A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Cross-posted at The Educator''s Royal Treatment. As I mentioned in a previous post I have been working on a educational technology presentation for principals in a NJ school district. Principals can use social media for communication, public relations, branding, professional development, and opportunity.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 2, 2010

Geoffrey Canada hits on something that all schools and educators need to reflect upon and that is the need and desire to be better. My comments are not meant as a call to arms in support of better standardized test prep, but rather a holistic metamorphosis of teaching and learning practices.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 8, 2013

Similar to FedEx days discussed by Dan Pink in Drive, my teachers have been given the opportunity to follow their passions, unleash their creativity, and deliver a learning portfolio that illustrates professional growth to enhance teaching and learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 4, 2024

Let’s now dive into the most popular myths that hold educators back when it comes to personalization. Myth 1: Technology is needed to personalize Years ago, almost every educational technology company jumped on the personalized learning bandwagon and hailed it as a holy grail for improving outcomes.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2012

This has resulted in the reduction of staff, larger class sizes, lack of follow through to repair aging buildings, and the inability to keep up with purchasing and replacing educational technology. This is why the time is now for districts and schools to seriously consider developing a Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) initiative.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

Probably the most significant impact, either 1:1 or BYOD can have is in the area of teaching digital responsibility, citizenship, and the creation of positive footprints online. After all, in the real world that we are preparing our students for, technological literacies and proficiencies are the cornerstones of numerous career paths.

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APRIL 8, 2025

Only one in eight programs give elementary school teachers enough time to learn the math content they teach, according to a recent study by the National Council on Teacher Quality, which reviewed more than 1,100 teacher prep programs around the country. The aim is to give teachers a deeper grasp of the content and more practice teaching it.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2013

Social Media is bad and has no place in education. It is a distraction to the teaching and learning process. Worse, teachers will spend countless hours “socializing” instead of educating. It also teaches them about how social media can be used responsibly, to support learning, and as a professional tool.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

When moving to initiate sustainable change that will cultivate innovation acquire necessary resources, provide support (training, feedback, advice), empower educators through a certain level of autonomy, communicate effectively, and implement a shared decision-making practice. That and being digitally resilient.

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NOVEMBER 18, 2024

We should innovate to leverage emerging technology, getting data back at nearly the speed of teaching and learning. How can assessment data effectively inform instructional decisions and support professional development for educators? This rich data will enhance our understanding of classroom dynamics.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

The resulting article described New Milford High School’s many accomplishments pertaining to the use of educational technology to enhance the teaching and learning process. Value One of the drawbacks to educational technology is the perceived lack of value it has in terms of student learning and achievement.

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MARCH 19, 2025

In the 2021-2022 academic year, the Ohio Department of Education and Workforce found more than 43,000 individuals with active teaching credentials were not employed as teachers or staff members in a public school. Our principal recruits and advertises open teaching positions only to receive zero applications most of the time.

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DECEMBER 4, 2024

In our district now, we talk about designing, teaching and learning to the edges , which is our personalized approach. This involved professional development, providing space for collaboration, sharing best practices and challenges, and offering administrative support. Calvert: We follow the data as a district.

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Digital Promise

MAY 13, 2021

Online Teaching, Technology, and Learner Variability : Teachers with a high degree of comfort with technology are significantly less likely than others to say the pandemic has worsened their ability to work with each student’s individual learner variability. Edtech and Professional Development.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 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. Effective technology integration as a means to promote student creativity, apply knowledge, and increase engagement in the classroom.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 6, 2010

Let me begin by saying that I was absolutely honored that various members of my Professional Learning Network (PLN) and the greater educational community reached out to me to address administrators looking to embrace social media, plan an educational technology conference at my school, and discuss leadership in the digital age.

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MARCH 27, 2025

We've seen fast growth of state pilots, professional development programs that are state supported, standards revisions, Drozda says, [and] the curriculum market for data science and data literacy and AI literacy is growing quite quickly. The easy thing to do is develop a class.

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OCTOBER 30, 2024

I hope that making my story of invisibility visible to those who may understand my struggle will help fellow educators of color feel seen, heard, valued, and, more importantly, retained in the classroom. Who Am I in Education? Soon after, I began my first summer professional development at a school in the neighborhood I grew up in.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

Hundreds of educators from over seven different states and Canada will once again descend upon my school to learn together and network in an effort to move their respective school cultures down an innovative path. This was the case for teachers in my District as well as those throughout the Tri-State area.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As I engage with districts and schools regularly, they frequently inquire about ways to gauge the outcomes and efficacy of their innovative strategies, such as BYOD, 1:1, blended and personalized learning, classroom and school redesign, branding, makerspaces, and professional development.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

Professional Learning Communities (PLC''s): The district will be moving to this research-based model as our main means of professional development. More importantly, I will now be able to further assist my teachers in their quest to become better educators. Classroom Walkthrough educational technology PLC TSETC'

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 14, 2012

As a social studies teacher, being asked to take a professional development trip to Washington DC is an extremely exciting offer. 21st Century Teaching educational technology New Milford High School Nicolette Perna Rebecca Millan' For more information on this event check out the summary provided by ISTE.

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JANUARY 23, 2025

Robinsons job is really about helping educators to sort through what she calls math trauma, an aversion caused by their own bad experiences in the subject. Teachers with math anxiety spend fewer hours teaching it in the classroom, so its important to end that cycle now, Robinson says. Or they prefer reading and literacy over math.

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AUGUST 22, 2024

Nationally, there aren’t enough bilingual educators , or educators certified to teach English as a second language (ESL). For rural school districts inexperienced in providing multilingual education, said Hansen-Thomas, professional development is the place to begin. Hansen-Thomas also points to the U.S.

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APRIL 9, 2025

GenerationAI Coalition Partners: Center for Black Educator Development Computer Science Teachers Association Indigitize Latinos for Education National Education Association Playlab A focus on equity and fairness must thoughtfully address the circumstances and backgrounds of all the students in our schools.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Educators could then use those badges to build and communicate their own reputations to their colleagues and to senior staff, capturing a complete picture of their own professional development for others to see. Educators should be comfortable teaching, working, and learning in an increasingly connected global digital society.

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Edthena

MARCH 25, 2025

“Classroom observational videos are a very helpful tool for improving teaching skills and yet assessing them is an incredibly time-consuming task,” said Peter Youngs , principal investigator of the grant and professor at the UVA School of Education and Human Development. Do you want to get involved?

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NOVEMBER 6, 2023

She had her students put their devices away when they entered her classroom and continued teaching the same way she had for the last two decades. Stamey is not alone in her initial reluctance to use technology in her classroom. The inconvenient truth, however, is that it is not easy to come by high-impact professional development.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

Other major responsibilities include evaluations, budget preparation, development of action plans, mentoring, and professional development. I blog as a means to reflect on my work as an educational leader and to open up my ideas to elicit constructive feedback from a global collection of exemplary educators.

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MARCH 26, 2025

Providing professional development opportunities that focus on culturally responsive teaching practices and the unique needs of gifted Black boys is essential. Educators should be equipped with the tools and knowledge to recognize and support the potential of all students, regardless of their background.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2023

That’s the argument of Peter Liljedahl, a professor of mathematics education at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, who has spent years researching what works in teaching. Liljedahl has developed a strategy for teaching that he says greatly improves how many students in a class are actually thinking about course material.

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FEBRUARY 3, 2025

It all ties back to professional development. I dont expect teachers to be curriculum developers I want them to be curriculum implementers. Additionally, we must elevate the level of respect for the teaching profession. We track where children are while ensuring our curriculum is highly integrated and intertwined.

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SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

York found that TeachFX listened to her very carefully, and generated a detailed feedback report on her specific teaching style. I rarely ever get feedback on my teaching style. Bubbling right under the surface is a key question: Can AI help teachers teach better? Teaching is hard.

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JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

When Steven Chan founded Goodnotes, he was a student at the time, and so his commitment to understanding the teaching and learning experiences of the community he built was essential to his mission, which is to revolutionize the way ideas are shaped and amplified.

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MARCH 7, 2023

There’s a growing market for the convenience, accurate feedback and interaction that voice-based AI reading tools provide, due to the unprecedented fall in NAEP reading scores across the country coupled with mounting concerns about modern strategies for teaching literacy.

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APRIL 2, 2025

While progress has been made in building open architectures and pipelines like LDRA, theres still much work ahead: Fostering Trust: Faculty need assurance that analytics are meant to support not judge their teaching practices.

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