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Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 8, 2023

Inclusion is essential for special education (SPED) because it promotes the social and academic development of students with disabilities, fosters a sense of belonging, and prepares them for life outside of school. Collaboration among educators, positive behavior support, and peer interactions are crucial.

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Teaching Junior High Professional Development Leadership

Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. It starts at the top with leadership. One thing is for certain: learning is not linear.

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Junior High Pedagogy Professional Development Leadership

When Growth is the Only Path Forward

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 5, 2023

Truth be told, when it comes to education, there is no perfection, no matter where quantitative and qualitative metrics reside. Authentic leadership is being honest and vulnerable about where you are to help others get to where they need and want to be to succeed. Why are our practices effective or not? How can we improve?

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Junior High Cultures Leadership Tradition

Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

for feedback in his synthesis of 800 meta-analyses of education research studies. It was found that feedback ranked among the highest of hundreds of education practices he studied. Think about all the conversations that educators have with learners on a daily basis. Review of Educational Research (Vol 77, No1).

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Junior High Leadership Cultures Research

Improvement is a Never-Ending Process

A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

While you can read specifics by clicking on the hyperlinks above, the one common thread has been a collective belief held by all educators that improvement was and always will be a natural component of teaching, learning, and leadership. My work with Quest Academy Junior High School (UT) validates why change succeeds or fails.

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Junior High Pedagogy Leadership Humanities

Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

Board of Education , finding segregated schools inherently unequal. Still, to those orchestrating the integration process, this first year of limited integration succeeded well enough, and plans were made to send other carefully chosen black students into the elementary and junior high schools in September 1965.

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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. This story also appeared in Wyoming Public Media. “I Ultimately, the bill failed.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. The person who really helped me along this journey has been educational technologist Jaime Donally.

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EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. he Brown v.

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How one Mississippi district made integration work

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Zach Osborn, teacher at Clinton High School. Board of Education mandated the end of segregated schooling, Mississippi’s children still largely attend schools identifiable by race. For the first few years, white students refused to elect black students to the homecoming court and to leadership positions, for example.

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The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

educational inequality, concluded that if desegregation were to work anywhere in the Deep South, it would be in this town, an oasis of tolerance and pragmatic gentility in the Mississippi Delta, the blackest, poorest, “most southern place on earth.”. Board of Education decision in 1954. “If Department of Education.

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The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

In this series we profile vulnerable children whose education was already precarious and how the disease has exacerbated gaps in opportunities and resources for communities already on the edge. Still, he was held back twice, in fifth grade and again in junior high. “It Instead, he just operates with quiet leadership.”.

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Switching sides in the teacher wars

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

Tulsa Public Schools Superintendent Deborah Gist presents a Golden Apple Award to Dr. Abraham Kamara at Memorial Junior High School. According to the most recent available Department of Education figures, Oklahoma spends less money per pupil than all but three states. Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report.

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Inclusion and Co-Teaching in the Personalized Classroom

Unlocking the Spectrum of Learning: The Multi-Faceted Magic of Personalization

When Growth is the Only Path Forward

Better Feedback for Deeper Learning

Improvement is a Never-Ending Process

Implementing Brown v. Board of Education: One Southern Town’s Story

The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

How one Mississippi district made integration work

The anonymous town that was the model of desegregation in the Civil Rights era

The ‘Katrina-to-Covid Class’: How the coronavirus era affects New Orleans students more acutely

Switching sides in the teacher wars

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