A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

One of the best parts about job-embedded, on-going work with school districts is facilitating a variety of professional learning opportunities. Recently the district asked me to be a part of their professional development day, which consisted of seven different learning strands specific to the needs and interests of their teachers.

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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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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

APRIL 8, 2013

It virtually gave every New Milford High School teacher two to three, forty eight minute periods a week, depending on the semester, to engage in growth opportunities of personal interest. 21st Century Education Change educational technology Flipped Classroom Innovation New Milford High School teachers'

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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. Yes, we have policies in place, the right infrastructure, and support our teachers with professional development and guidance.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2019

The Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township, on the west side of Indianapolis, has gotten a fair amount of attention for personalizing the professional development it gives to teachers in its virtual high school and blended learning programs. It started with failure. Related: Three cheers for failure!

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ED Surge

JULY 10, 2024

Ethan, a high school junior studying to become a secondary history teacher in our Academy for Teaching and Learning, was presenting findings from his extensive research to the staff at our school. To close the skills gap, there are a number of practices, strategies and ideas that any high school can draw from the CTE model.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 16, 2016

It is in these carefree moments that kids and adults develop and enhance certain skills that will play a huge role in personal and professional development. I find myself reflecting on the seemingly endless positive impacts that play has on kids and yet it is being cut from schools across the world.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2010

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, and begun to collaboratively change the culture of my school. Conference educational technology Professional Development Vision'

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Anthropology News

JULY 16, 2024

This summer, tthe AAA hosted three interns through the Virtual High School Internship , and throughout the summer, the interns engaged in a variety of enriching activities: Research Projects: They read scholarly research articles, took them apart to see how they were constructed, and communicated their methods and findings to diverse audiences.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2021

They scrutinized a large federal dataset of more than 20,000 students across the nation who started high school in 2009 and were surveyed through to their third year of college in 2016. Rural students began high school with the same interest in science and math careers as their suburban counterparts, the survey reveals.

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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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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. There are a lot of challenges listed.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 21, 2014

With all the many state mandates and district directed professional development, as well as time after school devoted to grading and lesson planning, in her mind and many others, time was not readily available. Google Innovation Laura Fleming Learning New Milford High School professional growth period professional learning'

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Principals can use social media for communication, public relations, branding, professional development, and opportunity. grow professionally by establishing a Personal Learning Network (PLN) , follow specific hashtags (#). Check out this tutorial and the page I created for New Milford High School.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 15, 2013

The Holocaust Study Tour blog created by a New Milford High School teacher and her students who travel abroad to Europe on an annual Holocaust Study Tour provides is a great example. School administrators can use blogs as a powerful public relations tool in lieu of traditional newsletters and email blasts. What about you?

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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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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 25, 2011

Last week my school was fortunate to have the NJ School Boards Association (NJSBA) visit to produce a live event called Learn@Lunch: Technology as an Engagement Tool. A little over two years ago something like this would have never happened at New Milford High School. You can view the archive of the event here.

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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

NOVEMBER 20, 2011

This past September I was fortunate enough to attend a professional development program on the Chromebook at the Google offices in New York City. At the conclusion of the workshop, I immediately began to think about the potential of this computing device in my school. New Milford High School Chromebook Google Change Students'

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 15, 2015

In theory this all sounds fantastic and there are many benefits that I have witnessed firsthand after successfully implementing a BYOD initiative over five years ago at my high school. One suggestion is to use Google Forms to curate this information. Going forward this will allow you to focus on those students who need access.

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 29, 2012

During our conversation, she shared with me her experience with Today’s Meet at a recent professional development program hosted by the Shoah Foundation in California. Colleen is the architect of our globally recognized Holocaust Education Program. Now I had heard of this tool in the past, but had never used it up to this point.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 29, 2013

This attention eventually leads to numerous opportunities in the form of strategic partnerships, authentic learning experiences for students, professional development, school and professional recognition, and educational technology.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

For me social media opened the door to a variety of pathways to enhance my ability to lead a comprehensive high school is a way that was more relevant, meaningful, and impactful. It is because of this evolved style of leadership that we have seen the significant change and transformation at my school on a variety of levels.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 9, 2013

After thirteen years of teaching high school and middle school language arts, the idea of having to mark those papers with notations like “run-on” and “fragment” ad nauseam drove me to seek a different solution. Common Core Professional Development'

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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. Maintenance becomes less of a headache for the IT department, as they only have to worry about one type of device.

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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. Still, I pushed on, determined to prove I belonged academically.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 19, 2012

As educators, it is our duty to do everything in our power to provide our students with the best learning opportunities possible and in many cases allowing students to bring their own devices to school assists in meeting this lofty goal. Develop appropriate support structures that align with current Acceptable Use Policies.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

BOSTON — When the Boston Public Schools opened the Margarita Muñiz Academy in 2012, it was a first-of-its kind dual-language high school meant to address issues faced by the city’s growing Hispanic population. We get them in high school, not when they’re little,” Vázquez says. “We

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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.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2025

Theyre part of Samsungs Solve for Tomorrow tech competition for public middle and high school students, and winning means big prize money for their schools to purchase more tech tools. Even today, many businesses expect students coming out of high school to have the skill to be able to use these tools in the workplace.

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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. Professional Development Without this element in place change surely will not occur.

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 25, 2018

As we began progressing through our digital transformation at New Milford High School, technology became a vital component of performance tasks. They could select offerings from such schools as the MIT Harvard, Yale, University of California at Berkeley, and Stanford, applying their learning to earn high school credit.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 15, 2012

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. Below is his first blog post as an educator. Currently we are piloting the iPad with a small group of teachers.

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