A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 5, 2018

As a result, the learning culture does not evolve or becomes stagnant for both learners and educators. My point is that the focus should be on taking a critical lens to traditional practices and determine if the way in which they are being implemented is actually in the best interests of a vibrant and prosperous learning culture.

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Edthena

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Improving school culture is high on many school leaders’ lists of building priorities. But cultivating a strong school culture doesn’t happen without intentional thought and planning. Why is this key to improving school culture ? Check out the highlights of what we’ve been reading below, as well as links to the full resources.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. Selecting culturally responsive texts.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 7, 2024

It intertwines innovative teaching practices, cutting-edge technologies, and a culture of inclusivity into the very fabric of districts and schools. A strong leader should also be capable of fostering a collaborative and inclusive culture that values diversity and promotes equity in education.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 22, 2023

With the suggestions in hand, the leaders were empowered to review what we had seen and my recommendations to determine the focus for an upcoming professional development day I would be facilitating. Feedback is a critical catalyst for professional learning and growth.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

This means looking at key practices such as Tier 1 instruction, pedagogy, assessment, feedback, differentiation, RTI , real co-teaching , and professional learning to see where there is an opportunity to grow. This is yet another testament to the culture of learning that has been established. It wasn't very easy for me at first.

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Political Science Now

JULY 11, 2024

Event: Teaching the 2024 U.S. King, Old Dominion University Juan Carlos Huerta, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi (Moderator) Michelle Allendoerfer, American Political Science Association Please direct all questions to teaching@apsanet.org. The post Webinar Series: Teaching the 2024 U.S. Engaging the 2024 U.S.

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Edthena

DECEMBER 27, 2023

In the News In a recent article, Edutopia explored the potential of AI in revolutionizing teaching practices particularly through the lens of AI-powered instructional coaching. This innovative approach to professional learning is changing how educators refine their skills and teaching practices.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As I engage with districts and schools regularly, they frequently inquire about ways to gauge the outcomes and efficacy of their innovative strategies, such as BYOD, 1:1, blended and personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, and professional development. The IPA doesn’t just look at innovation.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 3, 2015

As instruction becomes increasingly personalized for students, teachers are ready for those same principles to drive their on-going professional development. "Teachers If we focus on learning and development, teachers know where they need to go." ” Drive Professional Growth. "I San Jose, California.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 11, 2023

Museums have largely escaped the culture wars roiling many school districts and are still seen as trusted institutions. Each year, the Manhattan-based museum trains roughly 4,000 teachers on subjects like the human body, evolution and climate change in a variety of professional development programs.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Mindful Media Consumption Encourage children to develop mindful media consumption habits by promoting selective and purposeful engagement with digital content. This involves teaching them how to evaluate the credibility and relevance of information, prioritize quality over quantity, and set healthy limits on screen time.

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Critical Thinking Professional Development Digital Resources Library 197

Zinn Education Project

MARCH 29, 2024

Each year, the Zinn Education Project hosts Teaching for Black Lives study groups across the United States. Using the Rethinking Schools book Teaching for Black Lives , educators explore how to teach about racism, resistance, and joy in free, teacher-led professional learning communities.

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Studies Weekly

MAY 6, 2024

How to Teach Soft Skills in Elementary School May 6, 2024 • By Studies Weekly In elementary school, students learn and refine an immeasurable number of skills. They develop math, reading, spelling, grammar, and writing skills that teachers measure and monitor. When students learn about history, they see social skills in action.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2020

Teaching will and must be different. Most of all, the learning culture will most certainly be different, and it will be a travesty if it is not. Drive-by professional development did not work in the past. Leadership must and will be different.

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Pedagogy Professional Development Leadership Cultures 523

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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Cultures Education Elementary School Professional Development 116

Edthena

MARCH 14, 2016

As a professor of teacher education at University of Washington, Morva McDonald spent years researching and designing professional development for teachers. How does video fit into your larger vision for professional development and coaching at the school? This year Morva changed roles from professor to principal.

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Professional Development K-12 Critical Thinking Cultures 53

Studies Weekly

APRIL 29, 2024

Teaching about Asian Pacific American Heritage Month April 29, 2024 • Studies Weekly Asian Pacific American Heritage Month is a great opportunity to incorporate culturally responsive teaching into students’ learning experience. They helped shape our country into what it is today.

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Heritage Teaching Ancestry Museum 59

C3 Teachers

MARCH 30, 2022

Image of New York State Archives and Museum in Albany, New York Making connections with cultural centers offers educators a measure of expertise outside their own content knowledge and pedagogical skill. These advantages suggest why connections with cultural centers should matter to educators, students and the local community.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2022

will ultimately shift the country’s power base: Nearly one in three Americans say they are extremely or very concerned that native-born Americans are losing “economic, political and cultural influence” in this country because of the growing population of immigrants. There is only one way: teaching anti-racism. Use primary sources.

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Teaching Primary Sources K-12 History 95

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

As an educator creating antiracist classrooms, I have wrestled with how to teach children about race and race relations since far before our country’s recent racial reckoning. The place to start to enact change starts in the classroom with the development of our future leaders. Stereotypes can be perpetuated.

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ED Surge

JULY 23, 2024

The Let Teachers Teach workgroup released its list of recommendations in May, and their ideas span improvements for dealing with issues including professional development, student discipline and what one of the state’s top education leaders calls “the art of teaching.” “To

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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. Edtech and Professional Development.

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Teaching EdTech K-12 Professional Development 121

Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2021

While expanding access to technology and broadband alone will not improve teaching and learning, our new K-12 Leaders’ Guide to Successful Technology Integration shares lessons learned from several Digital Promise initiatives, including seven years of implementing the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) program.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

No matter your position in education, you have gone through some form of professional development. In many cases, the act of being “developed” comes in a variety of standard types such as workshops, mandated PD days, presentations, conferences, book studies, or keynotes. Effective teacher professional development.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

million students , continue to show that this standards-first approach to curriculum, instruction and professional development can help students effectively double their growth each school year. Here are a few: There is a culture of low expectations. So, why aren’t more schools doing this? There are many reasons.

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Professional Development High School Cultures Research 92

ED Surge

MAY 10, 2023

During the pandemic, there was an increased appreciation for the teaching profession as educators adapted to new modes of instruction and caregivers took a more active role in their students’ education. Throughout my career as a teacher and administrator, I observed first-hand the correlation between job satisfaction and school culture.

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Professional Development Cultures Teaching Research 104

Edthena

NOVEMBER 22, 2015

But sometimes video self reflection mixed with other types of evidence analysis can improve the professional development experience. Explorations enable all organizations to implement research-informed strategies for evidence-based learning within a professional development cycle. Explorations™ is our answer.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2020

To them, educators should teach significant topics like the 1950s and 1960s civil rights movement with more depth and breadth. history, education leaders have started to reckon with how to comprehensively teach history with an antiracism lens. And school districts are working to expand their curricula on race.

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Teaching Social Justice Elementary School American History 145

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

Teaching counting and basic arithmetic sounds like a simple task. Melissa Hedges, the math curriculum director for Milwaukee schools, shows teachers at a professional development seminar how folded paper can be used to demonstrate the solution to a fractions problem. Put yourself into the mind of a child,” Robinson said.

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

Professional Development: They explored the theory of praxis, the methods of autoethnography, the institutions of scholarly publishing, and the techniques of science communication. Alyana Seidel Growing up in Malaysia, Alyana developed a deep interest in understanding how different cultures and societies interact with each other.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 19, 2018

For years I was able to teach both in the classroom and on the field. In many aspects, coaching is teaching, but without formal grades. As a coach, I provided lessons and strategies on skill development as well as competencies that pertained to excelling at a particular sport. That is one of the critical points of this post.

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Leadership Professional Development Pedagogy High School 353

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 14, 2024

But over the last ten years, whenever I set out to find information about teaching strategies, educational resources, technology for schools, or pretty much anything related to improving learning for our students, someone would inevitably pipe up and say, “Librarians can also help with that.” That was about it.

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2024

In response, Schneider and researchers from Michigan State and the University of Helsinki in Finland developed a curriculum called Crafting Engagement for Science Environments and published a related book. By partnering with HBCUs, the hope is that the curriculum will be more culturally responsive to the needs of students in the rural South.

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Edthena

MARCH 14, 2023

From struggling with being a new teacher to feeling afraid to take risks, successful teaching in the classroom is often hindered by burnout. We’ve rounded up the top recent reads and resources about supporting teachers and have the highlights you need to better help teachers do their best teaching.

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Psychology K-12 Professional Development Cultures 98

Digital Promise

JULY 31, 2019

The program equips every student and teacher in these select middle schools with a device and up to a four-year data plan, as well as extensive professional development and support towards powerful teaching and learning that leverages technology in and out of the classroom.

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Cultures Middle School Professional Development Teaching 54

Studies Weekly

MAY 2, 2024

They broaden students’ view of history and teach them to respect people from different cultures. As you teach students about a culture some may be unfamiliar with, it can pique their curiosity and renew their interest. Together, they learn the value of patience, teamwork, and sharing.

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