A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

Instead of enabling the status quo to dictate the learning culture of a school, critical reflection is employed to disrupt professional practice in order to grow and improve. Leaders who choose to go against the flow ask these critical questions about their school culture: How well are we meeting the needs of today’s learner?

Leadership 357

Leadership Professional Development Cultures Educational Technology 357

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

He describes the shift from a two-year college to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, which has about 20,000 students, as one of culture shock. “It And this year, at the age of 36, he's one of 13 percent of the nation's college students who transferred institutions in fall of 2023.

Tradition 78

Tradition High School Cultures Research 78

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I entered the classroom through an alternative certification program , which meant I hadn’t received the same level of preparation as teachers who came through traditional teacher training routes. At KIPP Vida, I found a community of educators who believed in the potential of every student, and this environment was instrumental in my growth.

Classroom Management 91

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. Cross-posted at teach.com.

Education 384

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2015

This places them in the most important role to usher in and sustain meaningful change in the classroom that will ultimately shape school culture for the better. Teachers must reach out and engage parents and utilize them as key players in their child’s education. There are also inherent issues with education traditions.

Pedagogy 265

Pedagogy Classroom Management Educational Technology Tradition 265

A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 3, 2018

As a supplement to traditional discussion strategies technology can serve as a catalyst to increase engagement by getting more learners actively involved during lessons. Our results indicate that peer discussion enhances understanding, even when none of the students in a discussion group originally knows the right answer.

Pedagogy 413

Pedagogy Tradition Research Humanities 413

ED Surge

JUNE 12, 2024

Engaging Black boys effectively in conversations about emotional wellness requires a deep understanding of their unique experiences and cultural backgrounds. Culturally relevant approaches are essential in supporting their emotional development and fostering a sense of belonging.

Advocacy 106

Advocacy Cultures Tradition High School 106

ED Surge

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Johnsrud In this sense, traditional education has often taught students to swim in a controlled pool. Traditionally, education has focused on teaching students to perform specific tasks.

Advocacy 102

Advocacy Project-Based Learning Tradition Economics 102

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In today’s system, there are limited opportunities for students’ interests, experiences, hopes, cultures and perspectives to be a part of their education. The current K-12 education system often minimizes identities and creates a homogeneous group of learners with identical needs and desires.

K-12 105

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ED Surge

JULY 25, 2022

Yet, many of the traditional strategies employed, while absolutely essential to professional growth, can be cumbersome and disruptive for teachers, their students and even those responsible for offering support. “Now, Improved methods of new teacher support Providing adequate support for new teachers has long been a top priority for schools.

K-12 114

K-12 Classroom Management Professional Development Elementary School 114

Edthena

DECEMBER 27, 2023

This innovative approach to professional learning is changing how educators refine their skills and teaching practices. Unlike traditional coaching, which often relies on external feedback, AI coaching provides a unique, introspective avenue for professional growth.

Teaching 52

Teaching Professional Development Educational Technology Tradition 52

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Its deal with Arizona’s Global Campus was a little different than the typical OPM agreement, though it did happen under the same policy used to cover traditional OPMs , says Stephanie Hall, a senior fellow at the Century Foundation. Zovio’s situation is in part unique. Still, the sale may hold lessons for the market.

EdTech 105

EdTech Leadership Tutoring Educational Technology 105

ED Surge

MAY 1, 2024

At that moment, it dawned on me that traditional SEL approaches might not suffice for students entrenched in adversity, necessitating a more nuanced and culturally sensitive framework to effectively meet their emotional needs. We tried that, and it hasn’t worked.”

Professional Development 104

Professional Development Elementary School Cultures Tradition 104

ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

Martha Bongiorno, a school library and instructional technology lead at Fulton County Schools in Georgia, describes how creativity is sometimes the “dessert” content that is only offered to students who mastered the main course. Creativity needs to be embedded in everything we do with students; it needs to be part of the school culture.

Library 127

Library Tradition Professional Development Cultures 127

ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Mimi Ito is a cultural anthropologist and learning scientist at UC Irvine. She’s been sharing her observations with EdSurge readers for nearly a decade now, reflecting on young people’s interest-driven and playful engagements as they relate to education. There's so much power in that. I think it’s underappreciated and underrecognized.

Civics 121

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

They all pushed for a more expansive understanding of Black humanity by embracing their unique identities and expressing their love for Black culture. Today, I have better language for talking about Black people, traditions and culture in a way that develops a deeper understanding of what it means to be fully human.

History 105

History Teaching Artifacts K-12 105

ED Surge

JANUARY 13, 2022

Generally rooted in place-based knowledge, oral traditions and kinship, Indigenous Knowledge Systems reflect the unique experiences of each community, while sharing common traits. ótiyapi was at the center of our knowledge, our culture and our way of life as Lakota people. ótiyapi and the values embedded within that language.

Teaching 144

Teaching Education Cultures Tradition 144

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2022

I didn't have any background in games and learning, but I did have a background in curriculum design, school design and educational technology. What’s preventing game-based education from seeing the kind of success that game-based entertainment has enjoyed for years? So, I joined her team.

Charter School 111

Charter School Educational Technology Critical Thinking Tradition 111

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Instead of traditional direct instruction, PBL in math encourages students to explore, discuss and understand mathematical concepts by solving problems collaboratively. You may have heard a lot about PBL in recent years. It’s an instructional approach where students learn by actively engaging in real-world, meaningful problems.

Education 117

Education Pedagogy Critical Thinking Middle School 117

ED Surge

MAY 13, 2024

Thomas Smith Boren agrees that early exposure could be a critical route for getting more people into educator preparation programs and, ultimately, classrooms. Members of Gen Z also want to be a part of work that is collaborative, which exists in pockets of the profession but is “not a strong tradition in teaching,” Smith says.

Teaching 140

Teaching Tradition High School Research 140

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. Encouraging teachers to collaborate, coach and mentor others can also improve climate, culture and retention.

Social Justice 145

Social Justice Leadership Professional Development Cultures 145

A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. How did New Milford become a technology-rich school where potential and promise is emphasized as opposed to problems, challenges, and excuses?

Professional Development 265

Professional Development Pedagogy Cultures Educational Technology 265

A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. Forming partnerships are an extremely important aspect of educational leadership. So why is this a big deal?

Professional Development 264

Professional Development EdTech Educational Technology Leadership 264

ED Surge

DECEMBER 20, 2023

A teacher at heart who values community, I often reflect on my past experiences with students and the ways we explored, celebrated and protected our cultural identity. While there are opportunities to do this within the academic curriculum, my Black students’ cultural identity is often reflected in how they wear and style their hair.

K-12 92

K-12 Cultures Government Tradition 92

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?

Economics 118

Economics Tradition Humanities Cultures 118

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.

Project-Based Learning 83

Project-Based Learning Pedagogy K-12 Research Skills 83

ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

Another thing is that because there's this visual element as well as storytelling through the words and dialogue, I feel it's such a beautiful way to share the emotional context—the cultural context—and to also be playful with the ways that these ideas are communicated. A culture shift?

Pedagogy 111

Pedagogy Cultures Tradition Research 111

ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

. — McGrath Another key strategy involves adopting a multi-layered approach to workforce feedback , which challenges the traditional top-down model. This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly.

Government 120

Government Humanities Cultures Leadership 120

ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Another program brings students and families to campus for a day to learn about university traditions and how to get involved on campus. That's been huge in building that culture for our student leaders and then hopefully communicating that to our whole incoming student population.”

Leadership 130

Leadership Cultures Tradition High School 130

ED Surge

MARCH 13, 2024

Other essays published by fellows examine pressing themes related to the intersection of teaching, learning and identity including embracing identity , leading with joy , teaching through grief , feeling undervalued in the profession and rethinking classroom culture.

Education 83

Education Elementary School EdTech Geography 83

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.”

Research 126

Research Cultures Middle School Teaching 126

ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. UC Santa Cruz sees a lot of underrepresented students disproportionately drip out of that leaky pipeline, Weissman says. The solution?

Social Science 145

Social Science Tradition High School Economics 145

ED Surge

JULY 28, 2023

As a Black woman who started my career working closely with engineers and then moved on to lead diversity and inclusion efforts at a major telecommunications corporation, I’ve personally experienced feeling out of place because my background differed from that of my colleagues and didn’t fit into a traditional box.

K-12 92

K-12 Pedagogy Cultures Economics 92

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

But for Fiske, of Mysa, the popularity of alternatives to public school actually raises a concern: She fears that her approach to microschooling could be eclipsed by politics and cultural war clashes. While popular in some conservative circles, classical learning isn’t traditionally a byword for culture war politics.

Public School 115

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Embracing the role of technology in education and successfully integrating it into daily instruction. We have also seen a movement to extending learning outside of the traditional day through the use of blogs and Google Sites, something that I hope more teachers will experiment with in 2011.

Education 192

Education Tradition Leadership Cultures 192

ED Surge

MAY 20, 2024

Healing affinity spaces for Black women teachers are necessary for us to not only honor our ancestors but also honor ourselves and carry on this important tradition of education and learning. Researchers have connected the knowledge and values of Black feminism with culturally congruent mental health resources for Black women.

Education 115

Education Heritage Tradition Teaching 115

ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Solving deep-seated equity challenges in education is complex for a myriad of reasons. One key and solvable challenge is for solutions to be informed by the cultural and contextual expertise of the communities in which they’re implemented.

EdTech 81

EdTech Charter School Cultures Pedagogy 81