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. Technology professional development sessions are sparsely (or reluctantly) attended. The challenges of digital leadership. These are just a few.

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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. We will explore this opportunity in our next blog post.

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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. A 25 percent increase in the recruitment of Black male educators in a district.

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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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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

Yet despite some efforts to document the experiences and outcomes of multilingual learners in the district, a legal monitor noted last year that Boston’s school leaders had defied requests for records showing how it spent its funds.

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Tradition Public School Professional Development Leadership 124

Digital Promise

APRIL 8, 2016

Studies suggest American schools invest $18 billion in teachers’ professional learning annually. But considerable evidence indicates that formal professional development often misses the mark. In short, the current approach to American teachers’ professional development is falling short.

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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

HP Spotlight Schools are also characterized by a school culture in which risk-taking and instructional innovation are supported by leadership. Elizabeth Public Schools (EPS) was nominated as a HP Spotlight School district based on their recognized leadership in educational technology. District leadership nominated William F.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2021

The day’s professional development for these Chicago Public Schools teachers, alumni of the program, was a refresher, a way to strengthen their teaching practice, share ideas and return to the classroom newly inspired. It’s always evolving; it’s a very living document.”. CZI is one of The Hechinger Report’s many donors.)

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Education Charter School Professional Development Tradition 145

Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 29, 2021

Inside each team’s envelope was a Mission Document that explained the conversation station at that location (i.e., As you can see if you follow the link on the Mission Document below, the goals were to spark rich discussion and for each team to complete all six conversations. . Team Zebra, Team Tiger), and.

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Teaching Professional Development EdTech Leadership 125

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Jim Corns, director of innovation and digital safety in BCPS, said he put these two documents online last year during the application process for the Trusted Learning Environment seal. Parents can also read the student data privacy agreement, a strict set of expectations with which vendors must comply to do business with the district.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Public School 85

ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

School leaders and teachers may need more time, tools, expertise and professional development to collect, analyze and interpret data effectively. Developing data literacy means talking through not only why we use data but also how to use screening tools and what exactly the data means.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2023

This back-to-school season, the Education Reporting Collaborative, a coalition of eight newsrooms, will be documenting the enormous challenge facing our schools and highlighting examples of progress. It really allowed me to really own my leadership skills,” she said. The Math Problem Sluggish growth in math scores for U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

New EL schools must first go through several months of professional development, classroom observation and co-teaching — both at the schools and at three-day intensive “institutes” off-site. That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly.

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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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Leadership Education Policy Lesson Plan Tradition 48

Dr. Preece

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Simplify and streamline the admin as much as possible: Links and access to folders, resources and existing documents, slides or shared teaching materials should be automatically shared, preferably with everything clearly labelled and obvious. Decide in advance how much you want to do formal performance management. What worked well?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Related: Documenting Maine’s failure to implement proficiency-based education. Portland’s district leadership has said it plans “ to stay the course with its transition to a proficiency-based diploma,” regardless of changes in the law. Staying the course in Portland.

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Dr. Shannon Doak

JUNE 7, 2019

This approach is supported in the ISTE whitepaper: Technology, Coaching, and Community Power Partners for Improved Professional Development in Primary and Secondary Education. Other components that should be required are documents to keep notes, write, reflect, store data and resources on.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

Consider developing a meeting agenda using Google Docs. The added bonus here is that other documents, images, and videos can be embedded, which really creates a more dynamic agenda. Planning professional learning – How many of us dreaded professional development (PD) days?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2020

Anyone who insults a woman who pursues a leadership position as being too ambitious has an agenda of their own — sexism. While the vast majority of teachers are women, it’s hard for women to move up into leadership roles in the public-school system. Aiming for leadership is also about survival. percent in 2010 to 26.68

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Education Leadership Elementary School Public School 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 18, 2019

The idea was to expose our preservice administrators at the University of Colorado Denver to a variety of ways to foster and facilitate adult learning beyond schools’ traditional, moribund professional development sessions. Both of the main documents are editable. Professional development [VIDEO].

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2024

But as Grimes’ star rose statewide, according to local educators and residents, his relationship with city leadership started to unravel. The entire district had just one teacher certified to teach English as a second language, no interpreters and very little by way of professional development. “We

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 22, 2017

Success is inherent upon how students and educators use tools to transform teaching, learning, and leadership. The successful digital transformation that took place at my school is well documented. How do we know if teaching, learning, and leadership have changed in order to unlock to full potential of technology?

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

This structure ensures accountability while allowing students to develop leadership and teamwork skills. Keep Students Engaged by Pairing Reading with Interactive Elements Make reading an active process by integrating: Primary Source Analysis: Students examine historical documents.

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Zinn Education Project

MARCH 7, 2024

With documentation and clear explanations, Muhammad challenged prevailing stereotypes about race and crime. We share the text of their conversation for discussion in high school classrooms and professional development workshops.

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Primary Sources History Economics K-12 98

The Hechinger Report

MAY 28, 2021

Political polarization has damaged the standing of civics and history,” said Paul Carrese, a conservative professor of civic thought and leadership at Arizona State University and a key contributor to the roadmap. School boards don’t want to deal with it, principals don’t want to deal with it,” he said, so it becomes a “second-tier subject.”.

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