A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 9, 2021

They shared how teachers got better using technology, reached out more for feedback, collaborated more, and improved classroom management. What are your exemplars of effective remote or hybrid teaching and learning, and why? As each leader presented their views on positive shifts to practice, you could see their pride swell.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 21, 2022

As this model shows, the impact of rigorous and relevant teaching and learning relies on strong student-educator relationships. Classroom Management : Co-create rules and consequences with students. Admin should look to work daily meetings into the schedule as a way to help teachers with management issues.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2024

It intertwines innovative teaching practices, cutting-edge technologies, and a culture of inclusivity into the very fabric of districts and schools. First and foremost, a pedagogical leader must be deeply knowledgeable about educational theory and practice, staying abreast of the latest research and innovations in teaching and learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 10, 2019

Up until recently, there have been two main deterrents: Well-designed lessons combined with sound classroom management A school culture that empowers kids to use their devices responsibly Now the above strategies might still work well, but in my experience working in schools as a job-embedded coach, I have seen more and more students off-task.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 20, 2020

University of Virginia researchers find that classroom simulations, combined with coaching, help prospective teachers improve their classroom management skills. One area that researchers have been investigating is how to use computerized classroom simulations for teacher training at schools of education. Nice gig.).

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 19, 2021

All of this has led to a dramatic increase in discipline issues and a significant amount of time having to be spent on classroom management and establishing routines. They are facing renewed attacks on the very content that we teach while school shootings are becoming more frequent again after a respite during the pandemic.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 2, 2025

In the very first minute of my first day teaching at Eastern Senior High School in Washington, DC, I received a rude awakening. And if you have new lessons to teach, you may struggle to help them catch up. Its important to note here that you dont need to transform your entire classroom or stop teaching the way youre used to.

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Studies Weekly

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

Teaching with Primary Sources in Social Studies Feb. 25, 2025 Studies Weekly Its often difficult to connect students to the real-world, real-time applications of events from history and the real people who lived them. For example, most people over 30 can remember where they were on Sept.

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Studies Weekly

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Making Social Studies Fun to Teach | Teacher Testimonial Nov 07, 2024 Video Transcript Speaker : Manda Rensel, 1st Grade Teacher, PA Tell us why you love Studies Weekly! Manda's Story In Manda Rensels 25-year teaching career, she never enjoyed teaching history. Studies Weekly has changed my outlook on history, she says.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MARCH 17, 2024

Listen to this post as a podcast: Sponsored by Edge•U Badges and EVERFI The day it happened to me was in my fourth year of teaching. And again, I’m only talking here about the kind of crying that typically comes from a classroom management issue. It could very well be that teaching just isn’t for you.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 18, 2023

Her 2021 book, Equity-Centered Trauma-Informed Education , is one I wish I’d had available to me before I started teaching; it would have made a world of difference in how I saw my students and designed my classroom practices. You can listen to the episode above or read the transcript. Here’s a summary of our conversation.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2023

Based on conversations we had with teachers, ViewSonic developed a solution to address their concerns when teaching online. What other classroom management tools are available for teachers? Remote learners miss out on many key elements of in-person learning when using the tools currently available.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

Josh articulates how teachers have to be ready and willing to change the way they think about teaching to be able to effectively work with this new generation of learners. Education needs a revolution of ideas, pedagogy, and the very way in which we talk about teaching and learning.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2012

Policies have been developed for students to bring in their own computing devices, a ban on cell phone use during non-instructional time has been lifted, and educational programs have been put in place to teach our students about digital citizenship, responsibility, and footprints.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2022

When I started my career 10 years ago, teaching “grit” was all the rage, but that era of character education shortly met its well-deserved end (a topic for a different day). However, separating their practices from everyday teaching is dangerous. Our students deserve teaching that resists fads and responds to their needs.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This blend of online and offline learning can happen exclusively in the classroom with the station rotation and whole group rotation models. It can combine both in-class and online learning at home with the flipped classroom and playlist models. These models are flexible and able to transcend any single teaching and learning landscape.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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Society for Classical Studies

DECEMBER 13, 2024

2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level kskordal Fri, 12/13/2024 - 09:40 Image The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce the recipients of the 2024 Awards for Excellence in Teaching at the K-12 Level: Kathleen R. Durkin James T. Stark Please click each name above to read the full award citations.

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Becoming a History Teacher

DECEMBER 3, 2024

So far, she’s taught around 15 whole lessons, but hasn’t had to do any teaching completely independently. She was excited to begin teaching sequences of lessons and have a day teaching 4 lessons back-to-back. Last week Jessie and Jasdeep agreed to increase her timetable.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2018

These consisted of sound classroom management, listing the learning objectives, and developing a lesson plan. I still can’t believe how much time and focus there was on how to manage a classroom effectively. When I think back to my training to become a teacher, there were some reasonably consistent norms.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

See also Dos and Don’ts Of Elementary School Classroom Management The Problem with Physical Punishment While some feel that running a few laps as punishment sounds reasonable, this can have an adverse effect on a child’s psyche that lasts for decades. If you’re a teacher yourself, you know how impressionable students can be.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

I tried various classroom management strategies: positive narration, proximity and whole-class attention-getters. Then, I walked back inside and continued teaching. That moment forced me to confront a difficult truth about teaching: we often talk about respect, kindness and emotional awareness, but how often do we model them?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

In this post, we will focus on one example of an AI system that can help teachers manage their workload and the importance of engaging teachers in the design of AI systems. While AI has come a long way since the 1950s when the term was coined and work on Intelligent Tutoring Systems began, it simply cannot replace a teacher in the classroom.

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Cult of Pedagogy

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Teaching is intense, vulnerable work. We can look at student data and try new instructional strategies all day long, but until we learn to navigate all of these complex feelings, the work of improving our teaching will always be limited at best. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? The school’s out of control.

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A Psychology Teacher Writes

JUNE 22, 2024

Before we think about instructional coaching, let’s talk about teaching. It’s clear from just spending a short time reading statements from politicians, reports in the media, or discourse on social media that teaching also has something of a PR problem. Is this true? Not every problem a teacher faces is content-agnostic.

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Catlin Tucker

MARCH 25, 2024

This also teaches students to hone their self-directed learning skills as they own more of the responsibility for their learning. Study and Organization Skills : Teach study strategies, note-taking, and organizational skills to help students manage their time and learning more effectively.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Or classroom management. Or even teaching fractions in a late-elementary classroom. New toolsets from Edthena allow any district to curate a video library of searchable lesson segments, tagged to teaching standards, and shared securely to all staff members within the district.

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

In Secretary Cardona’s vision to elevate the teaching profession, he highlights three priorities: improving teacher pipeline, supporting teacher growth and investing in teacher retention. Classroom walk-throughs and observations place undue stress on new teachers, eat into prep time and can exacerbate existing classroom management issues.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

Join our mailing list and get weekly tips, tools, and inspiration that will make your teaching more effective and fun. Learn more at alpacapacks.com/pedagogy. Come back for more.

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Catlin Tucker

OCTOBER 25, 2023

I was recently facilitating a training session on the station rotation model when several educators expressed concern about the noise level of the classroom during a station rotation lesson. Like most classroom expectations, I spend time directly teaching what each type of station should look and sound like.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2021

As you might imagine, we saw some fantastic leading, teaching, and learning. At the heart of Envision Academy’s approach is its problem-based learning orientation that focuses on teaching students to think. It also requires a mindset shift away from the teacher as the classroom manager and deliverer of content.

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. The population of students I serve as a teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning are interested in pursuing a career in education.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2022

But when it comes to ethical monitoring—concerned with how school systems set up their digital classroom management tools and teachers use them—we hear far too little. para’s digital classroom management tool, reveals an opportunity for growth and time to evolve the practice of ethical monitoring in many districts.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2023

Instead, we were taught how to structure a lesson and given tips on classroom management. Over the last several years, many of us have had the uncomfortable realization that there is a gap between how we teach and how scientific findings suggest we should teach. Much of the disinformation stems from training like my own.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

A recent series of articles in The Hechinger Report chronicle the journeys of three teachers during their first year in the classroom to consider how well preparation programs provide educators with the necessary tools to be effective practitioners. Related: The first year of teaching can feel like a fraternity hazing .

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2020

But that can have an impact on pre-K classrooms and students, especially if a principal is unable to identify or coach teachers on developmentally appropriate teaching for young children.

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