Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 24, 2020

Thank you, Jose Gonzalez and Darleen Perez , for sharing how Bunche Middle School in Compton, California is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2020

Thank you, Aaron Meyer, for sharing how Washington Middle School in Evansville, Indiana is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2022

Before I became its leader, my school was one of the only middle schools to make the state’s persistently dangerous list, which meant that in the previous year it had at least 20 reported physical assault offensives, along with incidents of weapons and drugs. That’s how I began creating a school that they could thrive in.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2023

BUGS, one of hundreds of “themed” middle schools spread across New York City and the nation, fully embodies the “Green” school concept. Sometimes there will be a name on a school that has nothing to do with what’s happening in the building. It’s more like branding.”

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A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 16, 2020

One, in particular, is the Corinth School District in Mississippi. The stage was set over the summer for me to work six days in each of their three schools to assist with teaching, learning, and leadership associated with their 1:1 implementation. Following the protocol described above, I facilitated coaching days.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 18, 2020

Thank you, Gerald Fussell , for sharing how Lake Trail Middle School in British Columbia, Canada is adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times.

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A Principal's Reflections

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

Additionally, my views on education regarding teaching, learning, and leadership were beginning to evolve in ways that would eventually help my school experience innovative success while also pushing my professional practice into a whole new dimension. For starters, my primary device to connect on Twitter was a Blackberry.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

“ More blood means more energy and oxygen, which makes our brain perform better.” – Justin Rhodes Spending time in schools as a leadership and learning coach has been some of the most gratifying work I have done. Science and research compel all educators to integrate more movement into the school day.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 23, 2019

In collaboration with HP and Microsoft’s Reinvent the Classroom Initiative , Digital Promise Global is proud to announce Lone Star Middle School of Nampa School District in Idaho as the newest HP Spotlight School. Nampa School District’s Commitment to Personalized Learning.

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ED Surge

MARCH 26, 2025

Seeing a Difference in Myself and Others When I got to middle school, I was bused to a school outside my neighborhood because they had a GATE program. It took an hour-long bus ride to and from school every day. It was then that I started to build an understanding of the inequities that existed in school.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 24, 2023

And so it begins… I am on sabbatical in Spring 2023, unpacking deeper learning in elementary and middle schools. If there is an inquiry- and problem-based learning school that serves grades K-8 that you think I should try and visit, or if you’d like to learn more about what I’m doing and learning, please get in touch!

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 27, 2014

Speaking of journeys, today I traveled to New Jersey with my middle school principal, Luis Pena (@principalpena) and high school principal, Glen Zakian. Under Eric''s stewardship, there are organizational conditions to support a culture of emergent leadership and at the heart of this is a significant level of autonomy.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 13, 2015

Two years ago I had the incredible opportunity to work with the entire leadership team of District 59 in Arlington Heights, Illinois for SEVEN days. They labeled it their ‘21st Century Leadership Academy.’ And we can build on all of that to start implementing new instructional and leadership paradigms in schools and classrooms.

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Digital Promise

JULY 11, 2018

On Monday, July 9th, teachers and administrators from 10 schools gathered to kick off a year-long journey in the Maker Learning Leadership Cohort. Facilitated by Digital Promise and supported by the Grable Foundation, the cohort is composed of teachers and administrators from the following schools: Avalon Elementary School.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2024

He remembers looking around his middle school one day and noticing something strange — “I thought, ‘all I see is Black people.’” He suddenly realized all his classmates were Black, as were the teachers and administrators at his school. Photo by Andrea Morales for MLK50 Tamorris became a Freedom Fellow in eighth grade.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Some have given up eating lunch entirely, which worries Phyllis Fagell, a school counselor and author of the book Middle School Matters. Middle school years are tough years. A bunch of uncomfortable adolescents are navigating social distancing rules while figuring out when and if to take down their masks.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 26, 2020

My online Leadership During a Crisis class launches in 2 weeks. What would you include in a Master’s level course on this topic, one that is focused on the practical implementation needs of P-12 school leaders (i.e., Coronavirus Chronicles 007 – Mendon-Upton Regional School District. not theoretical philosophizing)?

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Dangerously Irrelevant

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

ALL on instructional redesign (or leadership) for deeper learning. Middle School Teaching track – March 6, 20, and 27. Leadership for Deeper Learning track – April 3 and 10. 5 tracks… 10 cohorts… 28 total sessions. Here are the details: Instructional Coaching track – February 13, 20, and 27.

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Digital Promise

MAY 23, 2019

The five Jefferson County Public Schools participating in the initiative—The Academy @ Shawnee Middle School, Frederick Law Olmsted Academy North, Lassiter Middle School, Newburg Middle School, and W.E.B. Natalia Baltazar, Jeremiah Rhodes Middle School, San Antonio ISD, San Antonio, Texas (Cohort 5).

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

The following is a guest post by Juliana Meehan - Teacher of English at Tenafly Middle School and candidate for New Jersey principal’s certification through NJ EXCEL, currently interning with Principal Eric Sheninger at New Milford High School. Thank you, Steve, for your wonderful leadership (and the delicious breakfast)!

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

When people outside of school ask you what you do say, at a social event how do you describe your work? I'm a second-year doctoral student in educational leadership. My focus is on charter schools, multiliteracies and school librarianship. So you don't necessarily say, I'm a school librarian? That's what I do.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

After grieving a complete turnover in leadership last spring—waving goodbye to our head of school, our high school director, our middle school director and our school psychologist—our outgoing head of school decided that instead of hiring externally to fill the traditional leadership positions, we should try a new approach.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 16, 2020

I am pleased to note that I wrote up some ‘findings’ from those interviews as a chapter in Pamela Gaudet’s edited book, Like No Other School Year: 2020, COVID019, and the Growth of Online Learning , and also shared a few takeaways from my summer class on crisis leadership. Pamela asked me to write the chapter on leadership.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

It’s not every day that a top executive from a Fortune 500 company visits a middle school located more than 600 miles from the company’s headquarters. Coles also noted how the lab is bringing out leadership in students, and that skills learned in the lab have translated into other subjects. “I

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 27, 2020

Kristina also mentioned her new project, Recovery Mode , which is focused on leadership behaviors and support structures during rapid change events like the COVID-19 pandemic. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Coronavirus Chronicles 008 – Shanghai American School.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2021

We have continued to offer our college and career readiness initiative, The Saturday Leadership Program , in a virtual setting in which we expose scholars to different college environments. In fall 2020, MindCatcher launched Collective Support , an affinity-based leadership and wellness cohort.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

. As a middle school teacher, I often see my colleagues taking pains to keep students quiet during class. How can classroom teachers balance their roles in preparing students to meet the interpersonal and leadership demands of the new economy with classroom management? Build interdependency.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 14, 2021

HP Teaching Fellows also receive opportunities for networking, presenting, and sharing thought leadership through online publications and virtual events. Christian Scott, Middle School Social Studies & Computer Science and Technology Coordinator (Ontario). Theodore Ragavas, Technology Coach (New Jersey).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2024

But while this would seem to have significant potential implications for society and the economy — since college graduates make more money over their lifetimes than people who haven’t finished college — other obstacles have stubbornly prevented women from closing leadership and earnings gaps.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2020

Research shows that girls begin to lose interest in STEM subjects in middle school, but that they are more likely to continue exploring STEM activities, inside and outside of school, if they see role models who look like them and who are successful in STEM careers. Related: OPINION: Where are all the women in engineering?

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Districts are also fostering student leadership and elevating student voices in more meaningful ways. Similarly, during the 2019-2020 school year, San Antonio Union School District (California) created the first-ever student board member position. Potential for impacting student learning and educational leadership.

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Cult of Pedagogy

APRIL 1, 2024

” After extensive research, she decided that the path she wanted to pursue for her state was Educators Rising, which gets young people started on a path to teaching as early as middle school. “It takes years to be a great teacher,” Eckert says. And so it was just like, Oh wow. We got some stuff to fix.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 13, 2021

Or we could do: 1 introductory session for elementary school(s). 1 introductory session for middle school(s). 1 introductory session for high school(s). 1 session with examples of what this looks like in other schools. Podcast – How to take our leadership and teaching to new levels. Hope this helps!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Future Ready Schools just launched its new podcast series, Leading Through Unprecedented Times. Coronavirus Chronicles 007 – Mendon-Upton Regional School District. Coronavirus Chronicles 023 – Dhahran Middle School.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 11, 2020

I especially appreciated hearing about Butler Tech’s emphasis on distributed leadership and how your resilience over the past few months was a result of earlier decisions and structures around trust, empowerment, organizational values, and creation of a culture of risk-taking. Coronavirus Chronicles 023 – Dhahran Middle School.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2023

At the start of my teaching career, I was the only full-time, Black, male classroom teacher for a predominately Black student population in a southwest Philadelphia middle school. I think of my former students who brought their own children to the middle/high school I would later lead as a principal.

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