A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 9, 2017

A hallmark of great leadership is creating the conditions to arrive at consensus when major decisions will impact the entire school or district. As change is a process, not an event, discussions, feedback, and reflection can and should take time in order to make the best decision possible.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

Image credit: ww.aditif.com In fact, in an effort to celebrate much of this work and continue to build our collective learning capacity, we are hosting Long Island Connected Educators'' Conference on April 5th - an event that has attracted over 160 participants ambitious to connect, share and learn together. Today was different.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 20, 2023

For various reasons, educators are enamored by the keynoting circuit, facilitating presentations at both national and international events, and coaching in school systems. It can also be stated emphatically that I was not looking to leave New Milford High School or was forced out.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

So many exciting things have happened recently as a result of my own learning and growth in educational technology and leadership. As a result, I have seen my own knowledge increase in these areas, participated in exciting professional development opportunities, presented at both my school and at other events on web 2.0,

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 15, 2014

This post is my contribution to Leadership Day 2014. As many people know I stepped down as Principal at New Milford High School this past July and my last day will be on September 3. During my tenure I not only worked to improve every facet of the school, but I also became a connected educator in 2009.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2011

tools that could be used to improve my knowledge of educational leadership, effective instructional practices, and technology integration. Principals and schools should embrace Twitter, and social media in general. 21st Century Leadership Social Media' We are making learning relevant, meaningful, and creative!

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 27, 2013

In this piece he describes what he saw at New Milford High School during his visit while the students were present the Friday before the Edscape Conference. There have been a thousand stories about the journey of New Milford High School toward being a connected school. The students trusted the teachers.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 30, 2011

The idea was to create an event at a high school like no other in the area where passionate presenters and a major conference feel would have attendees leave inspired to initiate innovative change in their instructional practices. As many of you might recall last year''s event was free. Edscape New Milford High School'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2010

I feel fortunate that the administration and staff of New Milford High School is made up of people who care for their students and are committed to education. They are dedicated to our school, and they continue to look for ways to improve and modernize the classroom. What do you think of Meredith''s post?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2021

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We interviewed leaders at 30 different ‘deeper learning’ schools around the world in 2019 and 2020. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 8, 2020

Thank you, Jeff Silva-Brown , for sharing how Ukiah High School in California has been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I am especially appreciative that you shared about the social-emotional supports that Ukiah High is trying to provide to students and families. Episode 013 is below. Check it out!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 6, 2020

Thank you, Jeff Palladino , for sharing how Fannie Lou Hamer Freedom High School in the Bronx, New York is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I especially appreciated hearing about the challenges of implementing robust, student-driven, inquiry-based learning during this time.Your school is a special place.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2017

Change is a process, not an event. Mandates and top-down directives rarely become embedded and sustained components of school culture because once the focus changes (and it always does) then all the time, energy, and frustration transfers to the new initiative. Some changes will be mandated from your respective state.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 21, 2011

Read press coverage on the event HERE. Members of student government Skype with their counterparts at a high school in Ohio and engage in a powerful conversation on increasing rigor/accountability in school and improving learning environments. I am so proud to be the Principal at New Milford High School.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 31, 2020

Thank you, Shameka Gerald , for sharing how Heritage High School in Newport News, Virginia 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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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

Decades of solid research have laid the foundation for current studies that bring to light how we can improve teaching, learning, and leadership. As Tom Murray and I highlighted in Learning Transformed , this research has been taken to heart by schools across the world as they have transformed learning while improving results in the process.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 27, 2020

Thank you, Dan McDowell , for sharing how the Grossmont Union High School District in California 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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2019

Students from LaGuardia High School for Music & Art and Performing Arts perform ’42nd Street.’ On a personal level, I care deeply about the school she led, formally known as Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music & Art and Performing Arts. ’ on March 19, 2018 in New York City.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2025

It also brings math professors, educators and enthusiasts to meet program participants through Pi Day events; I attended one such event in 2023 when I produced a podcast episode about the program, and the organization paid for my travel and accommodations.) Sherry Smith understands that kind of anxiety.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 31, 2010

This past Friday an exciting event took place at my high school due to the efforts of Colleen Tambuscio, who is a fantastic Holocaust teacher. Department of Education visited with a group of Polish educators to learn more about how our school teaches the Holocaust and genocide. Department of Education.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

Teaching government at Hilliard Darby High School in Ohio (a suburb of Columbus), Amy Messick helps students understand how our constitutional system works. One former student who appreciates what he learned from Messick now serves on the school board for the district in which Messick teaches.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Since 2010, I've been here as the school librarian and media specialist. When people outside of school ask you what you do say, at a social event how do you describe your work? I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. My focus is on charter schools, multiliteracies and school librarianship.

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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

MAY 18, 2025

Now, as fewer graduates emerge from high schools , combining forces is a way to forestall the reality that we might all see in five or seven years, Novak said. Youre going to see them rallying together, whether its for a sporting event or for a revival or baptisms. Ambrose President Amy Novak. Its not just Mount Mercy.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 29, 2019

They will also receive opportunities for networking, presenting, and sharing thought leadership at national conferences and virtual events. The first round of recruitment identified six innovative middle and high school educators in Canada: Jen Giffen, Digital Literacy Coach at York Region District School Board, Ontario.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 28, 2010

Late Thursday afternoon I looked at my Blackberry and saw an email from Filip Piasevloi, the student who wrote the amazing guest post entitled " A Student''s Perspective on Leadership ". Filip has helped to validate the efforts of NMHS staff and students in regard to embracing change in order to create a school culture that fosters success.

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Students of History

MAY 13, 2025

Students of History is proud to announce Max Nguyen, a graduating senior from Rancho Alamitos High School in Anaheim, California, as the recipient of the 2025 Students of History Scholarship. Elizabeth Jones, a social studies teacher at Rancho Alamitos High School who wrote Max’s letter of recommendation.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2021

As the coronavirus crisis and racial justice protests intensified last year, a group of nine Rhode Island students deeply impacted by these events channeled their reaction to the turmoil in an unusual way — research. How can historically marginalized students pursue meaningful paths and healthy careers after high school?” “How

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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. The event took them away from the Dallas campus and into the Texas countryside. “I The biggest class I ever had in high school had maybe 30 people in it.

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Digital Promise

JULY 12, 2022

The program provides devices with internet access to more than 550 Title I middle and high schools across the country. Leaders at these schools spend their summers deliberately planning a device rollout event that achieves three goals: All students receive a device with reliable high-speed internet access.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Now they are demanding a greater role in school policy and the decisions that shape their educations. Who is the school board really representing? Vida Mendoza, high school freshman, Oakland, California. But even in districts and states that include student board representatives, students rarely have voting power.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Visit the Digital Promise Maker Learning Leadership Framework to access more resources and tools to support your work.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class. Political cartoons are another way to quickly explore the president and their administrations major events and policies. But first, lets go over what the branch does exactly.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 22, 2020

This is my second update on my new summer Master’s seminar, Leadership During a Crisis. In addition to helping identify readings and multimedia for us to look at before each class session, my students also have taken the lead on identifying guest speakers to come talk with us about crisis leadership. Plus my students are incredible.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

Instructional leadership with Virginia administrators. I also had the wonderful opportunity this summer to work with school administrators from across Virginia. On Monday and Tuesday, I introduced them to the 4 Shifts Protocol but we adopted more of an instructional leadership lens, not just a teaching lens.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 26, 2020

My online Leadership for Social Justice class launches in 2 weeks. What would you include in a Master’s level course on this topic, one that is focused on the practical implementation needs of P-12 school leaders (i.e., Coronavirus Chronicles 012 – Hong Kong International School. not theoretical philosophizing)?

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ED Surge

JULY 18, 2024

Some of the events are also identity based, such as one for Latinx students. Before the pandemic, orientation leaders typically held leadership positions in high school, as a club president, for example, Brister says. They’re also coming in with less background knowledge, Brister says.

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