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A Principal's Reflections
MAY 17, 2020
The COVID19 pandemic has radically disrupted both society and education as we know it. Obviously, education is at the top of my mind since it is the profession both my wife and I are a part of, and my kids currently attend public schools in Texas. Many states and countries will be making deep cuts to education.
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A Principal's Reflections
AUGUST 26, 2018
My strategy was to implement a multi-faceted approach that utilized a variety of tools beyond just Twitter and single media sources with the ultimate goal of sharing and engaging more with stakeholders.
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A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 14, 2012
Celly lets people create private communication networks that work really well for situations that other social networks and resources don''t. tool is particularly interesting for educators because it allows for communication with students and parents via text messaging. BYOD BYOT Celly educational technology mobile learning'
A Principal's Reflections
MAY 15, 2011
New Milford High School Principal Eric Sheninger will be joined by several of his teachers, students, board trustees and members of his community to discuss how New Milford High School uses technology as a student and community engagement tool. 21st Century Teaching educational technology NJSBA Social Media'
A Principal's Reflections
JULY 15, 2013
Social Media is bad and has no place in education. Worse, teachers will spend countless hours “socializing” instead of educating. However, there are a growing number of passionate educators who have embraced social media as a powerful tool for learning. All of this makes sense to me as an educator, parent, and citizen.
A Principal's Reflections
NOVEMBER 17, 2013
Whether you are a principal, superintendent, or teacher improving how you communicate plays a role in your success as an educator. Chapter 5 in my book takes a critical look at how digital leaders communicate.
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ED Surge
DECEMBER 12, 2022
The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. Meanwhile, in a department meeting in a Boston-area high school, three Asian American educators “chose to be vulnerable because we needed to share.
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The Hechinger Report
MAY 19, 2024
Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. We’re leading these schools.
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Digital Promise
NOVEMBER 16, 2015
Yet as schools break away from traditional models of education, new challenges emerge. We wanted to know: what do educators see as their top challenges? Challenge-based, problem-based, project-based, and civic learning through community engagement are approaches that share a common interest in authentic learning.
120 Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 12, 2017
Pioneering districts in the League of Innovative Schools are at the forefront of incorporating computer science education in K-12, leading large-scale initiatives to integrate coding and computational thinking into their curricula. Community Engagement and Advocacy. Relevance to Students. The post What Is Your Why?:
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Anthropology.net
NOVEMBER 3, 2024
This trend was linked to factors like physical health and community engagement, which play a crucial role in subjective well-being in these societies. Instead of a consistent U-shaped curve, the researchers often found flat or even inverted U-shapes, with well-being increasing into middle age and declining in older years.
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Digital Promise
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
Kettle Moraine School District (KMSD), a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , is a suburban district in Wisconsin leading some of the most advanced competency-based education (CBE) efforts in the country. The post Activating the Community to Support Education Innovation appeared first on Digital Promise.
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The Hechinger Report
NOVEMBER 8, 2021
This year, I began another complicated questwith an institutional behemoth: the New York City Department of Education. He is entitled to an education in a city that guarantees universal free public education to all of our children. Related: Is the pandemic our chance to reimagine education for students with disabilities?
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Cult of Pedagogy
APRIL 14, 2024
But over the last ten years, whenever I set out to find information about teaching strategies, educational resources, technology for schools, or pretty much anything related to improving learning for our students, someone would inevitably pipe up and say, “Librarians can also help with that.” That was about it.
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Geogramblings
JUNE 23, 2024
Gemma Bailey, the Climate Ambassadors Regional Hub Manager for Southeast England, is a passionate advocate for sustainability and community engagement. She believes that education and collaboration are key to achieving this vision.
A Principal's Reflections
APRIL 2, 2017
For me, the ultimate goal I establish when taking on a book project is to try to write a unique piece that either greatly enhances existing work in the education and leadership space or creates an entirely new niche. I eventually settled on branding in education, but not for the reason you might think. Define before being defined.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Although I was doing interviews at that time for a piece on low morale in higher education, I didn’t have a good answer to her question. How do we re-engage faculty and staff for the next phase, whatever that might be? We can talk about it in terms of community engagement, faculty engagement, family engagement, relationship engagement.
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ED Surge
AUGUST 22, 2024
Throughout rural America, non-native English speakers are less likely than their urban peers to get proper support in school, sometimes leading to a lifetime of lower educational attainment. But some rural schools are developing multilingual education strategies to rival those found in urban and suburban districts.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 15, 2024
But when one of her professors announced an opportunity for students to participate in a research internship to study young people’s well-being and civic engagement in the Coachella Valley, her interest was piqued. Me being a first-generation student, I've never had the resources to be able to step into education. She signed up. “Me
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ED Surge
APRIL 3, 2023
Personalized learning has been a buzzword in education since the turn of the century. This past fall, I met with several education leaders to discuss this very topic and codify what it looks like in the classroom. But what does it really mean? Students aren’t the only ones who need to feel empowered in their learning.
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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.
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Geogramblings
JULY 6, 2024
Leading the London hub is Annie Risner, a true Londoner with a diverse background and a deep-rooted passion for community engagement and creative expression. The Climate Ambassadors scheme, a national initiative empowering young people to tackle climate change, has nine regional hubs across England.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 2, 2020
And researchers have reached consensus on the common features found in different types of successful community schools: integrated student supports; expanded learning time and opportunities; family and community engagement; and collaborative leadership and practice. “We Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 10, 2023
I am a Harvard graduate, nationally recognized advocate for homeless youth and an education professional supporting family engagement in a network of charter public schools. I’m not asking educators to take on society’s larger systems of oppression, but we can certainly disrupt our own. As educators, we can change this.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2024
Institutional biases block career advancement for educators of color , who constitute only 1 in 5 U.S. This is a serious problem: The caliber and stability of our educator workforce affects our education system’s quality and capacity for improvement. Research confirms the intertwined success of Black students and educators.
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The Hechinger Report
JUNE 15, 2023
Public flagships were created to educate the residents of their states and most make that explicit. Olivia Sanchez contributed reporting Development by Fazil Khan This story about race in college admissions was produced by The Hechinger Report, a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.
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Dangerously Irrelevant
APRIL 17, 2020
I invite you to join me for the Coronavirus Chronicles , a series of 10-minute check-ins with educators all over. I especially appreciated your emphasis on family and community engagement and our conversation about some new possibilities for next school year. Episode 018 is below.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
Let’s Hear It for the Boys Lately, as educational outcomes for women have improved, men’s performance has not kept pace. The education profession feels more female than ever. Entering education as a profession at all is sometimes a tough sell. What’s that mean for early childhood education? Thomas asks.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 29, 2021
Education is today’s civil rights movement, and we must act boldly and with urgency to stamp out injustice. Related: OPINION: Educators have a basic but essential role in dismantling racism. We are building equity-based staffing formulas to ensure that the highest-quality educators are in schools with the highest needs.
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 11, 2019
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. Mississippi’s statutes and regulations were found to be “comprehensive” in six of these domains, including health education and employee wellness.
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Digital Promise
AUGUST 12, 2020
As another school year begins, many families are now tasked with educating their children at home, changing the way we think about and prioritize learning. How can edtech shift from a focus on district administrators and classroom educators to better understand families’ needs during and after the COVID-19 pandemic?
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The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 28, 2020
School Psychologist Dani Roquett greets Anne and James Hutt with their daughters, Ellison, 5, and Quinn, 10 months, at the “Zone Check-In” at the GET Together family educational event in January. The school calls the events, held twice a year, GET Togethers — Guaranteed Education Teams. Photo: Caralee Adams for The Hechinger Report.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 31, 2024
“So when you have a situation like these storms that continue to keep coming …” Now help is arriving from an unexpected source: The University of Vermont, or UVM, the state’s flagship higher education institution, has opened a new center to help rural communities like this one. They aren’t going to pick up and leave.
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ED Surge
APRIL 11, 2023
The pandemic has led to big questions about the value of higher education, and that has been especially true of liberal arts colleges. Steven Volk: I was driven to go into higher education by the potential of education to upset social hierarchies and to open possibilities that didn't exist before.
ED Surge
JANUARY 3, 2024
Often, the assumption is that parents don’t make time to engage with their child’s learning community or do not care about their student’s academic progress — even if that student is performing poorly or below academic expectations. As the great educator Marva Collins would say, “It is not a crime not to know.
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Digital Promise
MAY 23, 2023
The team then decided to apply the strategies from the “Implementation” section of the edtech systems guide, focusing on clear communication with stakeholders (caregivers, teachers, admins) and providing ongoing support and training opportunities for staff.
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ED Surge
NOVEMBER 15, 2023
In 1998, I began my journey as an elementary teacher under the tutelage of my aunt and revered educator, Marva N. My mother was also a teacher, so I saw firsthand what it meant to be a passionate educator who is deeply committed to students. Their commitment and passion for teaching were the reasons why I chose this profession.
The Hechinger Report
SEPTEMBER 16, 2018
A recent Brookings Institution report notes that students regularly discuss civics issues in class but have few opportunities for community engagement and participation in our democracy. In my junior year of high school, we explored educational inequity in South Carolina. The experience was transformational for me.
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ED Surge
MAY 5, 2023
And in a survey administered by the National Education Association in 2022, 55 percent of teachers and support professionals who responded indicated they are thinking about leaving the profession earlier than they had planned. As a veteran educator with over 20 years in the classroom, I’ve seen the consequences of teacher turnover.
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The Hechinger Report
MARCH 1, 2020
Liberal arts education has two problems. Second, the public is skeptical of the value of a liberal arts education. Our collective goal instead can be to create more — and more affordable — educational opportunities across the postsecondary sector that offer access to the elements above. Start with a definition.
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The Hechinger Report
DECEMBER 18, 2020
“Of course it’s important that Penn at least recognizes the profound challenges that the School District of Philadelphia faces with things like lead poisoning and asbestos,” Campano, a professor at Penn’s Graduate School of Education, said. They suggest paying it into an education equity fund managed by the city council.
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Digital Promise
JUNE 23, 2021
Department of Education, there are signs that the disruptions from COVID-19 may be exacerbating long-standing disability-based disparities in academic achievement. Essentially, every student should have a personalized learning plan which will help to enrich family and community engagement.
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Digital Promise
JANUARY 8, 2019
Most Americans agree that education is a national priority. public education system falls in the middle of international quality rankings. But let’s be clear: the problem with education in America is not lack of excellence. Education researchers and neuroscientists are learning more about how people learn.
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APRIL 2, 2024
election presents educators across the United States with the opportunity to help their students engage in the democratic system. Why is it essential to teach democratic citizenship and civic engagement? What concrete steps can higher educators use to connect students to the U.S. The 2024 U.S. Elizabeth A.
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