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12 Leadership Fundamentals

A Principal's Reflections

Leadership is leadership. Leadership is both an art and a science with the goal of moving the masses towards achieving a common goal. Not only does it align with what we know about effective leadership, but it also reminds us to keep our focus on the important stuff. Leadership is a team sport.

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Leadership for Deeper Learning: Excerpt 05

Dangerously Irrelevant

[To celebrate our upcoming book, Leadership for Deeper Learning , I am publishing an excerpt each day for a week before its release. We think that this book makes a unique contribution to what we know about leadership in deeper learning schools. Also, every main chapter concludes with Key Leadership Behaviors and Support Structures.

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What Have Schools Learned So Far About Effective Tutoring?

ED Surge

School districts around the country have rolled out tutoring programs at a feverish pace with the help of federal relief funds, intent on helping struggling students get back on track academically after the disruption caused when the COVID-19 pandemic shut down schools. The organization picked a diverse set of nine districts to study.

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STUDENT VOICE: I’m thriving in my dual-enrollment program, but it could be a whole lot better

The Hechinger Report

Dual enrollment in college classrooms is helping me save money on college, and it also helped me get an after-school tutoring job at Kumon my mentors in Valencia College s tutoring program inspired me and gave me guidance and confidence to succeed in my interview. My high school also didnt have test prep resources.

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Innovation is More Than an Idea or Tool

A Principal's Reflections

When it comes to innovation, I see digital leadership and blended learning as two of many ideas, concepts, or strategies where there is research and evidence to support these innovative practices. Whether to innovate or not should be driven by a challenge or problem that can be overcome in a way that leads to a better outcome.

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PROOF POINTS: We have tried paying teachers based on how much students learn. Now schools are expanding that idea to contractors and vendors.

The Hechinger Report

Then, in 2020, Harvard University’s Center for Education Policy Research announced that it was going to test the feasibility of paying tutoring companies by how much students’ test scores improved. Tutoring became a leading solution for academic recovery and schools contracted with outside companies to provide tutors.

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OPINION: As federal pandemic funds end, K-12 systems must look for bold changes

The Hechinger Report

School systems leveraged these funds to pay for high-dosage tutoring, early literacy support, leadership development, enhanced counseling, expanded student exposure to career pathways and other endeavors. The Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief (ESSER) Fund gave districts nearly $200 billion.

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