A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

Our school leadership could then look at those results and respond: If lots of people chose the word noticed, for example, it would suggest that leadership was doing a good job of recognizing people’s contributions and concerns. It’s called Alpaca , and the woman I was talking to was Karen Borchert , Alpaca’s CEO.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. Students and parents see them immersed in the culture of the school. They know how to ask for accommodations at work.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Jenn David-Lang Kim Marshall Jenn David-Lang, meanwhile, has been doing a similar project since 2007, when she began publishing The Main Idea , a single, detailed monthly summary of an important education book to help education leaders connect to the most important ideas on leadership, teaching, and learning. It’s on the spot, right there.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership. Goal 2: Provide Practical Guidance and Space for Cross-Cultural Engagement I believe a key part of DEIB is building intercultural competence within an organization. Who gets to decide what books go into the library? they asked.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

The Learning Ninja award recognizes an administrator who expands the concept of the library and/or the role of the librarian or media specialist to harness the vast resources of the internet. “Last year was inspiring to hear these stories, and I can't wait to see what new examples we can celebrate this year.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Coaches also focus on building a culture of positive language during these games, saying things like “good job” and “nice try” instead of “you’re out” or more punitive terms. Encourage student leadership at recess: Playworks encourages older students, called “junior coaches,” to lead games with younger children.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. But I knew that for a fundamental transformation like this to take root, leadership was critical, so I led by example, modeling the kind of change I hoped to see among staff.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. 2] It was a cultural center for the black community, where dedicated teachers working with the white schools discarded textbooks cultivated black students futures.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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Edthena

MAY 21, 2024

The Coordinator of Professional Learning and Leadership for Keller ISD , Valerie Minor, shared her secrets for tackling this challenge at the Learning Forward Texas conference. For example, they could record a classroom tour video or watch a curated video via Video Library and reflect on it for points.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2019

They’re known as cultural proficiency seminars and attendance is mandatory. The move toward cultural proficiency, also known as culturally relevant education or culturally responsive teaching, has been gaining momentum in urban school districts throughout the country. Am I just always going to be wrong?”.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

They are connecting across cultural and national borders to promote global awareness and tolerance. school and library to the internet. In 2014 the FCC modernized the E-Rate program to make it more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their internet connection speeds.

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Edthena

MAY 13, 2022

This vision for high-quality teaching includes 6 core elements: being data-informed, collaborative, student-centered, culturally relevant, and differentiated, and having high expectations. Instructional coaches added teaching video clips to their Edthena Video Library. Quality Control.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2020

“The pessimistic view is that [students] are going to hate it and never want to do this again, because all they’re doing is using Zoom to reproduce everything that’s wrong with traditional passive, teacher-centered modes of teaching,” said Bill Cope, a professor of education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. With Covid, we’ve lost so many of our elders who are libraries of language and cultural information.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

For the purpose of standardized tests, this principle serves as a reminder that efforts around assessment are not separate from the necessary work of culturally responsive teaching , equity, trauma-informed practices , and research-based pedagogy. Come back for more. Over 50,000 teachers have already joined—come on in.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

People hired through the programs also tend to stay on the job longer; such programs can also broaden a company’s culture by attracting employees, including workers of color, whose life experiences are outside the high school-to-college career arc common in white-collar workplaces. Her aim then was a law degree.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Coahoma county schools have been under interim leadership for more than a year. She liked the people and the culture and the history. First, she got a fellowship with Building Excellent Schools, a charter leadership incubator. Library class is one of Clarksdale Collegiate’s core programs. Her desk would be in the hall.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. It also added parent and student liaisons who would have a voice in the leadership of the project. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Living Geography

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

This is part of what is called curriculum leadership. There are some excellent suggestions for readings in this important area contained in this section, including Mark Sheehan's work on a "culturally responsive" curriculum. I joined the project team, working on behalf of University College London.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

PORTLAND, Maine — On a recent fall morning in the library of King Middle School here, four seventh-grade girls interviewed an immigrant from Peru named Luis Millones, now a Spanish professor at Colby College. According to Berger, Crew fosters a schoolwide “culture and spirit of being on a team and looking out for each other.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

“Last year I thought about it a lot because as a junior you start to realize how fast things are going,” she said in the library, otherwise empty but for students playing cards. Related: Economics, culture and distance conspire to keep rural nonwhites from higher educations. No one in her family has ever gotten a degree.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2018

Another facet of this strong leadership is collecting and monitoring data and results, using measures of school climate and academic performance to create a culture of continuous improvement that is embraced by both staff and students. Fourth, how we teach is just as important as what we teach.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 24, 2017

This is a very important skill for future leadership, where you have to form working groups to get stuff done all the time.”. But it’s part of the culture at many schools, where everybody will think you’re slow if you start with freshman-level work. Whenever the opportunity arises, sign up to be a tutor.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

In just a few short years, the school has managed to create a culture in which going to college is becoming the norm rather than the exception. Principal Kaplet found it difficult to create a culture of academic achievement when her school’s most motivated learners were spending the bulk of their time on a college campus. Rural ones.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

We had a school leader who understood the power of story and the necessity to take a multidimensional approach to select the text that allowed for considerations of critical literacy and cultural responsiveness. Would I have to “learn my place” and take the Logan family off the shelf of our classroom library? Absolutely not.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: HLLC admissions officers look beyond grades and SAT scores to students’ leadership qualities and their interest in the world around them. Rather than commuting back and forth from home, they can use those 30 minutes in the library. Future of Learning. Higher Education. Mississippi Learning.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 10, 2015

Over 250 organizations and 3,000 people comprise Pittsburgh’s Remake Learning Network , which brings together teachers, students, and parents, in addition to universities, museums, libraries, after-school programs, education technology startups, funders, and nonprofits to shape the future of teaching and learning.

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Maitri Learning

JANUARY 18, 2022

Working closely with fellow Montessorians Elizabeth Slade and Sandra Wyner Andrew and under the leadership of the late Jackie Cossentino (NCMPS co-founder), we took our AMI training backgrounds and adapted our training approach to meet the needs of public Montessori teachers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority. Tapping into students’ cultures in the curriculum fits, logically, into efforts to personalize learning.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. The story of the Sand Creek massacre is a tragic but familiar one of broken promises, cultural misunderstanding, political ambitions, rumors, racial hatred, poor communication, and greed. Captain Silas Soule 1863 or 1864. Soule fired first, wounding Squier in the arm.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Meanwhile, many districts and schools continue to believe they can hire their way out of the teacher diversity problem—if they acknowledge it’s a problem at all—and fail to take on the hard work of transforming school culture. “I think my voice was heard at Lusher—until it was something they didn’t want to hear.”

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

The story dominated headlines for more than a year, cost New York City Schools Chancellor Joseph Fernandez his job and opened a new chapter in the culture wars. “Heather Has Two Mommies” has once again become a lightning rod in culture wars: Credit: Candlewick Press/Penguin Random House. Fast forward to 2022.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Saykhamphone and other Black students at the school found this lesson offensive, but their teacher did not understand why until students talked to Fairfax County’s culturally responsive pedagogy specialists to intervene. The school board representing the 1,700-student Madison County district voted to ban 21 books from its high school library.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Students walk to Shipman Library at Adrian College in Adrian, Michigan. We’d much rather you stay here, so let’s figure out a way to get you that course,’ ” said Ben Selznick, an assistant professor in strategic leadership studies at James Madison University whose focus is innovation in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The culture was pretty toxic when we got here,” said Roark, who began at the school as a guidance counselor in 2008. “To The county has one small town with a public library, a pharmacy, a small grocery store and a few diners and fast-food joints along the outskirts. The culture was pretty toxic when we got here.

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