A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 21, 2014

Lesson planning, grading, meeting with students before/after school, running clubs, and coaching all take up a great deal of their time as well. This results in a shift from a leader-driven meeting to one where leadership is distributed. To learn more about flipped leadership check out the latest book by Peter DeWitt.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2019

It begins with a focus on improving teaching, learning, and leadership followed by utilizing an array of digital assets at every educator’s disposal to share and amplify. Artifacts such as assessments, lesson plans, unit plans, projects, and examples of student work can easily be converted to a sharable link using Google Docs.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

Take lesson planning, for example. Many of us recall the days when lesson plans were a labor of love or a big waste of time. We spent countless hours crafting detailed outlines, complete with objectives, activities, assessments, and even a backup plan in case of inclement weather.

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 9, 2017

Even though my science teaching days are long behind me, the scientific method has always stuck with me, as there are direct applications to leadership. I think I refuted more hypotheses then validated, but the learning experience kept driving me to pursue eventual degrees and a teaching certificate in the sciences.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 5, 2024

As the CEO of Aspire Change EDU , I'm dedicated to research-driven, data-enhanced, and evidence-based services and resources to aid districts, schools, and organizations in transforming teaching, learning, and leadership. These methods are harmonized with the 7 Pillars of Digital Leadership & Learning.

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A Principal's Reflections

JANUARY 12, 2020

Image credit Instructional leadership should always be a top priority for any administrator regardless of his or her position. Stay the entire lesson. Either a teacher is not being open to feedback and getting better, or an administrator is not creating a meaningful experience that leads to growth. Never make it an “I gotcha” moment.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

To help achieve an ROI we increased the number of formal observations and evaluations, collected learning artifacts (lesson plans, assessments, student work, etc.) It’s been a few years now since I left the principalship to pursue my new career as a Senior Fellow with the International Center for Leadership in Education (ICLE).

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2021

This required extra time to create my own lesson plans, adapt our school curriculum and find supplemental materials to help my students connect with the grade-level content. For example, math departments can collaborate with EL departments to build activities and lesson plans that ELs can relate to.

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Catlin Tucker

JUNE 24, 2020

Maria Hersey is a global educator with extensive experience in educational leadership, international education, social-emotional learning (SEL), curriculum design, and global- mindedness. Currently, Dr. Hersey is the Principal Advisor for Global Education Advisors. Thank you to StudySync for producing and sponsoring this podcast!

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2013

They understand that successful implementation requires a focus on fundamentals: curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership. Educators will then utilize this knowledge to develop CCSS lesson plans and assessment tasks for immediate use in their ELA or content area classroom.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. And I mean, I'm lesson planning, I'm unit planning. A really good day is when I'm able to complete my lesson plan from beginning to end, when children are catching what I'm bringing in five seconds. That's what I do. I'm an educator.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Jenn David-Lang Kim Marshall Jenn David-Lang, meanwhile, has been doing a similar project since 2007, when she began publishing The Main Idea , a single, detailed monthly summary of an important education book to help education leaders connect to the most important ideas on leadership, teaching, and learning. It was not learned.”

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2020

In this episode, I mention lesson planning for the online environment. If you want more information about planning online learning experiences, check out my article “ Successfully Taking Offline Classes Online ” that was featured in a special distance learning edition of Educational Leadership.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I saw myself in their struggles with classroom management and lesson planning, and I was eager to share the strategies that had helped me. Helping these new educators navigate their first year of teaching was one of the most rewarding experiences of my career.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 18, 2020

We can come up with a number of these questions, each of which has major implications for leadership behaviors and school support structures: Which is bigger? The number of teachers who need to turn in lesson plans because they’re struggling with instructional coherence or the number of teachers who don’t? Which is bigger?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 16, 2022

Teachers have to do countless tasks—including lesson planning, teaching, grading, mentoring, classroom management, as well as keeping up with technology and new pedagogical practices, monitoring progress, and other administrative work—all while keeping students’ social and emotional needs in mind. Educator CIRCLS.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 22, 2022

Taking the time to analyze student data and factor it into a personalized lesson plan is usually something for which teachers are expected to volunteer their personal hours. Teachers Aren’t Given Real-Time Data Making the time to analyze data and apply it to lessons is only half the battle. Data-Driven Leadership in Schools.

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ED Surge

MARCH 8, 2023

We create entire units and lesson plans well before meeting them, let alone take the time to build meaningful connections with our students. These commitments demonstrated the power and impact of the youth organizers – and the leadership capacity of students that is so often untapped in schools. “I

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Digital Promise

APRIL 20, 2021

The lesson plans are typed up and printed out and the lesson objectives and daily agenda are posted artfully on the board. What are some things that we, as an instructional leadership team, could focus on to help teachers keep students engaged, without increasing teacher workload?

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ED Surge

JANUARY 6, 2022

What Teachers Pay Teachers Is Learning From Bad Lessons and Upset Teachers by Stephen Noonoo The popular lesson planning site Teachers Pay Teachers has long struggled with allegations of plagiarism, racist lesson plans and poor content quality—drawing the ire of teachers and social media users.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

Joining forces, we established the Center for Innovation and Leadership in Special Education. During their year with us, fellows study the neuroscience of learning and the learner; the principles of behavior change; and educational law, administrative leadership and effective resource appropriation. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In this series, we take a closer look inside our new paper, “ Micro-credentials and Education Policy in the United States: Recognizing Learning and Leadership for Our Nation’s Teachers.”. Will that system help build capacity of states and districts and the teacher leadership that requires for long-term school improvement?

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

This past June, my organization partnered with Starlight Africa to pilot the Career Girls Mobile Learning Center , to create a customized, culturally sensitive career discovery curriculum that includes African role model videos and interactive lesson plans for 100 girls (ages 10 to 17) in two Rwandan schools, Gihogwe and Acts4Rwanda.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

Related: OPINION: Now is the time to hire and promote Asian Americans into leadership positions. For example, schools should support the development and leadership of Asian American organizations that raise awareness about racial justice and equity. This raises a necessary question: Who is going to teach these classes?

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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Despite my hesitance, I recently took on a leadership role at my school for a few reasons. It’s about more than tests and grades. It’s about helping kids discover themselves and the world around them.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2022

Educators should consider who students are as learners and seek to remove potential barriers to learning during the lesson-planning process. Toni Barton is the founder and president of Spelligent Education, a consultant for Relay Graduate School of Education and a founder of Relay’s Inclusive Schools Leadership Institute.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 17, 2015

is widely recognized as one of the nation’s leading experts on K-12 school technology leadership issues. After 14 years as an Educational Leadership professor, Dr. McLeod currently serves as the Director of Innovation for Prairie Lakes Area Education Agency in Iowa. Scott McLeod, J.D., Register here! Related Posts.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Nifemi Ogunsuyi is a teacher leader in New York who participated in Teaching Matter’s Emerging Teacher Leadership Program (ETLP) to develop teacher leader skills, as well as their Master Teacher Program , an advanced micro-credentialing program that allows teachers to demonstrate her competence in leading other teachers.

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Catlin Tucker

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Large class sizes, demanding parents, a constantly evolving digital toolset, shifting leadership initiatives, and teacher shortages have created a perfect storm of time constraints. He can design differentiated lesson plans, grouping students based on their pre-assessment results.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

When will this PD end so I can get back to lesson planning and grading student work?” It’s up to those of us in leadership positions to prevent this. Bring all of these data sources to your leadership team, and begin to explore appropriate goals. Not sure how to set a five-year plan?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2017

All of our districts are members the members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools, an 86-district coalition recognized for innovation and leadership in education. District sponsorship allows for the development of broader materials: entire units, rather than lesson plans.

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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

Developing the program has been a journey, and I learned that managing a performing arts program is unsustainable without financial support and commitment from school leadership. Since then, I’ve learned that these methods are merely tools to transform culture and spaces.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In my role as an academic dean, I am part of our school’s leadership team and have a seat at the decision-making table. Every year when our school’s leadership team comes together to prepare for the new year, the discussion around the need for a more impactful family engagement strategy surfaces. What’s worse?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2018

This strategy of tapping into students’ own experiences as part of a lesson plan is an increasingly common one in U.S. The vast majority of Saridis’s students are Latino, and at the Margarita Muñiz Academy in Boston, a dual-language high school in Boston Public Schools, connecting the curriculum to their culture is a top priority.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Following the news, my lesson plans for the day suddenly seemed ridiculous. An Obligation to Change Marching on is not the solution, even though leadership wishes it was. I knew I needed to shift what I was doing, but I didn’t know where to begin. I hadn’t faced a situation like this as a teacher.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. Attending weekly team planning meetings made me anxious, because usually, that’s where we would learn of the latest effort leadership had come up with. There was the NCELI (N.C.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

There’s a ton of work to be done, from creating lesson plans, to preparing classrooms, to welcoming new students. Here are the three key lessons learned from these schools that other teachers can incorporate before the new school year begins: Get buy-in from leadership, teachers, and the community.

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