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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

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8] Additionally, one study found that when parents are involved in schools, their children are more likely to graduate from high school and attend post-secondary education.[9]. Parent Empowerment: Key to Changing Education Systems. Developmental Psychology, 2009, 45(3), pp. Sources : Parent Power in Education. Cooper, C.W.,

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

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Superintendents, principals, and others in positions of authority in school systems are instrumental in providing the vision, time, and resources to support continual professional learning, a positive school climate, and success for all students (Leithwood et al., 2008; Webster-Wright, 2009 ; Accomplished California Teachers, 2012 ).

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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the U.S. In this North Carolina high school, hackers broke into the district computer system, changed grades and transcripts, and subsequently sent false transcripts to colleges.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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District leaders will need to have and communicate a clear, powerful vision about where the school system is headed in order to guide the way forward. As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts.

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Using Learning Science to Create Action on Equity

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By combining the small group focus with short cycles of improvement, schools can truly create a system where every child is receiving the best possible education. Mike currently serves on the board of Valley Children’s Healthcare System where he chairs the compensation committee. Dr. Charoscar Coleman.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. Public Schools, the 12th largest school system in the nation with 168,000 students. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. About the Hosts.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

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Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Together, these districts serve one in six students across the state’s public school system. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Personal Concerns.