A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 31, 2013

The following is a guest post by Danielle Shanley, Director of Curriculum and Instruction for New Milford Public Schools, NJ. Change Innovation Opinion Danielle Shanley Guest Blog Post Guest Blogger New Milford High School' They have no negative impact on the learning in her classroom. The best defense is a great lesson.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

One of the best parts about blogging for me is that my parents read each and every post. During my early years of blogging I always posted each post to my personal Facebook page and emailed my parents a live link. My father was an elementary school principal at Alpha Public School and Hatchery Hill School for a total of 30 years.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 24, 2024

This is the first in a series of five blog posts elevating key learnings from this set of investments. Today’s blog explores how three grantees embraced a culture of learning around AI. Chicago Public Schools has policies for data privacy and data integrations, as well as a list of approved edtech tools, many of which use AI.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 16, 2020

Sasha Behm, grades 6-8 Computer Science and Yoga teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida. Zelia Capitao-Tavares, grades 4-5 teacher and Technology Coach at Toronto District School Board, Ontario. Valerie Crawford-Meyer, grades 6-8 Computer Science teacher at Broward County Public Schools, Florida.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 2, 2018

Our 11th University of Colorado Denver principal licensure cohort for the Jeffco Public Schools is 31 students strong! Starting this week, we are sharing resources and blogging about educational leadership issues in addition to our class sessions. We hope you will join us at our Jeffco 11 blog for some great conversations!

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2022

In 2021, six educators representing community-based organizations, libraries, public schools, and the Digital Promise Maker Learning team embarked on a journey to increase opportunities for virtual and remote maker learning. The insights from this experience are valuable to all who wish to engage in powerful maker learning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

This blog post was originally published by EdSurge. Being an administrator is a tough job, but administrators make all the difference when it comes to leading schools and districts towards innovation and change. Guest co-author Mary Jo Madda is an Associate Editor at EdSurge. For example, Dr. Dance leads the S.T.A.T.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Michael LaMont, executive director, data and information group, Atlanta Public Schools. Here’s one possible solution: The Atlanta Public Schools’ data visualization blog. And they have examples of parents who are using the blog posts, which include interactive data visualizations.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 6, 2024

When the New York City Public Schools chancellor, David Banks, caused the largest district in the country to change how it taught students to read last year, it was with a sense of alarm. But it’s not that schools are constantly being burned by the latest craze. It was announced by sweeping statements. And is it accurate?

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Digital Promise

MAY 22, 2019

With all of this money and technology coming into my city, how does the lack of tech resources in the public schools remain the same? In my school, many students don’t know what edtech is, let alone have access to the resources edtech could provide. But that’s not the case.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The League of Innovative Schools (League) convened in Washington, D.C. and Loudoun County Virginia last week for the biannual #DPLIS meeting, co-hosted with Loudoun County Public Schools (LCPS). The post Looking Back on the League Meeting with Loudoun County Public Schools appeared first on Digital Promise.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

Hartford Public Schools, a Connecticut district with 39 schools, uses district-wide video coaching aligned to their larger instructional vision. Using Edthena, Hartford Public Schools captured 116 teaching videos in under a year, each tied to a specific aspect of the district’s instructional vision. .

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2023

The result, released the week of the ASU+GSV Summit, is an “ EdTech Evidence Toolkit ,” complete with four one-pagers, each aligned to a different tier of ESSA, and a series of corresponding blog posts. The blog posts — two so far, with more expected — offer education leaders additional background and implementation support and suggestions.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 17, 2017

Beyond press releases and media alerts, personal outreach and frequent communication can serve to share your district’s efforts to improve teaching and learning and explain how those efforts fit into the school system’s larger strategic plan. Include video, a Twitter stream, your blog, and more. initiative.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 6, 2019

This blog post was updated on March 6, 2019 to include more current research, information, and opinions on grit in the classroom. Angela Duckworth, a professor at the University of Pennsylvania, was teaching seventh grade math in New York City public schools when she noticed that her best students were not necessarily her smartest students.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2023

Public schools are online just as much as their students, it seems, with profiles across social media. It’s that sharing of student photos, especially those with identifying information, that has researchers questioning what the implications may be for student privacy and whether it’s ethical for schools to post pictures at all. “For

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 8, 2018

I fell asleep with thoughts of the week ahead, the kids’ schedules, and school. I wrote a blog about the evening we evacuated and the next morning when found out our home had been one of the many casualties of the Tubbs Fire. Several people who read my initial blog have asked about our cat. What comes next?

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 27, 2019

This blog post is the first of a two-part series discussing relationship building in edtech selection and purchasing. In this first blog post, we’ll address how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. The request for new edtech] doesn’t just come from a want or a wish.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Schools can’t afford to lose teachers of color. And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

In our current education system, we continue to see gaps in graduation rates and unequal access to high-quality public schools. Explore the Edtech Marketplace Today blog series to hear other voices from the field share important perspectives on challenges and strategies to improve the edtech market.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2023

This 3-part blog series , featuring guest authors from The Learning Accelerator and MA DESE OET , highlights the importance of centering equity in edtech selection. In this third post, the author describes lessons learned while leading a cohort of diverse schools and districts through a process of strengthening their edtech systems.

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Digital Promise

MAY 10, 2021

These questions were developed by DC Public Schools, Highline Public Schools, South Fayette Township School District, Vancouver Public Schools, Vista Unified School District, and West Ada School District.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Minneapolis Public Schools (Minnesota) already uses data to inform decision-making in more than 70 schools across the city, but they wanted to find best practices for interoperability to link different systems together for more accurate and timely data. Abby Wolf IT Strategy Process Analyst, Minneapolis Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Please join us in welcoming the following new districts to the League of Innovative Schools: ASU Preparatory Academies. Brigantine Public School District. California Area School District. Clear Creek Independent School District. Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

– Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). – Dr. Brown, Reynoldsburg City Schools (Ohio). “We – Dr. Michael Nagler, Mineola Public Schools (New York). “We – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools. – Willam Porter, Mentor Public Schools (Ohio).

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Digital Promise

MAY 17, 2017

School leaders and teachers in every school and classroom in Mentor Public Schools – and we mean, every classroom – opened their doors to over 200 members and partners of the League of Innovative Schools. What was made clear at this meeting is, we’re just getting started.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Ellen Tucker, long time blog contributor for Teaching American History [1] But not as proactive as some. But two years after the decision, more than 350 school districts in nine of the 17 states had desegregated their public schools. Schools in the nations capital were also opened to all (Reprint of New South [Vol.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

Upskill Leadership Tara Carrozza , director of the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) for New York City Public Schools, highlighted the importance of upskilling leadership to match the pace of technological advancements. The district is committed to equipping leaders with the necessary expertise to sustainably transform education.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Read blogs on other roundtables hosted by Digital Promise, SETDA, and CoSN: SETDA: Equity of Access. Matt Miller, Superintendent, Lakota Public Schools, Ohio. Jean Tower, Director of Media and Digital Learning at Needham Public Schools, Massachusetts. Nick Williams, CTO, Bartholomew School District, Indiana.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 18, 2022

Chicago Public Schools produced lessons that were broadcast on local radio stations. At one point he directed a teacher-education program that prepared returning Peace Corp volunteers to teach in inner-city schools. It turns out emergency remote instruction is far from new. Back in 1937, when a polio outbreak plagued the U.S.,

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Edthena

MARCH 29, 2022

The School District of Lee County takes professional learning seriously. With 84,000 students and nearly 100 public schools and 6,000 teachers, the district is supporting many learners. The School District of Lee County’s use of video coaching has expanded capacity, trust, growth, and goals among coaches and teachers.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

This blog post is the second of a two-part series discussing relationship building in the edtech purchasing process. In our first blog post , we addressed how educators can build and maintain good working relationships with edtech developers. Public schools by their nature share data publicly.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 9, 2023

Kermit Belcher School districts like Kansas City Public Schools, for example, are providing cellular-enabled iPads as an alternative to their traditional Wi-Fi-only model. Providing connected devices for students removes barriers and supports the extended school day needs for our most vulnerable families.”

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Tools for school – Digital document annotation on an iPad, iPod Touch, or laptop. The year in review: Some year-end blog stats for 2010. Thinking about NAEP in Colorado and the Denver Public Schools. What I’ve been up to: Silver Lining for Learning. Most popular posts – October 2010.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

Fairbanks North Star Borough School District. Graham Local Schools. Harrington Park School District. Meriden Public Schools. Middletown City School District. Socorro Independent School District. South Bay Union School District. Southampton County Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 21, 2019

Enter four districts from the League of Innovative Schools: San Diego County Office of Education, Stephenville Independent School District, Uinta School District #1, and Vancouver Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Snapshots include Covina Valley School District in Covina, CA, where the CISCO Networking Academies allow high school students to study the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies. At Liberty 53 Public Schools in Liberty, Missouri, the “UnSchool Challenge” offers students personalized internship opportunities.

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