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?

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ED Surge

APRIL 26, 2024

. — McGrath Another key strategy involves adopting a multi-layered approach to workforce feedback , which challenges the traditional top-down model. This fosters a supportive leadership culture that comprehends campus dynamics and provides enhanced support accordingly. Stakeholders question, “What’s in it for me?”

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 16, 2022

Being human is more important than being right all the time. Embrace curiosity There are certain truths when it comes to leadership. Curious leaders inspire while also breaking down traditional barriers when it comes to transforming culture. As I stated in Digital Leadership, the desire and drive to act is all that matters.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 19, 2017

Skills that emphasize the unique abilities specific to human beings will enable not only current, but also future generations of learners to prevail in a world where technology will eventually replace most jobs currently available. Traditional measures of success often blind us from the truth. We are at a crossroads in education.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Some of the students were quick to step into leadership roles and tell their classmates, “Okay, guys, this is how you join a group.”

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 15, 2020

For the past six years, Digital Promise has convened a national network of Education Innovation Clusters (EdClusters)—leaders working to collaborate outside the traditional silos of sector and institution to design and implement transformative learning tools and programs in their communities. Leadership must be local.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 15, 2021

However, the vast majority of the examples that they use in the book pertain to students remembering something that they read earlier, answering exam questions, taking notes, engaging in mini-quizzes, regurgitating back what they heard from a teacher, and similar, extraordinarily traditional educational practices.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

After all, the rhythm of the traditional classroom doesn’t leave much room for chatting among students, and socializing in class is often viewed as a proxy for poor behavior or inattentiveness. Here are three things I learned about how to teach students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy: 1.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: The pandemic underscored the stark differences in pay, working conditions, and respect between K-12 educators and child care teachers in many communities.

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ED Surge

MAY 23, 2022

And though the struggles in early childhood education are largely systemic, it’s the individual, humanizing, heart-wrenching stories that are more likely to change public perception and, eventually, shift policy. What came through in interviews was her human-centered approach. We felt that was ideal for our organization in this moment.”

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

When a public school system in the San Francisco Bay Area explored replacing traditional grading practices with a form of “standards-based grading system” meant to eliminate bias, it sparked widespread opposition from parents. They signed petitions and showed up in force at school board meetings to rail against the changes.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 11, 2018

In this ever-evolving world of digital communication, a world where information arrives at our digital doorstep without being invited, we have to reset traditional thinking. An article by Jonathan Gottschall in Fast Company sums it up well: " Humans live in a storm of stories. We communicate through stories and learn from them.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

In a session focused on teacher leadership, Adelaja came up with a nature-based metaphor for her work: “A bird who every day came to the nest and fed its young until the young learned to fly — giving my kids the information and knowledge, and eventually that agency and self-sufficiency to find their own solutions to their own problems.”

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

It’s a sort of Amazon Prime approach to higher education that lets majors in the humanities and other disciplines, without leaving their home campuses, “stream” classes, often taught by star faculty from top universities, in fields such as coding. Hundreds of schools are going to go out of business if we don’t figure this out,” said Docking.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

In Dallas, eighth graders must choose one of five “ endorsements ” to focus on in high school — among them, STEM (science, technology, engineering and math); business and industry; and the arts and humanities. In a recent class at The Young Men’s Leadership Academy at Fred F. Right now, the systems are very siloed,” he said.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

School libraries are shifting from traditional settings where information is consumed to modern library programs which support authentic student inquiry, design, and creation. Competency-based performance is not the same as traditional professional development. With teacher librarians across the U.S. Create More! Consume Less?

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Curtin University, Australia (Human Rights). Polytechnic University of Valencia, Spain (Leadership, teamwork and continuous improvement, offered in Spanish). The University of Queensland, Australia (Leadership in Global Development). Columbia University (Artificial Intelligence).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2019

Leave this field empty if you're human: The kind of leadership and responsibility that shone through EB’s speech is actively encouraged at this unusual program in rural Maine. In her decades at the traditional high school, she saw her students becoming increasingly aimless and disengaged. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Dr. Preece

JUNE 3, 2023

As you become a middle leader, or take on wider and additional roles in schools, you tend to be thinking about ‘leadership’ or more strategic and whole school thoughts. You may drift towards an NPQLTD or NPQML/NPQSL – and the tradition for people in these spaces is to become less subject-specific in their CPD and personal focus.

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Geography Professional Development Leadership Tradition 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2018

Dintersmith points to North Dakota as a place where the people at the top of the state leadership hierarchy are making room for schools to innovate at the local level. The law allows districts to apply for freedom from state education requirements, such as seat time and traditional course sequencing, through an innovation plan.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 11, 2018

In Hebron Public Schools in Hebron, Connecticut, students get leadership training as early as elementary school, and Timothy Van Tasel, the superintendent, sees it as an education in civic-mindedness – and one that is particularly relevant now. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter. Choose as many newsletters as you like.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 24, 2016

I also shared that the research on motivation and engagement from Deci & Ryan, Hallie, and others shows quite clearly that autonomy and self-direction are fundamental human needs that we violate to the detriment of both our students and our proclaimed academic goals. and compulsory exams (accountability!)

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A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 14, 2016

Human nature compels us in many cases to take the easiest possible path to success. Are we more concerned about learning or traditional grading practices? How does the current process of observation and evaluation of staff ensure accountability while improving instruction and leadership? Does homework improve learner outcomes?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2020

” I have taught online courses in introductory biology and in-person human anatomy and physiology courses, both for biology majors and non-majors. Again, in times of emergencies, this model of strong, decisive leadership can be critical. higher education.” higher education. . higher-education institutions.

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Education Government Leadership Tradition 87

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 Political Science Civics 73

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 14, 2019

In World Class Learners , Yong Zhao said: [T]he traditional paradigm, by forcing children to master the same curriculum, essentially discriminates against talents that are not consistent with the prescribed knowledge and skills. And keep paying the price as a society for our incredible waste of human talent. No related posts.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2020

Some traditional universities say they want to add them, too, but longstanding practices are hard to alter. That’s because, even before the coronavirus created new problems for them, traditional higher education institutions already appeared to be losing business to those quicker, cheaper credentials. Anant Agarwal, CEO of edX.

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Leadership Tradition High School Elementary School 135

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2017

While a humanities class such as English costs a college just $52 per student credit, a respiratory therapy class costs $265 , according to a 2013 report by the Institute for Higher Education Leadership & Policy. Industry could do a better job communicating.”. As with a lot of education challenges, money is also a big problem.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2017

Institutions including Lebanon Valley College face demographic shifts, constrained family incomes, student preferences toward professionally oriented majors over some of the traditional liberal arts, and rapid technological change. Chamber of Commerce Foundation as saying that “employers have ‘less and less confidence’ in traditional degrees.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2020

Roosevelt Shelton, the interim dean of the College of Education and Human Development at Jackson State, said undergrads aren’t the only ones benefitting from the change. Until recently, Jackson State’s Master of Arts in Teaching program had the same testing requirements as the university’s traditional route.

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Education Elementary School Social Studies Leadership 88

Digital Promise

DECEMBER 8, 2016

Virtual Learning: A Human-Centered Approach. This is human-supported learning because it is virtual.”. Teachers are trained to stop at every avatar in the Center to ensure each learner experiences the human connection that a virtual world provides. Many SPICE learners are ones for whom traditional school was not successful.

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Humanities Tradition Teaching Research 82

Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

Universal Design for Learning (UDL) is “a framework to improve and optimize teaching and learning for all people based on scientific insights into how humans learn” ( CAST ). With CAST, we have created the Learning Differences Leadership Cohort of Fellows. UDL and Opportunity Youth.

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K-12 Professional Development Leadership Tradition 73

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: 3. Successful classroom leadership requires instructors specific to career and technical education to add classroom management and teaching strategies to their technical expertise. Intensive teacher training for instructors specific to career and technical education.

Education Policy 60

Education Policy Classroom Management Leadership High School 60

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Leave this field empty if you're human: There are a number of changes that must be made immediately to offset this growing crisis: College governance is weak and ineffective and must be immediately adapted to meet new oversight demands, with the faculty playing a more important role in creating an innovative educational enterprise.

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Economics Leadership Government Tradition 65

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 17, 2016

We must reimagine schools’ goals and their learning culture, and invent new approaches for learning both new and traditional subjects and topics. The traditional definition of literacy only includes reading and writing. Our education system must swiftly adapt to this new reality. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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K-12 Human Rights Tradition Economics 62

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2019

One part of the campus is not open to all: since 2016, a small section of LA High has been occupied by a selective, STEM-focused charter school, Girls Academic Leadership Academy. Last year, I had meetings with all of the health and human services representatives to find out what their issues are,” she said. Tammy Kim/Hechinger Report.

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