A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 8, 2014

For many years New Milford High School was just like virtually every other public school in this country defined solely by traditional indicators of success such as standardized test scores, graduation rates, and acceptances to four year colleges. Leadership is about action, not position or ideas that just get pushed around.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 15, 2023

No one can deny the pandemic’s devastating impact on America’s public schools. The public appreciates and understands the important role that CEOs, college presidents and other leaders play in the success of their organizations. The post OPINION: Want to improve our public schools?

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Digital Promise

APRIL 29, 2021

– Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools (Connecticut). – Dr. Brown, Reynoldsburg City Schools (Ohio). “We – Dr. Michael Nagler, Mineola Public Schools (New York). “We – Dr. Mark Benigni, Meriden Public Schools. – Willam Porter, Mentor Public Schools (Ohio).

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 11, 2020

Thank you, Michael Walker and Sean Beaverson , for sharing how the Edina Public Schools in Minnesota are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. I especially appreciated hearing about how your school district is trying to ensure that students have some deeper learning opportunities, even during the pandemic. .

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 11, 2020

Thank you, Mary Beth Bazzanella and Kala Munguia , for sharing how the Jeffco Public Schools in Colorado have been adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Check it out!

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 5, 2020

Thank you, Patrick Larkin and Dennis Villano , for sharing how the Burlington Public Schools in Burlington, Massachusetts are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. which is focused a little more on instructional issues than leadership. Episode 029 is below. Conversation series with educators during the pandemic.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Image credit: [link] This is how I felt for basically all of my fourteen years as a public school educator. No way, but all my decisions were based on doing what was best for students and creating a school that worked better for them than for us as the adults. Did I always succeed? ALL OF YOU ARE HAVING AN IMPACT!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 3, 2016

Members of the Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools are changing the model of traditional public education and building policies, programs, and practices that demonstrate how forward-thinking leadership, combined with driven, empowered educators and smart technology use, can transform learning. Fullerton School District.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 28, 2015

During my tenure as New Milford High School Principal our district cut wood and metal shop. Over the years I have also seen recess time dwindle for my own kids and others who attend the New York City Public School System. The solution for all schools comes in the form of makerspaces.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2020

Leave this field empty if you're human: Ten years ago, Courtney Dickinson wanted to create an innovative public school. She had a teaching degree and while she never got a job as a teacher, she had a lot of ideas about how schools should operate. Pyne Arts Magnet School in Lowell. Weekly Update. Future of Learning.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

In the United States today, 9 out of 10 school superintendents are white and two-thirds are white men. As a Latina, my leadership isn’t often expected, nor is it always welcome. First is the indispensable role of broad support from executive leadership. Community engagement and leadership are our foundational principles.

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Education Elements

JANUARY 19, 2021

From North Carolina to California to Alaska, public schools around the United States are planning to preserve a virtual school option for students after the pandemic is over. The constant drumbeat of getting all students back to school as quickly as possible does not tell the whole story of learning in the pandemic.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 3, 2020

Thank you, Mike Berry , for sharing how the Montpelier-Roxbury Public Schools in Vermont are adapting to our new challenges and opportunities. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 25, 2020

Thank you, Ben Johnson and Tanna Kincaid , for sharing how the Bismarck Public Schools in North Dakota have been adapting to our new reality. If you and your school(s) would like to be featured in the Coronavirus Chronicles series, get in touch ! Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools.

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Education Elements

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

What is the instructional leadership gap and how does it affect the learning outcomes of our students?

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Fernandas life reminded me that purpose doesnt have to be public to be significant; sometimes, its in the small, everyday decisions to show up for your family, your community, and yourself that real impact is made. Grace, on the other hand, defied societal expectations by pursuing her career while raising four children in the 1960s.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

OCTOBER 26, 2022

All of which brings us to the concerns that you note in the Denver Public Schools (DPS). Given your work with DSST and The Odyssey School of Denver and my work around instructional redesign and leadership for deeper learning , I think that we might have a really interesting and productive conversation together.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 24, 2025

Sallie Holloway Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools, Georgia Recently, EdSurge spoke with Sallie Holloway , the Director of Artificial Intelligence and Computer Science for Gwinnett County Public Schools. Recommended Resources: What Does It Mean to Be AI Ready?

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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. And the states extremely decentralized school governance system has hampered haphazard efforts to get the services into schools.

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ED Surge

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Public school teachers are often limited geographically by pensions, so moving across state lines means forfeiting your hard-earned retirement benefits. Clearly, there is very little formal growth inherent or possible within teaching, which I believe impacts the retention of a highly skilled and diverse educational workforce.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Greenfield Union School District (California). Gwinnett County Public Schools (Georgia). Highline Public Schools (Washington). Hudson City School District (New York). Kansas City Public Schools (Missouri). Linden Public School District (New Jersey). Community Schools (California).

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ED Surge

JANUARY 21, 2025

Name : Jami Rhue Age : 48 Location : Chicago Title : School librarian and media specialist Current age group : PreK-8 Years in the field : 23 EdSurge: How did you get here? Jami Rhue : I never thought of librarianship until I went to a job fair for Chicago Public Schools, and they were looking for school librarians.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

As New York City public school students head back to school this week, the days when officers in the city’s police department could arrest students for minor misbehavior may finally be over. The post OPINION: A sea change in New York City public schools that prioritizes student well-being?

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Teaching American History

MARCH 11, 2025

She thought she could help repair a disconnect between what some worry is happening in public schools and what she knows actually happens. Understanding the Reality of Public Education During her more than twenty years teaching government at the general and AP levels, Messick has certainly seen changes.

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ED Surge

MARCH 12, 2025

This school year is unique as we just opened a new building with over 450 students in kindergarten through eighth grade, consolidating three different elementary and middle campuses from different neighborhoods across New York. While there are always challenges in leadership, opening a new facility brings its own set of twists and turns.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

APRIL 9, 2020

It has been illuminating to listen to school leaders share how their systems are responding to the needs of their students, staff, and communities during the global pandemic. Coronavirus Chronicles 001 – Greene County Public Schools. Coronavirus Chronicles 002 – American International School of Guangzhou.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 22, 2020

Diversity does exist in the leadership pipeline,” said Sarah Guthery, a co-author of the study and an assistant education professor at Texas A&M University – Commerce, “but it tends to squeeze out women and Black candidates much earlier than studies of school leadership usually capture.”. years, seven months longer.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 9, 2024

In matters both big and small, women in education leadership are treated, spoken to and viewed differently than their male colleagues. The career moves that are open to aspiring women leaders often propel them toward a very real glass cliff — leadership roles in which the risk of failure is high. Data from the U.S.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Please join us in welcoming the following new districts to the League of Innovative Schools: ASU Preparatory Academies. Brigantine Public School District. California Area School District. Clear Creek Independent School District. Cleveland City Schools. Columbus Municipal School District.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2025

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. Related: Widen your perspective. Not any more.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JANUARY 2, 2023

Not under these conditions… This is the pattern in way too many schools. This is a failure of leadership. It’s wishful thinking disguised as professional development , and it’s yet another example of a school that’s going through the motions instead of engaging in meaningful, long-term, thoughtful improvement.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 10, 2024

The event provides leadership development skills, offers a psychologically safe space to process our experiences and nurtures the spirit of brotherhood and community needed to sustain our worth and our work. At this year’s retreat, Lester Young Jr., This is a dilemma. I haven’t seen one of them incorporate self-love as a prioritized outcome.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Snapshots include Covina Valley School District in Covina, CA, where the CISCO Networking Academies allow high school students to study the latest networking, security, and cloud technologies. At Liberty 53 Public Schools in Liberty, Missouri, the “UnSchool Challenge” offers students personalized internship opportunities.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2025

Our top post of the entire year was a vulnerable essay about an administrators leadership failure and how he made things right. School administrator Sarah Wright shares her thoughts on a trauma-informed approach to leadership. Are Schools and Edtech Companies Ready for the Digital Accessibility Deadline?

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Digital Promise

MARCH 2, 2021

During the 2019-20 school year, 10 districts from across the United States—including nine districts from the League of Innovative Schools—joined a learning cohort, convened by the Center for Global Education at Asia Society and Digital Promise, to explore this question. John Jungmann Superintendent, Springfield Public Schools.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2015

How are school administrators roles changing and becoming more focused on student learning? We are fortunate to have an up-close look at how public school districts are answering these questions, through our League of Innovative Schools. Cajon Valley Union School District - El Cajon, CA. million students.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

I’ve worked with the Bismarck Public Schools multiple times on leadership, vision, and instructional design for deeper learning (and we featured Legacy High School in Leadership for Deeper Learning ). Leadership Day 2010 – The final list! Leadership Day 2010 – The final list!

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