A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

“ Vulnerability is the core, the heart, the center, of meaningful human experiences.” - Brené Brown Change is hard. It is even more challenging to sustain. While there are many obstacles to individual or system growth, fear and comfort tend to lead the pack. Both work to stymie a desire to improve for different reasons. Often, we are afraid of taking risks or embracing new ideas because they might not work out, resulting in a decrease in performance, outcomes, or morale.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

While his wife was in labor in the hospital with their third child, Joshua Castillo was in the waiting room completing a computer science final and two quizzes. This story also appeared in The Guardian. By then he was accustomed to juggling the demands of fatherhood with the unyielding deadlines and expectations of college, where he is studying computer science while working full time and helping raise his kids — a responsibility for which he said he doesn’t get much sympathy from faculty.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As a teacher, I felt fortunate. The first job I took in Chicago Public Schools in 2007 was at a school where the administration truly valued student and staff input. I remember sitting with students as we interviewed potential new teachers and the students saying things like, “This teacher doesn’t seem like they will be a good fit for our school family.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

A recent Forbes article said, “If the big challenge of 2021 was to get children back into the classroom, the challenge for 2022 is to keep teachers there.” With statistics showing a 66% rise in school-based departures and schools across the country scrambling to fill teacher and substitute shortages each week — all while working to bounce back from the pandemic — the need to support our teaching staff has never been greater.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

So you’ve heard about the AI Coach by Edthena, and now you want to know more. How can the AI Coach platform guide teachers through coaching cycles, and what exactly is AI again? These are great questions since there aren’t many examples of artificial intelligence related to teachers’ professional learning. Not to worry. This post will help you understand how the AI Coach platform supports educators in their coaching cycle and self-reflection process for improved teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I became a family doctor to advocate for those who are most vulnerable. So, when it comes to Covid and masks, I wonder, why gamble with our children’s health when a vaccine that could confer protection from serious illness is just around the corner? What is the rush in eliminating school mask mandates now when we are so close to giving everyone a more equitable chance of fighting this dangerous virus?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

A white art teacher in Houston uses the N-word during a classroom lesson. A high school student in Minnesota tells a Black classmate that her dark skin is ugly and that she hopes she takes her life. An Asian-American teen in California’s San Fernando Valley is attacked because his peers assumed, based on his ethnicity, that he was carrying COVID-19.

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C3 Teachers

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

As I recently waited to pick up my child from school, I noticed a plaque that said the school was built in 1939 as part of the New Deal Works Progress Administration. I had walked by this sign several times and never noticed. Putting on my teacher hat, I thought about the many questions this plaque could stimulate – What was the Works Progress Administration?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Here we are, entering year three of the pandemic, and we’ve still got no idea what to do with the kids. We’ve locked ourselves in battle, one side clamoring to close schools to prevent disease spread, the other demanding we keep them open to prevent learning loss, and no solution in sight. Families sue, teachers strike, columnists throw oil on the fire from the safety of their homes.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

Even before students at Morgan State University finish their degrees, they’ll soon have something official to let them show the world what they’ve learned so far. The university is rolling out a new system that will give every student a new kind of digital transcript that will include things like what courses they’ve taken and involvement in community programs.

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Norton Learning - Sociology

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Dr. Michael Ramirez is a professor of sociology at Texas A&M University–Corpus Christi. He teaches courses on gender, work, aging and the life course, and film. Dr.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Talk of the metaverse is everywhere, even though the new, more immersive internet isn’t exactly here yet. Even so, some educators are trying to get ahead of the curve to help influence what kinds of education products and services emerge in the metaverse. This week the Brookings Institution released a policy brief titled “ A Whole New World: Education Meets the Metaverse. ” It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to sh

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Around late July every year, my husband and I sit down with our calendars and make sincere attempts to plan our year according to the first-year teacher’s roller coaster. Where might we strategically schedule date nights? Or a comforting pasta night or two? What should we do in the week leading up to that inevitable time in October when all things seem to fall apart in school?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

We had just finished a discussion on climate change in my chemistry class. Towards the end of the unit, I asked students how their understanding of the topic has changed since the first lesson. Among all the feedback I received, one student’s response stood out: “Honestly, my opinion of climate change is that I am frustrated hearing about it. No teacher ever tells us what we can do about it.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

I sat in front of my computer, scrolling through websites instead of shifting my attention toward geometry class. I felt as if I couldn’t grasp the curriculum, which led me to believe it was pointless to try to succeed in school. I realized virtual learning had left me burned out. Between doing my assignments for hours on end and teaching myself the material, I was exhausted trying to manage it all.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

The University of Texas System is piloting a program to insert workplace skills valued by employers into the four-year curriculum, in an effort to boost earnings for alumni of the majors that typically make the lowest salaries. . These microcredentials might range from digital skills to data analysis to business skills such as project management, said Lydia Riley, the UT system’s director of academic affairs.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

How well does online tutoring work? This is an important question. The federal government is pushing schools to spend a big chunk of their $122 billion in federal American Rescue Plan funds on tutoring , but bringing in armies of tutors into school buildings is a logistical nightmare. And now, with the Omicron variant still raging in many states, it’s even more difficult.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

Last year, New York’s Rockland Community College realized it had a problem. The passing rate for gateway classes—those that all students need to take—wavered slightly and dropped by one point to 75 percent. But for Black men, the pass rate tumbled to 64 percent. Looking just at college algebra, the passing rate for Hispanic men fell below 50 percent during the last two years.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

I’ve always thought of the U.S. as the leader in digital learning, representing the most adventurous innovations. But lately I’ve realized my perception may be flawed by a false sense of American exceptionalism. In Canada, for example, about two-thirds of colleges offer online degrees —and many have for years. While here in the U.S., a far smaller number grant degrees online.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2022

After years of inflexible debt-collection practices that have burdened SUNY students with punitive payment schedules, high interest and crippling collection fees, New York State officials are promising change. This story also appeared in The New York Times. The board of trustees of the State University of New York system voted last month to review the way it collects student debt at all 64 SUNY campuses, and the interim chancellor, Deborah Stanley, pledged to make additional significant changes.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 17, 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! Educators often have a tendency to use confusing terminology when speaking about their field. But jargon may now be playing a role in the politicization of social and emotional learning — often referred to as SEL.

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