ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Jami Rhue thought her first stint as a school librarian would be a quick detour in her career as a classroom teacher. 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. So it was back to the bookshelves for her.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 107

Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2018

On Monday, July 9th, teachers and administrators from 10 schools gathered to kick off a year-long journey in the Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. Facilitated by Digital Promise and supported by the Grable Foundation, the cohort is composed of teachers and administrators from the following schools: Avalon Elementary School.

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Leadership Elementary School Middle School High School 89

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ individualization – Interrogating our instruction: An elementary school scenario. Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2020

I am pleased to note that I wrote up some ‘findings’ from those interviews as a chapter in Pamela Gaudet’s edited book, Like No Other School Year: 2020, COVID019, and the Growth of Online Learning , and also shared a few takeaways from my summer class on crisis leadership. Pamela asked me to write the chapter on leadership.

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Leadership Elementary School Middle School Teaching 110

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering groaned in disappointment when they saw the runny mess. Whittenberg Elementary School of Engineering prepare to drop a paper bag with an egg inside off a railing at the school during engineering week. AJ the robot is the school mascot at A.J.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2021

Or we could do: 1 introductory session for elementary school(s). 1 introductory session for middle school(s). 1 introductory session for high school(s). 1 session with examples of what this looks like in other schools. Podcast – How to take our leadership and teaching to new levels.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

” After extensive research, she decided that the path she wanted to pursue for her state was Educators Rising, which gets young people started on a path to teaching as early as middle school. “It takes years to be a great teacher,” Eckert says. And so it was just like, Oh wow. We got some stuff to fix.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 023 – Dhahran Middle School. Coronavirus Chronicles 027 – Marion-Walker Elementary School.

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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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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 11, 2020

I especially appreciated hearing about Butler Tech’s emphasis on distributed leadership and how your resilience over the past few months was a result of earlier decisions and structures around trust, empowerment, organizational values, and creation of a culture of risk-taking. Coronavirus Chronicles 023 – Dhahran Middle School.

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Leadership Elementary School Middle School Cultures 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. I think of my former students who brought their own children to the middle/high school I would later lead as a principal.

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Social Justice Leadership Elementary School Professional Development 144

Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

We came to you as the principal of our elementary school in Minnesota and said, “She’s ready for something more.” One year in elementary school the best we could do was a self-paced, ‘teach yourself’ model with occasional check-ins with the Gifted and Talented teacher. And then you and your teachers did exactly that.

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ED Surge

MARCH 28, 2023

First up is AJ Jacobs, an undergraduate in his junior year at Winthrop University who is studying to become an elementary school educator. It was in elementary school. My mom worked at the elementary school I went to. My elementary school career was pretty positive, and my mom was always there.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Erin Swanson, the district’s director of innovation, said administrators latched onto the model as both a recruitment tool and a way to retain good teachers who might otherwise be tempted to leave Edgecombe County Public Schools for more money elsewhere or school leadership positions outside of teaching.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

TNTP researchers plunged into a giant pool of data housed at Stanford University that tracked hundreds of millions of students’ scores on state tests at more than half the elementary and middle schools in the nation from 2009 to 2018. Teachers in each school used the same shared curriculum.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 14, 2015

We founded the DILAs last year to share innovative education practices and raise the bar across teaching, leadership, and development. Rancho Minerva Middle School, Vista, CA. Detroit Country Day School, Bloomfield, MI. Avondale Elementary School District, Avondale, AZ. And with that, meet the 2015 winners!

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Museum Elementary School Middle School Leadership 103

Digital Promise

APRIL 17, 2019

Using available micro-credentials from Digital Promise, each educator can create a personalized professional development plan that builds on the expertise they feel they most need in the classroom and in our schools. This school year, it merged with the middle school to serve more than 1,000 students in grades 7–12.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

To make clear that black schoolteachers would serve in equivalent roles to those of white teachers, the Human Relations Committee proposed to school officials that teachers for the entire fourth grade class during the 19661967 school year be drawn from Reid School.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 10, 2015

This spring, Digital Promise is working with six school districts conducting education technology pilots. They are outstanding districts with strong leadership - and we know they’re not alone. “We’re not getting the results we’re hoping to see from our digital content in middle school social studies and science.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

She also found a bright side: freedom from the constraints of public-school systems as she designed her innovative school. After leading a handful of conferences and workshops for public school teachers over the last couple years, Acera is in the first year of a three-year, whole-school partnership with the Joseph G.

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Public School Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Leadership 115

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

Collins Elementary School, in southeastern Mississippi, paddled students more times than almost any school in the country in 2017-18, the last year for which there is national data. Johnson is the principal of Mississippi’s Collins Elementary School, where the paddle remains a staple of the educational experience.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. Personally, I have always enjoyed competition.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2018

. – Dressed in pastel pink and green for an early spring day, second-grader Katherine Cribbs was learning about energy on a virtual field trip – to her own school. The school’s “energy use index,” a measure of power use per square foot, is about a third of the average for district elementary schools. RELATED: Psst!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

“We have kids that on our benchmark knowledge assessments are scoring what is the equivalent of second grade, first grade, fourth grade,” said Fisher, who is also a professor and chair of educational leadership at San Diego State University. Middle and high school teachers may also be hesitant to embrace the approach.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education. Notably: In reviews of 17 middle school math programs , just one was deemed standards-aligned across grades six to eight.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

The national nonprofit Breakthrough Collaborative trains college students to teach middle school students during a six-week summer program. Breakthrough goes further, intensively mentoring most of its students through high school, supporting them with organizational skills, academic tutoring, and college preparation.

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Tutoring Leadership Middle School World History 89

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2018

A Crew of seventh graders at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, plays a conflict-resolution game called “Is This Seat Taken?” Curtis Chapin, a Crew advisor and language arts teacher at King Middle School in Portland, Maine, reviews the “Crew Contract” signed by each member. Chris Berdik/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

The February 14 school shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, gave new life to student activism, prompting a level of civic engagement among students that many had never considered. Van Tasel made sure students had time during the school day to work on their projects.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Watch FOX19’s coverage of the Cincinnati rollout event: Jewel, a student at Sayler Park, served as a new correspondent for Verizon Innovative Learning in this video: Both schools in Glendale Elementary School District in Phoenix, Arizona, rolled out earlier this month. After helping at Challenger Middle School’s event on Sept.

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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. In middle school, that number drops to 78 hours. When I taught in elementary schools, I was greeted by excited, engaged students.

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Education Humanities K-12 High School 145

Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 19, 2018

Every school system has pockets of innovation. Those three forward-thinking teachers in the elementary school, that one grade-level team in the middle school, the department that’s really trying to do something different at the high school, that amazing principal over there, and so on. You’re out of luck.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 24, 2023

In October, the middle schools in the district went remote for one day during parent-teacher conferences. In Minnetonka, though, the district was open to using remote learning as more than just a last resort. The experiment in October, Law says, was largely viewed as a success.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2021

Until middle school, when a U-46 administrator — Wells’ friend’s mother, also Black — noticed that April’s grasp exceeded her classes’ reach. She coached Wells on how to talk with her middle school counselor. Wells spoke up for herself and got into honors classes, where she remained through high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

They also organized an in-person component: Once a week, students would gather in reserved classrooms in a local elementary school, for activities such as science experiments, project-based learning and reading groups. The district assigned 10 full-time teachers to provide live, online classes via Zoom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Jenna Gros jangles as she walks the halls of Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana. Brusly Elementary School has 595 students, ranging from ages two to seven. Jenna Gros, head custodian at Wyandotte Elementary School in St Mary’s Parish, Louisiana, stops to tie a student’s shoe.

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Elementary School Tutoring High School Leadership 96

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Now the middle school, along with two of the district’s other elementary schools and its high school, have makerspaces. The most difficult part isn’t the technology and program management,” said Marie Bjerede, the head of leadership initiatives for CoSN. But this is hard. It’s the people.”

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