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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

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. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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COLUMN: There’s a lot of new federal money for greening K-12 education. This is how schools could use it

The Hechinger Report

Since President Joe Biden took office in early 2021, three different giant federal spending packages have passed: the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act , the American Rescue Plan and the Inflation Reduction Act. We’ve saved $500,000 per year in electricity through conservation compared to 2009,” she said.

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Global Collaboration Week Begins - Find a Project and Connect!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning2gether is a participant-driven professional development series that has produced over 420 podcasts since its inception in 2009. This event is brought to you by GlobalEd Events and TakingITGlobal. Who are we?

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What role should a teacher play in choosing books kids read?

The Cornerstone for Teachers

I’m also limited by my experience as a secondary teacher; these conversations have less controversy in lower elementary, though discussions about appropriateness do surface more commonly in the upper elementary/middle school transition. Is 8th grade too young to look at police brutality?

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A year in the life of a small-town superintendent shows the federal bailout won’t be enough

The Hechinger Report

But just over a year later, as she waited for the election results in April 2021, Grant was exhausted. The tax measure that kept Grant at work late in April 2021 first failed in February 2020, just a month after Grant accepted the job as superintendent of Centralia schools. It also failed in August 2020, a month after she’d started.

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In Virginia, a battle over history standards ends in compromise

The Hechinger Report

Rotherham, a Democrat, also served a four-year term on the board from 2005 to 2009, when he was appointed by then-governor Mark Warner, a Democrat. “We Redrafting of the history standards started in 2021 under the administration of Ralph Northam, the former Democratic governor.