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Transforming a School District’s Leadership and Literacy Instruction to Increase Equity

edWeb.net

In the Aldine Independent School District just outside of Houston, Texas, the need for change resulted in a dual focus on improving the district’s leadership bench and revamping literacy instruction, in order to provide an equitable education for all students. Transforming Leadership. It centers on three keywords—connect, inspire and impact.

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Educating Kids for Life not for Tests

The CoolCatTeacher

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. Date: January 22, 2018.

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Why A School’s Master Schedule Is A Powerful Enabler of Change

MindShift

When Jerry Smith became a principal six years ago he had been teaching for 22 years, so his administrative style is firmly rooted in the belief that the important stuff goes on in classrooms. She says what Smith and his team in Georgia are trying to do is some of the hardest work in education. The original road must be fixed.

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Here Come the Virtual Academies

Edsurge

A few weeks after Kali Klingler—and millions of other students across the country—had started remote learning last spring, her district announced that its school buildings would remain closed for the rest of the academic year. Instead, her success depended on whether she finished her work or didn’t. It came as a bit of a shock to most.

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Wahoo! The 2013 Global Education Conference - Still Time to Present + Plan to Attend!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please mark your calendars for November 18 - 22 for the fourth annual Global Education Conference ( [link] ). 3, and Connected Educator Month in October--how are we still standing?!) , but we''re raring to go now, and we hope you are, too! We also really hope that you will consider presenting.

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‘They just tried to scare us’: How anti-abortion centers teach sex ed inside public schools

The Hechinger Report

When Sarah Anderson travels to Texas middle schools to teach sex education, she brings props: a toy baby to represent unplanned pregnancy, a snake for bacterial infections, a pregnancy test for infertility, a skeleton for AIDS and cancer. Sex education has sometimes been a feature of their work.

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