A Principal's Reflections
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
How would one define great leadership? What are the characteristics of influential leaders? Each of these questions leads to various responses. I am sure that each of you reading this post can develop a quick list of critical characteristics or behaviors that one must utilize to help move people to where they need to be to improve culture and performance.
My AP Life
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
School leader DeAnna Miller remembers the geometry class of her teens as an unwelcoming place with low expectations for most students. She agrees with Stanford’s Jo Boaler that math can be a more vital and engaging subject when teachers help students adopt growth mindsets. The post Why All Math Students Need Growth Mindsets first appeared on MiddleWeb.
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ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
A satellite launch expected later this year could expand the availability of high speed internet for the nation’s students. The launch of ViaSat-3, a trio of ultra high capacity GEO satellites, is part of ViaSat's ambition to create a global network of high-capacity internet. Each of the satellites will offer more than one terabyte per second of total network output, a thousand times the capacity of the company's first generation satellites, which the company says will allow educators and studen
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
MEQUON, Wis. — With the pandemic dragging on, the string of setbacks that recently hit Lucas Regnier, a sophomore at Concordia University Wisconsin, has become oddly routine. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. A wrestler and physical education major, he suffered a concussion and a sprained ACL. Then, he and half his team got Covid, forcing him to isolate in the basement of his girlfriend’s parents’ home nearby, disrupting his academics and prized time training with teammates.
Dangerously Irrelevant
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
A school leader in one of my Facebook groups asked if anyone had a discussion guide for the next time their teachers held vertical discussions across grade levels. Here was my response: I’ve done this with schools before. Not exactly sure what the desired outcome of your conversations is, but I’ve seen really powerful discussion arise from the simple questions of “ What do you expect students to know and be able to do by the end of their school year with you?
Digital Promise
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
In an industry that values innovation, cutting-edge design, and lightning response to changing market needs, how can edtech products demonstrate their effectiveness? Typically, efficacy studies serve as a metric for understanding the value of a learning tool. While efficacy studies play an important role in determining product quality, they require a tremendous amount of time and resources.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
With COVID-19 still very much a factor on college campuses, virtual office hours have become an increasingly critical aspect of the education that students are receiving in this hybrid world. Virtual office hours have become an increasingly critical aspect of the education that students are receiving in this hybrid world. UNC’s Learning Center states the case plainly for its students : “Attending office hours, whether in person or online, can give you [the student] valuable time to better unders
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Dangerously Irrelevant
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Covering content and preparing students for life success are not the same thing. . Download this file. See also my other slides. Related Posts. Can’t we do better than the evolutionary filmstrip? [SLIDE]. We’ve got no time, no time… [SLIDE]. Higher-level thinkers don’t just magically emerge from low-level thinking spaces [SLIDE]. Are they learning or just parroting?
Edthena
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
There are plenty of reasons and ways to use edtech with students in the classroom, but what about edtech for teachers? Our recent chat with Monica Burns reminded us not to forget about teachers using technology for themselves. The author of Ed Tech Essentials and founder of Class Tech Tips encourages educators to use tech tools for their own professional learning.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
It’s a dry, hot day in south Phoenix, but my dimly lit classroom is cool and comfortable. Quick footsteps approach outside the door and two-dozen 8- and 9-year-olds return from recess, sweating and smiling. They calmly walk to their desks while a children’s mindful breathing video plays on the whiteboard. Some students quietly grab their water bottles and head out to fill them up, and others sit on the carpet and stretch.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
Building something that people can believe in has the power to transform a barren landscape into a place of opportunity and access. The reverse is also true. Education is being dismantled and erased by an army of legislators who appear to value destruction over innovation. Over the last few weeks, two Midwestern states, Iowa and Indiana, have been doing their utmost to unleash a perfect storm of indignity.
Dangerously Irrelevant
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
[ Sharing my ISTE Certification journey… ]. ISTE Certification has kept me busy! Despite my familiarity with all of the ISTE Standards, I have found that I am thinking much more deeply about the ISTE Standards for Educators as I go through this process with my cohort (which I appreciate)… One of our activities asked us to reflect on the Universal Design for Learning (UDL) guidelines.
Edthena
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
If you haven’t heard of evocative coaching , you may be wondering what makes it different from and more effective than other models of teacher coaching. Megan Tschannen-Moran, a William & Mary School of Education professor, coined the term and developed its coaching model. In the evocative coaching model, Megan urges coaches to forgo directive coaching and instead put teachers in the driver’s seat of their own learning.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
In an art class, a middle schooler drew a picture of her bedroom with colored pencils. A birds-eye view captures a bed, a clock and a laptop, surrounded by the bedroom walls which seem to creep closer to the bed as one looks on. One wall is scribbled in red, black letters spell out words like “depression,” “help,” “I am trying” and “I am not fine.” The student also drew the reason for the franticness, claustrophobia and malaise she felt: A spiky green virus in the corner and the words “coronavir
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
AMHERST, Mass. — When Alex Robinson told relatives and friends he was considering going to Hampshire College, “every single person was, like, ‘Oh, isn’t that the school that’s shutting down?’ ”. This story also appeared in GBH News. Hampshire had, after all, announced that it was searching for a merger partner as it grappled with grim financial and enrollment projections.
Education Elements
FEBRUARY 20, 2022
These past three years have been very difficult for students, teachers, and school leaders. It seems that as life is getting “back to normal” there is something that comes in and disrupts the progress being made. What this time has shown us, though, is that this is the perfect opportunity to start fresh.
Rockin Resources - Social Studies
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
In addition to Women’s History Month, International Women’s Day takes place each year on March 8. This holiday has been celebrated since March 8, 1911 and honors the social and political successes of women. Several countries around the world celebrate the holiday every year. In 1975, the United Nations also began to observe and sponsor. The post What is Women’s History Month?
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Last fall, I made it a goal to go to my office on campus a few times a week. Strictly speaking, I didn’t need to be there. The courses I taught were online, as were all of my meetings. But I felt a strange need to physically be there, perhaps in preparation for what seemed like a slow yet inexorable walk toward “normal” or as a reminder of how my work fit into a bigger picture.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
The best kind of expertise might be personal experience. When the research arm of the U.S. Department of Education wanted to learn more about the latest advances in robo-grading, it decided to hold a competition. In the fall of 2021, 23 teams, many of them PhD computer scientists from universities and corporate research laboratories, competed to see who could build the best automatic scoring model.
Civics U
FEBRUARY 24, 2022
The previous article reviewed a few key principles, practices, and problems of American government. This article will reflect further on two founding principles of the American political and social system and their application in the present circumstances. Right to life. Does this encompass and necessitate the right to the means needed to sustain life?
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
There’s an elephant in the classroom, and it has done a huge disservice to students like me. I couldn’t articulate it this succinctly at ten years old, but the depictions of the characters weighed on me. They reinforced a monolithic depiction of Black life devoid of any moments of joy, hope, or success. I first acknowledged it subconsciously in my middle school years.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 23, 2022
As consensus builds among many researchers, policy experts and elected officials that the U.S. should prioritize early childhood education , a key component of that agenda is getting more people trained to offer high-quality care and teaching to young kids. And that means encouraging colleges to recruit, prepare and graduate more early childhood educators.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
Cuando su esposa estaba en el hospital para dar a luz al tercer hijo de la pareja, Joshua Castillo estaba en la sala de espera completando un examen final de computación y otras dos pruebas. This story also appeared in The Independent en Español. Para entonces, Castillo ya estaba acostumbrado a balancear las exigencias de la paternidad y las inflexibles fechas límites y expectativas de la universidad.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
Since the end of the Great Recession, the U.S. economy has experienced tremendous growth. However, as the economy has grown, so has economic inequality, increasing dramatically across the country. The average income of the nation’s top 10 percent of earners is now more than nine times higher than the average income of the bottom 90 percent. The pandemic is exacerbating the trend: Over the past two years, billionaires’ wealth increased more than ever before , a report by Oxfam International found
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 22, 2022
These days our word processing systems can do some of the writing for us—with features that suggest what word you might be about to type and save you the trouble of keying in every letter. He has been diving into the past to see where our dreams about the internet have come from, and he has a warning for what he thinks is going wrong in how things have evolved in recent years—and what it might be doing to us as learners and thinkers.
ED Surge
FEBRUARY 25, 2022
In my first-ever job, I sat in front of a computer teaching English over the internet to a group of students in South Korea. I would introduce the students to new vocabulary words, correct their grammar and monitor their progress. Overall, it was a low-stress job I felt indifferent toward, and maybe, at the time, it was enough. My then-employer was part of the growing education industry in the Philippines.
The Hechinger Report
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
When a middle school teacher resigned over their district’s social and emotional learning curriculum, Lisa Logan and Stacie Clayton wanted to understand why. So, the two moms from Sandy, Utah, spent 30 hours combing through the district’s eighth grade curriculum. What they found alarmed them. This story also appeared in AL.com and The Seattle Times.
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