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Sensible Learning

A Principal's Reflections

The Holocaust Study Tour blog created by a New Milford High School teacher and her students who travel abroad to Europe on an annual Holocaust Study Tour provides is a great example. School administrators can use blogs as a powerful public relations tool in lieu of traditional newsletters and email blasts. What about you?

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Making Progress

A Principal's Reflections

This Thursday (5/19) the NJ School Boards Association will be visiting New Milford High School to host a live event called Learn@Lunch: Technology as an Engagement Tool. Here is a description: Across New Jersey, schools are focused on 21st Century Learning and integrating technology in the classroom.

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Getting to Know Celly

A Principal's Reflections

As we continue to move further to enhance our Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative at New Milford High School we are continuing to look for cost-effective resources to support this endeavor. Establish an interactive wall during class, assembly, or movie to increase engagement. One such resource is Celly.

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Today’s Innovations are Tomorrow’s Practices: Adapting Learning to Meet Students

Digital Promise

In partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), we hosted a roundtable with district and organizational leaders to understand how students with learning differences were supported during remote learning necessitated by the pandemic, and to imagine the future.

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Inviting Community College Students to See Themselves as University Researchers

ED Surge

Ruiz, who had enrolled at Oxnard College after high school because of its free tuition program, says that transferring to UCLA has been a positive experience so far. She hopes to eventually earn a master’s degree and work at a nonprofit in her community. It got me out of my shell,” Ruiz says.

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How transparent is school data when parents can’t find it or understand it?

The Hechinger Report

When Mosi Zuberi learned that his 18-year-old son, Kaja, might not graduate from McClymonds High School in Oakland, he anguished over his parenting missteps, wondering where he had gone wrong. In Detroit, Shoniqua Kemp, a low-income single parent, has struggled to stay informed about her children’s education.

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Adolescents Need More Proactive, Preventative Mental Health Supports in School

ED Surge

Many educators at the elementary level understand that social-emotional learning and development is baked into the job description — that part of their responsibility as educators is to support learners’ ability to identify, express and manage their emotions in healthy ways. In part, that’s due to logistical challenges.