A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

We live in exciting times as unprecedented access to knowledge, research, and effective strategies at our fingertips can assist educators in creating meaningful experiences for students that align with both needs and strengths. The rest is now history. One thing is for certain: learning is not linear.

Junior High 482

Junior High Pedagogy Professional Development Leadership 482

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Johnson feels about Friday,” she told the students as she paced around the cafeteria in an “I am black history” shirt. “If 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high. A junior high principal resigned from the public school to lead it.

Charter School 109

Charter School History Library Public School 109

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

The research goes back and forth, and the districts go back and forth, but they’re not always thinking about how to create the conditions for success.” The research comparing outcomes of students at K-8 and middle schools remains inconclusive. But it quickly became clear that the junior highs weren’t living up to their promise.

Middle School 129

Middle School Junior High Elementary School High School 129

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2021

A spokesperson for the Laramie County School District #1 could only find records of two students who died by suicide at East High school while Brown was enrolled there.). Despite this history, Brown, like many of his colleagues, said a bill requiring schools to provide suicide prevention education to students was legislative overreach.

Education 133

Education K-12 High School Advocacy 133

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2016

Osborn, who graduated from Clinton in 2005 and returned five years ago to teach history at the high school, said the benefits of Clinton’s plan stuck out to him even as a kid. Researchers have found that students in diverse schools can become less prejudiced and more empathetic, and may work harder. Photo: Jackie Mader.

Junior High 75

Junior High Civics K-12 Economics 75

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Meanwhile, years of research underscore what the Coleman Report pointed to 50 years ago, a real correlation between segregation and an educational achievement gap along lines of class and race. When he returned from college in 1993 to work as a history teacher in the district, he wondered where all the white students had gone.

Middle School 111

Middle School Private School Elementary School Public School 111