ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2025

This school year is unique as we just opened a new building with over 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, consolidating three different elementary and middle campuses from different neighborhoods across New York. While there are always challenges in leadership, opening a new facility brings its own set of twists and turns.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 21, 2022

In this new role, effective May 2, Gupta will oversee Digital Promise’s national program team and an expanding international portfolio in partnership with leading international education and education technology organizations.

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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. Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2023

He identifies two significant facets, with the first revolving around using AI as a tool to enhance learning, emphasizing personalized education and support. The second dimension pertains to teaching young individuals how to harness AI for their future careers, leadership roles and learning opportunities.

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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., This is a dilemma.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

School districts sent out requests for proposals from online tutoring companies. million contract with the Duval County Public Schools in Jacksonville, Florida, would be contingent upon student performance. Tutoring companies bid and the terms varied. One online tutoring company agreed that 40 percent of a $1.2

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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. Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist.

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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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Digital Promise

MAY 30, 2019

Now, we are pleased to present the first HP Spotlight School, William F. Halloran School No. 22 in Elizabeth Public Schools, New Jersey. HP Spotlight Schools Exemplify Powerful Learning. Visitors can expect to see innovative technology use with HP and Microsoft tools. District leadership nominated William F.

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Digital Promise

JULY 7, 2015

Jane is the associate superintendent for instruction at Lincoln Public Schools , Neb., a member of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools. Who are the people that enable a school system to bridge theory and practice? Did we have the right leadership structure in place? Baltimore County Public Schools.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Lusher, like America, has long had a teacher diversity problem : Slightly more than 20 percent of public school teachers—who include those at charter schools — in the U.S. Talbott was not the only teacher of color questioning their future at the school. Only 7 percent of teachers identify as Black. “A

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

During a panel discussion at 1EdTech’s Learning Impact Conference in Anaheim this summer, distinguished educators shed light on their districts' digital transformations and emphasized the crucial role of collaboration, professional development and buy-in to ensure the effective integration of technology and curriculum.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 14, 2023

By senior year, the dream is for students to have recovered from the trauma of homelessness and to have transitioned out, according to the school's leadership. The goal is to stabilize students enough to return to traditional schools, DeVries says. Some people are convinced that homeless-only schools are a bad idea.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

White was compiling a list of every public school district superintendent in the country, she began to notice something peculiar. In fact, there isn’t even an official count of the number of public school superintendents, according to AASA, the School Superintendents Association. Several years ago, when Rachel S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2016

For 15 years, student test results and graduation rates have served as the main measures of success – or failure – for public schools. Annual test scores in math and reading helped determine the future of teachers’ jobs, classroom funding and, in the most dire cases, whether or not a school remained open.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Equity-Based Edtech Adoption Many schools have turned the difficulties of adapting to remote and hybrid learning into opportunities to transform how they use technology and enable greater equity. Ultimately, the commitment to equity informed a successful approach to adoption and deployment of learning technology.

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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. District of Columbia Public Schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 20, 2023

At the time, I had just finished my Teach For America commitment at my placement school, Miami Northwestern Senior High School, where I had the benefit of working in a historically Black community at a public high school with a majority Black staff and leadership team with members who looked like me.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

While the data is incomplete because states release data at different times, it is evident that there are open teaching positions in public schools and districts are struggling to fill them. And public schools are not alone. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years. I’ve worked in six schools in seven years.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

Tacy Trowbridge Lead for Global Education Thought Leadership & Advocacy Adobe What importance does creativity play when it comes to college and career pathways? Whether high school graduates transition to college or a career, there is a good chance that they will tap into their creative skills.

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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. But she suspected that a private school or public school outside of Kansas might work well for her. That led her to apply to Southern Methodist University.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

This activity was part of a design workshop hosted by DC + XQ, a partnership between the city’s public schools and the nonprofit XQ Institute. school leaders said they’ve been taking for the past few years as they started their own efforts to rethink the city’s schools. Public Schools. In 2018, D.C.

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ED Surge

MAY 3, 2023

So says the Center for Education Market Dynamics, a nonprofit that provides information to school district leaders about products and services and that recently released a collection of case studies on tutoring programs. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 11, 2017

School leaders continue to report difficulty finding reliable evidence about ed tech efficacy. This panel will be an open discussion with adult educators and product developers who will share the process of experimenting and iterating as well as stories about their successes, their challenges, and their learnings.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 14, 2022

At the start of the pandemic, only 12 percent of low-income students , and 25 percent of all students, in Oakland’s public schools had devices at home and a strong internet connection. Once the pandemic hit, suddenly everyone was paying attention, said Silver, a former Oakland public school teacher and principal.

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ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

As a young Black queer woman in school leadership, embracing vulnerability has felt frightening at times. Our students deserve to have a school where they’re being challenged to learn about their own identities and the identities of others. When I model vulnerability and authenticity as a leader, I invite others to do the same.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

Resnick and Duffy had spent countless hours shepherding this school through the political thickets that all new public schools face. Tonight, the school committee would cast its votes. Tonight, the school committee would cast its votes. Their school day would last from 10 a.m.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 30, 2016

Or they might try to talk to other teachers on social media, perhaps in an education technology Twitter chat. These teachers might be on the right track, but they’re hampered if there isn’t a trailblazing school nearby that they can visit. Aaron Academy (“ReNEW DTA”) a non-selective charter school in New Orleans.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Our journey began in the Fall of 2015 with the convening of a Future Ready Leadership Team representing a cross-section of school and district leaders. The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 12, 2022

The morning after the news broke, however, Asian American educators across the country largely had to show up for work as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened. In one Philadelphia-area public school district, a K-8 teacher recalled, “We had an online morning meeting every day, and still, nothing was said in that morning meeting.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 15, 2023

Then, during the height of the pandemic and before our return to in-person instruction, an opportunity arose to apply for a school leadership position and I seized it. In July 2022, I became the principal of my high school. One one hand, it seemed like it could allow me to scale my work to the broader school community.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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ED Surge

APRIL 10, 2024

Then, the following week, there is a building leadership team meeting, which includes the principal and teacher leaders in the building, where they look through the data and determine areas of focus given their school improvement plan.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Many schools embrace technology in the classroom as a route to these students’ hearts. They see kids devouring video games and living on social media and find it obvious that they would also like educational technology. There have been highly publicized problems in some districts that have adopted the program.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

For no reason other than I wanted a change of scenery, I found myself in Metro Nashville Public Schools. As TFA cuts a quarter of its staff after reporting its lowest recruitment numbers in 15 years , I feel angry.

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