A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 19, 2022

While there are many challenging aspects when it comes to leadership, one that typically rises to the top is dealing with difficult personalities. As the saying goes, it’s typically the 1% that gives you 99% of the problems. Some people might take offense to the previous statement. Still, if you read it carefully, it sends a powerful message that most people possess a personality that is open to aspects we hold dear, such as collaboration, communication, innovation, and other elements essential

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JUNE 23, 2022

Inspirational Quotes for Students When decorating your classroom for back to school, having inspirational quotes for students on the walls or your bulletin boards can make a huge difference. Since your students will spend a lot of time in your classroom, why not share empowering messages and ideas from successful people, leaders, and other historical figures that they can observe and learn from throughout the school year?

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 23, 2022

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. Subscribe today! After the disruption of the pandemic, people in the field of education are more open to rethinking traditional ways of doing business in order to better serve students.

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Pedagogy to Share

JUNE 22, 2022

It’s that time of year again – assignments, follow-ups, reminders, and grades. It’s the time of the year when I look at my Google Sheets for each course, fill in the grades from recent assessment tasks, and organise the data. This is often the period when it becomes evident that one or more students will fail the course. Nothing is a surprise here.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

With teacher morale seemingly at an all-time low, school districts are looking for ways to keep educators from burning out and quitting. One idea: Give them an extra day off. Districts around the country are announcing plans to adopt four-day school weeks in the fall. While this approach is used by districts at times to cut costs , a common motivation now is teacher recruitment and retention as non-stop pandemic stress has staff leaving in pursuit of work-life balance.

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Education Elements

JUNE 21, 2022

If you lead a district, school, or department, or if you are a teacher yourself, then you may have seen that civil discourse that relies on evidence is increasingly under attack. We might experience this, at times locally in our Board meetings, and nationally in the broader conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

Austin Community College in Texas is emblematic of two-year community colleges around the nation that have benefited from higher state appropriations and property tax collections. Credit: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. State and county officials used to think bachelor’s and graduate degree students deserved more money than those pursuing two-year associate degrees, but during the pandemic they changed their minds.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

We are just over two years into the pandemic for COVID-19, and my students are finally back in the classroom and learning in-person. Keeping my students motivated is still a challenge, and I’ve noticed an important change in their attitude to technology: Just using tech for activities and projects has not been inspiring my students like it did before the pandemic.

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Edthena

JUNE 24, 2022

What happened when a 29-year teaching veteran tried new artificial intelligence technology to reflect on and improve her teaching effectiveness? Ninth-grade science teacher Donna McDaniel was recently featured in SmartBrief for her use of AI Coach by Edthena , and according to her, “AI-powered virtual coaching for teachers can enhance our in-person collaborations while helping all teachers experience timelier coaching more often.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

As high school teachers, we often saw Black teenagers — mostly boys — who were simply bored with their lessons deemed incapable of high academic achievement, shunted off to remedial classes or special education and encouraged to be happy with merely making it to graduation. We didn’t have magical powers, but we could clearly see the wasted potential of these young men and wondered why others could not.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

Can Technology Transform Colleges—Or Do They Have A Responsibility To Take The Lead? As higher ed looks to move into the post-coronavirus world, the sector has found itself having to adapt. Leaders hope to drive up graduation rates and to lure more students in through their gates, especially given threats like the enrollment crisis. Under these considerations, the impact of technology on teaching and learning hasn’t been lost on university leaders, researchers say.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

The stakes are high when it comes to equity in computer science education and in the broader tech industry. That’s not just because tech is a key to economic opportunity in America these days, but it’s also because of the social good that comes when everyone has a chance to have a seat at the table to build a better future. That was the message at “Black Tech Policy Week 2022,” a recent online event hosted by the Black Tech Futures Research Institute.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Purdue University, which has championed income-share agreements as an alternative to traditional student loans, is hitting the pause button on enrollments into its Back a Boiler program. The reason? A switch from ISA servicer Vemo Education to Launch Servicing, which won’t create new income-share agreements but will manage existing ones. “Unlike Vemo, Launch does not provide ISA origination support functions but instead only services those agreements that have already been entered into by Purdue

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

On a recent visit to a school district, I was startled to find a procurement office with folding tables stacked with hundreds of paper purchasing orders that needed to be manually reviewed and approved. What major industry still operates like that? The answer, unfortunately, is too many schools. With annual expenditures of more than $750 billion , American public schools have complicated operations—from financial workflow to human resources to business analytics, and too many rely on analog proc

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

Last year, when concern over the pandemic’s effects on education was at its peak, school districts turned to high-dose tutoring, a regular and intensive form of small-group tutoring. There’s a lot of evidence that high-dose tutoring improves reading and math performance, such as this study from Brown University. And there was particular concern over students losing skills in those areas during the pandemic, especially in K-12.

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Edthena

JUNE 20, 2022

The AI Coach platform by Edthena was named the winner of the 2022 EdTech Breakthrough Awards in the Best Use of AI in Education category. The EdTech Breakthrough Awards program, which received more than 2,250 total submissions, recognizes the best companies and innovations in the field of educational technology. An expert panel of judges selected the AI Coach platform based on its innovation, performance, ease of use, functionality, value, and impact.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 21, 2022

When Florida schools begin their 2022-23 school year, teachers will have lost 41 percent of their available math textbooks. That’s because the state of Florida seems determined to use children of all races as pawns to promote a political agenda — one aimed at reinforcing racism, rather than dismantling it. Earlier this year, as part of its controversial “ Stop WOKE Act, ” the state of Florida banned 54 math textbooks.

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ED Surge

JUNE 22, 2022

The first time I wore a Cornell sweatshirt was the week I graduated from the university. It was an extraordinarily expensive gift from my brother. He had traveled to visit me at college for the first time, to see me accept my diploma. He kept saying, “I can’t believe you did this, in this place, by yourself. You came all the way here. I didn’t even have a picture of it in my mind.

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2022

The exponential growth of esports is undeniable. Projections for 2022 show revenue set to eclipse $1.38 billion and the global esports enthusiast audience expected to reach 262 million. As competitive coding is now one of the fastest-growing segments in esports, we want to empower educators to fully explore its potential in the classroom. Schools have begun to recognize the value of esports, with more than 8,600 US high schools having started video-gaming teams since 2018.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2022

Schools are awash in technology in a way never before seen, thanks to the mad dash toward digital that was prompted by the pandemic a little more than two years ago. But how well that technology works to improve outcomes for kids—or when it works, for whom, and under what conditions—remains a mystery to, well, everyone. That’s mostly because the research and evaluation necessary to find out hasn’t been conducted.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2022

The end of Yael Benvenuto Ladin’s senior year at Oberlin College in Ohio was in sight. After more than two years of pandemic learning, she wanted to finish her classes and her thesis, graduate and go. Her campus activism days were over, the rising leaders behind her readying to take the baton. This story also appeared in Slate. All that changed a month before graduation, when Benvenuto Ladin read about the leaked draft of a Supreme Court opinion that would overturn Roe v.

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