A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 30, 2012

Education is currently at a crossroads as traditional methods and tools are changing as a result of advances in technology and learning theory. We are beginning to see some schools across the country take the lead in merging sound pedagogy with the effective integration of technology. Cross-posted at teach.com.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 20, 2020

School has become a place where they go to be taught the skills we have determined to be important. But many schools limit what is possible by adhering to rigid and outdated frameworks like traditional subject and grade divisions. Singer is a high school and university educator. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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ED Surge

MARCH 18, 2024

Navigating this terrain requires a delicate balance, ensuring that the joy and engagement of games enhance rather than detract from educational objectives while aiming to foster an inclusive and responsive pedagogy. In a recent science lesson, high school biology students played Lighthaus ’ virtual reality (VR) adventure Nano.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A group of sophomore boys weaving baskets in an art class wish their school assigned more tests instead of oral presentations. If the activity seems a little too silly for high school, that’s by design. The leaders of City Neighbors High School have purposely included some time each day for kids to just be kids.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? I have coursework in school librarianship, so that's definitely a part of my progress, having actual school librarianship theories and pedagogies and systems under my belt. What do you wish you could change about your school or the education system today?

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 16, 2012

It was these changes that took an average comprehensive high school and transformed it into the current institution that many have come to know through social media over the past three years. To put some perspective on this, not one traditional classroom had an Interactive Whiteboard (IWB) in it four years ago.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JANUARY 21, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Yet, of 112 those tests, only 16 or 17 were large-scale, federally-mandated but state-specific standardized tests (Math and ELA, once a year in grades 3-8 and once in high school, plus possibly a science assessment.)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

In New Zealand, where schools operate far more independently than traditional public schools in the United States, it would be the job of principals like Rodgers to determine how best to teach the countrys math standards. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more. We all want to fix it.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

Program 1: Educators Rising Educators Rising is a national grow-your-own program that nurtures middle and high school students who want to become teachers. Through school-based chapters, EdRising gives students training and clinical teaching experience before they ever set foot on a college campus. .

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2024

During the day, I teach Algebra I classes to high school freshmen in Springfield, Missouri. One night per week, I teach preservice elementary school teachers who serve as paraprofessionals at K-12 schools in Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California through Reach University.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 20, 2022

As high school teachers, we often saw Black teenagers — mostly boys — who were simply bored with their lessons deemed incapable of high academic achievement, shunted off to remedial classes or special education and encouraged to be happy with merely making it to graduation. Following the landmark 1954 Brown v.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Every senior spends a month working outside of school at full-time internships throughout Chicago. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. A staff shake-up ensued.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2022

Cierra Kaler-Jones wasn’t your traditional dance teacher. Cierra Kaler-Jones presents some of her foundational work that provided the research basis of the curriculum and pedagogy for Black Girls S.O.A.R. Subscribe today! When Kaler-Jones taught dance, her students didn’t come just for the dance lessons.

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Achieve the Core

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I vaguely remember the same practice from back when I was in high school. The XQ High School Math Badging Initiative seeks to upend some of the existing high school systems and structures that create barriers in the very places where students should get to see opportunities.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Biologists at the school look at the math taught in traditional calculus courses, he adds, and wonder why it’s even being taught, because the math isn’t practically useful for the field. The educators sat through lectures on pedagogy, the finer points of math and how to apply it to actual biological problems.

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ED Surge

JUNE 14, 2022

Jane Margolis: One is the importance of pedagogy in computer science education—specifically about culturally relevant pedagogy. There's been this traditional notion of computer science as just being zeros and ones and objective. What are some major points from your research that grounds this graphic novel?

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ED Surge

MAY 16, 2022

In it, ACT researchers found evidence of grade inflation over the past decade—namely, that the average high school GPA increased 0.19 The implication is that students are not learning as much as their transcripts indicate, hampering their ability to succeed in challenging environments after high school. “We

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 29, 2019

“We’d look at another school that has technology, and we’re like, ‘Wow … I wish we had those possibilities.’”. Those possibilities became reality for Nakia and her Chilhowee classmates, along with students at nearby Copper Basin High School, in 2017, when both Polk County schools joined Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS).

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ED Surge

MAY 8, 2023

Since math classes progress in a mostly linear way, students have to get fractions to set them up for algebra; and how they do in algebra will likely influence whether they even get to try for advanced courses like calculus, a traditional weed-out metric for lucrative science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) careers. isn’t working.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Like many people who learned new skills during the pandemic, I immersed myself in Black history, pedagogy, and education reform. The absence of elephants from middle and high school curricula limits intellectual representation for students.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Robert Groven, director of the Minnesota Urban Debate League, has been coaching high school debate competitions for more than 30 years, and he’s noticed a marked shift in student behavior in the past decade or so. Deborah Appleman: I [used to be] a high school English teacher, but at Carleton I'm in the educational studies department.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2024

Finnish students’ achievements have been dropping gradually for two decades, and the trend is reflected in national evaluations, said Jenna Hiltunen, a researcher in mathematical pedagogy at the University of Jyvaskyla, who was part of the team that implemented PISA in Finland. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2018

In the face of a nationwide teacher shortage, especially in science, technology, engineering and math, the academy is not the first program that has sought to attract experts in these areas to teaching, but it offers a significant departure from traditional teacher training programs in several other high-tech ways. Army War College.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Since its launch in the fall of 2013, more than 80,000 edTPA portfolios have been submitted by teacher candidates and scored by trained professional educators from higher education and P-12 schools, including a significant pool of teachers certified by the National Board for Professional Teaching Standards.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

Barton teaches English full-time at Clarksdale High School. Not long after Cortez Moss accepted the job as principal of Quitman County Middle School in 2016, he realized that his first months would be devoted nearly entirely to teacher recruitment. Kaitlyn Barton teaches English at Clarksdale High School.

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All Things Pedagogical

MAY 26, 2024

This is where signature pedagogies become slower to change and advance even if the literature or research or surveys demonstrate the need for a different approach. The second danger of familiarity is connected to this which is what happens when you have taught the same thing for many years in the same way.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

That apprehension brings up a tension in the movement for diverse charters: while their students may be diverse, the people who design these schools usually are not. By and large the founders are white educators, like Densen, who embrace progressive pedagogy.

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Transcending Pedagogy

DECEMBER 12, 2022

Because the latest, greatest, technological advance is really the one that has terrified me to my core, and it’s not because I’m stuck on giving students loads of traditional writing assignments. Then he asked it to write a lesson plan helping high school students work on the concept of theme. And it did. And it did.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

A looming question is whether personalized learning that works in, say, a tight-knit, mission-driven charter school can be reliably translated into traditional district schools with many more students, less flexible schedules, keener standardized-test worries and cultures steeped in established ways of teaching and learning.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 27, 2024

When you make a purchase through these links, Cult of Pedagogy gets a small percentage of the sale at no extra cost to you. Julia Torres (photo credit: Michael Teak Photography) Amazon | Bookshop Julie Stivers is a high school librarian in North Carolina who was named the 2023 School Librarian of the Year.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Sharahn Santana , African American history and English teacher at Parkway Northwest High School. We as teachers, as a school entity, we are trying to jump back into it and get them back into the practice of having deadlines and learning and having standards and expectations. Kami Karr, high school senior at Redmond High School.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

Should traditional institutions function more like online mega-universities? Can these innovative credentials offer an alternative to traditional degrees, diplomas and grades, to help meet student and employer demand for skills? As AI Chatbots Rise, More Educators Look to Oral Exams — With High-Tech Twist By Jeffrey R.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

These methods are effective, as my own research on pandemic pedagogy shows. In addition to using technology to enhance classes and seminars, colleges can use it more broadly to address traditional problems like student preparation, degree completion and transition to jobs. At Occidental College in California, President Harry Elam Jr.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. Charter schools are the bluntest incarnation of education reform and have long enjoyed bipartisan support. This would soon change.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It can be difficult to explain what play-based learning looks like, said Mara Krechevsky, senior researcher at Project Zero, an education research group in Harvard’s Graduate School of Education. Related: Kids can learn more from guided play than from direct instruction, report finds.

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Society for Classical Studies

JANUARY 1, 2024

From Boys to Men: Rape and Developing Masculinity in Terence’s Hecyra and Eunuchus” (in a 1998 special edition of Helios that Professor James also edited) broke with scholarly tradition by shifting away from the citizen masculine perspective and acknowledging sexual abuse and enslavement as an embodied experience for women. Moore (Ph.D. ’86)

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 20, 2016

Framework Pedagogy trumps technology. Relevant, job-embedded learning opportunities that move away from traditional drive-by approaches will help to sustain meaningful change. Hand in hand with WiFi access is the capability to charge devices. Make the initial investment to get this right the first time.

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