A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 6, 2019

Most educators desire meaningful feedback that can be used as a catalyst for growth. Virtually no educator wants to have suggestions dictated to him or her. A recent coaching visit with Corinth Elementary School placed me in a position to model all of the above. used as a basis for improvement.

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JULY 14, 2019

I took multiple semesters of musical technique, history and theory as well as music education methods. I first was assigned to an elementary school in a middle-class suburb of Philadelphia. Here’s what is missing in music education: cultural and social relevance. Incredibly traditional.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2019

But at the summer camp these students are attending, Native teachers and leaders are leveraging culture-based activities like double ball to engage students more deeply in exploring their Native identities and wellness goals. For example, a school district in Montana is being investigated by the U.S.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

Considering the ongoing traumatic upheaval on school communities in recent years, and the unrelenting pressure on educators to work under difficult, uncertain and constantly vacillating circumstances, it is not a matter of if educators will experience the corrosive effects of prolonged and extreme stress, but rather when.

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Thrive in Grade Five

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Something I’ve noticed is that most states have standards requiring students to learn about Native Americans, both pre-contact cultures and modern citizens. Please keep in mind that each cultural group has varying preferences in regard to language and treatment but there are some universal rules. Do not single out Native children.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2024

But Futernick — a longtime educator who has served as an elementary school teacher, a teacher educator and a leader of a national school turnaround center — aims to keep the dialogues as civil and productive as possible. I became distressed about these so-called ‘culture wars’ erupting all over the place.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2017

In this file photo, a student reads in a Mississippi elementary school. In 2010, a year after Andrea Pastchal-Smith became principal of West Elementary School, formerly named West Oktibbeha County Elementary, the struggling school earned an “Academic Watch” rating from the state. Higher Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

This story about eighth grade algebra was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. It was fourth-period Basic Algebra 8 class on a gray October morning at Braham Area High School. Department of Education spokesperson Alberto Betancourt.)

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

National pride in America is at a record low, coinciding with desperately low scores on the nations civics report card from the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP). Strengthening civic education nationally requires ongoing work, state-by-state. Civics is a full-year high school course in only seven states.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Given the deliberate vagueness of the instruction, Southern school authorities delayed compliance. There had been only one or two fourth grade teachers at Reid, while at Belmont Elementary School there had been four. 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 10, 2010

Little did I know that I would be leaving with a wealth of information that could have the potential to radically transform the learning culture at New Milford High School. I also was unprepared for the amount of corn I would see virtually every minute of my journey through a state that really gets it from an educational standpoint.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. Soft skills help prepare students to be critical thinkers and problem solvers who can succeed in higher education, future careers, and adult life.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2017

It was at this time that I decided to take a calculated risk and attempt to help other schools scale their digital and innovative change efforts. As I transitioned from principal to Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) my work began to take me all over the country and the world.

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TeachThought

APRIL 4, 2024

Research: The Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Learning contributed by Michael Mirra Abstract Diversity has been at the forefront of educational discussions over the last few years. They prefer either someone they previously deemed accurate or someone who shares their cultural background (Corriveau & Kurkul, 2016).

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

Arts education belongs in every student’s curriculum — and not just because the arts can improve skills in other content areas. Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. But that hasn’t always been the case for me.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Since President Obama’s ConnectED announcement in 2013 in Mooresville, NC , there has been more than $10 billion committed as part of the five-year program to transform American education. We want to celebrate the extraordinary collaborations between educators and the private sector that have occurred because of ConnectED.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

My father was an elementary school principal at Alpha Public School and Hatchery Hill School for a total of 30 years. This lesson taught me to always put my students first and to create a school culture that did the same. Everything we do in education is for our students.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

however, with insufficient and lagging data from schools, this research has its limitations. language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. This isn’t surprising, given that many public school students in the U.S. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2021

I mean that college-educated adults often balk at estimating a 20 percent tip without a calculator. As many educators have said to me with a rueful laugh, it would not be acceptable at a restaurant to say that you weren’t really a “reading person,” and could someone please read the menu for you.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 28, 2019

Each school year, educators welcome a new group of students into their classrooms. Every student is a unique learner, and educators must continuously demonstrate new skills to meet the needs of all learners. Micro-credentials recognize educators who are meeting the complex, real-time demands of today’s classrooms.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Tania Figueroa, a fourth-grade teacher at Patrick Henry Elementary School in Chicago. When I was a student, as the child of Mexican immigrants, I felt pressure to leave my own stories and experiences outside to fit into my classrooms’ cultures. Educators and students all bring their own stories and experiences to the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

and Rosa Parks at her Katy, Texas, elementary school in the Houston area. Ankita Ajith is one of four college-age friends who are petitioning the Texas State Board of Education to create an antiracist American history curriculum. And school districts are working to expand their curricula on race.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

Those who were enrolled in — or considering enrolling in — American University’s School of Education said they wanted more classroom experience, more opportunities to practice their craft before being released to do it alone every day to a room full of kids. Wish granted. They’re more comfortable in the classroom, more familiar.”

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

For superintendents in the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools , this is an opportunity to examine and reimagine their education systems under new constraints. The Equity Gap and Digital Divide Creates a Disconnect for School Districts. We’re good at this kind of stuff in education,” he said. “I’ve

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 29, 2017

The Washington High School (WHS) Education Professions program is dedicated to preparing young people who can successfully navigate college life and enter the teaching profession. Part of the Educators Rising national network, this program is one of more than 2,000 similar high school teacher preparation programs across the country.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Fordham Institute found that elementary school students who studied more social studies, including geography, history and civics, scored higher on fifth grade reading tests. Education journalist Emily Hanford has argued that the failure to teach phonics in the early elementary years may be the problem.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. With each move, she had to learn a new language and adjust to a different culture. There was a shift in culture and in school. I have been in California ever since.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

We are two American public-school dads who just returned from a fact-finding trip through Finland. We wanted to see what the United States could learn from an education system that consistently receives top marks from UNICEF , the OECD and the World Economic Forum. Singapore has launched a series of Finnish-style school reforms.

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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. The array of DOE options for students with special needs — separate schools, in-classroom aides and therapies — all risk exposing immunocompromised kids to infection. Credit: Kavitha Rajagopalan. During a pandemic.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

Board of Education, rejecting legal racial segregation of public schools. The decision appeared to pave the way for equal educational opportunities for every child and integrated classrooms where students from all backgrounds could prepare to thrive in their communities, careers and lives. The political landscape is shifting.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

The education profession is both of those. Fourlis and others also see team teaching as a way to set their schools apart as a new universal voucher program in Arizona goes into effect, potentially drawing more families and teachers away to private schools. It is inflexible, and it is isolating.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. In Maggie Waldner’s elementary school classroom in downtown Denver, math lessons rarely focus on rote memorization.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 31, 2023

BOSTON — After María Mejía’s son was diagnosed with autism spectrum disorder in preschool, the question of where he should go to kindergarten focused entirely on his special education needs. They didn’t tell me there was a bilingual school,” Mejía said in Spanish, “only a school that would take a child with an IEP.”

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ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

Throughout this academic year, I facilitated a training session on social-emotional learning (SEL) strategies for educators at a high-needs elementary school. This disconnect shows the urgent need for SEL initiatives to not only be culturally responsive but also adaptive to the diverse realities of our students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2022

In a simulation exercise across nearly 100 large school districts, the academics were able to redraw elementary school boundaries to reduce racial segregation by 12 percent while cutting almost one minute off of students’ average commuting time. Gillani’s tool directly redraws school boundaries based on children’s races.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

More than 90 percent of Code Next’s latest cohort of high school graduates advanced to higher education, the vast majority in STEM fields, according to a Code Next survey. It’s significant progress toward the goal of connecting more young people with educational and career opportunities in technology. “We

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