A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2012

The following is a guest post by Bedros Kharmandarian, a junior at New Milford High School. Throughout his high school career he has been exposed to many elective courses in the areas of graphics and technology that have allowed him to unleash his creative talents.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2024

As a high school history teacher, whenever I meet new adults and we talk about our professions, I often find myself being met with a familiar reaction: "I disliked the subject in school, but now I find it interesting." I also invite students to bring in their own artifacts for a show and tell.

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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.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 30, 2023

Widely adopted by school districts across the country, Portrait of a Graduate outlines the interdisciplinary skills that a district believes its students should embody and exemplify by high school graduation. It wasn’t one more thing for teachers to do. It was another means to enact the Portrait itself.”

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 27, 2023

Memories of the continual improvement he was able to do back then have stuck with him as his career has progressed, including jobs as a high school history teacher, an edtech consultant to schools, a doctoral student and professor, and director of MIT’s Teaching Systems Lab. How well have you seen that approach go?

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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. This contentious relationship between New Orleans students and school lunch wasn’t always the case.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2022

They learn why high school geometry, a topic most of them intend to teach in the future, is the way it is and why its results are true. This is undoubtedly an artifact of traditional grading systems: They encourage a one-and-done approach that penalizes taking time to learn. 1 This is a class full of big, challenging ideas.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2023

Yeah, and the other thing about Agile that is really good for the accountability piece is Agile has what we call a “visible learning artifact,” which is just a fancy way of saying we have a board where all of the tasks and everybody's status is visible at all times. So it sounds like this method addresses that. I would cosign that.

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Edthena

MAY 20, 2022

Since 2011, Adam has overseen the evolution of Edthena from a paper-based prototype into a research-informed and patented platform used by schools, districts, teacher training programs, and professional development providers.

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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?” And video is not 100% representation of a classroom, I want to acknowledge that.

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