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Making Headway with Remote and Hybrid Learning

A Principal's Reflections

As I recently worked with leaders from Paterson Public Schools in New Jersey, during a coaching session, I asked them to take a few minutes, and each share something positive that came about as a result of the pandemic. Too often, we tend to dwell on overcoming hardships that we forget to celebrate both small and large wins.

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This School Librarian Thinks Her Job Is the ‘Best-Kept Secret in Education’

ED Surge

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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Supporting Teachers in a Hybrid Learning Environment

Digital Promise

And then there is the 2020–2021 school year, where nothing is normal, and we have had five “first days of school.” We also focused on improving classroom management in a concurrent teaching environment. So, we walked through classrooms to see what strategies teachers were using, what worked, and what didn’t.

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OPINION: It is time to pay attention to the science of learning

The Hechinger Report

Instead, we were taught how to structure a lesson and given tips on classroom management. M-J Mercanti-Anthony is the principal of Antonia Pantoja Preparatory Academy, a public school for grades 6-12 in the Castle Hill neighborhood of New York City, and a member of the Board of Education of Greenwich, Connecticut.

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A weekly meetup aims to keep black male teachers in the classroom

The Hechinger Report

Black teachers account for 27 percent of the state’s teacher workforce, according to a Mississippi Today report, but black students represent almost half of the students attending the state’s public schools. Classroom management, Bradley said later in an interview, is a universal challenge for new teachers.

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Reviving a successful math strategy for the early grades

The Hechinger Report

Milwaukee Public Schools has definitely focused on early childhood educators in recent years. ” But they’re starting to rethink their identities with these trainings and learning how to leverage their own expertises in child development and classroom management to engage with the youngest learners.

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OPINION: Why are schools that predominately serve black and brown students consistently underfunded?

The Hechinger Report

As a philanthropic funder, I traveled the country supporting schools, districts and communities, but no matter where I visited, there was one consistent storyline: Schools that predominantly served black and brown students seemed to have the least resources and were the most underfunded. Between 2005 and 2017, U.S.

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