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A Needed Revolution

A Principal's Reflections

This places them in the most important role to usher in and sustain meaningful change in the classroom that will ultimately shape school culture for the better. With or without leadership support, teachers need to be open and willing to change as schools, for the most part, continue to prepare students for a world that no longer exists.

Pedagogy 266
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New Teachers Need More Support. Here's an Easy Way to Help

ED Surge

Yet, many of the traditional strategies employed, while absolutely essential to professional growth, can be cumbersome and disruptive for teachers, their students and even those responsible for offering support.

K-12 118
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TEACHER VOICE: Why that chatty student driving you nuts could become president of the United States

The Hechinger Report

After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness. Here are three things I learned about how to teach students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy: 1.

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Upskilling and Reskilling for the ‘New Normal’ of Education

Education Elements

Formerly ‘nice-to-have’ skills in digital integration became ‘must-haves,’ traditional classroom management and instructional design methods no longer applied, and everyone was required to embrace a high level of comfort with ambiguity as guidelines and expectations shifted on a weekly basis.

Education 124
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To fight teacher shortages, schools turn to custodians, bus drivers and aides 

The Hechinger Report

Efforts to recruit teacher candidates from the local community date back to the 1990s, but programs have “exploded” in number over the past five years, said Danielle Edwards, assistant professor of educational leadership, policy and workforce development at Old Dominion University in Virginia. We definitely have blinders on.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 04

Dangerously Irrelevant

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. Our goal was to try and parse out What do leaders at innovative schools do that is different from their counterparts in more traditional schools ? Leadership for Deeper Learning , Chapter 4.

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OPINION: Five ways to build stronger, more inclusive work opportunities for students

The Hechinger Report

Successful classroom leadership requires instructors specific to career and technical education to add classroom management and teaching strategies to their technical expertise. Intensive teacher training for instructors specific to career and technical education.