A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 2, 2023

I have vivid memories of my early days as an assistant principal and principal, where overseeing instruction was just one of many duties that came with the job. Managing budgets, developing memos, attending meetings, responding to emails and phone calls, and other tasks also consumed a significant portion of my time. The advent of social media introduced yet another responsibility into my already packed schedule: digital leadership.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 5, 2023

As teachers, we know that the physical environment of a classroom can have a significant impact on how students engage with the material and each other. From the color of the walls to the lighting and temperature, every aspect of the room can contribute to a student’s ability to feel comfortable and stay focused. Have you considered how the furniture placement in your classroom can either reinforce or distract from the specific tasks we are asking students to do?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Twice a week Ricky Carmona, 16, leaves his La Verne home to attend school in makeshift classrooms a few doors down from the Boot Barn at a nearby strip mall. This story also appeared in Los Angeles Times He ended up at Options for Youth charter school in Upland after he was suspended at the start of the 2022-23 school year from Bonita High for vaping in the bathroom.

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ED Surge

APRIL 5, 2023

At the first staff meeting of the 2022 academic year, our entire team of coaches and coordinators was exhausted. We’d spent the first two weeks of the year subbing in buildings, covering lunch duties and pitching in wherever we were needed. COVID-19 was surging and our time in the buildings, while mentally and emotionally exhausting, reinforced the difficulties our students and educators were facing as they recovered from the losses of the pandemic.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

Listen to the interview with Sarah Fine ( transcript ): Sponsored by EVERFI and Giant Steps This page contains Amazon Affiliate and Bookshop.org links. When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. What’s the difference between Amazon and Bookshop.org? Ask most adults if they remember anything they learned in high school, and what you’re likely to hear is a lot of different versions of no.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2023

The post Where to Find Digital Promise at #AERA23 in Chicago! appeared first on Digital Promise.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

DAVIS, Calif. — Only streetlights cut the darkness as University of California, Davis student Malik Vega-Tatum climbed into his car on a Wednesday morning in January. After arriving at La Tourangelle Community Garden in Woodland 20 minutes later, he got right to work, using a hoe to tend frost-kissed rows. This story also appeared in USA Today Since the school year began, Vega-Tatum has given more than 356 hours of his time to Yolo Farm to Fork , a nonprofit that supports school gardens and farm

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NCHE

APRIL 3, 2023

At the grocery store: “ Your students did such a great job documenting our local history! Hey, will you have Cooper call me? He really needs to record an interview with my mom and dad. They were students when Smithfield’s Red Brick school closed, and he would enjoy their story.” The gas station: “ Hey Joe, I heard you had a student doing some research about local mines in our community.

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Edthena

APRIL 3, 2023

Teacher leaders are all around us – educators making an indelible impact in their schools and communities. Outstanding teacher leaders are dedicated to lifelong learning and continuous improvement of their teaching practices. Being a teacher leader isn’t about a specific title. It’s about how these educators keep learning and getting better so their students can receive the strongest education.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The pandemic disrupted the “when I grow up” dreams of too many students, leaving fewer prepared for education and training after high school. An alarming number are now choosing not to enroll in higher education because they question its value, even though data clearly show s that a high school diploma is no longer sufficient currency for young people.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2023

With school districts in some parts of the country feeling the pain of teacher shortages, states have tried to address the problem with a patchwork of policies that expand who can lead a classroom: from undergrad teacher trainees in Arizona to fast-track certifications for military veterans in Nebraska. Researchers at Kansas State University dug further into education workforce data to find not just where teacher shortages are taking hold but to what extent states are relying on “underqualified”

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Middle School Teaching History Research 109

Education Elements

APRIL 4, 2023

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Geogramblings

APRIL 5, 2023

Each year since 2021, the Decolonising Geography group put together a pick of sessions at the Geographical Association Annual Conference, which have the potential to progress the geography teaching profession the most, with a healthy focus on decolonising education. If you are attending this year’s conference (GAConf23) either online or in person, download this shortlist of sessions.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

Here’s how decisions about schools are usually made: The same insiders call the shots behind closed doors, year after year. They make judgments about families and children based on limited data, rarely speaking to anyone directly. They write “strategic plans” that no one reads. Or, worse, they let politics prevail. These bad habits result in schools that don’t match the needs or wants of the students, families and communities they serve.

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ED Surge

APRIL 7, 2023

Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Then your institution has benefited from a quiet but powerful 20-year revolution of connecting edtech ecosystems.

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Education Elements

APRIL 4, 2023

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All Things Pedagogical

APRIL 2, 2023

CW: Death This week was a hard week for a lot of folk. And as I try to find the words to express what I want to say, and even thinking about what to say in this post yesterday, I was faced with the immensity of not enoughness. There are not enough words to describe how I feel; there are not enough words to the express the lacuna of not having Arley around any more.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 4, 2023

I spent the last year trying to find out how often students are transferred to a new school as a form of discipline, a practice that allows districts to effectively hide expulsions under a gentler name. Most people I spoke with described the process as an issue affecting adolescents. But toward the end of my reporting, I spoke with a researcher who said the practice is rampant in preschool.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2023

What if you’re a new first grade teacher, and you realize the classroom methods you’re using to teach your students to read just aren’t working. And then you discover that these teaching approaches have been proven ineffective for many kids, but are still used anyway. A new documentary film follows a teacher in just that situation, as well as other educators in Oakland, California, who have banded together to advocate that school systems there and across the country be required to offer only rea

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2023

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Melissa Knapp is Harpeth Valley Elementary School’s only literacy coach. It’s her job to guide teachers on how to help struggling readers at the 600-student school. She’s always busy, but this year, Knapp is fielding more questions than usual. This story also appeared in The Washington Post Only a few months remain before Tennessee third-grade students take a state reading test — students who don’t pass could be held back a year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Community colleges can help lift students into the middle class, but their enrollment has plummeted and their dropout rates are high. When Santos Enrique Camara arrived at Shoreline Community College in Washington State to study audio engineering, he quickly felt lost. This story also appeared in The Associated Press “It’s like a weird maze,” remembered Camara, who was 19 at the time and had finished high school with a 4.0 grade-point average.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

SALINAS, Puerto Rico — There was little her family could salvage. Just a few plastic chairs, some photos, her school uniform. This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.

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