A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

Public schools are attended by students from various cultural, linguistic, and socio-economic backgrounds, having different assessed levels of cognitive and academic ability. Common Core for the not-so-common learner: English language arts strategies grades K-5. Who Are the Not-So-Common Learners? Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

This blog post examines recent evaluations highlighting gaps in civics education and explores how HQIM can address these challenges. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 million to $23 million as grants available to states.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes. Check out last week’s post here.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

They support one another in the powerful use of HP and Microsoft tools, such as using Skype and Microsoft Teams to organize virtual field trips, using Minecraft to engage students in design challenges, and using Flipgrid to help students connect with and share their indigenous languages and cultures. ET / 4 p.m.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 2, 2021

Here’s a list of resources to learn more about AI: Blog post: Links to 3 Webinars on AI and the Future of Learning. Blog post: AI or Intelligence Augmentation for Education? Organization: The Artificial Intelligence (AI) for K-12 initiative (AI4K12). Stories: On Culturally Responsive Artificial Intelligence.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 8, 2024

Given the rapid advances in AI and the momentum in the education field to understand how these technologies can support teaching and learning, last year the Gates Foundation launched a pilot initiative to provide funding to test new AI ideas that are in support of equitable K-12 mathematics outcomes.

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Edthena

MARCH 11, 2022

Positive school culture is key to thriving teachers and students. But school leaders have so much on their plates and it can be tricky to know how to support something as broad as the culture of a school. The founding principal of Stonefields School in Auckland, New Zealand, has prioritized cultivating a positive school culture.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 6, 2021

When you think of culturally responsive teaching, you may not immediately think of dopamine and oxytocin. The brain is a learning machine” according to Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , who is on a mission to educate educators about the neuroscience behind culturally responsive teaching (CRT). “The

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

This three-part blog series, featuring guest authors from Michigan Virtual , describes the formation of the Learning Continuity Workgroup and how it has supported their edtech procurement and decision-making processes. There was a natural synergy among us.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2022

Common Sense Education - Digital Citizenship offers free lessons on digital citizenship for grades K-12. EasyBib has several great blog posts, as well as this super-helpful infographic detailing ways to evaluate an article or news story. The good news is that there is plenty of help for the work from quality sources.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

If entire K-12 districts move online, what can schools expect of early elementary schoolers? As Holland points out, successful remote learning experiences depend on teachers who know how to create and deliver engaging lessons online and students who have the digital literacy skills to access them.

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Edthena

MARCH 31, 2022

This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes how to say “yes” to a sustainable workload, best practices for family engagement, and creating a positive school culture. Check out this blog post with ideas for school initiatives you should stop. . Positive school culture might mean flipping the script.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Efforts to enhance these relationships should include culturally responsive teaching and creating a sense of belonging to ensure that each student can participate at the fullest level. Be laser focused on building strong and lasting relationships among students and teachers, students and their peers, and teachers and parents/caregivers.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

Listening to teachers not only helps them feel appreciated and results in better classroom practices; it also ensures that K-12 leaders are taking care of faculty needs. Fostering a culture of psychological safety means teachers feel respected and empowered to teach and take risks in the classroom.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Students were prompted to find images that represent contemporary pop culture, and then to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to create their own Warhol-inspired work. In the remote village of Nanwalek, Alaska, the K-12 school was planning to improve its slow, satellite-provided Internet connection. By Maylin, Age 5.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2019

But we haven’t seen a “ Rethink School ” blog post devoted to including older adults, a strategy proven to help kids succeed. We need effective, culturally relevant and inclusive curricula. Education is the best way out of poverty, an essential part of realizing one’s goals. Read more about early education.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

K-12 students in the Charlottesville area are served by Charlottesville Public Schools, Albemarle County Public Schools, and many other independently affiliated schools. How do we build in infrastructure that allows for and creates that connectivity in more of an ongoing way?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

In this session, participants will explore a new way to use the latest research in K-3 math and reading to understand strategies for reaching all learners in the classroom and with edtech. The future sustainability of maker learning programs in K-12 depends on administrators getting involved and making systemic changes to schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

students graduating from the K-12 system are college and career ready, Common Core has ramped up academic expectations that schools everywhere, including those in Kentucky, are still far from meeting. Sonja Brookins Santelises, vice president of K-12 policy at the Education Trust. Scores have been edging up ever since.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

However, to the extent that we have found high quality professional development focused on helping educators understand and respond to learning differences, these efforts are almost exclusively for K-12 educators. The Fellows participate in a 12-month, intensive professional development experience focused on learning differences.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. EPS launched their one-to-one computing initiative in 2014, and now all students in grades 2 through 12 have an HP convertible touch laptop and access to the Microsoft 365 suite.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. In 2018, 98 percent of K-12 school districts met the FCC’s minimum connectivity target of 100 kilobits-per-second per student in schools. Students are designing, making, coding, composing, animating, and publishing.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

Check out the video of the 12-minute presentation above or continue reading for highlights, including the 5 key learnings about how to align video coaching with an instructional vision. To learn more about video coaching best practices from Edthena partners, check out this blog post about Keller ISD’s teacher leadership pathway.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

Mingus Union reinforces an aspect of American culture that has educators believing they can teach students by punishing and shaming them. In the book “Hacking Classroom Culture,” authors Angela Stockman and Ellen Feig Gray show how ubiquitous shaming is. It didn’t seem right,” Pickett’s mother told the Today show. . It isn’t right.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2016

What is your advice for other K-12 schools thinking about implementing video? The post This School Embeds Professional Development Into Everyday Work appeared first on the Edthena blog. However we are moving in a direction that I believe will ultimately allow us to anchor our conversations in the common text of video.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2019

Against a backdrop of growing interest in learning coding as an economic driver and computational thinking as a new literacy, this panel discussion will lean into the equity challenge of realistically addressing “computing for all” in K-12 education. What does “computing for all” look like in the average classroom?

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Edthena

JULY 22, 2021

According to Givens, rigorous sight is a disciplined and vigilant practice of intellectual inquiry into power dynamics and anti-Blackness as well as into the life and culture of Black people through conceptual engagement with their lived experiences. Read more on Edutopia: Teaching Black History Year-Round Requires Rigorous Sight.

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All Things Pedagogical

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

However, when these things do return, at the same time that those of us in K-12 or HigherEd also return to our roles, positions, or work, what happens is a mass influx of information and input and also an expectation that the information will be digested or processed in some way and organized for future or immediate use.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

It’s become part of our school culture,” said Melissa Tebbenkamp, Raytown’s director of instructional technology. “If In December 2016, Bill Fitzgerald, director of the privacy initiative for Common Sense Education, blogged a practical guide for students and teachers (and the rest of us) called The Five Days of Privacy.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2019

A short documentary about Lollapallango, a culture, sports, and technology event hosted for children living in Santo Amaro, a neighborhood in Rio de Janeiro. 17), Sevginur K. (16), 18), Lennart K. (18). Related SDGs: Goal 2, 12. Lollapallango – Santo Amaro. Youth Producers: Sukhmen G. (16), 16), Alexandra D. (17),

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

They may need to learn to assume a new manner of speaking, navigate a new culture and demonstrate new behaviors. His writing on education has been published on sites such as Chalkbeat NY, Education Post, Core Knowledge Blog and on his own site, Schools & Ecosystems.

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Edthena

MARCH 6, 2020

Effective district leaders place emphasis on a culture of learning. The internal dynamics and culture of the organization drive its outcomes. Adept leadership recognizes the importance of a school or district’s culture and relational dynamics within it as a critical factor in the success or failure of its mission.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

” I haven’t covered K-12 educational technology very often, and this one really piqued my interest, as you’ll see. And I think what we heard is when you introduce the K-12 student into the same environment, it kind of disrupts that this is my safe island type feeling for the teachers. Pretty unique.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Digital Promise

JULY 29, 2016

Although forming partnerships requires effort, Keruskin said the process aligns with his vision for his school’s culture: one where everyone is “learning together” about what works, and having open discussions about new technologies. Local pilots with tightly-linked, engaged partners (like those in Pittsburgh) are a promising path forward.

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Edthena

JANUARY 13, 2022

” I haven’t covered K-12 educational technology very often, and this one really piqued my interest, as you’ll see. And I think what we heard is when you introduce the K-12 student into the same environment, it kind of disrupts that this is my safe island type feeling for the teachers. Pretty unique.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 29, 2021

For Zaretta Hammond, author of Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain , “equity is about making sure every student is a powerful learner.” ” So what does true intellectual engagement look like for students and how can teachers create a classroom environment with a strong culture of learning?

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