A Principal's Reflections

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. Feature chat sessions combined with some basic social media training.

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Conference Dropout Social Media Common Core 250

EdNews Daily

MAY 29, 2017

We can be hopeful that the connection between teacher training and student learning seems to be realized and now what’s needed is to find the right formula for improving this crucial component of school culture. Organizational Mandates (required trainings). There are many of these types of training but they vary by district and state.

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Training Dropout Competency Based Learning Common Core 224

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? These are not things they teach you in college.”.

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How To Training Report Dropout 111

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

The district aligned curriculum, instruction and assessment to meet learning standards recently adopted by the state and modeled on the Common Core state standards. VLP instructors are state-certified local educators who have received specialized training in online teaching. Related: Can schools create gifted students?

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Learning Dropout Blackboard Common Core 75

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 16, 2018

I came here for both — the training and the academics,” says Miller, who plans to study biology in college, of her decision to attend Essex Tech. Massachusetts is turning that traditional model on its head by having many schools combine rigorous academics with hands-on career training, now called “career and technical education.”

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Study Training Report Industry 92

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2018

What does personalized learning mean to the perennial tug-of-war over content — in higher education’s “great books” debate over whether students should absorb the Western canon or study what they want, and, at the K-12 level, over the Common Core? Is sameness the key to equal opportunity? But does personalized learning work?

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Personalized Learning Education Khan Academy Elementary 106

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2018

The charter network’s New York students had scored below expectations on the new, more challenging Common Core tests. First-graders take part in a dance expedition led by classically trained ballet, tap and jazz dancer Alisa Bowens, at Elm City College Prep, in New Haven, Connecticut.

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Robotics Learning Report Common Core 99