A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

With change comes the inevitable need to provide quality professional development. Schools can leverage tech savvy teachers to facilitate professional development. The end result has been the transformation of New Milford High School, a transformation which is still continuing today.

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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

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

This means looking at key practices such as Tier 1 instruction, pedagogy, assessment, feedback, differentiation, RTI , real co-teaching , and professional learning to see where there is an opportunity to grow. The above paragraph sets Quest Junior High School apart from many other, if not all, schools across the country and the world.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and social media. Principals can use social media for communication, public relations, branding, professional development, and opportunity. Make free Skype to Skype calls. What did I miss?

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 23, 2015

This past April I was fortunate enough to have been asked to speak at the Moanalua High School Professional Development Conference in Honolulu, HI. It was an incredible opportunity to get back to Hawaii for a professional event as opposed to a vacation.

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Leadership Professional Development Cultures High School 284

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 10, 2013

Steve visited New Milford High School on Thursday February 28, 2013. NMHS routinely hosts visits from outside educators, schools, and organizations in an effort to provide insights on our initiatives. I reached out to Eric to gain insight into the technologically driven mindset that has encapsulated New Milford High School.

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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. Micro-credentials provide personalized professional development opportunities aligned to theory of action plans.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Dedicating time to fortify universal instruction and systematic procedures while continuing to attend to the intensive needs of the high volume of kids in crisis & experiencing trauma. Inspiring high school students to choose teaching as a profession. More supports are needed. There is always a new program being purchased.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 13, 2024

Like many high school chemistry teachers, Angie Hackman instructs students on atoms, matter and, she says, how they “influence the world around us.” But Hackman also has another responsibility in class: developing students’ reading skills. That said, a handful of states and school districts are starting to explore the approach.

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High School Teaching Primary Sources K-12 145

A Principal's Reflections

MAY 22, 2023

Effects of one-to-one computing and teacher professional development on student achievement in high school mathematics. Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 42(4), 357-377. Cheung, A. & Slavin, R. American Educational Research Journal, 50(3), 568-596. DeWitt, S. & Watson, J.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 13, 2013

As the school year comes to an end at New Milford High School, I can’t help but begin to think about sustaining the many changes that have taken place over the past few years as well as identifying other areas where change is needed. Change educational leadership educational technology Innovation Opinion'

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 28, 2013

It also figures to entail a more streamlined approach when it comes to providing professional development to staff so that the devices are consistently utilized to support student learning. 1:1 laptop program 21st Century Leadership 21st Century Learning BYOD Change Innovation Opinion educational technology'

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 15, 2019

I was still a high school principal and not a trained speaker and presenter. When I began speaking ten years ago, almost all of my keynotes and presentations consisted of me just speaking at the audience. Basically, I felt very comfortable delivering a lecture and talking at people for up to an hour and sometimes more.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Bringing my perspective as a young professional to a high school, I have been endlessly frustrated with the disparity between what I want and am inspired to accomplish and what the system allows me to reasonably get out of any effort I put in. In the many fractured systems that make up the overall U.S.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 26, 2013

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 19, 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.

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Digital Promise

JULY 15, 2021

In response to COVID-19, OTAN was uniquely prepared to ramp up their digital professional development, offering weekly Zoom office hours for adult educators who suddenly found themselves teaching and supporting learners remotely. What is their super power? Each team is also assigned a coach for brainstorming, guidance, and networking.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

It was at this school that I saw tracking firsthand, and students knew who was in gifted programs and who was in lower-level classes. Like any other middle school student, I was on a rough journey of self-discovery. Schools should implement screening processes that take into account the diverse ways in which giftedness can manifest.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 16, 2017

In some cases, these will be hard to swallow, but from an accountability perspective you will need to dig deep and display what constitutes real leadership even if this is not modeled by the people in power above you. The focus should be on how this change will improve teaching, learning, and/or leadership.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 30, 2017

Three years later I became the Principal of New Milford High School. It was in this position that I really began to learn about effective leadership. We did this at my former school. One reviewer of Digital Leadership said the book shouldn’t be published. Perception always surrounds our work and us.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2012

Not enough schools are truly integrating technology into instruction, as well as encouraging students to bring their own technology to school. Recently, I made my way to New Milford High School in Bergen County, NJ. BYOD BYOT educational leadership educational technology mobile learning devices'

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 7, 2011

Another fantastic resource in addition to the definitions above is the Rigor/Relevance Framework by the International Center for Leadership in Education. This tool helps educators and schools adjust curriculum, instruction, and assessment to create high standards and increase student achievement. Added 3 new A.P.

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Professional Development Leadership High School History 221

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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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 19, 2012

The annual Edscape Conference will once again be held at New Milford High School in New Milford, NJ on Saturday October 13, 2012. Edscape evolved out of the need to provide educators with relevant, meaningful professional development focusing on digital learning and innovation that was in dire need for many.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2012

One of my goals when I present on leadership, change, and transformation is to inspire other school leaders to begin to blog. With that being said please welcome Paul Vieira , Principal of East Bridgewater High School (MA), to the blogosphere. I began to see the power of Twitter as a professional development tool.

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Professional Development Leadership High School Education 223

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Ann Pethybridge teaches fractions to a mixed class of Years 2 and 3, the equivalent of first and second grades, at Beach Haven School in Auckland, New Zealand. Credit: Becki Moss for The Hechinger Report The country also plans to devote $20 million in professional development (a little over $11 million in U.S.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

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. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? That's what I do.

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Library Charter School Education Lesson Plan 108

ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. School administrator Sarah Wright shares her thoughts on a trauma-informed approach to leadership. They gave their takes on innovating in math and social emotional learning. Here's What Does.

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Edthena

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

In the news What if professional development could be as dynamic and personalized as the classrooms we envision for our students? Vrain Valley Schools in Longmont, Colorado, is making a reality. Each school designates an Exploration AI champion who works closely with leadership to integrate AI strategies into PD days.

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Professional Development Interactive Learning Leadership Tradition 52

A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 28, 2011

A slightly altered version of this post entitled " The Social Media Time Debate " can be found at the Huffington Post There has been a great deal of discussion lately as to the necessity of Administrators utilizing social media as a part of their professional practice. educational technology Leadership Social Media' This is my path.

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Leadership Professional Development Educational Technology Cultures 232

A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 6, 2010

This was by far the most intense, and rewarding professional development venture that I have ever been a part of. How many of us could honestly say that after a 3 hour professional development training, let alone 11 hours? In a nutshell the blueprint developed for #GTAdmin was fantastic. Wait, I just did.

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Professional Development Pedagogy Leadership High School 167

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 18, 2024

The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund gave districts nearly $200 billion. School systems leveraged these funds to pay for high-dosage tutoring, early literacy support, leadership development, enhanced counseling, expanded student exposure to career pathways and other endeavors.

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K-12 Tutoring Leadership Professional Development 123

The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

However, one of our greatest potential solutions is often missed in the national conversation: providing professional development for principals. Yet, the significance of the key leadership position in our schools is largely overlooked and under-supported. Consider what principals take on when they agree to lead a school.

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Public School Professional Development K-12 Tutoring 141

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2017

Social Studies teacher Michelle Adler talks to sophomores Maiya Schwartz, left and Emily Terranova about an assignment in an Honors Human Geography class at Gray-New Gloucester High School on Thursday, June 1, 2017. Each of Maine’s 124 high schools is required to offer such diplomas to the Class of 2021, next fall’s ninth graders.

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High School Social Studies Leadership Tradition 73

ED Surge

OCTOBER 18, 2023

a math teacher and instructional coach at Brashier Middle College Charter High School in Simpsonville, South Carolina, has more than two decades of experience and spends a lot of time thinking about edtech. Amy Ballard, Ph.D.,

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EdTech Leadership Professional Development Pedagogy 144

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

Over the last two years, we have interviewed dozens of educators about school leadership. At the end of every conversation, we always ask the educator if they might want to be a high school principal one day. But the more Sonjah saw of school leadership, the less she wanted it. Take Sonjah McBain.

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Leadership High School Professional Development Cultures 119

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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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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