A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

is an Assistant Professor of Educational Psychology at Queens College, CUNY. His research focuses on the effective usage of social media, texting and other digital technologies with enhancing instruction and learning. Also, his research looks at race, social class, and gender in educational settings.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2017

“We don’t know who is choosing it and who is pulling the strings,” said Luis (known as Adrian) Manzano-Anzures, a student at Warren, Michigan’s Macomb Community College, who spoke last month on a panel at EduCon 2.9 , an annual conference about education and technology at Philadelphia’s Science Leadership Academy, a public magnet school.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 12, 2012

Smartphones and Internet accessible devices have been used by students to conduct web-based research, take notes using Evernote , manage work through Google Docs or Dropbox , organize their assignments on their calendars, and develop projects with a variety of other tools. Mobile learning devices (i.e. tools such as Poll Everywhere and Celly.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 6, 2015

Research by Cristol and Gimbert (2013) found that students utilizing mobile learning devices scored, on average, 52.34 At the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE) my team and I work with schools and districts to get mobile learning initiatives right before an all out rollout.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

What amazes me is that at the same time they ‘lead’ as though they are oblivious to current research and best practices regarding organizations, systems, and high quality leadership. Educational technology hasn’t [yet] made deep, lasting changes on schooling. How to help them? via [link]. Related Posts. Moon shots.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Their researchers found that while girls who say they’re interested in STEM grew by 10 percentage points to 55 percent, compared to survey results five years prior, the number of girls who describe themselves as confident or smart enough to earn their dream job has plummeted. “We

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ED Surge

JUNE 21, 2023

He engaged in the Advancing Secondary Writing initiative led by Digital Promise’s Center for Inclusive Innovation , recognizing the importance of involving students directly in the research and development (R&D) process. The result was a life-changing experience for the students and the adults.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

They do this by mapping courses and activities to institutional competencies: critical thinking, analytical thinking, communication, social awareness and responsibility, creativity and innovation, and leadership and collaboration. “We

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Since May 2020, he has led Marlin ISD, transforming it from what he calls the states best-kept secret to a shining example of educational excellence in Texas and beyond. EdSurge: Marlin ISD has shown remarkable academic growth under your leadership. One persistent challenge is that research, while invaluable, is ever-changing.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

I saw this post a while back in an educational technology forum: I have been given roughly an hour for PD on January 4th to work with teachers on anything that I’d like. My boss mostly likes for me to introduce new tools to teachers during these opportunities. ” Does it really matter what this technology integration coach does?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. Its the best-kept secret in education, to be a school librarian, Rhue says with pride. My mantra now is: I'm a successful educator and businesswoman. I'm an educator. That's what I do.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

Although the idea is relatively new in education, many schools tried a different version of it – evaluating and paying teachers based on how much their students’ test scores improved – in the 2010s. The researchers and districts shared ideas on how to set performance targets.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

“I worked as an administrator for 10 years, so I think about edtech from both sides — both how an administrator makes decisions about edtech tools, but also how we can support our teachers,” Ballard shared in a focus group that was part of a larger project designed to better understand the gap between teaching practices and technology use.

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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. But overall, EdSurge articles that highlighted educators experiences and called for more connection gripped readers all year. They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning.

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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 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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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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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The program promised to recruit the best teachers in the world to provide engaging lessons to students and the school felt technology could do it better. Coming into my new leadership position, I began to untangle what was happening in classrooms and dove deeper into the promise of edtech and why schools considered it “high-quality.”

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

There is no one who knows what students need more than us.” — Angelica Martinez, 2023 Graduate, Sunnyside Unified School District (AZ) Historically, research institutions, education entrepreneurs and technology developers have led the research and development (R&D) of education programs and tools.

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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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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). I had met George Bengel at the NYSCATE Leadership Symposium this summer and personally reached out to him about presenting at TSETC.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2024

A recent survey from EY research shows that 71 percent of employees with knowledge of artificial intelligence are concerned about it. Considering how AI has rapidly entered education conversations, teachers and administrators are certainly represented in this statistic. If you’re reading this, you might have AI anxiety.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

And what—if anything—can we glean from the number of former educators in the leadership ranks of edtech companies? Do they need to see former educators in leadership positions to be sold on the product? How much influence do teachers have on the edtech tools they use? The short answer is—it depends.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 22, 2023

New research suggests one way to consider the question: by looking at how the mix of students in a given course affects their grades. Researchers were able to look through grades for every course taken by students of different personal backgrounds. The study was conducted using administrative data from 20 colleges.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 6, 2019

There is lots of value in this book and a great deal of information that validates what we know about good leadership and strong school organizations. They are: Leadership and school culture lay the foundation. Tom and Eric back these up with a variety of research studies to support the importance of each one.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 23, 2021

Since its inception, Digital Promise has been researching and designing approaches, in partnership with school districts across the country, to enable schools and teachers to create and implement strategies to support learner variability , an initiative currently led by our Chief Learning Officer, Vic Vuchic. Department of Education.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

We have made great strides to level the technology playing field in education, but unfortunately the digital divide still exists between those who have the tools to research, learn and collaborate online at home, and those who don’t. Video Courtesy of Redwood City School District. Accessed 29 Sep.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 31, 2024

It is not lost upon me that schools are complex organizations with a wide variety of experiences, yet there were many similarities shared among my peers who co-created the healing circles with EdSurge Research and the Abolitionist Teaching Network. Research by Barbara C. Professor of public health and African American Studies David R.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 24, 2021

Holding learning technologies accountable. With increased federal support to fund technologies in the classroom, expand broadband access, and put devices in the hands of more students, education technology continues to play an important role in the lives of educators and students.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

And the list included an interview with a Nobel prize winner about his research to improve science instruction; a set of reader responses to our coverage of “math wars”; and a look at what’s keeping teachers from embracing edtech. When teachers are promoted to leadership positions, Fuller says, they need support to do their jobs effectively.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

And a slightly higher percentage of nonwhite teachers than white ones—45 percent vs. 42 percent—said that they were considering leaving their position last school year, researchers at the University of Arkansas’ College of Education & Health Professions found. identify as people of color, compared with more than half of students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 19, 2022

I say a few affirmative words aloud to center myself, then I reach into a drawer and pull out a small bottle of lavender aromatherapy that my leadership team gave me as a “wellness gift.” Our leadership team knew we were run down so they began planning a strategy to boost morale and prioritize staff well-being. The problem?

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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. Director of Research and Program Evaluation. ” Larry White.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2023

It was “just for fun” at first, but has since evolved into a research project four years running. sabocat #superintendentkevin #teachersoftiktok ♬ Wii - Mii Channel - Super Guitar Bros Over the years, White has standardized her research gathering process. Women and men are not represented equally in the education field.

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ED Surge

JULY 6, 2022

That in itself is a source of stress for them, said Sy Doan, an associate policy researcher at RAND and co-author of the recent report on principal well-being. We are an inch deep and a mile wide in education right now, spread way too thin,” Davis-Vaught said.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

Earlier this month, ACF announced the launch of the National Early Care and Education Workforce Center — the ECE Workforce Center, for short — to support research and technical assistance for states, communities, territories and tribal nations. In order to recruit and retain educators, you have to address compensation.

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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. Even after she got in — and was accepted to the university’s leadership scholarship program — she wasn’t sure if she was ready for the coursework.

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