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Why Government Teacher Amy Messick Ran For School Board

Teaching American History

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. By August 2024 she would complete her degree in the Master of Arts in American History and Government (MAHG ) program, giving her time for such an endeavor.

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Professional Learning School Leaders Need and Deserve

A Principal's Reflections

These forces can come in the form of mandates from the federal and state government or broad needs defined by the districts we work in. It is uncommon to leave PD sessions with applicable ideas and strategies that we can implement immediately to positively change school culture.

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A Time and Place For Buy-In

A Principal's Reflections

More often than not, this leadership tactic is put into play to get educators on board with specific mandates and directives that have been pushed down from either the state government or central office. Real change that is sustained does not come from buy-in.

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It's Not a Technology Issue

A Principal's Reflections

Over the summer I was working with a couple hundred school leaders on digital leadership. Students do this all the time when dictator-like policies and rules govern technology use. It is first and foremost a school culture issue, which falls on the shoulders of leaders. Image credit: [link] Case in point.

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New Zealand has a problem with mathematics. Can a new strategy make a difference for students?

The Hechinger Report

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 07

Dangerously Irrelevant

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We think that this book makes a unique contribution to what we know about leadership in deeper learning schools. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

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Hundreds of thousands of students are entitled to training and help finding jobs. They don’t get it

The Hechinger Report

For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools. New Jersey officials acknowledge that theres a problem.