A Principal's Reflections
JANUARY 23, 2022
If it’s true that life is a test, then the COVID-19 pandemic represents the most challenging one education and everyone in the field has ever faced. The impacts are far and wide. Not a single person is unaffected, and everyone needs help in some form or another. However, one group, in particular, stands out as they are on the front lines every day working with kids – our teachers.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JANUARY 25, 2022
When the always-marvelous Catlin Tucker invited me to be a guest on her podcast, The Balance, I accepted immediately. I think the world of Catlin’s work. My episode was released a few days ago. Catlin and I talked about my new book ( Leadership for Deeper Learning ), leadership during the pandemic, how school administrators could (and shouldn’t) support educators’ self-care, and much more.
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The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 24, 2022
Children who attended Tennessee’s state-funded voluntary pre-K program during the 2009-10 and 2010-11 school years were doing worse than their peers by the end of sixth grade in academic achievement, discipline issues and special education referrals. The trend emerged by the end of third grade and was even more pronounced three years later. These are the latest findings of a multi-year study that followed 2,990 children in Tennessee schools to look at the long-term impact of the state’s public p
ED Surge
JANUARY 24, 2022
The first ghost that Ebenezer Scrooge meets in “A Christmas Carol” is the spirit of his business partner, Jacob Marley. When the specter appears, he has a chain “wound about him like a tail,” made out of “cash-boxes, keys, padlocks, ledgers, deeds, and heavy purses wrought in steel.” Scrooge asks the spirit of his old friend why it’s shackled. “I wear the chain I forged in life,” the ghost replies.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 27, 2022
In the quickly shifting workforce, digital skills have become fundamental for social mobility. Though an estimated one-third of US workers across industries and occupations would benefit from developing digital skills—particularly among workers of color —fewer than 10 percent of people who need digital skills training and support are able to access education services due to longstanding systemic inequities.
Dangerously Irrelevant
JANUARY 25, 2022
I had the pleasure of talking with some folks from the Actionable Innovations community last week. Here are the show notes and the video is below. Thank you, Lucy and Don , for the invite! Happy viewing! Related Posts. Podcast – How to take our leadership and teaching to new levels. Podcast – Harnessing technology for deeper learning. Podcast – Talking with Richard Byrne on the Practical Ed Tech Podcast!
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 25, 2022
After the pandemic forced classes online, Harvard University junior Swathi Kella watched classmates from an array of backgrounds and races pop onto her screen, their names and faces far more diverse than those of her New Jersey high school. Now, she worries that the variety she values in her education could disappear for generations to come. “If affirmative action goes away, opportunities to learn from different perspectives and world views will be limited, and that does an injustice to students
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Digital Promise
JANUARY 25, 2022
The post Supporting Social-Emotional Development with Self-Awareness and Self-Management appeared first on Digital Promise.
Catlin Tucker
JANUARY 26, 2022
Coaching provides teachers with personalized support as they cultivate the mindset, skill set, and tool set needed to navigate the fluid nature of the pandemic. As challenging as the last two years have been, they’ve presented a unique opportunity to reimagine the way teachers design and facilitate learning. . This course offers instructional coaches, administrators, TOSAs, and teacher leaders: A blended learning coaching framework to guide your work.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 23, 2022
INDIANAPOLIS — Before the pandemic, 14-year-old Kynadi Chandler, as is typical of middle schoolers, had career goals that were all over the place. She thought she might want to become a journalist. Or a nurse. She was also interested in studying culinary arts. Last year’s isolating lockdown gave the eighth grader a more specific goal: She wants to become a psychologist or therapist of some kind.
ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2022
Change in higher education historically has been a dynamic process involving two sectors—one consisting of mainstream institutions and the other a grab bag of diverse, nontraditional organizations, service providers and emerging models. Innovation has tended to originate in the nontraditional sector, where experimentation abounds, then migrate to traditional institutions.
Doing Social Studies
JANUARY 27, 2022
As a member and current president of the Kansas Council for Social Studies, the working relationship between the professional Social Studies organizations in Kansas is one that I deeply cherish and am proud to be a part of. This network of professionals has helped transform my teaching practice and feeds my teacher soul. The four groups dedicated to serving the teachers of Kansas are: Kansas Council for History Education Kansas Geography Alliance Kansas Council for Economic Education Kansas Cou
Education Elements
JANUARY 24, 2022
School district leaders face the enormous challenge of understanding and responding to how professional learning has been impacted by the global pandemic. This at a time when professional learning is so critical for educators who are navigating uncertainties around in-person consistency, increasing responsibilities, and shifting instructional modalities.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 27, 2022
A dozen children sit on Chris Nelson’s waitlist. Their families hope a seat will open up in the child care program she runs out of her home in rural Vermont. Some of them could stay on the list for years: most of the children who pass through Nelson’s doors stay in the program until they age out at 13. And where Nelson lives in Troy, Vermont, a town of less than 2,000 residents on the Canadian border, there are only two center-based child care providers that serve a total of 33 kids.
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
There’s a picture that went viral early in the pandemic that became a symbol of how hard emergency remote schooling was for the youngest students. The image showed a 5-year-old student sitting at a small desk in his family’s kitchen, facing a laptop computer. He’s holding a pencil in one hand, pulling up the neck of his T-shirt with his other hand to wipe tears away from his eyes.
Digital Promise
JANUARY 27, 2022
The post Meeting the Digital Promise appeared first on Digital Promise.
Pedagogy and Formation
JANUARY 27, 2022
You've probably heard the old statement teachers sometimes use: "remember, I have eyes in the back of my head". This is mainly used to class control and to modify behaviour. I can recall teachers who would say, "I'm watching you Cairney". Did this change my behaviour? A little. But more importantly, did it change my attitudes, hopes, priorities, beliefs and so on?
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 26, 2022
“The liberal deep state is faking sexual assault to block Brett Kavanaugh’s appointment,” said one of my classmates with great conviction during my freshman year of high school. According to him, the left was using indoctrination tactics and schemes to threaten the power of conservative men in politics. After class, he showed me and my classmates several Instagram accounts that perpetuated the same misinformation, all concluding with a similar statement: “White men,” one post read, “are the real
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
“Don’t go back!” This is the advice we’ve been giving district and school leaders across the country about their daily schedule. No amount of money or professional development and design time could have had a greater impact on school schedules than COVID-19. Most schools, for the health and safety of their communities, adjusted them in a variety of ways, often making them more “brain-friendly” and aligning them with promising research and strategies in the science of teaching and learning, or wh
Digital Promise
JANUARY 27, 2022
The post Facilitating Real World Learning through Youth Media appeared first on Digital Promise.
Edthena
JANUARY 28, 2022
When doing video analysis of your teaching, it can be tempting to comment on everything you see and tag every moment. But is this truly effective for learning and growth? Trying to analyze everything at once could lead to feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to focus on for improvement. It’s helpful to have a more targeted approach for your video analysis.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 24, 2022
Educators are worried about a wave of high school students who are failing classes during the pandemic. A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 million to 3.3 million eighth through 12th grade students might drop out of school in the coming years if historical correlations between chronic absenteeism and high school graduation prove true.
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
The College Board announced today that the SAT will be going fully digital, arguing that the shift will make the test easier to take and administer—and a better fit for today’s students. The move comes as a growing number of colleges and universities have gone test-optional in admissions , in part because the pandemic made it harder for students to gather safely to take the test, and in some cases out of concern that standardized tests may prevent barriers for some types of students.
Transcending Pedagogy
JANUARY 25, 2022
Over the years I’ve made so many strides in my teaching work as result of one core belief in particular: students learn more when they’re doing the heavy lifting, and they rather enjoy it when they’re helping their peers in the process. I’ve learned ways to put this belief to work in their writing. Today’s class centered on a peer review and feedback session using collaboratively-written sonnet analysis essays.
Edthena
JANUARY 28, 2022
When doing video analysis of your teaching, it can be tempting to comment on everything you see and tag every moment. But is this truly effective for learning and growth? Trying to analyze everything at once could lead to feeling overwhelmed and not knowing what to focus on for improvement. It’s helpful to have a more targeted approach for your video analysis.
The Hechinger Report
JANUARY 22, 2022
Slower economic growth. Continued labor shortages. Lower life expectancy. Higher levels of divorce. More demand for social services, but less tax revenue to pay for it. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. A sharp and persistent decline in the number of Americans going to college — down by nearly a million since the start of the pandemic, according to newly released figures, and by nearly three million over the last decade — could alter American society for the worse, even as economi
ED Surge
JANUARY 25, 2022
When you cement plans to wrap up your undergraduate degree in a worldwide hit song, the pressure is on to meet your self-imposed deadline. Rap superstar Megan Thee Stallion—known as Megan Pete at her HBCU alma mater Texas Southern University—fulfilled the promise she made in summer chart topper “Thot S**t”: that in “2021, finna graduate college.” As fans celebrated her walk across the stage in December with the hashtag #MeganTheeGraduate, there are signs that the Houston native could be inspirin
Civics U
JANUARY 27, 2022
Preface Part I briefly summarized democracy and capitalism, socialism, and communism as major and currently familiar forms of government and economy, and the predominant systems in the United States, Russia, and China respectively. It did not examine or distinguish between, variously, a pure democracy, a representative democracy, and a republic. The distinctions are important but each form is intended to involve freedom of and government by the people in some way.
Edthena
JANUARY 27, 2022
It’s the start of a new year, and we’ve rounded up this month’s top resources for teachers and coaches! This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes edtech predictions for 2022, how school leaders can foster safe spaces, and resources for teachers on being lifelong learners. Our top picks for important January reads are below, with the highlights, article links, and related content for you.
Students of History
JANUARY 25, 2022
For years, I ended my unit on Reconstruction by teaching about the controversial election of 1876 leading to the Compromise of 1877. The Democrats' "corrupt bargain" allowed Rutherford B. Hayes to be declared the winner in exchange for Union troops to be pulled out of the South. This led directly to the Jim Crow Era of the South. The Jim Crow Era was when racial segregation was legalized, African Americans were disenfranchised, and white supremacists controlled governments across the South.
ED Surge
JANUARY 28, 2022
While the debate is not new to the world of librarianship, the controversy about which books should be allowed to grace the shelves of a school library has become a common topic of conversation on news channels, talk shows and school board meetings. At its heart, the dialogue digs into which books school librarians should make available to their students.
ED Surge
JANUARY 24, 2022
Communication from teachers to both students and parents has always been important in K-12 education. But in the tech-dependent era of distance and hybrid learning, clear and consistent communication—about grades, assessments, learning targets and a host of other school-related matters—may now be more important than ever. All of us need to use our time as wisely as possible.
ED Surge
JANUARY 26, 2022
A recent cyberattack that affected the biggest school district in the country is a reminder of an increase in cybersecurity incidents at schools across the U.S. As such attacks become more common, schools may need to do more to build their ability to prevent attacks and to hold private vendors to high standards, experts say. The “attempted security incident” this month knocked out many of Illuminate Education’s digital services, including an online gradebook, Skedula, and a related parent-focuse
Edthena
JANUARY 27, 2022
It’s the start of a new year, and we’ve rounded up this month’s top resources for teachers and coaches! This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes edtech predictions for 2022, how school leaders can foster safe spaces, and resources for teachers on being lifelong learners. Our top picks for important January reads are below, with the highlights, article links, and related content for you.
Edthena
JANUARY 27, 2022
It’s the start of a new year, and we’ve rounded up this month’s top resources for teachers and coaches! This edition of noted and notable content for educators includes edtech predictions for 2022, how school leaders can foster safe spaces, and resources for teachers on being lifelong learners. Our top picks for important January reads are below, with the highlights, article links, and related content for you.
Edthena
JANUARY 26, 2022
Educators know that sharing ideas is an important way to improve their teaching practice, whether that sharing is done in a conversation in the hallway or through PLC protocols. But according to Steve Ventura, a former teacher, school leader, and superintendent, one of those methods is more effective than the other. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Steve Ventura discussed why PLC (professional learning community) structures, instead of casual conversations, are key to teacher improvement.
Edthena
JANUARY 26, 2022
Educators know that sharing ideas is an important way to improve their teaching practice, whether that sharing is done in a conversation in the hallway or through PLC protocols. But according to Steve Ventura, a former teacher, school leader, and superintendent, one of those methods is more effective than the other. In this PLtogether Lounge Talk, Steve Ventura discussed why PLC (professional learning community) structures, instead of casual conversations, are key to teacher improvement.
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