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How to Personalize Learning for Teachers and Students

The CoolCatTeacher

With teacher shortages becoming a pressing issue nationwide, innovative approaches to instructional leadership and personalized learning are important. Today you'll meet Courtney Walker, the 2024 NASSP National Assistant Principal of the Year and Assistant Principal at Carrollton High School in Georgia.

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Time is the Best Resource You Have

A Principal's Reflections

While this is undoubtedly important, it is also vital to gather input on professional learning and resources that are needed— more of this down the road. From here, specific requests can be made for professional learning support on personalized strategies. It’s no shock that their number one response is time.

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Are You Juggling or Leading?

A Principal's Reflections

Here are just a few: Accountability Morale Meetings Professional learning Stakeholders Achievement Budget Crises The act of juggling requires concentration and focus. Juggling is secondary, while the ball in front of them is primary. The best leaders de-emphasize multitasking and attempting to keep everything in the air.

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10 Ways to Grow as a Pedagogical Leader

A Principal's Reflections

Managing budgets, developing memos, attending meetings, responding to emails and phone calls, and other tasks also consumed a significant portion of my time. For learning, consider curating data weekly and present at an upcoming staff meeting. These suggestions should be clear, straightforward, actionable, and timely.

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Why These Educators Meet Regularly to Align Instruction with Mind, Brain, and Education Research

Edsurge

Developing a Professional Learning Community Earlier in my career, I met Dr. Tracey Tokuhama-Espinosa, a researcher, author and thought leader in the field of MBE, when she presented a session on multilingualism at Zurich International School. To my surprise, people were interested and they voted to meet before school at 7 a.m.

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It's Elementary When it Comes to #EdTech

A Principal's Reflections

Superintendent Scott Rocco provided me with a great opportunity to not only work with teachers in his district, but to also push me outside my comfort zone, which has always been secondary education. Within minutes I received new recommendations and I took a few minutes to learn how to use each new tool.

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My Educator Journey with Micro-credentials

Digital Promise

The irony of this is that many of us educators have been successfully navigating the waters of personalized learning for our students, but haven’t been given the opportunity to transition that same approach to our own professional learning. Micro-credentials were my path to do exactly that.

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