The 21st Century Principal

JUNE 20, 2013

ASCD’s Free Educator Summer Professional Development Resources ASCD School Improvement Tool — Designed for use in schools and school systems around the world, this online tool offers educators a comprehensive needs assessment as they prepare for the coming year. All five are available anytime and anywhere there is an Internet connection.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In 2010, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics with a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as earning an ELL (English Language Learner) endorsement for K-8 students. For the next decade, I taught Kindergarten, first, and second grades for the Lake Oswego School District.

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Baker's B.Y.O.D.

AUGUST 30, 2013

The school has been 1:1 since 2010, and Lotta is fortunate enough to be able to work with the finding and implementation of digital resources and best practices. Lotta has been using Edmodo since May 2012, and really appreciates "the global teachers'' lounge" that Edmodo creates.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

What’s striking is that this success story has occurred against the backdrop of so many major high-profile education initiatives floundering across the nation—Common Core and accountability come to mind—and amidst significant political turbulence in the Tar Heel state.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

MARCH 10, 2020

Martin (2010) Don't let the slim nature of this book (151 pages!) Lenz and his contributors do an excellent job of sharing their narrative of how they changed learning at one school, which then evolved into a system of transformative schools ( Envision Learning ). Bonus: it includes a DVD with video clips!

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There is no box

NOVEMBER 20, 2015

As Jon Corippo said to me recently, if we as educators are merely content delivery systems, then replacing us with technology will only get easier and easier. Having attended the first two Rockstar Teacher Camps ( 2010 & 2011 ), I’ve been a fan of the Rockstar experience since the beginning. gocrickets.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

In his 2010 book, Building Social Business, micro finance pioneer and Nobel Prize winner Muhammad Yunus defines “social entrepreneurship” as an “initiative of social consequences created by an entrepreneur with a social vision.” The company also donates a significant amount of earnings to schools and charitable causes. Blackboard Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2020

He partly blamed the 2010 Common Core requirements, which had toughened middle school math at all levels and raised the cost of moving too quickly. I’d never go back to the previous system. I’d never go back to the previous system. Meanwhile, students in the lower tracks weren’t performing well, either.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

The year-over-year increase started to taper off [eventually], which actually was an interesting trend that I think a lot of folks have seen, primarily because I think the overall learning time in the system has gone down year-over-year. Schools themselves are not able to do as much instruction as they were doing when they were open fully.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Deep down, it is the pervasive exam-focused system that stifles schools’ motivation for upgrading technology, as the purpose of schooling is twisted from preparing students to be ready for life to getting them ready for exams. From 2010 to 2017, the number of international schools almost doubled in China to answer the growing need.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 1, 2016

Assessments are built into both systems. In 2010, Marlin Equity Partners purchased Compass Learning for $32 million from Reader’s Digest as part of that company’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Most Math Curricula Found to be Out of Sync With Common Core. The two businesses are well-established in the marketplace.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

In a system that can be a flood of top down, let your classroom be one that allows voices to trickle up. Results from a 2010 study show that when. Results from a 2010 study show that when. Patall, Cooper, & Wynn, 2010). Alfie Kohn (2010) believes that. [t]he Want ways to differentiate organically?

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

At the end of every year since I founded Hack Education in 2010, I’ve reviewed what I think are the most important and influential trends in education technology. All this happened in the larger context of news from the US school system itself. The Common Core State Standards. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2010.

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The 21st Century Principal

DECEMBER 17, 2011

As education historian Diane Ravitch states eloquently in her book, The Death and the Life of the Great American School System , ”Our schools will not improve if we rely exclusively on tests as the means of deciding the fate of students, teachers, principals, and schools.” That is why this effort caught my attention.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

The exam, known as PARCC — which stands for Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers — was aligned to the Common Core, a set of national educational standards for what students should be able to do in each grade in English and math. But the shift to the Common Core State Standards meant it would have to go.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

No one had ever thought about using computers in the classroom – or so you might glean if you only read the latest marketing about apps and analytics – until this current batch of philanthropists and entrepreneurs and investors and politicians suddenly stumbled upon the idea circa 2010.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2016

It’s time once again for my annual review of “the year in education technology,” something I’ve done since 2010. The Common Core State Standards. The Top Ed-Tech Trends of 2010. Tomorrow I’ll launch the seventh edition of this massive, maniacal undertaking. A Note on Methodology. US Politics.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

From 2000 to 2010, the demographics in the Bluegrass State shifted dramatically: the number of English learners grew a whopping 306 percent. And yet, as a recent Hechinger Report article recently highlighted, the state’s data systems make it extremely difficult to distill a clear picture of what is working with English learners.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2017

A new generation of reformers has been working to change that system for more than a decade, and many of their ideas are borrowed — knowingly or not — straight from preschool. The adoption of the Common Core standards led many other schools to try the model , too. Ebone Engram, 11, explains her diorama of the solar system.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But it appears that the massive growth that the sector has experienced since 2010 stopped this year. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Funding has shrunk.

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

If the education system were to provide some financial literacy classes for kids, it could make a tremendous difference in the economic success of society”. Lisa Nielsen, in her blog post “ Should the new math be financial literacy ?” states “we have lost focus on preparing young people for what will matter in their real lives.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

Some elements of the reform, including a family advocate system designed to bring families and schools closer together, were developed as the initiative moved forward. When she became superintendent in 2010, one of the first decisions to cross her desk was whether to join a new suit against the state. How to pay for them? Fair funding.

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MindShift

MAY 12, 2015

Common Core-aligned materials, art supplies, science supplies, library improvements, and several staff positions are among the other new items in the district’s $124 million budget. The state plunged to 50 th in per student spending in 2010-11 , according to Education Week’s rankings. For another, district needs vary widely.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

Every year since 2010, I’ve undertaken a fairly massive project in which I’ve reviewed the previous twelve months’ education and technology news in order to write ten articles covering “the top ed-tech trends.” In education, that’s the learning management system (the VLE) perhaps. More analytics.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

Two, they were thinking about the Common Core. Flores, Warner and Allen decided to plan a math lesson that would focus on the third grade Common Core math standards for geometry. There’s even a whole state that’s trying it: Florida, which got a federal grant in 2010 to encourage its schools to adopt lesson study.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Between 1998 and 2010, the percentage of kindergarten classrooms with a dramatic play area dropped from nearly 90 percent to 58 percent. In California, concepts like the counting system are now taught in kindergarten instead of first grade. States and districts responded. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2020

He was very committed to collaborating with people to come up with a statewide solution around the lack of minority young people thriving in our overall urban school system.” That’ll be his main theme.”. “He New Haven Mayor Toni Harp. He believes in doing this work through people, not at people, not on top of people.”. That was his mindset.”.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Even as white children left the public system, the white power structure remained.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 25, 2013

IOCS is aligned to select Common Core Curriculum standards for language arts literacy, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) NET.S Open licenses Widening opportunity vs. improving existing systems Business models Public policy Steve also spoke about MIT OCW and fielded some questions.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Over the last three years, the proportion of students passing Common Core-aligned national math and reading tests has inched up, growing from 3 percent to 6 percent. We have been able to create this support system that surrounds the family so that when something happens we can refer them to the services they need,” said Green. “We

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

“When there is no way to get to an alternative option for your child, the best parent is left relying on a public school system that they demand to be there for their kids,” Murkowski said. Common Core.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2019

In the past decade, in large urban school systems, even those with stable funding, a roster of outside reformers like Joel Klein in New York, Michelle Rhee in Washington and John Deasy in Los Angeles gave way to more consensus-driven successors. She made educator effectiveness the centerpiece of her agenda.

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