A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

It also provides me with an opportunity to reflect on what I see and my take on how the field of education can continue to evolve in ways that better support the needs of all learners. The concept of brain breaks got me thinking about a growing trend in education – as kids progress through the K-12 system, there is less and less movement.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2024

But Nitta was working with what was perhaps the highest-profile AI system at the time, IBM’s Watson. That AI tool had pulled off some big wins, including beating humans on the Jeopardy quiz show in 2011. Instead, he co-founded a new AI company, called Merlyn Mind, that is building other types of AI-powered tools for educators.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Notion is free for educators. Free Educator Wellness Toolkit. Educator wellness is now more important than ever. Educator wellness is now more important than ever. Go to coolcatteacher.com/wellness and download your free educator wellness toolkit from Advancement Courses. Sign up for an educator account.

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Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2021

The Digital Promise League of Innovative Schools has implemented and advocated for equitable access to technologies to close the digital learning gap since its inception in 2011. Last year’s abrupt transition to remote learning impacted all levels of K-12 education. Despite its challenges, remote learning is here to stay.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2023

The group, made up of people with kids in the school system, functions as a communications channel between other parents and school principals and teachers. It’s been up and down, too, for many others involved with Cleveland’s school system, who are on edge about what comes next. Still, the research on these efforts is mixed.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Among other things, the boosters who pitched international companies to come and do business in this port city promised that its high quality of education would guarantee a steady supply of skilled employees. High school graduation rates in Mobile are way up, from 55 percent before 2011 to 86 percent in 2018. MOBILE, Ala.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2018

Far too many policy makers, elected officials and “educrats,” my term for educators who are hellbent on maintaining the status quo, protect this antiquated, broken and egregiously dysfunctional system with life and limb. After weeks of conversation, the group presented me with their suggestions to change our broken system.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Arizona approved use of school choice vouchers, called Empowerment Scholarship Accounts, or ESAs , in 2011 on the promise that they were strictly for children with special needs who were not being adequately served in the public school system. Eventually, I found a special education school willing to accept him.

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User Generated Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

I have since become a teacher educator (with some teaching of elementary gifted students at a few Title 1 schools thrown in). I believe that educators do more counseling of children and young people than any other profession. Hope is not just a feel-good emotion, but a dynamic cognitive motivational system. That’s a shame.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 18, 2021

After years of discussion, New York City announced in October 2021 that it is overhauling gifted and talented programs, eliminating the testing of thousands of 4-year olds and the city’s separate education system of schools and classrooms for students who score high on this one test.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 2, 2024

How did our early ancestors, be they Neanderthals or another race, develop this intricate system of shared conventions and meanings? Enhanced Executive Control : Bilingual individuals often perform better in tasks requiring executive control, such as working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility (Bialystok, 2011). Bialystok, E.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2011

Because I was traveling, my co-chair for the 2011 Global Education Conference, Lucy Gray , took the lead on announcing our new conference website, dates, and call for proposal. The Global Education Conference is a collaborative and world-wide community effort organized by the Global Education Collaborative , Classroom 2.0 , and Web 2.0

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Digital Promise

MAY 21, 2019

Micro-credentials provide educators with recognition for the skills they develop throughout their careers. Mozilla created Open Badges in 2011 with funding from the MacArthur Foundation and a network of partners (including Digital Promise) committed to incorporating this technical specification. What is an Open Badge?

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

3M (@3M) and Discovery Education (@DiscoveryEd) today announced the 10 recipients of the inaugural 3M Young Scientist Challenge Alumni Network Alumni Grants Program. These are innovative ideas that will change the world and we could not be prouder,” said Amy Nakamoto, General Manager of Social Impact at Discovery Education. Paul, Minn.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2019

Kerri Lemoie Part of the reaction was disbelief, since the Open Badges platform was launched back in 2011 to great fanfare (it was originally called Mozilla Open Badges, but Mozilla has since transferred coordination of the standard to IMS Global Learning Consortium). The fact that [the patent] got granted is shocking.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2023

I hear frequently from those in business that younger employees, directly out of K-12 or higher education, are looking for direction. The rigid structure of the traditional K-12 education system leaves little room for students to engage in real-world problem-solving scenarios. They should be. The recent announcement by the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 26, 2024

It’s among a fast-growing number of closed colleges in rural America, stripping communities of nearby higher education options to which young people can aspire and eventually go. Only four employees still work at the college, running a nonprofit that is helping rural students continue their educations. The college has now closed.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

As educators, we craft learning experiences based on the pedagogical foundations set by those who came before us. In higher education, the student persistence and retention strategies used by institutions all over the world are built on the seminal works of great theorists such as John H. million persons under the age of 18.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 3, 2024

Welcome back to our insightful series on 21st century education. In this latest installment, we turn our focus back to a topic I last discussed in 2011: the characteristics of 21st-century teachers. It’s astounding to reflect on how much has changed in the intervening years in the world of education and teaching.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

I recommend this handy, useful encyclopedia of education technology tools. He has been the head of the CS department for 18+ years and been in CS education for 23+ years. He holds a BS in Computer Information Systems, M.A. He has been an active member of the Microsoft Innovative Expert Educator program since 2011.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. They were the most powerful companies in education. More broadly, I think the promise of data in education is still proving itself. Renaissance just acquired Schoolzilla , which was launched in 2011, for this reason.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2023

Since 2011, national math test scores from the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP, fell by 17 points for eighth graders and 10 points for fourth graders in data analysis, statistics and probability. Pandemic effects were only a contributing factor, and the drop-offs outpaced declines in other content areas.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today released a comprehensive year-to-date innovation summary that underscores the company’s commitment to anticipating and meeting the evolving needs of school districts across the country.

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The Thinking Stick

JANUARY 22, 2024

JED works within Higher Education Institutions and PK-12 schools and districts to help leaders build systems that promote more positive mental health outcomes for youth.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

JUNE 25, 2021

Which is why it was so gratifying to receive notice yesterday from the University of Colorado system that I was promoted to Full Professor (aka ‘Professor’). My journey is not the only long, twisty, bumpy one in higher education (and, unfortunately, we lose too many faculty along the way). This second path would be me, of course.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2022

—a stark 50 percent of states—require that high schools even offer an economics class as part of the curriculum, according to the Council for Economic Education. Meanwhile, 27 states mandate that personal finance courses be offered – a number that has nearly doubled since 2011.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

Bencivenga, who will be coaching entrepreneurs on acquisitions at EdSurge Immersion NYC in September, founded DataCation (later named CaseNEX DataCation) in 2007, and made his first acquisition in 2011, buying the assessment business DataDriven Classroom. We were doing $3.5 million when we made our first acquisition.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

Weld North Education, an education company that has long focused on providing digital intervention and supplemental products in the K-12 market, has acquired LearnZillion , a Washington, D.C.-based Weld North Education also offers an English language arts curriculum developed in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education.

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The Electric Educator

JANUARY 17, 2011

Note: This is the first of my series "5 things to watch in 2011" Future installments will include: Five people to follow in 2011 Five trends to watch in 2011 Five technologies to watch in 2011 Five blogs to read in 2011 The folks over at Prezi continue to make their presentation product more and more compelling.

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The Electric Educator

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

2011 iNACOL Virtual School Symposium This week I attended the 2011 Virtual School Symposium in Indianapolis, Indiana. Over 1,900 educators interested in online learning were in attendance. Moving data between systems is virtually impossible. K-12 Online learning is in a state of great flux. The US is behind.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 3, 2011

So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. Check out the Voicethread In Education wiki for some. So many educators ditched the service all together since the free options for educators doesn''t really have all that they need. More and more people started using the great education features.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Lines between school and the home became blurred, and in that haze, new forms of innovation emerged at local, national, and individual levels across the education landscape. A Broader View of Education Innovation. Department of Education in 2011. Potential for impacting student learning and educational leadership.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 2, 2022

Santa Barbara, CA — ParentSquare, provider of the premier leading unified school-home communications platform for K-12 education, announced their selection as a winner in the inaugural Excellence in Equity Awards program presented by the American Consortium for Equity in Education. plus a number of submissions from abroad.

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The 21st Century Principal

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

To check out an online version of the Horizon Report 2011, see here. What does the report have to say to our current circumstances in educational technology? An interesting place to start is to look at what the report calls “Key Drivers or Technological Trends” affecting teaching and learning specifically, and education in general.

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TeacherCast

JANUARY 20, 2018

Jeff sits down with Pennsylvania educator, Michael Soskil (@msoskil) to discuss why YOU should participate in this years Skypeathon. The post What makes the Microsoft Education Community so special? Welcome to the Microsoft Innovative Educator (MIE) Spotlight Series Podcast. About Microsoft Education.

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