A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 11, 2024

This approach shifts away from the traditional one-size-fits-all model, allowing students to learn at their own rhythm and delve deeper into concepts that pique their interest. In today’s rapidly evolving educational landscape, traditional one-size-fits-all approaches often leave many students behind, leading to disengagement and frustration.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 25, 2024

Nearly 1,400 public K-12 schools from across the country responded to the survey. NCES Commissioner Peggy Carr said in a news release that while the percentage of schools saying it was difficult to fill positions decreased — down 5 percentage points from 79 percent last year — “there’s still room for improvement.”

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Sapiens

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

They wrote about Abena—and Akaina, a young girl in Eastern Africa living 3,000 years from today—to help teach K–12 students about possibilities for a sustainable future. This map shows the location of archaeological sites and their associated occupational phases in the Banda Traditional Area, Bono Region, Ghana.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 17, 2021

These models were never meant for K-12 education, and there is no definitive playbook available as things seem to be in a constant state of flux during the pandemic. As I was on-sight with them in a socially distanced cafeteria, I facilitated a more traditional workshop.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2014

There is a dire need to support educators in the areas of digital leadership and learning while exposing them to non-traditional learning pathways. I don’t see any better way than building a solution with a foundation of practitioners who are leading and teaching this way in schools.

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TeachThought

JULY 20, 2024

Strategies for Teaching AI Concepts Without Technology by TeachThought Staff Preface: This post is primarily for general content-area K-12 teachers (likely 6-12). Teaching AI theory, for example, is well beyond these ideas. How you teach something depends, obviously, on what you’re teaching.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 14, 2014

Enter the age of standardization and computerized assessments that will test the living daylights out of students in the United States over the course of their lifetime in K-12 education. It does not rely on someone being in a leadership position in a traditional sense, but more so on a desire to want to change professional practice.

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TeachThought

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

15 Alternatives To Report Cards In The K-12 Classroom by TeachThought Staff Like lunchboxes (or brown paper sacks), field trips, and textbooks, report cards are iconic–symbols of traditional classrooms and traditional approaches to education. But it’s not that simple. Provide clear and measurable learning outcomes.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

OER ranges from highly structured college courses (MOOCs) to less structured curricula from colleges and other institutes of learning (OpenCourseWare a/k/a OCW), to free online textbooks, and everything in between. I work in K-12 education, Nicole with college students, and Philipp primarily with adult learners.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2025

Part of that involved the question of whether schools should ban smartphones one of the biggest policy debates of the year in K-12 education. Is it time to give traditional letter grade systems an F and replace them with alternatives that focus more on getting more students to master material? Thanks for listening!

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Traditional higher education has reached an inflection point. trillion — up nearly $750 billion in 12 years. Reimagining degrees and other pathways must start early with exposure to career opportunities throughout the K-12 education experience. Related: Interested in innovations in the field of higher education?

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 26, 2023

Hybrid learning – a blend of online and traditional classes – really took off, especially when the pandemic stirred things up. Over the last few years, I've called several major trends in education that hit the nail on the head. Digital skills? They've become a big deal in classrooms everywhere, just as I anticipated.

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Anthropology.net

MARCH 10, 2025

The presence of these distinct lithic technologies indicates that hunter-gatherers in this region were part of a broader cultural tradition that spanned much of southern Europe in the final millennia of the Ice Age. Scientific Reports, 12 (1), 5609. Related Research Romandini, M., Marciani, G., Benazzi, S., Ronchitelli, A.,

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2025

Credit: Patience Zalanga for The Hechinger Report There was a logic behind that: In a traditional course sequence, finishing calculus is easier if students take Algebra I by eighth grade since they can continue on to geometry, Algebra II, precalculus or trigonometry, and then calculus their senior year. Related: Widen your perspective.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. According to a National Parents Union Survey in October 2020, 45 percent of parents of K-12 students would opt to keep their children fully online if given the opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

Our free weekly newsletter consults critical voices on innovation in K-12 education. 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.

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ED Surge

APRIL 3, 2025

For both colleges and K-12 schools, buildings are meant to prepare students for the next stage in their life, Delgado says. K-12 buildings should have a variety of spaces like music rooms or science labs that allow students to explore their interests and get excited for college.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

That has caused a lot of anxiety among traditional public school advocates, and a lot of anxiety with progressives and Democrats who just really oppose this. And we've done it in a way that is consistent with the voucher program that [Republicans] love in the K-12 system. We didnt want to do it overnight, Hume said.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Nearly 80 percent of young children who attend the Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program will ascend to a traditional kindergarten setting. Consider that the annual cost of K-12 special education is nearly three times that of “general education”: $26,000 vs. $9,000 per student in California, for example.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2020

When I read about some of the challenges that many of my traditional brick-and-mortar counterparts are experiencing, my heart goes out to them. The post OPINION: How online and traditional teachers can work together to bring more students into the middle class appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios.

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Digital Promise

MAY 4, 2021

Preliminary research suggests that design thinking improves metacognition in K-12 students, and ultimately improves STEM performance. For K-12 students to develop strong skills in design thinking, they rely heavily on the acumen of their educators. Work in mathematics (Goldman et al., 1998), science (Kolodner et al.,

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 19, 2024

Once the site of an Indian boarding school, where the federal government attempted to strip children of their tribal identity, the Native American Community Academy now offers the opposite: a public education designed to affirm and draw from each student’s traditional culture and language. The charter school, NACA, opened its doors in 2006.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Using skills they’d learned in their computer science lessons, the students designed a traditional button blanket on a laser cutting machine. The program trains educators at K-12 schools whose students include Native children on different ways they can introduce young people to programming, robotics and coding.

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TCI

FEBRUARY 28, 2025

Active learning strategies have transformed K-12 classroom instruction, shifting away from passive lectures to interactive, student-centered learning experiences. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes. times less likely to fail than those in traditional lecture-based classes.

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Education Elements

DECEMBER 29, 2020

I got started with this tradition of predictions in 2010 after reading Disrupting Class, a book by Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn. Now at the end of 2020, I’d estimate that +95% of all K-12 students took some form of an online class, and most likely this trend will continue into 2021.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 2, 2023

Tom Darling, Transfr’s director of strategic initiatives, has worked in workforce development for 20 years, from the K-12 level through community college and beyond.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2018

Twenty-three states have created K-12 computer science standards. That’s up from 12 states in 2013, when Code.org launched, aiming to expand access to computer science in U.S. For every overlap, teachers have a concrete opportunity to introduce computer science in more traditional subjects.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2025

The trend crosses traditional political divides. Can you imagine being in a room with 12 2-year-olds who are not potty trained by yourself every day? A growing number of cities, states and individual programs, including Texas , Virginia , Mississippi and Washington, D.C. , Daniel said.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 31, 2016

States that do not have their own online course consortia can become a member of the VHS Collaborative or use Educere (K-12 solution). There is no excuse not to secure funds to better meet the needs of all learners or those with specialized interests.

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Catlin Tucker

DECEMBER 3, 2022

The station rotation model is a popular K-12 blended learning model that rotates students through a series of stations or learning activities. I found it helpful to identify the learning objectives for a lesson and write out a traditional linear agenda since that was familiar. The station rotation model is incredibly flexible.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 9, 2021

While expanding access to technology and broadband alone will not improve teaching and learning, our new K-12 Leaders’ Guide to Successful Technology Integration shares lessons learned from several Digital Promise initiatives, including seven years of implementing the Verizon Innovative Learning Schools (VILS) program.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

In fact, the authors made the surprising conclusion that many instances of flipped learning involve more time spent on passive learning than the traditional lecture model, because some professors both assign short video lectures and spend some time in class lecturing to prepare for class activities.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 21, 2021

At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. At the K-12 level, we have seen how school ratings can boost or depress property values and shift who seeks to enroll in a given school. The trouble is, it doesn’t work.

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ED Surge

MAY 30, 2023

It seems to be making a difference for both the tutors and the K-12 students. Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy Cheryl Holcomb-McCoy, dean of the university’s School of Education, agrees that paying aspiring educators for their time and service with K-12 students “eases the pressure” on them to find other part-time jobs.

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ED Surge

MARCH 9, 2023

In K-12 settings, USB SEL programs have demonstrated success in improving the social and emotional states of our youth, while also boosting school climate and safety. We looked at the impact of more than 250 distinct USB SEL programs on 12 student domains, as well as intervention quality, content, skills and SEL implementation.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

Over the last 12 years, the school system has undergone major upheavals. To ensure access to high-quality educational experiences at the high school level, students enrolled in Grades 9-12 were provided tuition to attend one of two neighboring high schools. In 2012, students in Grades 7-8 followed suit.

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