now working on a similar program for students here.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 29, 2018

The first one below pulled from an article titled Automate This: Building the Perfect 21st-Century Worker , represents the skills our learners will need to compete in a more automated world. There are two images that come to mind that represent the need to reflect on where education is at in order to move to where it needs to be.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 1, 2015

This is the second post as part of an adapted article I co-authored, Real-World Ready: Leveraging Digital Tools A few weeks back I shared ways that digital tools can improve teaching and learning. This framework is based on traditional elements of education yet encourages movement from acquisition of knowledge to application of knowledge.

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Sapiens

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

I (Mariam) grew up in a Pakistani diaspora family, where I observed roti-making as an organizing tradition of my home culture, but one that remained a gender-exclusive space for girls, mothers, and aunties. As a New York Times article describes, roti is a recipe mastered through repetition. where I teach. and 1300 B.C.

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Anthropology.net

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The article is titled, “Children as playful artists: Integrating developmental psychology to identify children’s art in the Upper Palaeolithic. This research also challenges traditional views that associate prehistoric art solely with adults. 1 ” Rewriting Prehistory: Were Children Active Creators?

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 2, 2019

Just because something has been done in the past, or is a traditional component of school culture, does not mean it is an effective practice. For some practical alternatives to dishing out zeros check out the latter portion of the article by Norrell titled Less Than Zero. doctor’s note, death in the family, etc.).

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 15, 2011

As the summer break quickly approaches in the Northeast I have come across various articles focusing on summer learning loss and the negative impact that time off has on students. In 2010 Time Magazine published an article that clearly articulated The Case Against Summer Vacation.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 3, 2019

From articles to blog posts to books, that subject has been covered in great detail. VGo gets the student back to the traditional schooling environment by providing a physical device that replicates the student while away from school. What makes something innovative? There is no shortage of debate on this topic in the least bit.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 14, 2020

Digital leadership calls for a multifaceted approach using both traditional and new-age strategies to ensure that the right message reaches stakeholders in a timely fashion. We can't assume communication staples such as snail mail (i.e., paper mailings), newsletters, or websites are the most effective or the only way to get information out.

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Strange Maps

DECEMBER 17, 2024

This may be a tradition particular to (if not necessarily limited to) the former Soviet space. This article Mapped: The strange link between obesity and corruption is featured on Big Think. Left: the 2017 government of Estonia, which had the lowest median BMI; right: the 2017 government of Uzbekistan, which had the highest median BMI.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Late last week I read an article about how elected officials in the county where my school is located passed a resolution to stop the Common Core. I came across this article in my Twitter feed where I have a column set up for #njed. Image credit: [link] Here is a quick story that proves my point above.

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Sapiens

JANUARY 14, 2025

This article was originally published at YES! Tsamarenda, a young man wearing a traditional red and yellow toucan feather crown, was personally delivering the seeds. We achieved all that, he said, without forgetting our sovereignty, our customs, and tradition. Magazine and has been republished under Creative Commons.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

This article explores the transformative power of a collaborative, unified approach, emphasizing the need for intentional, purpose-driven collaboration. The profound impact of a collaborative approach on educational communities is explored in this article.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2018

In this ever-evolving world of digital communication, a world where information arrives at our digital doorstep without being invited, we have to reset traditional thinking. An article by Jonathan Gottschall in Fast Company sums it up well: " Humans live in a storm of stories. We communicate through stories and learn from them.

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TeachThought

APRIL 5, 2024

Technology Tools for Interactive Learning contributed by Edelyn Bontuyan What makes traditional learning click? Nearpod Besides Prezi, you can try out Nearpod to transform traditional presentations into interactive slides or virtual field trips. And from this article, you’ve had the chance to learn about eight of them.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 26, 2016

To this day I still remember the article that I read about Twitter in the Staten Island Advance one cold Sunday in March of 2009. As someone who was totally against the use of social media for both personal and professional reasons, that article was intriguing to read as it essentially reinforced my negative perception.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2014

Just the title of the article alone painfully illustrates the monumental mistakes that are being made for the sake of "improving" education - Kindergarten show cancelled so kids can study to be ''college ready''.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2013

School administrators can use blogs as a powerful public relations tool in lieu of traditional newsletters and email blasts. They are then empowered by the teacher to promote their articles and tweet out real-time school news as it happens. The ability to comment on any blog increases both student and community engagement.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Kim Marshall is the force behind the highly regarded Marshall Memo , a weekly, subscription-only summary of 8 to 10 of the most impactful articles in education. “In one of the articles we summarized, Craig Barton says we learned in teacher school that open-ended questions are best, right?” ” explains David-Lang.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 13, 2018

Image credit In a recent article Joani Junkala shares some great thoughts on the importance of stepping outside our comfort zones. There are many lenses through which we can take a more in-depth look to gain more context on the impact complacency has on growth and improvement. Take test scores for example.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 28, 2021

I’ve experienced the phenomenon of reading a text, but when I get to the end of a page or the bottom of the article, I have no idea what the text was about. This model is a great option for teachers who want to integrate technology in a meaningful way in a traditional class. My mind was a million miles away.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 20, 2018

People craving more than a drive-by event, traditional school professional development day, or mandated training have an authentic outlet that caters to their interests. Here is a little bit that Josh Bersin shared in an article titled Digital Leadership is Not an Optional Part of Being a CEO : Culture is key.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 3, 2017

Traditional Grading Practices and Homework There is a great deal of research out there that supports changes to how educators grade and the use of homework. Please take a minute to read this article by Nancy Colier on the subject. Will you challenge the status quo to improve the educational experience for your learners? Get over it!

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2014

Up until this point in my career I would say that I followed the traditional playbook for school leaders. After reading an article in the local Sunday paper on Twitter I decided to step outside my comfort zone, disregard the perception that I had, and began to use social media as a leadership tool. Obviously, not much at the time.

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Political Science Now

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

In reconstructing this tradition, we argue that its problem space converges with US-based Latin American political thought. In arguing for the recognition of this field as a tradition, the article also aims to make it intelligible as an area of concentration for PhD students in political science. Read the full article.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 5, 2020

However, as time has passed, I have reflected on this annual tradition and deemed it to be quite silly in the greater scheme of things. Why should it take the passing of each new year to commit to change on both a professional and personal level? As such, I have not made nor pursued any resolution in many years.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. To put some perspective on this, not one traditional classroom had an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in it four years ago. Cross-posted at the Huffington Post.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

As an author of six books, numerous articles, and a blog, I am dogged by a perception that I am a good writer. They should never perceive that they are inferior to their peers if they don’t do well on standardized tests or more traditional, one-size-fits-all assessments. Writing on the other hand is something with which I struggle.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2010

The other day Bill Ferriter told me that he was working on an article for ASCD and asked if I would answer a few questions. In early March of 2009, I was reading my local newspaper, The Staten Island Advance, and came across an article on Twitter. As I read the article I learned more about Twitter and its capabilities.

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Geography Education

MAY 1, 2024

’ This article highlights great, everyday examples that shows how cultural patterns and processes change and why they matter. In an analogous example to those given in the article, Mexicans are very proud of their cuisine, but must remember that nothing is created in cultural or geographic isolation.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Highlighted in the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) article, “Transforming Teacher PD With AI,” authors Courtney Groskin, an instructional coach, and Sandy Heiser, assistant principal of Skyline High School, share how their district is breaking the mold of traditional PD. Well show you how.

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Catlin Tucker

MAY 11, 2021

We can indeed cover more ground when we present information in a traditional lecture format, but that doesn’t mean students understand the information. Listenwise), an online article, or a video on biodiversity. I understand the pressure teachers feel to cover the standards and move through their curriculum.

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