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A Close Look at Competency-Based Learning

Cult of Pedagogy

The question itself highlighted the limitations of traditional grading, a system that has been shown to be problematic by so many people in education circles but still remains as the most common way schools manage and assess student learning. Those are identified typically by your school community in your portrait of a graduate.

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Ideas to Increase Parent Communication in Schools

A Principal's Reflections

This versatility, allowing parents to receive updates on their own terms, makes Twitter unlike any traditional communication tool that I’ve ever used as a principal. Topics ranged from health and drug awareness seminars to technology. Communication Leadership Strategies Ideas Opinion Parenting Web2.0'

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How one university is luring coveted honors students with social justice

The Hechinger Report

While the Newark Honors College still hews to a relatively traditional approach, the Living-Learning Community is redefining from scratch what it means to be an honors student. Honors College students participate in seminars and service projects and take a freshman colloquium. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like.

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More high school grads than ever are going to college, but 1 in 5 will quit

The Hechinger Report

It’s about making sure they come back from one year to the next,” said Eboni Zamani-Gallaher, a professor of higher education policy, organization and leadership at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign College of Education. “It’s not just about getting them in the door. That’s the conundrum we still haven’t gotten figured out yet.”.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

There, Meghan McFadyen asks kids in her mixed fourth- and fifth-grade classroom who have “Presence” among their top strengths to help peers, because in theory no performance anxiety will block them from taking leadership positions. And Seamons weaves strengths into the sixth-grade curriculum.

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Nearly all the seniors at this charter school went to college. Only 6 out of 52 finished on time

The Hechinger Report

His was a brash mission shared by a new breed of charter school leaders who said they could succeed where traditional neighborhood schools had failed. She sat in the front row for the sociology and biology seminars, but couldn’t concentrate in a room with more than 30 classmates. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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18 things that leaders of innovative schools do differently

Dangerously Irrelevant

On Monday I was in charge of TIES’ annual all-day Leadership Seminar. compared to those in more traditional schools]. They see those differences as assets, not problems to be managed, and are able to harness the power of distributed leadership to facilitate ownership and contribution across various stakeholder groups.