A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

As we continue to advance in the digital age schools and districts are beginning to re-think pedagogy and learning environments by instituting either 1:1 device programs or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. In my opinion, schools that wish to create the most relevant and meaningful learning culture will go in one of these directions.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

Once we got rolling though we realized that our improving school culture did not warrant so much attention to, and supervision of, duties, which eventually made it much easier on all of us. Google Innovation Laura Fleming Learning New Milford High School professional growth period professional learning'

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Thanks to being in different schools each week, I have been able to curate so many artifacts that are then used to help others see how a strategy or idea has been implemented successfully (especially from Wells Elementary ). When I was the principal at New Milford High School, I created the Professional Growth Period (PGP).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2022

I was so excited to teach this class, I spent the summer collecting articles and artifacts from the local library and historical society. Too many students are disengaged from the content of school. Cultural and social relevance. The best class I ever taught centered on the history of Washington, D.C.

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ED Surge

JULY 14, 2023

When my class wrote a book last year about artifacts of New Orleans culture and what they mean to them, a third of the class wrote about food. Despite inheriting this culinary and cultural legacy, my students find themselves in a tough position during the school day for breakfast and lunch.

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Anthropology News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Treasure hunting is long associated with endeavors to unearth concealed artifacts, illustrated best by buried troves of gold left behind by past communities. Accidents happen in dangerous sites, the promised artifact eludes hunters, or suspicion and disagreements turn violent. May engagements with the past be a part of the picture?

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ED Surge

MARCH 19, 2024

And one of the things that she's found is that in a study done at Stanford, she took over a small room in the computer science department and in one condition, she populated this room with these artifacts of geeky masculine culture, like a Star Trek poster and Diet Coke cans. That's a massive effect. In fact, we do this as parents.

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C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2020

Related: COLUMN: How one Navajo Nation high school is trying to help students see a future that includes college. When people use the term in my classes, it makes me feel like an artifact of the past. I am a junior at an elite academic institution pursuing a degree in ethnicity, race and migration.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 21, 2022

Hollander said the project, which is structured as a fellowship, is set up to look at both aquatic and terrestrial science phenomena in the state, as well as social studies elements because “there is a lot of history around that changing landscape of Louisiana and the cultural groups that are affected as well.”.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2017

Any experienced teacher knows the answer to this question is more complex than a simple “yes” or “no”; readiness to become a high-impact educator is an ongoing journey that begins well before that first moment leading your own classroom. Classroom Culture. Indeed, what are the first steps on the journey to great teaching?

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 10, 2018

To that end, the Digital Promise Research team collaborated with school districts in the League of Innovative Schools (League) to discover precisely which shared challenges these forward-thinking districts are prioritizing in order to surface promising approaches and bring educators and researchers together around pressing problems of practice.

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

As part of the NCHE project, The Rural Experience in America , history club students at Cuba High School created a podcast about a local history topic of their choosing. Sue helped teach my students and me that public history goes beyond preserving an artifact behind glass and posting a caption about it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2016

In 1978, just a few years before Helgeson’s birth, the American Indian Religious Freedom Act became law, finally affirming the right of country’s indigenous people to access sacred sites, worship in traditional ceremonies and use materials they consider sacred artifacts, like eagle bones, that are restricted to non-Indians.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

If possible, your group will share photos, videos, and other artifacts that reflect your work. The Portland (Oregon) study group of early childhood educators assessed their home visitation questions to make them more culturally relevant. Generally, there is one special event, workshop, class, or training per month.

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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

But when you kind of flip the script, if you will, and really what you say as the non-negotiable is that these conversations will happen, that reflecting on practice is important, that is important from a research perspective, but that’s just important oftentimes from a culture perspective in a school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 14, 2021

High schooler Joshua Carter didn’t learn about Black historical figures like Ida B. Wells, Shirley Chisholm or Denmark Vesey from his high school social studies textbooks. Carter, a rising senior at Teaneck High School in New Jersey, said the app allows him to see people that look like him in a “good light.”

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Edthena

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

I know what it feels like to want to be the best teacher you can be and not necessarily have someone that you can access to say, like, “Hey, how do you teach inquiry style learning in a middle school classroom or high school classroom?” How do you build a culture of trust for teachers using video?

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

This can come in the form of data, improved observations/evaluations, artifacts, and portfolios. Smart Budgeting Having developed a budget for a high school over the course of many years I can tell you that there was a great deal of wasted money year in and year out. These need to be built both internally and externally.

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