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. Teachers now meet as part of three overreaching groups that include Humanities, S.T.E.M., and Special Programs (special education, arts, and technology). Added 3 new A.P.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 13, 2025

While skills like collaboration, effective communication, and critical thinking are valuable, it’s hard not to wonder what happens to content areas like history and algebra do these just go away? It’s framed around this driving question: How are humans impacting the Earth from an environmental biology perspective?

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

At Gwinnett, we have a history of preparing students for their futures in innovative and meaningful ways. But theres also a strong emphasis on what we call human-only skills ethics, creative problem-solving, design thinking and user experience. Why is it important for students to be AI ready? Having partnerships is also huge.

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K-12 Public School Leadership Teaching 97

Teaching American History

APRIL 15, 2025

Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee Structure and Leadership Brochure. We recall the numerous persons who have been murdered in the South because of their efforts to secure their civil and human rights, and whose murderers have been allowed to escape penalty for their crimes. December 6, 1963. National Archives.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

A Human Relations Committee Forms to Plan Integration In Belmont, a small town just west across the Catawba River from Charlotte, school integration presented fewer logistical problems, because segregated schools for black and white children were situated within a mile of each other. For a history of Rosenwald schools, see Thomas W.

Education 59

Education American History Junior High History 59

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 21, 2023

We have to place facts, history and science at the heart of our education systems. I was one of the youngest students in the class, and we learned everything about human behavior. I’m still connected with my AP Psychology teacher, Jacki Della Rosa Carron , and she remains one of my favorite humans.

Psychology 98

Psychology History Teaching American History 98

Zinn Education Project

JANUARY 30, 2024

The Frederick Douglass Center for Leadership Through the Humanities is co-hosting an in-person event with Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee veterans and clips from the documentary Lowndes County and the Road to Black Power.

Archiving 116

Archiving Leadership Humanities History 116

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Leadership Middle School Humanities Teaching 125

Teaching American History

MAY 21, 2024

This class will help students understand the complexities and nuances of a pivotal time in American history. Students will examine the writings of leading black intellectuals and activists about human equality, slavery, self-government, the rule of law, emancipation, colonization, and citizenship. MAHG is both!

Professional Development 111

Professional Development American History Economics Social Studies 111

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

And yet, I have never had the opportunity to discuss anti-Asian racism in the classroom, learn about Asian American history or engage with educators who understand my experiences. We need to read texts by Asian American authors in English classes and learn about Asian American history and community leaders in social studies classes.

High School 123

High School American History Social Studies Leadership 123

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Among them is: How will we ensure diverse leadership in this country if student diversity decreases at Ivy League and other top colleges? We should instead be asking this: Why are we so laser-focused on the graduates of a tiny number of schools, presuming they are the rightful inhabitants of leadership posts in business and government?

Leadership 127

Leadership Government Private School Tradition 127

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2020

The coronavirus crisis has created a moment in history in which educators and administrators can shift the narrative and reality for an entire community. Fourth, weave history into your curriculum. Women’s History Month in March is a great opportunity to normalize the positive narratives and contributions of Asian American Women.

Psychology 134

Psychology History Leadership Economics 134

ED Surge

MARCH 31, 2023

After 20 years teaching music, what I’ve learned is that the arts are essential because humans are inherently creative beings and must be given opportunities to develop their creativity in order to fully understand themselves and participate in a pluralistic society. How Did We Get Here? Recently, I attended a performance at the John F.

Education 145

Education Humanities K-12 High School 145

ED Surge

APRIL 4, 2022

Here in my home state of Florida , we are arguing about how to teach history and whether we can acknowledge the gender identities of students. Without that leadership, we’ll be stymied by the same patterns responsible for the persistent disparities between schools in affluent ZIP codes and those in less prosperous neighborhoods.

Education 142

Education Tutoring Cultures Leadership 142

ED Surge

APRIL 20, 2022

New research published this week by the Society for Human Resource Management aims to address those questions. But even before an application finds its way to a human, it often has to pass through an automated screening process. How will he or she react to an application that has an alternative credential instead of a college degree?

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Tradition Humanities Leadership High School 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Children can also collect and publish oral histories about a place. Ehrenfeld: “The possibility that human and other life will flourish on the planet forever.”. That’s why we need the kind of leadership slowly emerging from our communities and our school systems — to join our children and young activists around the world.

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Oral History Education Leadership High School 117

Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 21, 2019

And like some school districts, Southeast Polk also uses a monitoring service that sends weekly emails to parents summarizing their students’ Internet search history. Focusing on superintendents: 5 technology leadership articles from AASA. Supreme Court]. Are educators courageous enough to be social media renegades?

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Human Rights Humanities Leadership History 110

ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

In September 2024, EdNCs early childhood team attended The Hunt Institute's 2024 Early Childhood Leadership Summit , which included teams from all 50 states comprised of senior elected officials, gubernatorial staff, mayors, local elected leaders, and key early childhood system leaders. It includes $26.25

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K-12 Private School Government Advocacy 63

ED Surge

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The course covers the history of feminism then and now, which includes an extensive lesson on gender violence. As an educator, I embrace my classroom as a place of hope and gathering where the students and I come together to grow our empathy and humanity.

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Teaching Humanities Leadership History 106

ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. Some of the students were quick to step into leadership roles and tell their classmates, “Okay, guys, this is how you join a group.” We need students to see our excitement about learning new tools.

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EdTech Junior High Geography Critical Thinking 128

ED Surge

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a world that has denied my humanity, literature has offered affirmation, consolation and direction. As a reader, I use Black literature as a tool to reclaim my humanity, my history and my future. Although the setting is the 1930s Jim Crow South, many students were able to make a connection to this human experience.

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Humanities Charter School History Teaching 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2021

I prepared by selecting supporting books that would allow us to talk about identity, history, children’s voices and white privilege. She holds a masters in Educational Leadership and Social Justice from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and is currently working toward her Ph.D.

Social Justice 98

Social Justice Elementary School Humanities Leadership 98

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2018

For the past five years, I have been a member of the Facing History and Ourselves student leadership group in which we discuss issues, their connections to history and how we, as young people, can be part of the change we seek. She has been a student in the Facing History and Ourselves program for five years.

History 84

History Leadership Humanities Teaching 84

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2021

By recruiting and then mentoring new teachers of color, listening to these teachers’ requests, supporting the development of culturally responsive curricula and promoting educators of color into administrative and district leadership positions, Phoenix Union is getting steadily closer to aligning its teacher and student populations.

High School 145

High School Cultures Leadership Public School 145

Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 2, 2023

So, for example, understanding the role of the human heart in the body is not just about being able to label where the human heart is on a diagram or being able to spit out a definition. “So it’s not just creativity in the sense of like the arts, but it’s more like, okay, you know something about the human heart. .”

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Project-Based Learning Pedagogy Humanities Leadership 130

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 31, 2020

He went on to say: “The man for whom my institution is named promoted individual liberties and advocated for the enslavement of humans. Others are obvious, overdue and simply require executive leadership.”. Washington’s response: “The question is a legitimate one — and it’s worth considering.” It’s a legacy with which we must deal.”.

Leadership 117

Leadership History Public School Humanities 117

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Students who take time off from four-year universities, opt for community colleges instead or shift to part time all could end up spending longer in school and are more likely to drop out, history and research show. That’s the inescapable lesson of history and research. Credit: Gregory Shamus/Getty Images.

High School 135

High School Charter School Advocacy Research 135

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 29, 2018

Businesspeople need to understand human nature more than ever before. Still, to understand human nature, leaders need to do more than crunch numbers. That is precisely why business students need to learn psychology, history, sociology, culture and art. But they will be rendered meaningless without the human touch.

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Sociology Psychology Humanities Cultures 80

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2022

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Covington County Superintendent Babette Duty chalks those cases up to human error.

Elementary School 145

Elementary School Public School High School Government 145

ED Surge

DECEMBER 11, 2023

miseducAsian Twitter/X chats, ongoing digital conversations with a network of justice-oriented Asian Pacific Islander Desi American [APIDA] educators catalyzing liberatory educational change by countering miseducation that silences and obscures Asian American histories and stories).

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K-12 Education Professional Development American History 121

ED Surge

AUGUST 8, 2023

For her doctoral research at Temple University, Royal dug into the turbulent history of school reform in the city from the 1960s up to now, including reading through the minutes of every school board meeting from 1967 to 2017 and interviewing teachers and school leaders from the era. Royal welcomes the comparisons. “We

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Public School Leadership History Humanities 88

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Related: Debt without degree: The human cost of college debt that becomes ‘purgatory’. Gender wage gaps have been a recurring topic of discussion, and there is a history of legislation to eliminate this inequity in some states. Similar initiatives to eradicate racial wage gaps are needed at the state and federal levels.

K-12 118

K-12 High School Leadership Economics 118

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 20, 2020

I was seen as a human who worked hard, cared about kids and reflected on their leadership. Throughout history and across cultures, trans and nonbinary folks have thrived. Simply put, we are failing to see the humanity and the beauty of our trans students, and we are forcing them to accept our binary thinking.

Middle School 90

Middle School Humanities Leadership History 90

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2024

The Board and senior leadership worked out confidential agreements with other institutions to support our students in the event of a closure.” Wells was put on probation in 2019 by Middle States, requiring that, among other things, it show evidence of “adequate fiscal and human resources” and proper financial planning.

Teaching 141

Teaching Leadership History Humanities 141

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: Unlike programs at other colleges and universities, the curriculum focuses on major Western philosophical thinkers and writers via a “great books” program that Montás , who directs Columbia’s Center for the Core Curriculum, considers critical to students’ intellectual development. Weekly Update.

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Museum Humanities High School Civics 87

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2017

A photojournalist, she’s at work on an oral history book project, interviewing scores of public school students, from kindergarten through 12th grade, across the country. I also definitely want to be heavily involved in advocacy for young black youth, or, for youth in general, and just promoting student leadership. Weekly Update.

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Oral History Advocacy Cultures Leadership 103

Anthropology for Beginners

AUGUST 22, 2022

The word "tribe" has a long and ignoble history and remains one of the most variably used terms within and outside of anthropology (Helm 1968). The leadership is rather situational and it is never transmitted from one generation to the next. Similarly the Greek word Phule also represented Indo-European Social Organisations.

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