A Principal's Reflections
OCTOBER 2, 2022
Suppose you were to research or Google the qualities of effective leaders. In that case, all you would come up with are the typical characteristics such as good communication, ability to make difficult decisions, having a vision, models, and listening intently, to name a few. What doesn’t show up in routine searches is humility. There is a strong link between this trait and effective leadership.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The phone call from her son’s school was alarming. The assistant principal told her to come to the school immediately. This story also appeared in The Associated Press. But when Lisa Manwell arrived at Pioneer Middle School in Plymouth, Michigan, her son wasn’t sick or injured. He was sitting calmly in the principal’s office. John, who has ADHD and finds it soothing to fidget during class, had been removed from the classroom after he refused to stop using a pair of safety scissors to cut his cut
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ED Surge
OCTOBER 1, 2022
A few years ago, it seemed like social-emotional learning was rocketing into the mainstream. More people were talking about why it is important and how it can help kids develop. Many schools were adopting social-emotional learning programs and frameworks, weaving practices that support social and emotional development into various parts of the school day and reporting material improvements in student behavior and outcomes.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 6, 2022
During the throes of the COVID-19 pandemic, many school districts were quick to send devices home with students and to provide digital resources that may have been engaging, but may not have been as “data safe” as districts thought. Recent articles emerged as a result of remote learning, including: Remote Learning Software Tracked Kids’ Data to Sell to Advertisers and Brokers.
Edthena
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The beginning of the school year can go by quickly! September has passed and you may not have had time to stay up-to-date on the latest resources for teachers and coaches. That’s why we’ve rounded up the top resources from September 2022 and included the highlights here. From maintaining teacher vision to boosting student engagement, these reads have great ideas and resources for teachers and coaches.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2022
SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Joy Malak floundered through her freshman year in college. This story also appeared in National Public Radio. “I had to learn how to balance my finances. I had to learn how to balance work and school and the relationship I’m in.” The hardest part about being a new college student, Malak said, “is not the coursework. It’s learning how to be an adult.”.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 6, 2022
The problem with infrastructure is that it tends to be expensive. And slow to build. And hard to maintain. Oh, and also kind of boring. Most people only notice it when it collapses, like an old bridge. People with typical imaginations have trouble envisioning new infrastructure before it exists. They can grow so accustomed to their daily problems that they don’t pause to wonder whether a solution is possible.
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C3 Teachers
OCTOBER 5, 2022
“We inherit our history.” It was a phrase I often used to begin my year in the hopes of sparking student agency and making history relevant. But as an early teacher in social studies and ELA, misconceptions about the importance of authentically investigating history filled my brain. I knew I wanted my students to engage in source analysis, and I knew I wanted them to think deeply about complex history.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 6, 2022
In her second-grade classroom outside Seattle, Fatima Nuñez Ardon often tells her students stories about everyday people realizing their dreams. One day, for example, she talked about Salvadoran American NASA astronaut Francisco Rubio and his journey to the International Space Station. This story also appeared in The Seattle Times. Another day, she told them her own life’s story — how she, an El Salvadoran immigrant who arrived in the U.S. in middle school speaking very little English, came to b
ED Surge
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Imagine 9-year-old Alejandra who listens quietly for gun shots in the hall after seeing the news about the Uvalde school shooting. Her teacher notices she has difficulty staying focused in class. Or imagine 14-year-old Kai whose mother is suffering from the lingering effects of coronavirus. Formerly a fun-loving and outgoing student, he keeps to himself these days and his grades have dropped.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 6, 2022
The post Essentials of Effective Math Instruction for English Learners appeared first on Digital Promise.
Society for Classical Studies
OCTOBER 4, 2022
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The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Early Childhood newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about early learning. Subscribe today! If pre-K and elementary teachers are going to be better equipped to teach science, they need better training during teacher preparation programs — and that training should be followed by long-term support.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 7, 2022
I recently asked a teacher friend how the school year was going. She said that since August, COVID protocols have been manageable and work feels almost normal, but she shared that while she’s grateful and relieved, she regularly worries about things “getting bad again”—whether it’s another wave of COVID or some other disruption shutting schools down or putting undue burdens on staff and students.
Maitri Learning
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Potty-training, also known as Toilet Learning, is messy. There's no way around it. But, it doesn't have to be stressful on top of being messy! I've put together some basic information on how to accomplish this in a short YouTube Video (scroll down). This video is a shorter version of my Practical Parenting to Support the Brain video created for the Childhood Potential Conference (an online Montessori parenting conference that you won't want to miss).
C3 Teachers
OCTOBER 3, 2022
The first time I encountered inquiry I was immediately hooked. As a novice teacher, I knew that I wanted my curriculum to be relevant, responsive, and sustaining, and I knew I wanted to attend to those resource pedagogies through asking questions. I knew that I needed to plan my course backwards, starting with big ideas, essential questions, and enduring understandings.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 6, 2022
A sampling of Hechinger reporting for The New York Times’s Learning section
ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2022
It was spring 2022 and we were completing our first full year of in-person learning since the start of the pandemic. The kids had been through so much. We all had. Throughout 2020 and 2021, my students, colleagues and I were in and out of the building between virtual, hybrid and in-person learning because of closures and frequent quarantine periods.
Maitri Learning
OCTOBER 4, 2022
Potty-training, also known as Toilet Learning, is messy. There's no way around it. But, it doesn't have to be stressful on top of being messy! I've put together some basic information on how to accomplish this in a short YouTube Video (scroll down). This video is a shorter version of my Practical Parenting to Support the Brain video created for the Childhood Potential Conference (an online Montessori parenting conference that you won't want to miss).
Learn for Living
OCTOBER 7, 2022
Try this relationship builder! In School Culture By Design Podcast Episode #100 , Dr. John Eick shares a fun way to connect over cell phone photos. Photo reel activity: Get your cell phone and open photos Flick photo reel 3 times Pick one photo in that grid Share that photo with the person next to you and explain why it either makes you PROUD, SMILE, or A LITTLE EMBARRASSED.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2022
In March, 2021, Meredith Kolodner and Sarah Butrymowicz first reported on the way that direct-to-student loans were used by for-profit colleges to bolster their business models while ensnaring students in practices that blocked them from getting jobs or transferring to other colleges. We continue to investigate these hidden debt practices; you can find the stories here.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 5, 2022
What should the college career center look like in this moment of seismic shifts in the job market and the economy—and growing skepticism of whether going to college pays off? Colleges have been rethinking how they provide career services, especially since the pandemic forced more services online. And it turns out a lot is at stake for colleges: After all, if higher ed is an engine of opportunity, it’s not enough to just get students to and through college.
Digital Promise
OCTOBER 4, 2022
The post Rural Innovation: Community Problem-Solving Through Heritage Storytelling appeared first on Digital Promise.
C3 Teachers
OCTOBER 1, 2022
I learned about the Inquiry Design Model and C3 Framework as a first-year teacher. At that time, I was working with MaryBeth Yerdon and she brought up the IDM, C3 Teachers, and the C3 Framework at a department meeting. MaryBeth learned about inquiry the previous year at a district-wide professional development. Her enthusiasm about inquiry was inspiring, but most of us were just trying to get by, me as a first year teacher and others responding to changing standards and assessments.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Dylan Smith went to high school just two miles from Adrian College, but wasn’t interested in applying to the Michigan liberal arts school of about 1,600 undergraduates. As much as he liked the idea of a small campus, he didn’t think a liberal arts degree would do much to help him land a job. This story also appeared in The New York Times. Even when Adrian recruited him to wrestle and play football, Smith kept his sights set on Michigan State University, which has nearly 50,000 students.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 5, 2022
Since 2019, I’ve worked with students in the metro Detroit area to advocate for sanctuary schools through an organization called MIStudentsDream. If you aren’t familiar with the concept of sanctuary schools , the broad understanding is that they are a set of policies to support and protect immigrant and undocumented students and their families. One day while working with MIStudentsDream , one of the youth organizers, a student from a predominantly immigrant neighborhood in Detroit, exclaimed: "I
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2022
A national group that seeks to curb student absenteeism is sounding an alarm after finding that the number of chronically absent students continued to surge even as pandemic closings abated. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift. The organization, Attendance Works, believes that the number of students missing at least 18 days* of school a year doubled to 16 million in 2021-22 from 8 million students before the pandemic.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 6, 2022
Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. This story also appeared in The New York Times. As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 1, 2022
Before we had high-powered science, technology, engineering and math, or STEM, academic departments with fancy laboratories, there was just teacher, student and basic apprenticeship. At Xavier University of Louisiana, as the STEM departments evolve, these same concepts of strong mentorship and applied learning keep Xavier president Reynold Verret oriented.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 3, 2022
I waited anxiously as the professor returned our retake exams. Flipping through mine, I remembered how much I had desperately wanted more time to finish it. As I expected, her red marks filled the blank spaces that the exam clock had not allowed me to fill. I had nearly failed my exam, again. After scoring low on the original test, I had become determined to improve my performance.
ED Surge
OCTOBER 3, 2022
When educators are researching and comparing edtech tools, they’re not just looking for a solution to a problem. They’re looking for a solution to their problem—suited to the unique needs of their students. So what’s the best way to choose edtech when what worked for a small district in the Midwest might not have the same outcome for, say, an urban district in New England?
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 4, 2022
When I was a community school director in Queens, New York, I designed a mentoring program for 10 percent of my chronically absent students. I enlisted a handful of volunteer staff members to serve as mentors, and provided weekly attendance data about their mentees and activities to use during student check-ins. These touch points helped students develop trusting relationships with staff members, who helped connect students with additional resources and enrichment opportunities.
The Hechinger Report
OCTOBER 5, 2022
WASHINGTON (AP) – Two Democratic senators urged the Department of Education to strengthen regulations against excluding schoolchildren from class because of behaviors related to a disability – a practice known as informal removal. This story also appeared in The Associated Press. Since the pandemic began, parents of kids with disabilities say the practice has been on the rise, denying their kids the legal right to an education.
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