A Principal's Reflections

AUGUST 12, 2018

Educators and schools across the globe have embraced the concept of student agency. However, we must not lose sight of the third element that comprises this concept, and that is advocacy. Many students participate in committees, on unique panels, and in functions that help raise awareness or interest in education issues.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In early care and education, on the other hand, there is no such infrastructure. Not so in early care and education, notes Lauren Hogan, strategic adviser at the National Association for the Education of Young Children (NAEYC), a nonprofit that advocates on behalf of early childhood teachers and staff.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. Get motivated today listening to Pam.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

Their ability to make changes in policy, law and their own lives is enhanced.” Between Seattle, Naples, and the Bahamas, there are advocacy villages everywhere, filled with educators like Hannah Irion-Frake, a third-grade teacher in Pennsylvania who spends her career advocating for and creating readers. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 22, 2024

As a longtime early childhood educator who has been nurturing young minds for four decades, I’m aware of the many challenges of the profession, from compensation to staffing to a lack of respect for the work. But this experience left me wondering — where is my safety net when I fall ill or seek retirement as an early childhood educator?

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Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

To that end (and based on my DC Blockchain Summit experience), here is my current list of the top 10 things to know about the future of blockchain in education. .” The event had a strong financial services theme, although I met audience members engaged in a wider array of fields (including healthcare and social media).

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2024

Critics also challenged the arguments and data used by the district to justify the policy. Performing the Autopsy Proponents of the detracking effort see themselves as fighting against the tide of the countrys education system and, even more difficult, its culture. This year San Francisco unraveled its nearly 10-year experiment.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 16, 2020

In the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, districts and educators have been tasked with shifting teaching and learning online, and many are seeking resources to support learning in this new environment. We recognize that while educators adapt to new realities, they remain dedicated to their students’ well-being and learning.

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Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

Even if they are correct about the current state of affairs – and they just might be – it doesn’t abdicate our responsibility to help schools and educators do better. Instead, advocates have focused almost exclusively on the practices of companies serving education. “ Information security “).

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 7, 2024

Sponsored by ClassLink Uh oh and Oh noin 2022, that was the typical, collective reaction of administrators and educators to using generative AI in the classroom. In 2024, though, schools have started creating policies and guidelines for using generative AI with K-12 students.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 10, 2021

A study found that the policy boosted diversity on campuses by 1 percentage point, on average. Photo by: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images) Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. In 1970, Bowdoin College was the first college in the country to go test optional.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2021

In February, Philadelphia-based early childhood educator Adrienne Briggs found herself in a quandary. And even when she finally did figure out what the new policy called for, Briggs learned that complying was sometimes impossible. So when do I have time to sit and read a new policy?”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

In a year of continued challenges for educators, advocates for computer science education are serving up some good news. It has been an absolutely tremendous year for computer science education growth for K-12,” says Katie Hendrickson, president of the Code.org Advocacy Coalition and director of State Government Affairs for the group.

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Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

I recently attended one of the community meetings discussing whether or not a national open education policy is needed in the US. But here are my quick takeaways from the meeting I did attend: There will likely be an effort to create a national open education policy.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 11, 2017

There is a great deal of research and evidence out there that pretty much debunks the claims of many in the world of education reform that accountability systems based solely on student achievement data have any merit. No, this is not a post about value-added evaluation practices. I believe that ship has sailed.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

DECEMBER 17, 2018

[ Every week a ‘Monday Morning Message (MMM)’ email goes out to all doctoral students from a faculty or staff member in the CU Denver School of Education and Human Development. Not every scholar or educator wants to be a public intellectual. Tressie McMillan Cottom, @tressiemcphd , tressiemc.com (sociology and higher education) .

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Neo LMS

AUGUST 2, 2018

Some operate only in the United States, others world-wide, but they all have one thing in common: educators of all kind can find support in their professional lives and connect with like-minded individuals. So here are eight ed-tech organizations every teachers should know about: ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education).

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2024

Relying on teacher recommendations or parent advocacy to decide which students are ready, many schools have not been able to get enough talented students from disadvantaged backgrounds into seats in algebra classrooms. It’s an inefficiency in the education system, leaving talent on the table, he says, adding: “Doing nothing is going backward.”

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Alongside this meteoric rise of students and resources, researchers are trying to understand who is taking advantage of these early college classes, whether they’re expanding the pool of college educated Americans, and if these extra credits help students earn college degrees faster and save money. The post Dual enrollment has exploded.

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Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. And yet, Chilean education expenditure as a percent of GDP (5.35

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2021

After nearly a decade of organizing, advocacy, planning and hand-wringing, we passed a Preschool for All initiative. And not just any initiative—one that was carefully and thoughtfully designed to put families with the least support at the front of the line and put early childhood educators on par with their K-12 counterparts.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

Educational transformation is a civil rights imperative, so every investment we make must be evaluated through a civil rights lens. Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Education is too fundamentally important to the health of our society.

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Doug Levin

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Benjamin Herold of Education Week has put together a real cracker of a series on the challenges of ensuring school broadband access in rural communities – and how E-rate (pre- and post-modernization) is helping to address the situation. We should demand more of our political leaders and from our education advocacy organizations.

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Iterating Toward Openness

MARCH 21, 2023

At some point over the last decade, open educational resources (OER) advocacy in US higher education became zero textbook costs (ZTC) advocacy. This is why I refer to this line of advocacy as “free no matter the cost.” There are plenty of practical reasons why this might have happened.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

The measure aims to fix a longstanding problem in American higher education: Many more people start college than finish on time, within six years—or ever. Department of Education to award $62 billion in grants over a decade to states and public colleges that develop plans to help students complete their college degrees.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2024

The roots of this issue go back to the historic 1954 Brown vs. Board of Education decision, which declared that laws establishing separate public schools for Black and white students were unconstitutional. We built a comprehensive plan that focused on such policy changes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

The Lourie Center’s therapeutic nursery program offers a comprehensive early childhood program that provides education and clinical services. Lucas’ teachers and therapeutic staff at the Lourie Center were able to provide remarkably nurturing, attentive care and education for Lucas. He is happily preparing for kindergarten next fall.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Education reformers and technologists often lament that the best ideas or tools don’t win. Might those failures have less to do with financial challenges or lack of product-market “fit,” than with a failure to understand the pieces and politics at play in the board game of education? Fix the Public First ” by David J.

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The Jose Vilson

MAY 23, 2024

In 2015, C-SPAN’s Washington Journal invited me to discuss education reform and my book, This Is Not A Test: A New Narrative on Race, Class, and Education. It bears repeating that, a little more than a century ago, policies didn’t mandate mathematics education in K-12 in the way we know now.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 2, 2014

First, we offer a much-needed framework for the education of diverse learners. Second, we advocate for the development of an action plan for educating the not-so-common learners that is research-based, achievable, and reaches beyond any current educational reform initiative for school improvement. Students with Disabilities.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

That’s according to the latest State of Computer Science Education report , released last week by the Code.org Advocacy Coalition, Computer Science Teachers Association, and the Expanding Computing Education Pathways Alliance. When you have students who are engaged in the content, they want to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

In the last few years, the American education system has been bludgeoned by changes that have upended decades of progress toward better academic, economic and social outcomes for all. These dangerous culture wars will wreak havoc on education and education policy for years to come. Teaching is inherently activist.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2023

Many undocumented students cannot This lack of access to dual enrollment is just one of the persistent barriers that immigrant students encounter in their pursuit of higher education and career success. Advocating for policy change is essential. Jefferson Pestronk serves as executive director of Modern States Education Alliance.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Despite a pandemic that has labeled child care workers “essential” and raised public awareness of the importance of early care and education, the industry remains “woefully” underfunded and overlooked, says Caitlin McLean, senior research specialist and co-author of the Early Childhood Workforce Index 2020.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2022

It’s no secret that the education system is struggling to adapt to the new digital risks that come with its rushed switch to digital forced by the pandemic. Lawmakers have been taking note, resulting in a steep increase in data-related bills affecting education since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Sponsored by ClassLink When you consider the power education has in launching a child’s future, giving every student the same interactions, services, and access becomes more than just a regulation; it becomes a guiding principle. Leaning on local advocacy groups or representatives for regular updates saves time and keeps you informed.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2018

Rose picked up a couple of breathing strategies as a student in Breathe for Change, a 200-hour wellness and yoga teacher certification program for educators. Breathe for Change was founded by former Pre-K teacher Ilana Nankin to improve the well-being of educators. In 2012, Nankin moved from San Francisco to Wisconsin to pursue a Ph.D.

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