A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

I have written extensively over the past couple of years about our Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) initiative at New Milford High School at the Huffington Post and on my own blog. BYOD mobile learning New Milford High School' Students WILL NOT access websites with inappropriate content using a 3G or 4G connection.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2025

Beginning in the late 1980s, the federal government started to collect data on these two important, confounding factors academic achievement before diagnosis and disability severity so that policymakers could see how well students were faring under the 1975 federal law that mandates support for educating students with disabilities.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2021

It marked a nadir for a metric crucial to the flagship university’s commitment to diversity in a state where about a third of public high school graduates each year are Black. The university’s admissions team resolved to reverse the trend, with urgent outreach to high school seniors who had started applications but not finished them.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The study , which looked at a rich set of high school and college data in Texas, found that Black and Hispanic students and those in low-income families who lived more than 30 miles from a public two-year college were significantly less likely to attend college. I said, ‘This is bananas. This is not how it works.’”

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ED Surge

AUGUST 28, 2023

On a Friday morning in March, students and teachers gathered at a hip hotel here to reimagine what their high schools could be. The delegation from Calvin Coolidge High School was thinking big — as in, global. Yet measuring whether a redesigned high school is working as intended, and why, is difficult to do.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

When I reflect back on what we were able to accomplish at New Milford High School, I am overtaken by a great sense of pride. We were able to transform the learning culture of a traditional school and in the process got results while becoming an example that others emulated.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Nationwide, Native students miss school far more frequently than their peers, but not at Watonga High School. Indian Education Director Hollie Youngbear poses for a portrait at Watonga High School on Wednesday, Oct. government boarding schools. “If 2, 2024, in Watonga, Okla.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2025

Administered by the federal government, it tracks student performance in fourth and eighth grades and serves as a national yardstick of achievement. In reading, students slid below the devastatingly low achievement levels of 2022, which many educators had hoped would be a nadir. That’s a big deal. Its almost criminal.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

(Reading Recovery was criticized for not providing enough explicit instruction in decoding words; New Zealand is set to end government funding of the program.) The government made a rightward shift in 2023 to the National Party, ending six years of leadership under former Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, who had an international profile.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2025

The solution, one that has strong bipartisan support, is as prominent as John Hancocks signature: a generational investment in teaching students how the government works. When it comes to civics, the federal government usually plays a limited role, reasonably restricted from imposing a national curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Franklin/Associated Press Many schools serving Native American students have been working to strengthen connections with families, who often struggle with higher rates of illness and poverty. Schools also must navigate distrust dating back to the U.S. government back in the past,” she said. “We Franklin Credit: Ross D.

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ED Surge

MARCH 5, 2025

San Francisco is seen as a global tech capital, yet even here, high school students are shockingly ill-equipped to survive in the modern digital age. The school where I teach science is nestled in the historic Mission District of San Francisco, mere miles from the sprawling campuses of X, Meta and Google.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 10, 2016

Unfortunately, these behaviors materialize as schools are not doing their part to educate students on digital responsibility, citizenship, and creating a positive footprint online. Image credit: [link] When I was principal at New Milford High School, we have made it our responsibility to integrate digital responsibility across the curriculum.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

But he’s never seen anything like the volume of recruiting materials pouring in since his fourth child reached her senior year in high school this fall. “If Those are the most recent available admission figures reported to the federal government, and do not include institutions with open admission, which take 100 percent of applicants.

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HistoryRewriter

MARCH 4, 2024

They have used this protocol with middle to high school grades covering history and government topics. Some of our awesome EduProtocol friends: Angela Zorn , Dominic Helmstetter , and Steph Conklin shared some examples in the gallery below.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Thats because its typically students considered high performers who are offered more advanced math classes as they progress through middle and high school, and colleges want to see those advanced classes on student transcripts when making admissions decisions.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 24, 2024

Yet, for far too long, students have been left out of decision-making conversations, even though our voices are needed more than ever, and our perspectives are vital for fostering inclusive and effective governance. But running for a school board as a young person is not an easy task. You face a lot of questions: Are you qualified?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

Related: After its college closes, a rural community fights to keep a path to education open His classmates who will be affected by the changes “are such creatives at heart, and they all came here because they loved what they were doing,” said Bertram, who is also student government representative for the university’s College of Creative Arts.

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Let's Cultivate Greatness

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Its easy to focus on just the President when teaching the Executive Branch, but its important also to stress the role of the four million other people who make up this branch of government. Here are some of my favorite lessons and activities for teaching the executive branch in my high school Civics and Government class.

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TCI

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

History and one semester of civics in high school. Responding to these concerns, the federal government increased funding for K-12 civics and history education funding from $7.75 Provide detailed guidance in both subject areas. Create user-friendly organization and presentation of learning standards.

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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. The reality is that in most school governance systems, young people are systematically marginalized … and students play absolutely no role.” Related: Students have their own demands for school reopening.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift Rajbhandari, who beat an incumbent to win a seat on Boise’s school board last year, sounds like any other boosterish local elected official — except he’s an 18-year-old high school senior in the same district he governs. And it’s a very resilient ecosystem.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 19, 2024

“To be a good member of your community, you really have to understand why people do the things that they do,” says Bryan Little, who teaches both on-level Government and AP Government at McPherson High School in McPherson, Kansas. We thought self-government would work, but here we are.’

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

“We would like to take this moment to acknowledge the Dena’ina Athabascan people and the wisdom that has allowed them to steward the land on which Anchorage and Service High School reside,” the high school senior said. This story also appeared in High Country News. David Paoli, who is Iñupiaq from U?alaq?iq,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Text messages to parents about their school-aged children led to better grades and attendance. Based on these early successes, education leaders in government and nonprofit organizations sought to bring the power of text messages to hundreds of thousands of students. 1/2) Hi [first_name].

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Education Week - Social Studies

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Students from Highlands High School in Texas came together as scholars and first-time voters to witness election results together.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2023

Life at her new school started to change for the better when she began learning the music of her Native Hawaiian culture. “It Metro Nashville Schools invested alongside the Save The Music Foundation to ensure that high schools across the district provide instruction and classroom space for music technology, production and songwriting.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2020

To support herself (she moved in with an older brother) in high school she worked 30 hours a week at an Arby’s next to a weed-studded field in a retail park, earning $8.20 forcing a choice: Go to school exhausted or skip classes and learn the material on her own. She lost her mother at age 8. She closed, at 1 a.m.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2020

Hylton High School in Woodbridge, Virginia, was concerned about how that could happen safely. “I I go to a school with over 2,000 kids that walk through the door every single day,” she said. ” Olivia Sanchez, a rising senior at Chaffey High School in Ontario, California. Credit: Sophia Hammer.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2024

But the 20 rising 10th graders in Lisa Rodriguez’s class at Brookline High School were finishing a lesson on exponents and radicals. Experts say that’s because these students are less likely to attend high schools that offer higher-level math or to be recommended by their teachers for honors or AP classes, regardless of mastery.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2024

Yancy Sanes teaches a unit on the climate crisis at Fannie Lou Hamer High School in the Bronx – not climate change, but the climatecrisis. He is unequivocal that he wants his high school students to be climate activists. “I I need to take my students outside and have them actually do the work of protesting.”

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Fortunately, in light of democracy’s fragility, there has been a steady increase in initiatives from federal and state governments to incorporate civics education in K-12 classrooms. In 2020, California adopted a State Seal of Civic Engagement that high school students can earn upon graduation.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

While pre-Ks, elementary schools and some schools for children with complex disabilities reopened in December, there is still no plan to reopen middle and high schools. Many other major school systems remain closed as well. Science in particular is extremely hands-on and almost impossible to grasp virtually.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 5, 2022

Tom and Emily describe how students can make positive impacts in their local, online, and global communities NOW, not later after they graduate from high school or college. We need more learning opportunities like these because they help our learners find meaning and relevance in their schooling experience.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 22, 2020

Alphina Kamara wonders what might have happened if she’d been introduced to science and engineering careers at her Wilmington, Delaware, high school. Alphina Kamara, now a junior at Wesleyan University, wishes she would have been encouraged to take her school’s engineering course in high school. Perkins Act.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

A survey of over 20,000 students conducted May through June found that only 39 percent of students said they learned a lot every day while their school building was closed. Summer break gave school leaders time to reflect on the lessons of the spring and create more effective reopening plans for the fall. It blows my mind.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Brown loves — and has long loved — learning about history, civics, geography and government, in part because he had teachers who brought infectious energy and enthusiasm to those lessons. Later on, as I went into middle and high school and was wondering what I wanted to do in my career, I would think about teaching, and Ms.

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