A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

Among these resources stands the Innovative Practices Assessment (IPA), which was created to fill a void in moving from ideas and innovative practices to results that improve the learning culture. The IPA establishes the framework for educators and administrators, facilitating an innovative lens to underpin individualized professional growth.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Let me begin by saying that I was absolutely honored that various members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) and the greater educational community reached out to me to address administrators looking to embrace social media, plan an educational technology conference at my school, and discuss leadership in the digital age.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

This day, however, was not really much different than any other day at NMHS as we have made a commitment to integrate digital learning into school culture for some time now. The QR Codes contained various artists’ work and clue information. Perna’s US History I class created Wordles to review information studied prior to their midterm.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Others are applied more broadly, like mentorship programs or culturally responsive curriculum. Culture Change When Cole-Ochoa was assigned to the junior high campus more than two years ago, it was with the directive to turn around its academic performance. I always think of it as Maslow's. “Our

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ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

While thoughtful assessment design and implementation are necessary for student success, building a strong assessment culture in schools is often overlooked but equally important. ISTE is collaborating with the National Center for the Improvement of Educational Assessment (NCIEA) to explore the characteristics of a healthy assessment culture.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance. Though some argue that mathematics is culturally independent, I can say from experience that it is anything but.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2012

Student and staff information was uploaded from our information management system (PowerSchool) in a seamless fashion. We began using ClassLink late in the spring, but are extremely excited about the promise that this solution holds to enhance the teaching and learning culture of our school through BYOD.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? Taking Up and Taking Back As an educator, I want to adopt a take-back mindset that honors the Indigenous educators and historians who came before me.

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Edthena

MAY 19, 2022

School leaders often don’t have or are not gathering the information needed to paint an accurate picture of how their school is performing. That necessary information must be rooted in school and classroom data. Defining the indicators of success in education for students is tightly linked with how to measure achievement.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

There were few role models who looked like me outside of my family, and the only cultural representations I saw were insulting stereotypes that mocked Indian culture. She told me that although he enjoyed the new school, it was a culture shock from his previous school. Now, I’m not so sure.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

I blog as a means to reflect on my work as an educational leader and to open up my ideas to elicit constructive feedback from a global collection of exemplary educators. The answer is simple, to become better in order to improve the teaching and learning culture at my school. If I find value in the information, I retweet it.

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ED Surge

APRIL 29, 2022

As workplaces, schools can intentionally structure systems and provide resources that decrease some of these barriers, such as addressing the scarcity of dedicated services and supporting educators through convoluted insurance hurdles that make it even harder to seek professional help.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 7, 2023

And the sudden influx of migrants has made support for multilingual learners even more vital, says Manny Algarin, a senior educational consultant for Teaching Matters. As they consider qualitative information about students’ feelings, those at Teaching Matters also pay close attention to quantitative information.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2022

One of the thoughts that burrows its way into my mind and simply won’t let go is exactly how to help my students (and, for that matter, everyone I know) navigate the flood of information, dodge the misinformation and find their way to the truth. Plenty of adults also work hard to determine what is legitimate information and what’s bunk.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

She notes that the partnership aims to avoid “parachuting,” the phenomenon when large research institutions extract information from communities that have fewer resources or fail to tap into local expertise. As we exchange information, that's also going both ways, right. It's an opportunity for us.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

That’s according to a new study by the News Literacy Project, which also found that teens struggle with identifying false information online. This comes at a time when media literacy education isn’t available to most students, the report finds, and their ability to distinguish between objective and biased information sources is weak.

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Digital Promise

MAY 19, 2021

Thank you for your work on the front lines to ensure our children and youth’s health and education were sustained throughout this difficult year. As Digital Promise team members who have researched and supported teachers’ use of educational technology, we want to recognize and celebrate your successes.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

As a result, orientations are required to cover much more information now than even a few years ago, says Jenny Osborn, associate director of the first year experience at The Ohio State University. The goal, Murray adds, is to spread information out over time, while also encouraging students to connect with one another. “We

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ED Surge

MAY 10, 2022

One of the challenges is that the culture of school can be challenging for students of color, and therefore a demotivating factor for students to want to go into teaching. There were a number of ideas around how to build that culture. I want to be a co-designer of the culture.” Yes, absolutely.

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ED Surge

JUNE 17, 2024

In his essay , “Five Things We Need to Know About Technological Change,” Neil Postman, an educator and social critic, wrote “every technology has a prejudice,” adding that “it predisposes us to favor and value certain perspectives and accomplishments.” The telegraphic person values speed, not introspection.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

When her children moved to the next grade, we met with their new teachers to share background information to build continuity of support. This includes the academic achievement commonly referenced by “learning loss,” but reaches beyond it to institutional knowledge and school culture. That is not easily replaced.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

For the technically inclined, pivoting to a job in the education technology industry seems like a natural fit. Hillary Robbins, who spent 10 years as an elementary and middle school teacher in Texas, says she scoured the internet for information on making the jump to edtech before making any moves.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Social-Emotional Learning as Part of Whole Child Learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2023

At the beginning of this school year, I facilitated a professional development (PD) session with middle school teachers about how to use education technology tools for deeper learning.

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ED Surge

JULY 4, 2023

Today, he’s an assistant professor in learning sciences and STEM education at Drexel University’s School of Education, and he leads the university’s Informal Learning Linking Engineering Science and Technology ( ILLEST Lab ). How has that informed your thinking?No. So this is a team thing.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2024

Now all of a sudden, without asking teachers to give up their weekends to grade,” he says, “we can give all that information to the student and teacher within seconds.” But Cote saw that now an AI chatbot can be trained on the same rubric to instantly give the same kind of feedback.

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ED Surge

MARCH 20, 2024

Earlier that day, I received an email from our district informing me that my school had the lowest completion average on our beginning of year reading exam. He’s not really about equity work, look at the culture he’s created. I had a lot on my mind and in retrospect, I was really on edge. I was starting to believe these things.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

For each, there's an overview of the model, along with notes about the model's design, existing supports for schools looking to implement the model and why Transcend considers it to be innovative, along with other information. High-Dose Tutoring “Schools, typically, in this country, don't have enough of an innovation culture.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2022

It is imperative that we try to understand their cultural experiences by engaging them openly, and trying to understand their way of life. Additionally, I’ve analyzed personnel data from the Florida Department of Education, and reviewed qualification and eligibility requirements for administrative job vacancies.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Some of these bonds have grown into deep friendships, and others have turned into formal or informal mentorships. In contrast, during periods when I felt isolated from other educators, I considered leaving the school or even the profession altogether. Stephen, a Black dance educator who had grown up in Inglewood.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

This article unveils prominent themes that were uncovered during our time together along with implications and further considerations for research regarding Black women’s experiences and trauma-informed leadership in the classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 16, 2024

Turner, who is a professor of management and director of the Communication, Culture and Technology program, outlined her framework for understanding this new attention landscape in her book, “ Being Present: Commanding Attention at Work (and at Home) by Managing Your Social Presence. You're always competing. And learning is hard.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

I live for these histories because they are grounded in formal and informal learning communities, whether in schools, public workshops or even my family home where I first saw the value of Black history. We discussed how they felt about Rivera’s racist statements and how Rivera’s opinions have informed White-centered histories.

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ED Surge

JUNE 10, 2024

We knew Minecraft Education was already supporting our instructional priorities, including SEL, literacy and numeracy, but we wanted to build a program that engaged all students in real-world problem-solving with computer science. Celebrate and showcase students’ achievements and learning outcomes.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In many schools, including ours, there has been a shift of how student behaviors are regulated—moving away from rules-based standards to ones driven by a set of values determined by the desired climate and culture of each school. This concept of the “ Cultural Iceberg ” was introduced in 1976 by Edward T.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It fosters critical thinking, problem-solving skills and a deeper understanding of mathematical principles by placing students as active learners rather than passive recipients of information. Steffe’s work on the importance of students constructing their own mathematical understanding rather than passively receiving information.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2024

Of course there are many factors, but in this same period of time there have been a growing number of messages in popular culture giving highly skeptical views of college. By 2019 that had fallen to just 41 percent. So what is happening here?

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