A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and social media. MS Office), simultaneously collaborate on and edit various document formats, access your documents from anywhere in the word, and embed links to your docs in emails, websites, blogs, etc.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 8, 2019

The journey to improve is a process that requires various strategies that are aligned to a specific focus as outlined in a mission statement or vision document that describes the why. For the updated edition of Digital Leadership , I created the image above, which outlines the critical elements of a sound strategic plan.

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MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. These methods are harmonized with the 7 Pillars of Digital Leadership & Learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 10, 2016

You can see the resulting document HERE. It all comes down to leadership and the will to improve in order to create a better learning culture for all students. Going back to the grading example, we openly discussed and agreed on a failure floor, no zeros, and a process of retakes/redos.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

As a school administrator, I remember always having the best intentions when it came to instructional leadership. The latter takes form when administrators feel they are a slave to email, their calendars, and paperwork in the way of digital documents. Don’t let the managerial aspects of leadership drag you down.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Have students keep this log in a binder or online document and have them reflect on what they have done to incorporate the feedback. Educational Leadership, 70(1), 82–83 Hattie & Timperley (2007) The Power of Feedback. Let families know you are using this strategy so they can review and support their kids at home. Goodwin, B.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 18, 2021

On a typical day when I visit classrooms with principals in my partner districts across the country, both the building and district leaders receive a 1000-to-5000-word document laden with practical feedback. They get this before I physically leave for the day.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 14, 2020

Digital leadership calls for a multifaceted approach using both traditional and new-age strategies to ensure that the right message reaches stakeholders in a timely fashion. As technology continues to evolve, it will continue to become an even more embedded component of society. We can't assume communication staples such as snail mail (i.e.,

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

I am fortunate to be involved in several long-term projects where I have been able to document growth over time. The stage was set over the summer for me to work six days in each of their three schools to assist with teaching, learning, and leadership associated with their 1:1 implementation.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 16, 2018

This is what instructional leadership is all about. I also curated a document that had comments ready to go aligned to sound pedagogical practice and research where applicable. Taking a critical lens to your observation protocols can go a long way to ensuring efficacy by raising the bar across your system.

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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. Our digital transformation, backed by evidence of improved learner outcomes, has been well documented. In the eyes of many this is success.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 5, 2016

Even as I moved to a leadership position the same challenge persisted during faculty meetings. People can respond via text, videos, images, and documents. The beauty of this tool is that within each board responses can be text, video, images, or attached documents. Giving everyone a voice seemed like an insurmountable challenge.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

I have two masters degrees, one in educational leadership and one from MAHG. Reading deeply in the primary documents of each era gave her more resources to deal with students questions. She also learned from watching how MAHG professors steer discussion of documents. Ive even taught at the college level.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

For todays blog, we are highlighting a document that helps students intersect two of the most historically important elements of the 1960s: the Civil Rights Movement and the Vietnam War. Read the entire document, our scholarly introduction, and discussion questions here. December 6, 1963. National Archives.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2017

This is the premise behind brandED leadership. Everything was then curated into a final document, edited twice, and then sent out to my stakeholders using Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Google+, Remind, our school app, and an email blast. It also doesn’t have to result in a drain on your time.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 10, 2012

Video, print, and online materials can be selected by leadership teams or teachers, and tailored to fit their needs. The video documented the student struggling with the problem – for almost two agonizing minutes. All materials are designed to complement—not supplant—existing school improvement initiatives.

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Catlin Tucker

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

As I work with leadership teams, many are struggling to engage their teachers in professional learning this year. Schools invested money in purchasing devices and improving access to reliable internet to meet the demands of the pandemic, and leadership teams want to keep the momentum going. Document, Reflect , and Revisit Goals.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

And they cover professional communications etiquette: how to send a professional email to your boss, for example, and how to fold and mail a physical document. Students also develop resumes and practice interview skills, including by conducting a recorded virtual job interview that she critiques at the end of the term.

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Edthena

APRIL 16, 2025

While pursuing certification, educators must balance their full teaching responsibilities with an intricate process requiring thoughtful reflection, evaluation, and comprehensive documentation. It is a rigorous, time-consuming process that requires deep content knowledge and a substantial amount of evidence-based documentation.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2010

Late Thursday afternoon I looked at my Blackberry and saw an email from Filip Piasevloi, the student who wrote the amazing guest post entitled " A Student''s Perspective on Leadership ". Attached to his email was a document that contained his well thought out responses to comments on his blog post (see below).

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Discussion of primary documents. Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. During the seminar, the teachers discuss primary documents on the seminar topic with the guidance of a scholar, who acts as the seminar leader. Historic locations.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

I’m close to retirement, so it made sense that I might eventually be glad I have some photos that document what it was like to have lived and worked on that campus for nearly half my life. Retirement. Personal Growth. Our yearbook advisor asked me to give a presentation to the yearbook staff on how to take quality portraits with their phones.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

For one, researchers have documented that Black principals are often better at attracting and retaining Black teachers. On the contrary, Texas schools are known for having a more diverse leadership than most other states. This principal-student mismatch matters for a lot of reasons. years, seven months longer.

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Teaching American History

APRIL 22, 2025

Hes concluded that Reagans optimistic, good-humored leadership style blunted partisan fights. The next day, he thoroughly enjoyed discussing primary documents with these new friends. In the next sessions we got to relate what we saw to what we read in the documents. I’d never done anything like that before.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Digital leadership focuses on transforming learning environments through online course offerings (synchronous and asynchronous), independent studies, and use of OpenCourseWare to provide students with continuous options to learn anytime, anywhere, and about anything.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. Some compelling examples are emerging. 1 Including pay for performance, knowledge- and skills-based pay, career ladder programs, and market-based pay.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. How can micro-credentials be best cobbled together to document that these novices have met state teaching standards?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2015

neither do most Educational Leadership profs, sadly). Does the section, “Using the Standards” provide you with sufficient direction about how the standards might be used to improve leadership at the state and local level? Standards are necessarily vague. There’s no meaning made there.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Here are some signs that you may be missing opportunities with your school’s technology integration efforts: Your LMS is primarily used as a document management system. The challenges of digital leadership. Lots of Kahoots but not much student creation. Teachers are the primary users of technology. Related Posts.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Despite the setback, I believe there is still a way for students to re-engage in school, support their communities and learn leadership skills. In the aftermath of the fire, impacted students were inspired to conduct a service-learning project and document what happened to wildfire victims.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

For example, teachers can use Merlyn to set timers and switch displays between their laptop, document camera, and interactive whiteboard. Join the ASSISTments Teacher Community Leadership Programs — TeachFX. A version of this post with additional examples of AI systems is available on the Educator CIRCLS blog. Educator CIRCLS.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

In this case, the “crowd” included the 25 educators participating in our leadership group whose collective expertise was leveraged. We started a running document listing these shared challenges—a rather therapeutic exercise. Below are our top three lessons learned through this experience.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since its inception, the Digital Promise Center for Inclusive Innovation (CII) has focused on bridging that distance by engaging educators, students, families and communities in co-leadership, co-research and co-design of education solutions.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 5, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. We also document what a growing number of states and districts as well as the nation’s largest teachers’ union are doing with micro-credentials.

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ED Surge

MARCH 1, 2024

Today, I’m a doctoral candidate in the education leadership program at Rowan University, with a focus on students with disabilities. After engaging in a policy review and coding a set of policy documents from disability service offices at colleges and universities across the U.S.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 28, 2024

Others were asked to send their parents’ documents for verification. It wouldn’t surprise me if those students’ documents were among the FAFSA program’s thousands of unread emails , indicative of its widespread failure. Try a different browser.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Credit: Image provided by Patty Topliffe Poor reading skills are a nationwide issue.

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