A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

Makerspace added to the library in 2013. I have written extensively about this space, which has transformed learning thanks to the leadership of Laura Fleming. The time for excuses, talk, opinions, and fear needs to end if our goal is really about improving teaching, learning, and leadership outcomes. So what''s stopping you?

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A Principal's Reflections

JULY 16, 2023

As I shared in Digital Leadership , evolving technology enables and empowers leaders to seize the moment and look for ways to fundamentally improve teaching, learning, and leadership. Observation comment library Writing up observations can be a tedious process. With any innovation, there is both excitement and fear.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 26, 2015

Makerspaces—collaborative, creative spaces chock full of tools and materials for informal creation, invention, and learning—are becoming increasingly popular at forward-thinking schools and libraries. P.S. I will be there as well leading sessions on digital leadership and learning. Hope to see you there!

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

When I hired Laura Fleming in 2013 to take over the traditional library she was tasked with giving it a reboot and was given complete autonomy to do so. When embarking on this initiative don't discount the importance of leadership during the planning, implementation, and evaluation process.

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A Principal's Reflections

MAY 26, 2019

Using interactive whiteboards like projectors Teacher-student ratio Principals seem to be regretting their decision to go into leadership as they have too much on their plate and not enough time. More supports are needed. There is always a new program being purchased.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

Laura had returned to New Milford this past September and is literally constructing a modern day Library Media Center. Within a few minutes of us arriving students flooded the Library, a space for conversation, research, learning and inventing. When we arrived to New Milford High School, Laura Fleming (@NMHS_LMS) greeted us.

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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. So then I told the principal I wanted to come out of the library. I really need to get back into the library so that I can do media studies and media literacy.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

21st Century Leadership Shift Happens (must see video for any educator unfamiliar with the tends and impacts associated with technology and social media. Subscribe to websites via RSS feeds, customize to your learning needs/goals, create you own unique educational current events library, and share websites quickly with your staff.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 28, 2016

“Libraries are safe places. That’s why I come here to learn,” says Christine, a student at one of Chicago Public Library’s (CPL) Learning Circles. The leadership at CPL believes Christine’s trajectory is not unusual. You can reach him on Twitter at @marvelousreal.

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Cult of Pedagogy

JUNE 9, 2024

Our school leadership could then look at those results and respond: If lots of people chose the word noticed, for example, it would suggest that leadership was doing a good job of recognizing people’s contributions and concerns. It’s called Alpaca , and the woman I was talking to was Karen Borchert , Alpaca’s CEO.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

For 10 years, the states pre-employment program has languished, with leadership turnover and bureaucratic infighting rendering it largely ineffective. She recently worked with a young woman who loves libraries. They know how to ask for accommodations at work. She was so excited about the courses, said Kerne.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 7, 2010

Currently the categories on this wiki include blogs, student leadership, technology integration, portfolios, learning through teaching, social networking, and authentic learning. The larger the library of exemplary practices, the more powerful this resource will be for everyone!

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2024

This is our library,” Tamorris announced, cutting through a small room filled with books on Black history, social critique, philosophy, and young adult fiction. The post At this summer school, students learn about liberation and leadership appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Email her rebecca.cadenhead@mlk50.com.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2016

The child care resource library in this small town is housed in what residents call “the purple awning building.” The post How child care quality could take a hit when Mississippi’s resource libraries shut down appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Photo: Sarah Butrymowicz. GRENADA, Miss. —

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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. ” Come back for more.

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Teaching American History

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Courtesy of Denver Public Library. White settlers were either unwilling or unable to recognize that a renegade band of Cheyenne and Arapaho had committed the atrocities— not the warriors under the leadership of Black Kettle and Left Hand. Captain Silas Soule 1863 or 1864. Soule fired first, wounding Squier in the arm.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Thanks to a partnership with Follett, I am now collaborating with national educational leaders to connect librarians and libraries to the strategic work of districts. How can librarians and libraries become more Future Ready? In Baltimore this November , libraries and librarians will be a featured strand during site visits.

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Cult of Pedagogy

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Since starting this project, several people have also reached out and asked me to take their photos–including our entire special education department and our Instructional Leadership Team. Our yearbook advisor asked me to give a presentation to the yearbook staff on how to take quality portraits with their phones.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 16, 2021

My administrators count on me, and I serve my district and my profession in leadership roles beyond the library. I’m appreciating the beautiful space we have created in our libraries and relishing the fact that all members of our school community love spending time there. I have always taken pride in that. It’s simply blissful.

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Teaching American History

MARCH 4, 2025

Native American Leadership, Identity, and Resistance at Mashantucket Pequot Museum & Research Center in Mashantucket, CT. Freedom, Virtue, & Resistance in African American Political Thought at African American Museum and Library at Oakland in Oakland, CA. Anthony & Reform at Susan B. Bush Presidential Center in Dallas, TX.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

My passion for DEI did not change once I transitioned from the classroom to school leadership. In one case, a teacher wished to increase the diversity of her classroom library. Who gets to decide what books go into the library? As a result of this audit, there are more diverse texts included in each classroom library.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 5, 2020

As a former librarian and district leader, I found that success was the best form of advocacy—when the great work of librarians is shared and documented, good things follow for students and library programs. In addition to this partnership, assessors were recruited from national library leaders participating in the Lilead Fellows program.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 12, 2019

In July 2018, Digital Promise launched a new Maker Learning Leadership Cohort dedicated to professional learning, peer connections, and school transformation in the Pittsburgh region. Next, the traditional library space was repurposed as Duquesne Media Central, outfitted with flexible seating, new technologies, and a recording studio.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

“ Because of her work with Educators Rising, Eckert’s name was passed to the leadership of Reach University, a nonprofit university that had started to offer an alternative credentialing path to teacher candidates in California. And so it was just like, Oh wow. We got some stuff to fix. Let’s see what we can do.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2015

The Learning Ninja award recognizes an administrator who expands the concept of the library and/or the role of the librarian or media specialist to harness the vast resources of the internet. The Savvy Spaces award is for an administrator who intentionally designs and implements learning spaces to support collaboration and interaction.

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ED Surge

AUGUST 4, 2023

As dean of the College of University Libraries and Learning Services at the University of New Mexico, I lead a team of over 120 faculty and staff members. But I knew that for a fundamental transformation like this to take root, leadership was critical, so I led by example, modeling the kind of change I hoped to see among staff.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Administrator mindset and leadership are critical here. Focusing on superintendents: 5 technology leadership articles from AASA. Given the necessity of the Internet in our lives and the need to teach students digital empowerment and citizenship, the emphasis should be on opening up rather than closing down. Related Posts.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Build a repertoire of school-wide games and teach students those rules : Beyond recess, classes at Playworks schools take time to go outside and learn new games during the week, many of which are available through the nonprofit’s online game library. Providing kids a positive recess experience is not always easy.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 27, 2024

This year, for example, students have been working in Seattle public libraries with University of Washington professor Jason Yip to build tools and games intended to help other kids identify and avoid disinformation. Sometimes the technology, and the way kids explore and build things with it, is integral to what kids need to learn.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 18, 2019

In July 2018, representatives from 10 Pittsburgh-area schools excitedly gathered with the goal of growing maker learning opportunities as the Southwest Pennsylvania Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. Cohorts Spur Collaborative Progress for Maker Learning. our teachers have eagerly sought the resources, ideas, and collaboration to try it out.”.

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ED Surge

JULY 31, 2023

Upskill Leadership Tara Carrozza , director of the Digital Learning Initiative (DLI) for New York City Public Schools, highlighted the importance of upskilling leadership to match the pace of technological advancements. The district is committed to equipping leaders with the necessary expertise to sustainably transform education.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 13, 2018

Libraries as Maker Magnets. What happens in a Future Ready Library? Explore why and how libraries are becoming ground zero for the maker revolution, where student are creators,empowered learners, innovative designers, and global collaborators. Micro-credentials for Leadership and Learning.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 17, 2023

The pair spent time reading at the library and volunteering, and Witchet remembers the sweeping views he took in during visits to Dennison’s high-rise office. Witchet is now a pre-kindergarten teacher and recently wrapped up his master’s degree in education leadership.

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Edthena

MAY 21, 2024

The Coordinator of Professional Learning and Leadership for Keller ISD , Valerie Minor, shared her secrets for tackling this challenge at the Learning Forward Texas conference. For example, they could record a classroom tour video or watch a curated video via Video Library and reflect on it for points.

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Teaching American History

JANUARY 28, 2025

This act required integration in employment, retail businesses and restaurants, and public facilities like libraries, parks and museumsas well as schools. In 1914 he assumed leadership of the school in Belmont that would eventually take his name. Four years later, at the age of thirty, Reid returned to Gaston County and began teaching.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 3, 2024

In that capacity, she provides leadership for youth and family programs of Nebraska Extension, a vital component of the land-grant university system, which enables access to campus-based teaching and research across Nebraska's 93 counties through 83 offices. How can teachers leverage the local extension system and 4-H programs?

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 8, 2019

school and library to the internet. In 2014 the FCC modernized the E-Rate program to make it more affordable for schools and libraries to upgrade their internet connection speeds. Access: Not all learners have daily—let alone anytime, anywhere—access to high-speed internet and a mobile device for learning.

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