A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

The title of this post is a well-known proverb that carries a great deal of weight during times of adversity, struggle, or uncertainty. I don’t know of a single person who really wants to take on more work, especially during a pandemic. Pie in the sky strategies, fluffy concepts that are dead on arrival because they ignore critical context or lengthy books with little tangible examples do little to alleviate stress.

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TeachThought

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Project-based learning needs in the 21st century include socialization, elegant curation, research, pivot points, and other considerations. The post 8 Things Students Need In Modern Project-Based Learning appeared first on TeachThought.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

With science and technology jobs expected to grow twice as fast as other occupations over the next decade amid rapidly shifting demographics , creating a robust and diverse pipeline into STEM fields is essential to ensuring U.S. competitiveness and working toward racial equity. But neither will happen unless we address the fundamental gatekeeper to all STEM fields: undergraduate calculus.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“The educators who had the greatest impact on me as a youth recognized my personhood by actively developing a relationship with me, challenged their explicit and implicit biases in visible ways, and valued multiple perspectives within their classroom.” – Maima Chea Simmons, Black Girls’ Literacies. Culturally responsive education is not a one-size-fits-all approach.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

College took a back seat the moment Izzy B. called the suicide hotline. This story also appeared in The Guardian. Izzy, 18, had spent her senior year of high school online. Then she’d gone straight to online summer school at a local community college near Denver. When in-person classes there started this past fall, she was glad to be back in the classroom and finally experiencing some real college life.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Thinking about how to support teacher leadership in your school? You’ll want to hear from Suzanne McGahey and Valerie Minor from the Keller Independent School District (TX). The two school leaders presented at the Learning Forward 2021 Annual Conference in Dec. 2021 and shared how they use video to build teacher leadership pathways. Watch the full presentation above, and read on for highlights, including how video helped set the stage for goal setting and reflection.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Tell me about your dog. What type is it? What color is it? How much does it weigh? If you’ve got a cat, same questions apply. What’s the dog-to-cat ratio in your classroom (or office or home)? If you’re able to answer these, that’s how you teach data science to third graders—taking what seem like complex or abstract concepts and applying them to tangible elements in students’ lives.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Like chief financial officers at universities and colleges everywhere, David Jewell is having a stressful winter. This story also appeared in NBC News. The senior vice president for business affairs and finance at Cleveland State University, Jewell is trying to constrain any tuition increase for next year at the same time that inflation is pushing up costs and staff shortages are forcing wages and benefits higher.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Over the last 10 years, we have seen a significant shift in how educators access and leverage instructional materials to guide instruction. As many states adopted new, more rigorous standards, curriculum providers rushed to create materials that would prepare students for college and career and state assessments. Though it took time, the current market for high-quality instructional materials (HQIM) is strong and presents states, districts, and educators with a different set of challenges.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

As schools become more focused on continuous improvement and the development of growth mindsets, educators continue to evaluate how they can assess their students' learning to better inform instructional practices. This is foundational to both teachers and their administrators. How can we personalize things that have historically been standardized to see if they meet every individual learner’s needs?

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

There are MANY edtech products out there, and that’s why we are so excited to share that Edthena was named a 2022 Top EdTech Product of the Year by District Administration. This annual award recognizes the most innovative solutions that are helping leaders meet the ever-evolving education technology needs of their districts and schools. For 2022, the Edthena Video Coaching platform was chosen as one of only fifteen products to earn the Top Edtech Product title.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

“Mamá, ¿sabe en dónde puedo encontrar pasantías?” (“Mom, do you know where I can find internships?”), I ask. “No sé … pregúntale a la consejera de escuela o a tu maestra. Ellas te van a poder ayudar más porque tienen más información.” (“I don’t know… ask your school counselor or your teacher. They will be able to help you more because they have more information”), she replies.

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Education Elements

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

This upcoming Sunday, many Americans will extend the yearly tradition of watching the last two NFL teams compete for the coveted Vince Lombardi Trophy. As a loyal Philadelphia Eagles fan myself, I am not too interested in the game this year, since it features the LA Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals. What I am excited about most is the halftime show - this year featuring Dr.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

A politician in the Midwest recently told a state committee that schools shouldn’t be allowed to teach kids about feelings or emotions. A group of Virginia parents demanded to review their school’s online social-emotional learning curriculum, convinced the school was hiding something. In the south, a state department told employees to refrain from even using the phrase social-emotional learning.

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Transcending Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

My poetry class – new course for me – is off to an amazing start. So, I’m sharing it all: what I did, how it went, what my poets had to say about it. I’ve worked hard on opening days / weeks of all my courses because they set a tone, establish motifs, build community, and generate intrigue. This one was no exception, and I need to get it down “on paper” for the record for me, and to share with you.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

When I first took on the role of president at the University of Montana nearly four years ago, my chief of staff mused that I’d need to draw upon a reservoir of endurance in the face of many tests ahead. As a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer, I quipped, “I’ve lived for extended periods of time in places where I was surrounded by people who wanted to kill me.”.

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Rockin Resources - Social Studies

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Are you looking for information on George Washington to a Revolutionary War unit or President’s Day? I did a little research for you and now you can share some facts along with a free timeline download on – Who was George Washington? George Washington (1732-1799) was the first president of the United States. He also. The post Who was George Washington?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

It was fall 2020, and here I was, sitting at my computer in tears. I had just received a notice from my school about the push for teachers and leaders to return to school for in-person learning. The email highlighted a “hybrid plan” that involved teachers rotating in and out of the building on specific days and periods. In theory, the rotations were logistically sound.

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Leah Cleary

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

I’d like to discuss digital burnout and how to help remedy it and create meaningful lessons for students by blending paper and digital. The key is to do it in a consistent and organized fashion. You may know that I’ve been blending for a while–mixing digital and paper into my lessons, but for the past year and a half, most of us had to go completely digital.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

En las décadas de 1970 y 80, grupos que consistían mayormente de cristianos fundamentalistas de la raza blanca estuvieron al frente de un aumento en el número de familias en el país que educaban en casa. A la vez que sacaban a sus hijos de las escuelas públicas, trabajaban para desmantelar las medidas reguladoras a nivel local y estatal que obligaban a los niños a estar presentes físicamente en las escuelas.

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Rockin Resources - Social Studies

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Celebrating President’s Day? Or maybe you’re teaching the character trait of honesty? Don’t forget to give your kiddos details on Abe Lincoln! I did a little research for you and now you can share some facts along with a free timeline download on – Who was Abe Lincoln? Abraham Lincoln (February 12, 1809-April 15, 1865). The post Who was Abe Lincoln?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

It is impossible not to give a piece of your heart to each student who comes into your classroom. If you are an educator, you know this truth. When tragedy strikes, you feel it in your chest. I was given nothing, except for the news that my student was gone and a reminder to talk to someone if I needed it. Here I was, a young teacher with little experience dealing with trauma, much less helping others through it.

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Civics U

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The previous article described the governments and economies of Russia, China, and Saudi Arabia. The countries differ from one another and from the United States in the amount of citizen participation and control allowed, and in the degree to which citizens control the government and the government controls the citizens. Each of the governments owns or governs the country’s resources and means of production in some way to provide for and also to limit people’s access to needed goods and services

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Somewhere in Indiana, I ran into a ghost of the Queens grandmother who brought down a schools chancellor more than 25 years ago — all over a book called “Heather Has Two Mommies.”. The story of a fictional little girl named Heather with two moms enraged conservative families , who were dead-set against a Rainbow curriculum that included teaching social issues in classrooms.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Nearly 16,000 child care programs across 37 U.S. states have permanently closed since the pandemic began, representing a 9 percent decline in the total number of licensed child care providers, according to a new report published this month by Child Care Aware of America. Though perhaps less severe than some of the worst-case scenarios laid out in early 2020, the loss of thousands of providers reflects an ever-worsening crisis in the field of early care and education, accelerated by—but not origi

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 5, 2022

The following is the latest installment of the Toward Better Teaching advice column. You can pose a question for a future column here. Reader Question: Dear Bonni, I know it is important to be able to address the needs of diverse learners. However, how do I know how inclusive I am in my teaching? —Someone who wants to live out my values in practice There is a key difference between an educator saying they want to meet the needs of diverse learners and that instructor actually taking the actions

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It’s a tough time to be a teacher. They’re burned out , they’re demoralized , they’re facing hostility from parents , they’re not paid very well , and they’re either dreading or dreaming of a return to remote learning —a decision that most of them don’t have the power to control. Meanwhile, it’s a tough time to be a college student, too. Student loans are scary.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

It seemed like the minute hand on the clock was stuck. “When will this PD end so I can get back to lesson planning and grading student work?” I thought to myself in silent desperation. Then, I followed up with a pledge: “When I am a principal, I am not going to do this to my staff.” For those who have been educators for any length of time, I’m sure this is a familiar scenario.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

What does it take for a university to be excellent—but not exclusionary? That’s one of the key questions raised by the book “ Broke: The Racial Consequences of Underfunding Public Universities.” It takes a close look at the challenges and goals of two colleges in California that primarily serve America’s “new majority”—that is, students who may be the first in their families to seek higher education, who are people of color and who are often low-income—and that also have grand ambitions to be to

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