A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. The issue of giving up control seems to always raise the fear level, even amongst many of the best teachers, as schools have been rooted in structures to maintain it at all costs.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 19, 2020

In a previous post , I recommended that grading kids should be avoided as many have yet to complete one assignment since schools closed, and there are equity issues at a scale most have never seen before. As remote learning is a new venture for most, it is crucial to ensure that sound instructional techniques and pedagogy are embraced.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

The dynamism of the world, driven by scientific discoveries, technological innovations, and cultural shifts, ensures that there is always room for improvement. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

The Black Students Association is composed of Black high school students at Labs High School. In partnership with their advisors, I had some of these Black high school students visit my first-graders. They introduced themselves, played games, colored and connected over hairstyles.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

Growing up as a child I played numerous sports recreationally and in high school. Upon entering high school I was not the best athlete by any means, but football was one sport where I excelled more than others, and this led to some time playing in college.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2023

It can also be stated emphatically that I was not looking to leave New Milford High School or was forced out. Currently, my work with schools assists them with Tier 1 instruction, personalization, school culture, leadership (digital, pedagogical, sustainable change), using data, branding, and the purposeful use of technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

As we continue to advance in the digital age schools and districts are beginning to re-think pedagogy and learning environments by instituting either 1:1 device programs or Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiatives. The general case I make for 1:1 programs above is compelling, but is it the best option for our students today?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2011

With new ideas and strategies in hand, I am now working collaboratively with my staff to transform the teaching and learning culture of my school. Through a combination of sound pedagogy and effective technology integration, student engagement is on this rise. As my network has grown, so has my growth as an educational leader.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

As a writer, my Indigenous culture shows up in my poetry. At first, I was convinced I found a pedagogy ingrained with Indigenous wisdom that could further decolonize my teaching. In doing so, it makes me wonder, what else have we unknowingly appropriated from Indigenous culture? The short answer: it starts with us.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 29, 2017

When I reflect upon what was accomplished during my time leading New Milford High School I think many observers would consider my leadership a success based on what we all accomplished together. Instead of a focus on learn to do, schools need to shift their practices and create a culture where students do to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2025

Hirsch, a professor emeritus of education and humanities at the University of Virginia, argues that democracy benefits when the citizenry shares a body of knowledge and history, which he calls cultural literacy. Related: Our free weekly newsletter alerts you to what research says about schools and classrooms.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

As a math educator at the high school and middle school levels, I lived for the moments when students’ furrowed brows ever-so-slightly began to unfold and smiles emerged. Many of those luminations surfaced because the lessons my students engaged with were designed to promote student inquiry and prioritize cultural relevance.

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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?

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Pedagogy has been at the forefront of my thinking and work as of late. As Tom Murray and I highlighted in Learning Transformed , this research has been taken to heart by schools across the world as they have transformed learning while improving results in the process. Ideas shouldn't just seem right.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 7, 2016

It will ensure that your space is vibrant and relevant, as well as one that is sustainable into the future. “ – Laura Fleming , author of Worlds of Making When we created our makerspace at New Milford High School many years ago we never fully realized the positive impact it would have on our learners. The makerspace was no different.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2019

For me, the push I needed came from Ken Royal, who, after hearing what we were doing at New Milford High School and then visiting, stated unequivocally that I had to share our story. The Pedagogy of Blended Learning Blended instruction is what the teacher does with technology. Without further ado, here are my top posts of 2019.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Yet, of 112 those tests, only 16 or 17 were large-scale, federally-mandated but state-specific standardized tests (Math and ELA, once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, plus possibly a science assessment.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

At May Road School in Auckland, students in Years 3 and 4, equivalent to second and third grade in the United States, work on fractions. Other schools have embraced culturally responsive mathematics instruction in efforts to boost the achievement of Mori and Pasifika students. Clair School in Dunedin, New Zealand.

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Active History Teacher

MARCH 15, 2023

After learning about Hexagonal Thinking from the Cult of Pedagogy , I have made some modifications to fit my US History classroom. My tips implementing hexagonal thinking: Identify the key concepts that need reviewing: Consider the history, culture, economics, and politics of a unit. Join The Active History Teacher Community!

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

This past Friday an exciting event took place at my high school due to the efforts of Colleen Tambuscio, who is a fantastic Holocaust teacher. Department of Education visited with a group of Polish educators to learn more about how our school teaches the Holocaust and genocide.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

As high school teachers, we often saw Black teenagers — mostly boys — who were simply bored with their lessons deemed incapable of high academic achievement, shunted off to remedial classes or special education and encouraged to be happy with merely making it to graduation. Following the landmark 1954 Brown v.

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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?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Many of Kaler-Jones’ students — most of them Black — weren’t taught about important Black figures or positive history lessons from a non-white perspective in school. When she discovered this, Kaler-Jones began weaving culturally responsive lesson plans into her dance classes. That initial entwining grew into a much larger project.

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Cult of Pedagogy

MAY 29, 2024

Nate combats this by consciously working to build — and maintain — a culture of respect in his classroom. Tier 6: Test Pulling Nate When I was in high school, I cheated on a social studies test. The post Not Just for Math: A Tiered System of Learning Supports for Any Subject first appeared on Cult of Pedagogy.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2019

Virginia Forcucci speaks to students in her 10th grade English class at Sussex Tech High School. On a recent Thursday morning, when most of their peers were busy prepping for the day, a dozen teachers and staff at Delaware’s Sussex Tech High School sat down to talk about race. Photo: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 16, 2019

teachers weren’t as well trained in math pedagogy and that American society didn’t value mathematical achievement as much as other countries. test takers are at the beginning of their high school sophomore year. has so much inequality inside each school is up for debate. The only country behind the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Even though I followed what top education leaders and reformers consider a formula for safety, I also created a culture of fear and intimidation. I did not inherit a school that functioned on its own, and there were times when student voices were not front and center. Later, I’d teach others to implement these practices.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 10, 2024

So teaching them how to do this well while they are in school is time well spent. The creators of the website-building platform Wix have created Wix Tomorrow, a free suite of resources designed to teach middle and high school students how to create their own websites. I offer the deepest discounts for these on Teachable.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

A curriculum expert who reviewed the pedagogy explained to me that the unit was “weak” and does not meet Common Core standards as the creator claimed. This first study certainly casts doubt on the content of these lessons in high school English. Such a lifesaver!” ” There’s just one problem.

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

And the latest national assessment scores in 4th and 8th grade were historically low , a troubling early sign that more students may get stuck when they encounter more advanced mathematics in high school and college, possibly deterring them from pursuing STEM studies. She’s found that teachers have high levels of math anxiety.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

“We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”. Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS).

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems. As these Harvard training sessions took place, the California State Board of Education finally approved a new framework that sets out to make math more culturally responsive and inquiry-based. The solution?

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Cult of Pedagogy

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. It was written in 2018 by Philadelphia high school English teacher Matthew Kay, and he based it on his experiences having these conversations with his own students.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Parents have always supported educators, but the pedagogy of these curriculum authors encourages educators to dismiss parents as hapless and unknowing while defending the righteousness of their work. Further, they throw educators under the bus by claiming that Hanford’s reporting reveals that educators are naively inadequate.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. The absence of elephants from middle and high school curricula limits intellectual representation for students.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Finnish students’ achievements have been dropping gradually for two decades, and the trend is reflected in national evaluations, said Jenna Hiltunen, a researcher in mathematical pedagogy at the University of Jyvaskyla, who was part of the team that implemented PISA in Finland. “I

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