ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

I became inundated with demanding and unrealistic expectations and realized that one of the key ingredients to supporting my students was supportive leadership, and we didn't have that at my school. By the end of my fifth year of teaching, though, that excitement had changed.

Community Engagement 103

Community Engagement Leadership Teaching Education 103

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

Public School 126

Public School Community Engagement Leadership Research 126

Digital Promise

MAY 14, 2019

Schools are often a focal point for community involvement: families send children to school, where they’ll learn many of the skills they need to become happy, healthy, successful members of society. That means the majority of the work involved in breaking down barriers to community engagement in schools often falls to educators.

Community Engagement 98

Community Engagement Public School High School Leadership 98

ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The silence from colleagues and school leadership was particularly invalidating. If we as teachers are consistently feeling like our identities are not honored, imagine how our students must feel in these spaces. These responses—and lack of responses—were deeply troubling to many Asian American educators.

Ancestry 130

Ancestry K-12 Education Geography 130

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 6, 2017

Using technology, Jeremiah has taught himself how to grow and feed his passions: music, art, fashion, business development, and community leadership. After school, Jeremiah learns as much as possible on how to create, manage, and share positive messages to his community.

Middle School 183

Middle School Community Engagement High School Leadership 183

Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Essentially, every student should have a personalized learning plan which will help to enrich family and community engagement. Leigh Bozard, Director of Special Projects, SELF (Special Education Leadership Fellowship). Read blogs on other roundtables hosted by Digital Promise, SETDA, and CoSN: SETDA: Equity of Access.

Charter School 86

Charter School Educational Technology Professional Development Community Engagement 86

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2020

It aims to cultivate attributes — empathy is one — associated with leadership and civic responsibility. In addition to field-specific knowledge in, for example, computer science or history, sound liberal arts education delivers the development of transferable skills, such as “critical thinking.”

Civics 77

Civics Critical Thinking Community Engagement Leadership 77

ED Surge

AUGUST 30, 2023

What started as a daunting task became a mission to reignite the passion and engagement of our students while strengthening our local community. Of course, things will never be what they once were, but we are building a better school and community – more importantly, we are building leaders.

Community Engagement 79

Community Engagement Advocacy Cultures Middle School 79

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

It truly takes a village: Our approach needed to go even deeper on parental and community engagement. So, we have brought in volunteers from community partners in our neighborhoods to work with students and families on reading. Those are important, but they alone can’t solve this stubborn issue.

Charter School 110

Charter School Professional Development Library Elementary School 110

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

That is, why do people engage and why do they push away? It's gone in a bunch of different directions, looking at leadership, looking at the connection between work and health, looking at compassion, looking at how we define, measure and understand engagement. Employee engagement is just that applied to the workplace.

Cultures 112

Cultures Education Humanities Psychology 112

Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

Some start with pilots to show proof points, and others begin with community engagement to generate support. Leadership Competencies for Engaged Learners. Maker Learning and School Leadership. Is there a right way to approach CBE?

EdTech 71

EdTech K-12 Middle School Leadership 71

Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

candidate in the higher educational leadership program at Georgia Southern University. STC looked to its surrounding community, reaching out to academic researchers, community leaders, and local employers to see what skills were needed so students could sustain employment. Stubbs holds an M.B.A.,

Pedagogy 92

Pedagogy Community Engagement Leadership Educational Technology 92

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Dave Miller, director of community engagement at the Goldring/Woldenburg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, says peer mediation helps many Jackson middle- and high-school students solve their problems and avoid violence. program is a way of giving back to the community. Photo: Imani Khayyam. ‘Repair the World’.

Middle School 53

Middle School Community Engagement Leadership High School 53

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Some school districts, local governments and nonprofit groups across the country have galvanized this youth activism by giving students opportunities to participate in leadership roles and democracy in ways that go beyond civics classes and student government.

Civics 139

Civics Civic Engagement Government High School 139

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2018

The digital world allows all educators to become the storyteller-in-chief, something that I first discussed in detail in Digital Leadership years ago. A commitment to instructional leadership helped pave the way to improving learning outcomes across the school.

Artifacts 377

Artifacts Leadership Cultures Community Engagement 377

Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

Gaps also exist between high-performing and low-performing public schools based on differences in access to funding and resources, community engagement and commitment, and the ability and willingness of district and school leaders to embrace innovation and try new strategies.

Primary Sources 127

Primary Sources Library K-12 Geography 127

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2017

I had just finished back-to-back projects that resulted in Digital Leadership and Uncommon Learning, which took up a great deal of my time. We scratched the surface in 2013 as I worked with her to include a chapter on branding in Digital Leadership, which later came out early in 2014. However, there was more to this story.

Leadership 212

Leadership Cultures Community Engagement History 212

The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Still, the network dispatches experts on finance, community engagement, student experience, curriculum and professional development. From there, he went on to the University of New Mexico and now works for an Albuquerque nonprofit that includes land-based and outdoor education in civic leadership programs for young people.

Charter School 107

Charter School Heritage K-12 Education 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2022

Some community school proponents say that our current predominant school design is akin to a traditional telephone: a simple two-way system of delivery wherein teachers teach and students learn. Community schools are more like smartphones. Ultimately, they help kids succeed in school and beyond.

Tradition 99

Tradition Community Engagement Leadership Education Policy 99

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2019

Brian Beabout, an associate professor of educational leadership at the University of New Orleans, said there needs to be a balance between this kind of activism and citywide needs. The best interests of public school kids in the city won’t be served by neighborhood community engagement if it’s left unchecked.”.

Charter School 71

Charter School Elementary School Political Science Public School 71

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

His time in elementary school preceded both Johnson’s leadership at Collins Elementary and Duty’s in the district. In the end, a leadership change paved the way to victory in Holmes County. Damion is built like a football lineman and speaks softly, with a warm glimmer in his eye and a lift at the corner of his lips.

Elementary School 143

Elementary School Government Human Rights Public School 143