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

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. 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.

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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

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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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

But by the time she was heading up her own elementary school classroom in Chicago, she found herself missing the library and longing to teach media literacy again. She teaches concepts as wide-ranging as American Sign Language, critical thinking, typing, conducting research and writing in cursive. If you can't manage, you can't teach.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 17, 2017

What many people also don’t realize is that even though all eyes were on the digital aspects of our transformation, it was the continuous focus on improving teaching and learning that ultimately led to results. This makes sense on many fronts, as we are accountable first and foremost to our learners as well as our other stakeholders.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 1, 2013

As a trusted educational partner, Discovery Education has worked with thousands of educational leaders to transform teaching and learning. They understand that successful implementation requires a focus on fundamentals: curriculum, instruction, assessment, and leadership. As leaders, we need to think, plan, and act differently.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I began my teaching career as a Teach For America (TFA) Corps member in Jacksonville, Florida. But very quickly, I learned that teaching in a Title I school, where a high percentage of low-income students face significant educational gaps , was far more challenging than I had anticipated.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Any time we teach our students something , we need to check to see how well they learned it. But if we only do this check at the very end, after all the teaching is done, and we find that our students haven’t learned the material quite well enough, it’s too late to do anything about it. ” David-Lang says.

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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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ED Surge

APRIL 19, 2023

Teaching is about more than curriculum and lesson planning. Teaching, as human work, is to show the beauty and complexity of the human experience in our society. But pursuing dreams and passions requires time and space, and teaching leaves me barely any room to breathe. Teaching has consumed me.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

The night before the Teach for America (TFA) summer institute — commencing virtually for the first time due to the pandemic — I lay in my childhood bed at my parents’ house with tears in my eyes. Cut to my third year in the classroom, and I still wrestle with what led me to Teach for America in the first place.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 16, 2022

What am I teaching today? With a to-do list this long, do I even have time to teach? “I This is how the last year of teaching went for me. I was always completing tasks for other people—school leadership, district leadership, state officials—at the expense of the students in my care. It’s just a reality of the job.

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Catlin Tucker

APRIL 17, 2020

As educators grapple with the challenges of teaching remotely, I wanted to share some tips for navigating the shift from offline to online teaching. In this mini-episode, I suggest that teachers plan for a week at a time so that students can self-pace through assignments and enjoy the flexibility of learning online.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift This summer, teachers around the country are planning these lessons and more, in professional development programs designed to answer a pressing need: preparing teachers to teach about the climate crisis and empower students to act. “I Related: Climate change: Are we ready?

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2023

Congress is weighing a significant change to the teaching profession — one that proponents hope could help attract strong candidates to the classroom while retaining those who are already in it. This was part of a larger effort the commission determined was necessary to elevate and “ rebrand ” the teaching profession.

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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. Instead, by creating structured time and space to listen and learn from our students, we can humanize their lived experiences by making them an integral part of our teaching and learning.

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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. Even when students were fully remote, our teachers would teach from their classrooms, and I would walk the hallways and pop into classes just to check on them and provide support as needed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

Despite headlines about teacher shortages and a workforce that must become more diversified, recent federal regulations and a decade of policy has focused on the quality of teaching and teacher preparation to ensure that all teachers are ready to teach and meet high standards of performance from Day One. How do we know this?

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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.”. For almost two decades there has been considerable debate over the importance of fully licensed teachers in ensuring quality teaching and learning (e.g.,

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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

JANUARY 6, 2022

Stories about burnout, toxic positivity and putting respect back in the teaching profession were all exceedingly popular. As another pandemic year draws to a close, a few key themes have risen to the top in education. First among them is how difficult the job has become. That means calls for teachers to practice self-care are not enough.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2018

When there aren’t enough teachers trained to teach students with disabilities, we fail the vulnerable students who most need educators’ help. We must help teachers get the training they need to be able to teach all of their students, including students with disabilities. A student at work with her tutor. Photo: AP Photo/Brian Blanco.

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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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Edthena

AUGUST 13, 2021

On this episode of the Teaching Leading Learning K-12 Podcast, Edthena founder and CEO Adam Geller talked with Steve Miletto talked about all things professional learning, including how video is changing the game for giving educators feedback about their teaching. Now here’s Steve with this week’s show. Louis, Missouri.

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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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ED Surge

JUNE 23, 2023

At that point in my life, I knew I wanted to teach this style of dance to young people; with the right tools and experience, I knew I could help students understand and learn about their identity and culture the same way I did through Folklorico. Some lost the chance to participate in school plays and performances.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2021

This raises a necessary question: Who is going to teach these classes? Related: OPINION: Now is the time to hire and promote Asian Americans into leadership positions. While Asian Americans appear to be well-represented in education, most Asian American teachers in our district either teach Asian world languages or STEM subjects.

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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? Sometimes I’m late.

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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. These challenges often force educators to sacrifice their prep periods, substitute for other classes, or take on additional teaching duties.

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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. Teaching is always hard, but it doesn’t have to be this hard. I knew I needed to shift what I was doing, but I didn’t know where to begin.

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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 14, 2022

Only 17 percent of general education teachers say they feel well-prepared to teach students with mild-to-moderate learning disabilities. Educators should consider who students are as learners and seek to remove potential barriers to learning during the lesson-planning process. Meanwhile, one in five students in the U.S.

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Cult of Pedagogy

OCTOBER 22, 2023

She was talking about how my website and podcast sometimes make her feel like she’s not doing enough, she’s doing it all wrong, her teaching is never quite good enough. Something like teaching. Do they seem excited about the thing they’re teaching? None of us are sending that message in quite those words.

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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. Also, the framework includes responsive teaching styles, family engagement, student-teacher relationships and, at the foundation, a focus on and commitment to academic equity.

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