Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 3, 2020

Thank you, Mike Berry , for sharing how the Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools in Vermont are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 28, 2020

Thank you, Karen Krisch , for sharing how Marion-Walker Elementary School in Pennsylvania is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.

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Elementary School Leadership Middle School Public School 80

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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Charter School Library Education Lesson Plan 95

Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

In my blog post, I also quoted Loveless’ statement that, because the NAEP Proficient standard is so aspirational, “ If high school students are required to meet NAEP proficient to graduate from high school, large numbers will fail. All of which brings us to the concerns that you note in the Denver Public Schools (DPS).

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

The summer before I entered the fourth grade, my mother informed me that I would be attending a new school in my same community with one caveat: it was a class in the gifted and talented education (GATE) program. Before that moment, I was blending in with my peers and navigating the typical challenges of elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

In matters both big and small, women in education leadership are treated, spoken to and viewed differently than their male colleagues. The career moves that are open to aspiring women leaders often propel them toward a very real glass cliff — leadership roles in which the risk of failure is high. Data from the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

But this fall, everyone at Viewmont Elementary School is in masks, so she has to listen more intently than usual. Erin Roberts, a teacher leadership specialist. Teaching students to read is one of the most difficult tasks for an early elementary school teacher. She erased the “m” and jotted down a “p.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Diversity does exist in the leadership pipeline,” said Sarah Guthery, a co-author of the study and an assistant education professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce, “but it tends to squeeze out women and Black candidates much earlier than studies of school leadership usually capture.”. years, seven months longer.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 6, 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 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School. Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 12, 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 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School. Related Posts.

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Heritage Elementary School Leadership Public School 105

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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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Edgecombe County Public Schools in rural North Carolina has long had trouble filling all of its open teaching positions. So far, eight of its 13 traditional schools have hired teacher-leaders who not only put their great teaching to use in front of students, but also coach their colleagues to spread their best practices.

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Elementary School Advocacy Cultures Public School 111

ED Surge

JULY 17, 2024

It was 2022 and I had recently been hired as the principal of an all-girls elementary school in New York, and it was my first visit to the school to meet students, staff and families. As a young Black queer woman in school leadership, embracing vulnerability has felt frightening at times. I was caught off guard.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

Schools can’t afford to lose teachers of color. And with public schools struggling to fill teacher vacancies with qualified educators, district and school leaders can’t afford to lose any more teachers,period. Related: OPINION: Black male teachers were my father figures.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 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 005 – Mabel Rush Elementary School. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Related Posts.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 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 005 – Mabel Rush Elementary School. Coronavirus Chronicles 011 – Liberty Public Schools. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

I have a closer view of the effects of school board decisions than most school board members. Related: Do fraught school board meetings offer a view of the future? I ran for the Littleton Elementary School District governing board while I was 17, and was elected while finishing out my senior year of high school.

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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. Detroit Country Day School, Bloomfield, MI. Avondale Elementary School District, Avondale, AZ. Baltimore County Public Schools, Towson, MD. Julia Winter. Grant Smith.

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Museum Elementary School Middle School Leadership 104

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

That measurement mania has dominated what being in school feels like for students (and teachers), as well as what counts and what gets discussed. Which is what stirred teachers at Orchard Lake Elementary School in Minnesota back in 2011. In other words, could you innovate within the rigid confines of a traditional public school?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2021

Experts can guide K-12 schools in spending their allotment of the almost $123 billion in federal COVID relief funds. “If If you look at the last time funding was provided to schools, they scrambled,” said Thomas, the TLA partner. Other education thinkers are calling this a moment to plan thoughtfully for a new future for schools.

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K-12 Leadership Elementary School Public School 121

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Third-graders at Alamosa Elementary School in Albuquerque practice reading with first-graders in Carrie Ramirez’s classroom. Danielle Burnett, a truancy prevention social worker in Albuquerque Public Schools, spends her days figuring out why students miss school. Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report.

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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. Related: Student Voice: ‘The youth movement extends beyond gun violence’. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

“Voice, agency, and influence are ours to give and receive,” says Debora Collins, assistant superintendent for student learning at Albemarle County Public Schools in Virginia. Matthew Wheelock Innovation Program Director, University of Virginia Curry School of Education.

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K-12 Public School Elementary School Cultures 119

The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2018

We must support teachers with strong preparation, appropriate compensation, quality professional development and leadership opportunities so they may fulfill their calling: to ensure that every child receives an excellent education. It is also crucial to recognize that thanks isn’t enough.

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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

MARCH 31, 2023

Over the years, I’ve used research about how the arts increase math and reading comprehension to defend their existence in the public school curriculum. I’ve even made the case that for some students, a music, art, dance or drama class might be the only thing bringing them to school each day.

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Education Humanities K-12 High School 145

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. 7 and 8, JulyAugust 1956], p.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2018

In Havre Public Schools in northern Montana, it’s not uncommon for middle schoolers to arrive early. Parents need to get to work and the school building is a safe place to drop them off, even before classes start. Walking through Havre Public Schools this year, a visitor would likely take note of the makerspaces.

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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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High School K-12 Public School Library 126

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2021

When New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio shuttered the nation’s largest public school system last March, I had a feeling the pandemic wasn’t going to be over quickly. My friends assumed schools would be closed for a couple of weeks, maybe a month. But the mayor said he isn’t yet sure about the high school kids.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

Students at Lovett Elementary, the Clinton, Miss. school district’s sixth-grade-only school. By nine school district superintendents from nine states. public school districts spend a combined $8 billion on instructional materials while trying to ensure that schools receive the maximum value for their money.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But she was relieved of the duty when Jacob graduated from his Head Start preschool program and enrolled in a Durant Public School District elementary school. As part of his special-education program at the new school, Jacob was still entitled to continue his weekly therapy sessions. Public-school Failures.

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Private School Elementary School Advocacy Public School 102

Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 30, 2020

Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 002 – American International School of Guangzhou. Coronavirus Chronicles 003 – Bismarck Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 005 – Mabel Rush Elementary School.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 25, 2023

Chief equity officers in public school districts across the country have one key mission: to help address the inequities in our education system. In practice, the work of a chief equity officer varies vastly across counties, cities, neighborhoods and the schools they serve — often even classroom to classroom.

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Public School Elementary School Cultures Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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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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