A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 1, 2012

Greg also conducts workshops at K-12 schools and universities and mentors doctoral students and administrators in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. I visited Eric’s High School on February 24 th to observe Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) and his implementation of a contemporary learning environment. I was impressed.

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MARCH 10, 2013

Steve visited New Milford High School on Thursday February 28, 2013. NMHS routinely hosts visits from outside educators, schools, and organizations in an effort to provide insights on our initiatives. It is also interesting that at New Milford High School, there are no mandates for teachers to use technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. As a result, I have seen my own knowledge increase in these areas, participated in exciting professional development opportunities, presented at both my school and at other events on web 2.0,

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

As the school year comes to an end at New Milford High School, I can’t help but begin to think about sustaining the many changes that have taken place over the past few years as well as identifying other areas where change is needed. Change educational leadership educational technology Innovation Opinion'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I feel fortunate that the administration and staff of New Milford High School is made up of people who care for their students and are committed to education. They are dedicated to our school, and they continue to look for ways to improve and modernize the classroom. What do you think of Meredith''s post?

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

The more I read about others'' thoughts on this and reflect on the BYOD program we have instituted at New Milford High School, I am beginning to think that 1:1 programs are not necessarily the best option for our students. The general case I make for 1:1 programs above is compelling, but is it the best option for our students today?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2013

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 19, 2013. Hundreds of educators from over ten different states and Canada descended upon my school last year to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Not enough schools are truly integrating technology into instruction, as well as encouraging students to bring their own technology to school. Recently, I made my way to New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ. Also, his research looks at race, social class, and gender in educational settings.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

That is one of the questions and challenges at the center of a recently released report based on the Girls’ Index, a survey of 17,500 girls in fifth through 12th grades that includes questions about their goals for the future and perception of science, technology, engineering and mathematics as potential careers.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 13, 2012. Edscape evolved out of the need to provide educators with relevant, meaningful professional development focusing on digital learning and innovation that was in dire need for many.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2014

I stress the fact that we now have a plethora of free tools that compel leaders, or all educators for that matter, to become the storyteller-in-chief. Regardless of whether the stories are being penned by myself, my staff, or the students of New Milford High School , we have done just that at NMHS.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2010

The next week off will enable us to recharge our batteries and continue our efforts to make New Milford High School a model for innovation and student-centered learning. The success of the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC) held here this fall played a huge role in this movement.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

There was even a comment on the Facebook page that I manage for my high school stating that I spend too much time on Twitter. For me, time will never be used as an excuse to streamline communications, share the many great things going on at my school, critically analyze educational issues, reflect, and model life-long learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

Possibly one of the most important shifts needed in schools is to provide individualized and personalized learning experiences to students. Learning has fundamentally changed with the evolution of the Internet and other technologies that allow for ubiquitous access to information and knowledge.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. Throughout my educational journey, I couldn't help but notice the lack of diversity in GATE programs.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

The conversations in kindergarten look different from those in high school. Infographic] Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science At the start, you really need leadership support and the ability, resources and culture to innovate. We have a K-12 continuum that breaks down what this looks like at each grade band.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

When people outside of school ask you what you do say, at a social event how do you describe your work? My mantra now is: I'm a successful educator and businesswoman. I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. My focus is on charter schools, multiliteracies and school librarianship.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 6, 2016

The headline at eSchool News reads ‘ This online high school could change education ’ (a slight modification of the original headline at the Santa Cruz Sentinel ). I read the claims that Silicon Valley High School will provide a ‘five star education.’ Education in a digital world [VIDEO].

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ED Surge

APRIL 2, 2025

Suzanne Carbonaro Vice President of Postsecondary Education & Workforce Programs, 1EdTech To discuss how institutions can turn raw data into real impact, EdSurge spoke with Suzanne Carbonaro, Vice President of Post-Secondary Education and Workforce Programs at 1EdTech Consortium (1EdTech).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. School administrator Sarah Wright shares her thoughts on a trauma-informed approach to leadership. They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. Here's What Does.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 3, 2010

On a crisp, sunny Saturday morning in October, approximately 400 passionate educators congregated at New Milford High School for the Tri-State Educational Technology Conference (TSETC). New Milford High School alumnus Erica Hartman covered over 20 free tools that any teacher could easily use in the classroom.

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ED Surge

JULY 24, 2024

During her first semester at Southern Methodist University, Savannah Hunsucker went on a retreat with the other students enrolled in her leadership scholars program. For example, they visited 1,100 rural high schools in 49 states, with many trips including a dozen or so admissions officers carpooling in minivans.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Incomplete data was a common problem The first school district in the pilot group launched its outcome-based contract in the fall of 2021. In the middle of the pilot, school leadership changed, layoffs hit, and the leaders of the tutoring initiative left the district.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

As a 2022 fellow of The National Fellowship for Black and Latino Male Educators, I attend an annual retreat designed to provide fellows and alumni with support and resources so we can all reach the common goal of becoming education leaders. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr.,

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Despite the setback, I believe there is still a way for students to re-engage in school, support their communities and learn leadership skills. After taking a closer look at the social emotional learning (SEL) framework, it is clear there is a connection between SEL and service learning that educators can use and nurture.

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ED Surge

JULY 6, 2022

It’s been extremely difficult,” said Michael Brown, a high school principal in Westminster, Maryland, and president of the Maryland Association for Secondary School Principals. We are an inch deep and a mile wide in education right now, spread way too thin,” Davis-Vaught said.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. It seems like it’s really built for high school students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Access to technology for all students is a major goal for many schools, companies, and organizations—yet access is only part of the equation. Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

In partnership with the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN) and the State Education Technology Directors Association (SETDA), we hosted a roundtable with district and organizational leaders to understand how students with learning differences were supported during remote learning necessitated by the pandemic, and to imagine the future.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 11, 2022

On March 18th, 2020, my principal pulled me into a meeting with the superintendent, principals, and assistant principals from other high schools in the district. The first words out of my principal’s mouth were, “we may have to close the school down for a few days.” AVIHS follows an independent study model of schooling.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

Ramos would connect to the library’s Wi-Fi — sometimes on her cellphone, sometimes using her family’s only laptop — to complete assignments and submit essays or tests for her classes at Skyline High School. As of February, the city had provided nearly 36,000 laptops and more than 11,500 hot spots to low-income public school students.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 26, 2022

Educator Stacey Roshan believes that when schools prioritize students who are most vocal and quickest to raise their hand, the perspectives of too many are lost. When Roshan was in high school, she feared the moment she might be called on in class. Let’s take a trip back to high school.

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Before the pandemic, orientation leaders typically held leadership positions in high school, as a club president, for example, Brister says. Journey leaders, as CU’s orientation leaders are called, now attend an eight-week leadership course to prepare them for orientation.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

The interest in revamping grades has been slowly growing over the past decade, but it got a boost in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic, when many schools and teachers were more forgiving on deadlines and more open to experimenting with formal systems to try to better meet the challenges students were facing in their family lives.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2022

So, at this point, if there’s a school district that says we can’t figure out how to get devices to our kids on time, we really need to look at the leadership in those districts. I don’t know how else to say it, because districts with good leadership are doing it. S: Let’s talk about leadership.

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