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6 findings to inform your state’s principal preparation

eSchool News

The report updates a prior 2007 study, Preparing School Leaders for a Changing World, led by Darling-Hammond. They are also better prepared to meet the needs of diverse learners. The study’s authors are Linda Darling-Hammond, Marjorie E. Wechsler, Stephanie Levin, Melanie Leung-Gagné and Steve Tozer.

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How Differentiated Instruction Can Help You Reach Every Student in Class

Waterford

It may seem like common sense that students perform better in class when they receive support that meets their needs. Differentiated instruction is an educational strategy in which teachers adapt their instruction to meet the needs of their class. Research around differentiated instruction confirms this is true. Landrum, T.J.,

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

edWeb.net

Faced with fast-changing instructional models, varying infection rates, decreasing revenue sources, and a variety of natural disasters, how can education finance officials meet the short-term needs of their districts as well as longer-term requirements? LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. from Penn where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa.

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

When teachers receive well-designed professional development, an average of 49 hours spread over six to 12 months, they can increase student achievement by as much as 21 percentile points ( Yoon, Duncan, Lee, Scarloss, and Shapley, 2007 ).

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Creatively Coding with Swift Playgrounds

Fractus Learning

Fullen, 2007, p.2). radically different than it has been” (Fullen, 2007, p. However, initially my stakeholders would need to be Year Six primary school teachers from one contributing school in the CoL as “deep and sustained reform depends on many of us” (Fullen, 2007, p.2). What About Literacy and Creativity? Breakspear, S.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

They tended to cite a combination of their own optimism coupled with pressure from state officials, who in turn were pressured to meet the federal educational goals set in No Child Left Behind. She expected much more than ‘You’re going to meet state standards,’” he said.

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How to help principals do a better job? Train their bosses

The Hechinger Report

So a fundamental question is how can principals do everything they were doing before and at the same time just merely have time to observe and meet … with teachers?”. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. These new tasks were added. Photo: Jackie Mader.