ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Only a few years ago, before the pandemic, finding a school district with a dedicated leadership position focused on data privacy was like spotting a “unicorn”—something so rare it was practically mythical. That was a signal from the highest levels of leadership saying that this is important, Corns says.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 20, 2022

I excelled academically, graduating 12th in my class, and serving as the first Latina president for the Student Government Association. I had to learn at a very young age how to adapt. Fortunately, I did. Later, I had the honor of being the first Latina to be inducted into my high school’s Hall of Fame.

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ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Moreover, for a goal that’s potentially as transformational as the war on cancer or putting a man on the moon, we need a national strategy that counters the inequities embedded in our local-tax-funded educational system, inequities that led to the COVID-19 pandemic disproportionately harming students of color and those from low-income communities.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Young people are often the face of powerful movements as they have the potential to break the systemic barriers embedded in the traditional education system by distributing leadership to the community. Likewise, youth can help educate school, district and state leaders on community needs and wants.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

The idea to reinvent the education system began about ten years ago, and enjoyed long-term support because people rallied around the idea that schools could help improve communities, Barry said. And the state’s leadership has remained consistent. “A Department of Education has the power to accept or reject state plans.

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

Recently, EdSurge spoke with John McGrath , Director of sales and strategy at Alight Solutions , where he specializes in the education and government sectors in the firm’s Workday Adaptive Planning practice. An educational institution's lifeblood is its faculty; getting their engagement early in the process is critical.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

School districts , colleges and government-sponsored programs are dedicating time and resources to diversifying their faculty and staff pipeline , but are we spending enough time focused on policies and programming that aid in retaining quality faculty and staff?

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ED Surge

AUGUST 12, 2022

This week, the Aspen Institute announced its 2022 Ascend fellows, a cohort of 22 individuals hailing from a range of disciplines including medicine, research, entrepreneurship, government and policy, and nonprofit leadership and advocacy. The local level is where the rubber meets the road.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

After nearly three years of disruption to learning caused by the pandemic, government funding has enabled many schools to invest in new devices and upgrade their technology infrastructure to accelerate learning and improve the education experience for all students. Yet, this is only a starting point.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Sachdeva transitioned from consulting with the Boston Consulting Group to developing solutions for early childhood education. He aspired to make high-quality education financially viable and scalable for a broader system. We also try to ensure that we're 50% female, including in leadership positions.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

They also spoke about the difference that supportive leadership made. How having dedicated time and resources to participate in these communities helped them prioritize their own continued development as educators of color and served to further ground them in the profession. after COVID-19.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

Witchet is now a pre-kindergarten teacher and recently wrapped up his master’s degree in education leadership. The federal government expressed some hope last year that mentorship and tutoring programs could play a role in helping students make up for academic ground lost during pandemic-forced remote schooling.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

“You gotta have the willingness of the leadership team to be flexible,” she said. “If If leadership sees the benefits, it allows for creativity to happen.” questions about how much flexibility educators and students really have to redesign their schools come up regularly, according to Hoffman, the district leader.

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ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

And that has implications for higher ed providers trying to promote non-degree programs as a way for people to get ahead in the workforce , as well as for government officials considering how to hold job-training programs accountable for student outcomes. This calls into question the value alternative credentials have for job seekers.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

The announcement led to a “lengthy and transparent national search” for Rhian Evans Allvin’s successor, says Ann McClain Terrell, NAEYC’s governing board president. The search committee included members of NAEYC state affiliates, public and private child care, Head Start, philanthropic communities and higher education faculty.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

“I like to have kids talk in class, to me and to each other, about how they’re trying to figure out a problem,” Young said in an interview, and that makes for an ambivalent relationship with education technology. That said, EL’s leadership now relies heavily on technology to spread Crew and expeditionary learning concepts more broadly.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

And the federal government now gives grants to colleges to support efforts that “take a systemic approach to improving outcomes for underserved students” by addressing their basic needs for food, housing, transportation, health care, child care and technology.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

government discovered Black literacy was directly linked to Black resistance against oppressive systems, it became costly to teach Black people to read and write, then it was criminalized. I first learned how the government weaponized literacy when I was a child. According to the Nat Turner Project , when our U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

In high school, I competed in statewide competitions with the Business Professionals of America , a student organization focused on career and leadership development, through which I learned how to receive feedback and how to lose with grace and maintain pride. The pressure and collaboration taught me the beauty of teamwork.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

We [didn’t] want this to be a Band-Aid fix,” said Jordan Mickens, a Leadership for Educational Equity public policy fellow who served as #OaklandUndivided’s project manager until August 2021. In 2017, he left teaching to work in education technology at Clever, a digital platform for schools. The homework gap isn’t new.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2023

The Settler Identity There are many teachers of color that can trace their arrivals - whether voluntarily or forced - back to lands occupied by the United States government. Still, there is much we have to unpack for ourselves for long-term, systemic change.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Aubrey Francisco (@aubreyfrancisco) September 22, 2016.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

Her takeaway: Fights over control of school leadership, including a takeover of Philadelphia schools by the state legislature in 2001, are more about politics than about improving education.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

A former superintendent of nearby Spring Branch Independent School District, he is now a professor of educational leadership and policy studies at the University of Houston. And doing worksheets in the library isn’t a reward for high-achievers, she added. Duncan Klussmann agreed with Yarborough’s assessment.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

I took 14 AP classes, had significant achievements and leadership roles in seven clubs, scored a 35 on the ACT, and took college courses during the summer so that I could graduate with my associate degree. So work I did. I got straight As—and even wrote a book advising other students how to do the same.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Curtatone encouraged Resnick and Duffy to take advantage of Massachusetts’ Innovation Schools provision, which offers public schools much of the flexibility charters enjoy without the independent governance that makes charter opponents bristle.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2023

Among the biggest barriers to making after-school programming more robust and widespread are insufficient government funding, staffing shortages, and in some areas, a lack of transportation.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2023

Gariecia Rose: a current World History and Government/American Law teacher at Glenbard East High School in Lombard, Illinois. This is her second year in the profession, and the Illinois State Board of Education recently recognized her as the 2023 Outstanding Teacher of the Year ! Victoria was in my U.S.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2022

In the last two years, while schools experienced more disruption and strain than in almost any other time in recent memory, education leaders have been broadcasting one message, loud and clear and often: Education cannot go back to normal. This moment presents a chance to move forward, not go back.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

The commission also proposed a career ladder that would provide classroom teachers with leadership opportunities without pulling them out of the classroom, as well as a rebalancing of the educator workday to include more time for educators to improve their instruction and plan lessons.

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ED Surge

APRIL 18, 2022

The challenging work of leadership will not get easier in this next chapter of American education, just different. To be clear, the federal government can’t solve all of the country’s education challenges, and we shouldn’t try. Yet here we are. States and local communities must lead the way.

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ED Surge

MARCH 24, 2022

These bills emerged as many state governments pushed to reopen schools amidst the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, despite numerous surveys indicating that teachers were more likely to leave the profession due to unsafe working conditions and burnout. Testify at a public hearing.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2022

And it hasn’t been conducted because, at least so far, there’s been very little incentive for education technology providers to prove their products do what they say they do. Some could even be “transforming” education, as promised. I think the expectation on the part of educators is there. Maybe not yet.”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 18, 2023

Congress regarding the importance of education. Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education,” stated President Kennedy. In his address, the president even spoke to the financial realities of higher education and institutional sustainability.

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ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

His words remind me that embracing the intrinsic value of the arts is indeed possible and there is potential for great momentum when leadership understands the impact of the arts on society.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Our two major political parties have gone back and forth about the size of government. And to me this is a slam dunk case for how we shrink the size of government. But at the state level, it is thrilling to me to see such strong leadership from the reddest of the red states and the bluest of the blue and everywhere in between.

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K-12 Government Humanities Leadership 128

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2017

Called Fuse RI, it is meant to nurture good ideas by having educators mentor teachers outside their own school districts and serve in leadership roles on administrative teams to help principals and superintendents plan how to use these new models of teaching and learning. There isn’t a strategy coming from D.C.,”

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